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According to a new study, lettuce grown in space isn't just delicious, it's just as nutritious and safe to eat as boring-old Earth lettuce as well.
Science & Energy

Good News: Space Lettuce Is Safe to Eat, Good for You

Now eat your damn vegetables.

By Victor Tangermann

Q&A: James Hamblin, MD on Why You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Viruses

Q&A: James Hamblin, MD on Why You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus

Why is Jim Hamblin our trusted source on COVID-19? The Atlantic staff writer is a preventative medicine doctor who saw the severity of this thing coming, and has a good idea of what comes next.

By Foster Kamer

Many medicines that help keep us alive originated from toxic substances, which may help explain why researchers might want to recreate toxins.
RX and Medicine

Synthesized Pufferfish Neurotoxin Could Be an Opioid Replacement

One fish has enough poison to kill 30 people. How many could it help heal?

By Jacob Banas

Researchers created tiny "nanodrills" that were able to cut themselves into the cells of worms and plankton. They could even cure skin diseases.
Nanotech

Brutal “Nanodrills” Can Kill Tiny Living Worms and Water Fleas

The result was pure carnage — on a microscopic scale

By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.
Nuclear Fusion

Here’s How to Build Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

And now you've got weekend plans!

By Jon Christian

"Bubbles of nothing," extra dimensional holes, could cause the universe to consume itself from inside out, according to a group of phycisists.
Science & Energy

Theoretical Holes in Spacetime Could Swallow the Entire Universe

Could an expanding "bubble of nothing" eat all of spacetime?

By Victor Tangermann

Airbnb is encouraging hosts to buy smart "party prevention" devices that can cost over $100 in an attempt to stop parties that could get out of hand.
Future Society

Airbnb Wants Hosts to Buy “Party Prevention” Devices

These smart gadgets are designed to narc on parties at Airbnb rentals.

By Victor Tangermann

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.
Solar Power

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

Earth would be "doomed to wander the frozen wastelands of our galaxy, with any life on that planet quickly and permanently erased."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

"We've seen outbursts in the centres of galaxies before but this one is really, really massive."

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue announced a definitive ranking of all the "ringed planet" emojis out there, based on which looked most like Saturn.
NASA

Former NASA Scientist Absolutely Shreds Planet Emojis

He called Twitter's version "the most offensive of all."

By Dan Robitzski

No, alcohol does not kill coronavirus, at least, not like that. Both news and memes about the global COVID-19 outbreak are spreading rapidly online.
Viruses

People are Using Memes to Cope With Coronavirus Panic

The internet's existential dread, now in a new flavor.

By Jacob Banas

Goodyear debuted a futuristic tire concept on Tuesday called ReCharge that has the ability to regrow its tread using a special liquid compound capsule.
Advanced Transport

This Futuristic Tire Concept Regrows Its Tread by Popping a Pill

It's like Tide Pods for your car tires.

By Victor Tangermann

How can you say goodbye to a loved one who fell victim to a pandemic? The outbreak of COVID-19 is forcing officials to ponder some serious questions.
Future Society

Coronavirus Could Force Funerals to be Livestreamed

Funeral directors are preparing to meet the demands of potential pandemic.

By Jacob Banas

After a nation-wide stdudent contest, NASA has selected "Perseverance" as the name for its next Mars rover, set to launch later this year.
Mars

NASA’s New Mars Rover Officially Has a Name

"It's already surmounted many obstacles to get us to the point where we are today — processing for launch."

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month

Is self-driving tech hitting city streets next?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists managed to sequence the entire genome of the axolotl, a salamander capable of regenerating injured body parts, and hope to use it in people.
DNA

Scientists: Salamander DNA Could Regenerate Human Body Parts

"It's hard to find a body part they can't regenerate: the limbs, the tail, the spinal cord, the eye, and in some species, the lens, even half of their brain has been shown to regenerate."

By Dan Robitzski

With a speaker and four microphones, a drone was able to echolocate and map out its surroundings similarly to how bats do it.
Drones

Engineers Built a Drone That Echolocates Like a Bat

A single drone was able to map all the walls in a room.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material to build robots that is so light, it can float on water.
Science & Energy

Scientists Want to Build Robots out of Floating Liquid Metal

This technology is straight out of "Terminator 2."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped more than 1,000 images, which teams back on Earth composed into a 360 degree Martian landscape panorama.
Science & Energy

NASA Mars Rover Snaps Glorious 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama

The view is breathtaking.

By Victor Tangermann

We've tracked the total death toll over time of 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that originated in China last month. The graph will be updated as we learn more.
Developments

Here’s the Growing COVID-19 Death Toll in One Chilling Graph

The death toll is climbing faster and faster.

By Dan Robitzski