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Watch SpaceX Complete Its Starship Prototype Live on YouTube
Starship

Watch SpaceX Complete Its Starship Prototype Live on YouTube

The towering rocket will end up being 165 feet tall.

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.
Science & Energy

Contaminating Mars With Microbes Could Kickstart Colonization

A controversial new paper argues that we should infect Mars — with Earthly microorganisms.

By Natalie Coleman

Autoblow is taking pre-orders for its "Autoblow AI," which promises to harness the power of AI to provide users with the perfect oral sex experience.
Robotics

This AI-Powered Oral Sex Robot Puts the “Deep” in Deep Learning

They hired people in Serbia to train the algorithm.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say new observational equipment could help spot hundreds more interstellar visitors, like 'Oumuamua, every year.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say We’ll Soon Discover More Interstellar Visitors

"Or we’ll discover multiple dead civilizations — that is, we’ll find their remains."

By Jon Christian

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist
Science & Energy

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

It's way too big to be orbiting this tiny star.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in history, a startup called Momentus is testing a new in-orbit water plasma propulsion system to maneuver satellites.
Off-World

Startup Tests Water Plasma Propulsion in Orbit

This marks the first time water plasma has been used to propel a spacecraft.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent Q&A with the New York Times, a UFO and alien research group may have gotten its hands on some "exotic material samples from UFOs."
Robots and Machines

UFO Research Group Implies It Has Obtained Alien Artifacts

The former singer of Blink-182 says that aliens exist — and this time, maybe he can prove it.

By Victor Tangermann

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.
Physics

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

NASA caught a rare glimpse of a star getting straight up obliterated.

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.
Science & Energy

Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

Too many mathematicians trust that proofs are correct instead of testing them.

By Dan Robitzski

Japan Airlines has a new tool that will allow you to get as far away as possible from a crying baby on your next trip by airplane.
Advanced Transport

Airline Tells You Where Crying Babies Are so You Can Avoid Them

Spot the baby.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.
Science & Energy

Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto.

By Jon Christian

A Fremont police officer had to cut a high-speed highway pursuit short after his modified Tesla Model S cop car's batteries ran down.
Tesla

Tesla Police Car Runs Out of Battery During High Speed Chase

This is what happens when you forget to charge your cop car.

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.
Artificial Intelligence

Yes, There’s a “Pee Tape” — and It’s Unclear If It’s a Deepfake

This tape is probably fake. But it's totally unclear how it was made.

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

That is, if it hasn't already.

By Victor Tangermann

Oxford researchers found that at least 70 countries have sponsored campaigns that spread favorable propaganda across the internet.
Future Society

Dozens of Countries Are Deploying Propaganda on Social Media

The fight against online disinformation means fighting powerful governments.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain
Science & Energy

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

Black holes are so metal.

By Victor Tangermann

Wally Conron, the first person to breed a labradoodle, regrets his experiment and says he opened Pandora's box by creating the crossbreed dog.
Biology

Labradoodle Creator Says Dog Breed Is Insane, Diseased

I am become death, the destroyer of labradoodles.

By Dan Robitzski

MegaRobots' gigantic battle bot Eagle Prime is going for a chill $51,500 on Ebay at the time of writing after going on sale for a single dollar.
Robots and Machines

Someone’s Selling a Functional 15-Ton Battle Mech on eBay

And it's surprisingly cheap.

By Victor Tangermann

After three years of tests, China is opening up its gigantic 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to astronomers from all over the world.
Science & Energy

China Opens Up Ginormous Alien-Hunting Telescope

It's the biggest single-dish radio telescope in the world, spanning the length of 30 soccer fields.

By Victor Tangermann

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.
Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

Anything that may have smacked into the Moon is likely still there.

By Dan Robitzski