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The Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on most fruit and mint-flavored nicotine vaping products to reign in use by teenagers.
Developments

FDA Bans All Vape Pod Flavors Except Tobacco and Menthol

No more mango Juul pods.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon in the late 2020s as part of a joint plan with the US.
Moon

NASA Proposed Sending Japanese Astronauts to the Moon

Will NASA return astronauts to the Moon by 2024 with Japan's help?

By Victor Tangermann

Tokyo's Penguin Café hosts a popular event for robot dogs and their owners, many of whom dress the bots up, and even celebrate their birthday at the cafe.
Robot Dogs

A Japanese Cafe Is Hosting Playdates, Parties for Robot Dogs

The events are so popular, the owner of the café has to turn people away.

By Kristin Houser

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.
Cancer

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

Could this AI reduce our dependence on human radiologists?

By Victor Tangermann

Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Have Officials Baffled
Drones

Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Have Officials Baffled

No one is admitting to owning the fleet.

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.
Gene Editing

China Quietly Confirms Birth of Third Gene-Edited Baby

He Jiankui is headed to prison for creating three — not two — gene-edited babies.

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese court has sentenced researcher He Jiankui to three years in prison for creating the world's first gene-edited babies.
Gene Editing

China Is Imprisoning the Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies

He Jiankui will spend the next three years behind bars.

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.
Energy

Scientists: Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible by 2050

Their detailed plan gets 143 countries to 100 percent clean energy.

By Dan Robitzski

China successfully launched its largest and most powerful rocket, the Long March-5 Yaosan, after a 2017 attempt ended in failure.
Off-World

China Successfully Launches Powerful Long March 5 Rocket

The same rocket will attempt to carry a rover to Mars next year.

By Victor Tangermann

Sightings of "strange lights" in the Montana night sky turned out to be SpaceX's Starlink satellites and not UFOs like locals thought.
SpaceX

People Keep Mistaking SpaceX’s Satellites for Alien Spacecraft

Local news stations in Montana received reports of "strange lights."

By Victor Tangermann

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.
DNA

Pentagon Urges Military Members to Skip At-Home DNA Tests

It thinks the tests could pose a risk to national security.

By Dan Robitzski

It's becoming increasingly likely that Japan's decision will be to dump the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima power plant into the ocean.
Environment

Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Go Into the Ocean or Atmosphere

It has to dump the Fukushima water somewhere.

By Dan Robitzski

The Venezuelan government is now paying people to start using its official altcoin by airdropping crypto to public employees, retirees, and the military.
Cryptocurrency

Here’s Why Venezuela Is Giving Retirees Free Altcoins

They'll all get half a token of the state-backed petro if they sign up for a wallet.

By Dan Robitzski

Russian YouTubers have converted an old VAZ 2109 angular hatchback into a knockoff Tesla Cybertruck, stainless steel "exoskeleton" and all.
Advanced Transport

You Can Now Buy a Knockoff Cybertruck for $10,800

It's definitely not a Russian five-door hatchback from the '80s.

By Victor Tangermann

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.
Military

The Military Is Unprepared for Nuclear Strikes on Satellites

Radiation could disable satellites, so the military wants a way to scrub space clean.

By Dan Robitzski

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

The Coolest (and Scariest) Military Tech of 2019

This year birthed some of the most mind-bending military tech we've ever seen.

By Kristin Houser

A team of physicists at Lancaster University have found that LEGO bricks are excellent insulators a couple of millidegrees above absolute zero.
Science & Energy

LEGO Bricks Are Excellent Insulators at Cryogenic Temps

The bricks could replace the much more expensive materials currently used to build scientific equipment.

By Victor Tangermann

The last decade in mind-blowing space travel was the most important since the Apollo program was introduced. Here's the biggest space news of the decade.
Off-World

The Most Mind-Blowing Space Stories of the 2010s

The last decade, more than nearly all before, changed our understanding of the cosmos, and ability to reach them. This was how it happened.

By Sarah Marquart

Russia says that it has an operational hypersonic weapon — the world's first — and plans to mount it on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Future Society

Russia Becomes First Nation with an Operational Hypersonic Weapon

The new class of nuke can travel 27 times the speed of sound.

By Dan Robitzski

German automaker Volkswagen has unveiled a robot that can autonomously take care of charging your electric car without the need of any human interaction.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Volkswagen Unveils Robot That Autonomously Charges Electric Cars

This robot could turn any parking spot into a charging one.

By Victor Tangermann