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Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.
Science & Energy

Security research firm Cybereason wouldn't give any names during the investigation.

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.
Science & Energy

They've identified a 700-million-year period when Martian life could've thrived.

By Kristin Houser

An MIT postdoctoral student has a strange new suggestion for finding extraterrestrial life: scan the skies for phosphine, a foul-smelling, toxic gas.
Exobiology

Scanning the skies for "outrageously foul-smelling" gases could lead us right to them.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's pivot to blockchain and its new Libra cryptocurrency could sow the seeds of the company's destruction, argues fintech expert Marc-David Seidel.
Blockchain

Libra may legitimize the very technology that diminishes Facebook's authority.

By Dan Robitzski

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."
Future Society

The death of fake news might just be the birth of a generation that’s immune to it.

By Kristin Houser

A team of German scientists have figured out a way to grow tobacco plants that contain 99.7 percent less nicotine. It could help millions of smokers quit.
Health & Medicine

Are low-nicotine cigarettes the answer to getting millions to quit smoking?

By Victor Tangermann

Later this week, NATO officials are expected to announce the a strategy for militarizing outer space as individual nations ramp up weapons programs.
Off-World

NATO officials cite growing concerns over space aggression.

By Dan Robitzski

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.
Advanced Transport

It gets 80 more miles per charge than the market-leading Tesla Model S.

By Kristin Houser

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.
Physics

The research weakens the anthropic argument for life.

By Dan Robitzski

The practice called "surveillance scoring" of changing how much retailers are charging consumers based on algorithms and collected data might be illegal.
Future Society

The scores determine how much a company will charge you.

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota's basketball robot CUE3 just set the Guinness World Record for "most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)."
Robotics

It easily surpassed its first goal of 1,000 consecutive shots.

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX's groundbreaking Heavy Falcon rocket launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:30 am ET. Almost everything went according to plan.
Falcon

The rocket also carried the cremated remains of 152 humans into orbit.

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI is investigating the billing practices of biomed startup uBiome. The company may have been billing insurers for more services than it provided.
Health & Medicine

The company may have been gaming the system to bill insurers.

By Dan Robitzski

A jaw-dropping report found that crypto exchange Quadriga CEO Geralt Cotten got away with $200 million worth of crypto before his death in December.
Cryptocurrency

The CEO and his wife "frequently traveled to multiple vacation destinations often making use of private jet services." 

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday night, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch 24 experimental satellites into orbit. CEO Elon Musk calls it the company's "most difficult launch."
SpaceX

But if it's successful, the payoff could be huge.

By Dan Robitzski

The Tibet Air Shower Array has detected extremely high-energy photons from the Crab Nebula, which is some 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
Energy

We've never seen photons like these before.

By Kristin Houser

Amazon just won exclusive rights to the ".amazon" internet domain after a seven-year-long dispute wiith eight South American governments.
Future Society

Ultimately, ICANN ruled against Brazil and Peru.

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a popularity boost from Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, the value of Bitcoin recently surged to over $11,000.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin is back from the dead.

By Dan Robitzski

CBD could prove to be a useful antibiotic, according to a study in which the cannabis compound effectively killed several strains of bacteria.
Health & Medicine

CBD is "remarkably effective" at killing some bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains.

By Kristin Houser

Ocean waves are slamming plastic pollution against an island's coastline, causing a potentially dangerous plastic crust to form on the rocks.
Pollution

The "plasticrust" now covers 10 percent of this island's coastal rock.

By Kristin Houser