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Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.
Environment

Australia Is Running out of Drinking Water

Wait... "Mad Max" wasn't supposed to be a documentary!

By Dan Robitzski

Medical experiments conducted on astronauts in orbit could have far-reaching implications for medicine back home on Earth.
Medical

Medical Experiments in Space Could Fight Aging on Earth

"Pretty quickly, even within the next three to five years, they could help us provide cures for cancer down here on the ground."

By Dan Robitzski

The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction over Area 51 during the weekend's Alienstock festival for safety reasons.
Space

With “Storm Area 51” Looming, FAA Shuts Down Area 51 Airspace

They want clear skies in case they need to fly people to safety.

By Kristin Houser

A "flying" taxi that uses hydrofoils to hover above the water was detained during a test in Paris because police didn't know it had permission to speed.
Advanced Transport

Police Detain “Flying” Taxi for Speeding During Test

The taxi reportedly produces no noise or CO2 emissions.

By Kristin Houser

Distant galaxies are being killed off and rendered unable to form new stars. Now, astrophysicists are trying to figure out why.
Science & Energy

Astrophysicists Warn That Entire Galaxies “Are Being Killed”

Distant galaxies are being deprived of the fuel they need to make stars.

By Dan Robitzski

Rapper Azealia Banks has written a song about an Elon Musk-like character who invents a brain interface — and is then executed via it.
Elon Musk

Azealia Banks Reveals Song About Publicly Executing Elon Musk

The song's "ungrateful technocrat" dies at the hands of an AI overlord.

By Kristin Houser

A new flexible patch could reverse baldness by shocking people's scalps with electricity. On bald mice, it works better than Rogaine.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Say This High Tech Baseball Cap Can Reverse Baldness

The scientist who invented the hat tested it on his dad.

By Dan Robitzski

A new German study concluded that 97 percent of blood and urine samples from 2,500 chidlren between three and 17 showed toxic levels of plastic byproducts.
Studies

Scientists Tested Children and 97 Percent Contained Toxic Plastic Byproducts

Microplastics aren't just showing up in our oceans — they're showing up in kids.

By Victor Tangermann

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.
Google

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

Using a female voice was just easier, the company says.

By Kristin Houser

The FBI arrested a man who used his drone to drop a homemade bomb on his ex's home, potentially heralding a terrifying era of futuristic, violent crimes.
Drones

FBI Arrests Man For Bombing Ex’s House With a Drone

He used a drone to drop homebrewed explosives.

By Dan Robitzski

Ethan J. Lindenberger, an advocate of vaccines, spotted his own photo amongst those of "dead" children at an anti-vax vigil in California.
Developments

Pro-Vaxxer Spots Own Photo at Vigil for Kids “Killed by Vaccines”

Sorry, anti-vaxxers, but Ethan J. Lindenberger is still very much alive.

By Kristin Houser

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.
Meta

Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

Occasionally, Portal audio recordings make it to Facebook servers.

By Dan Robitzski

An increasing number of children in the UK are being treated by healthcare professionals for "eco-anxiety," a growing sense of fear over climate change.
Health & Medicine

Shrinks Are Treating Climate-Traumatized Kids For “Eco-Anxiety”

“The fear is of environmental doom — that we’re all going to die.”

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new U.N. report based on global censuses, the number of international migrants is increasing faster than the world's population.
Future Society

The Number of Migrants Is Growing Faster Than the World Population

There are now 272 million international migrants in the world.

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is soliciting bodycam footage of police shooting their firearms so it can use the video to train its AI to detect violent content.
Future Society

Cops Are Giving Facebook Bodycam Footage

"With this initiative, we aim to improve our detection of real-world, first-person footage of violent events."

By Kristin Houser

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work
Climate Change

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

"There is simply no substitute for decarbonization."

By Dan Robitzski

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.
Solar Power

Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

Jupiter's moon Io casts a *really* big shadow.

By Kristin Houser

The editor of Chinese state-backed newspaper, the Global Times, protested government censorhip in a Weibo post that was soon deleted.
Future Society

Editor of Chinese Paper Complains About Censorship, Gets Censored

The editor complained about the Great Firewall — and was promptly censored for it.

By Dan Robitzski

A new meta-study concluded that mass shootings perpetrated by black people are blamed on external factors, while white shootings were linked to video games.
Future Society

Researchers: Blaming Violent Video Games for Shootings is Racist

When the shooter is white, we blame video games — but not if they're black.

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian research lab known to house smallpox suffered an explosion that blew out windows and sent one person to the hospital with severe burns.
Developments

Explosion Reported at Russian Facility Storing Smallpox

The blast was strong enough to blow out windows.

By Kristin Houser