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A small fire broke out today at SpaceX's facility in Florida that's focused on bringing the Starship rocket to life, as TechCrunch reports.
Starship

Someone streamed the fire live on Twitch.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that it'll take a "massive effort" to create the Autopilot software needed to facilitate safe autonomous driving.
Elon Musk

And fully autonomous cars are going to cost way, way more.

By Kristin Houser

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.
Robotics

The $35,000 device makes everyday tasks more accessible.

By Dan Robitzski

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.
Prosthetics and Devices

But are the benefits of hearing worth the risks of gene editing?

By Kristin Houser

It sounds like a joke, but members of Congress and their staff are getting together Wednesday to play the video game "Rocket League."
Future Society

Politicians are gamers now — or, at least, that's what they want you to believe.

By Jon Christian

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

It updates every time LightSail 2 sends a transmission.

By Dan Robitzski

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Despite little warning this time, we're getting better at spotting asteroids.

By Victor Tangermann

Alphabet-owned subsidiary Sidewalk Labs just released a massive 1,524 page document outlining its plans for a $1.3 billion 190 acre smart city in Toronto.
Future Society

What was meant to be a 12-acre plot redevelopment just turned into something far more ambitious.

By Victor Tangermann

Federal agents used postage bought online to track down two dark web drug dealers selling methamphetamine they marketed as Adderall.
Future Society

They really should've just taken a trip to the post office.

By Kristin Houser

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Off-World

A new simulation reveals how trans-Neptunian Objects could have formed.

By Dan Robitzski

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet
Mars

The late astrophysicist told Aldrin we need to "colonize the Moon first."

By Kristin Houser

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.
Biology

The third gene-hacked birth was expected to happen right around now.

By Dan Robitzski

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.
Artificial Intelligence

The cat-and-mouse game is stacked against us.

By Dan Robitzski

Using a combination of CRISPR and antiretroviral therapy, researcher eliminated the HIV virus from the genomes of mice engineered to produce human T cells.
Health & Medicine

Human trials of the new treatment could kick off within the year.

By Kristin Houser

To some, collecting resources from other planets or asteroids instead of using up the Earth could be the key to ensuring that we — and our planet — survive.
Off-World

"The solar system can support a billion times greater industry than we have on Earth."

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have detected over ten radio bursts from distant galaxies in the last week. The sudden frequency could help us figure out what's causing them.
Science & Energy

Astronomers just detected ten more bursts in the last week.

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon wants its own dedicated space station in orbit around the Earth for both scientific research and military operations.
Space

It would lay the groundwork for stationing military personnel in space.

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist argued that more dogs should be sent to space, both to serve as companions but also to improve microbiome diversity in orbit.
Off-World

Filling the cosmos with extremely good pals could help astronauts cope.

By Dan Robitzski

Eleven companies have teamed up to create "Safety First for Automated Driving," an exhaustive guide to developing safe autonomous vehicles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Eleven companies teamed up on this exhaustive guide to developing safe AVs.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers built a device small room-sized device that spins willing participants on a giant platform to mimic the effect of Earth-like gravity in space.
Space

Maybe the idea of artificial gravity isn't so crazy after all.

By Victor Tangermann