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A new study says some screen time is good for young kids, but the scientific community has yet to reach anything close to a consensus on the topic.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Can’t Agree About Kids and Screen Time

Is it good for kids? Bad? No one seems to know.

By Kristin Houser

Temperatures are so high in Qatar, the nation has begun air conditioning its open-air sports stadiums, malls, and markets.
Climate Change

Qatar Is Air Conditioning the Outdoors to Battle 120-Degree Heat

"If you turn off air conditioners, it will be unbearable."

By Kristin Houser

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

One easy trick for faster-than-light travel.

By Dan Robitzski

A future space war won't look like "Star Wars." Instead it'll be almost imperceptible on the planet's surface.
Future Society

This Is What a Space War Would Look Like, According to Experts

Ready to turn Earth's orbit into an absolute hellscape?

By Victor Tangermann

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.
Science & Energy

Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

Two exoplanets recently crashed into each other, obliterating both and leaving a giant trail of dust and debris.

By Dan Robitzski

The companies developing lab-grown meat won’t stop at just beef and chicken — they’ll likely cultivate exotic meats, too.
Future Society

These Startups Want to Feed You Lab-Grown Giraffe, Elephant Meat

Would you eat an endangered animal burger if it was grown in a lab?

By Kristin Houser

A newly discovered monster galaxy fills a gap in astronomers' understanding of galactic formation soon after the birth of the universe.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Find Evidence of A “Monster Galaxy” Like No Other

They're comparing the discovery to spotting a Yeti's footprints.

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.
Military

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

The world's largest greenhouse gas emitter may not survive our changing climate.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
Moon

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

Self-driving vehicles could mine rocks from the Moon.

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla says vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in one accident for every 4.34 million miles driven during the third quarter of 2019.
Tesla

Tesla: Autopilot Is Nearly 9 Times Safer Than the Average Driver

But the system has a leg up on its human competition.

By Kristin Houser

Raytheon just delivered a functional laser cannon to the Air Force, designed specifically to take down swarms of hostile drones.
Future Society

The Air Force Just Got a Brutal New Laser Cannon

It's like a bug zapper for enemy aircraft.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have spotted a rocky planet with three suns, which greatly increases its chance of having its own atmosphere.
Science & Energy

This Rocky World With Three Suns May Have an Atmosphere

This super-Earth is one of the best examples yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook COO insists that the company doesn't run political ads, honest or not, for the money. It's all for the important "political discourse."
Future Society

Facebook: Misleading Political Ads Are Important “Discourse”

Sheryl Sandberg insists disinformation "is the price of free speech."

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft researchers have developed DreamWalker, a new VR system that lets a user walk a route in the real world while looking at virtual scenery.
Virtual Reality

New Microsoft Tech Lets You Use VR While Walking Outside

Microsoft envisions a future in which you spend a lot of time in virtual reality — even your morning commute.

By Kristin Houser

With Google's quantum computer superiority, we can look at 10 million billion states at every one time and solve complex problems much faster than before.
Quantum Physics

Here’s Why Quantum Supremacy Matters

Google's watershed quantum computing achievement explained.

By Victor Tangermann

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Tesla in Broward County, alleging 48-year-old Omar Awan's death was caused by Tesla's special door handles.
Tesla

Lawsuit Blames Tesla’s Retracting Door Handles for Fiery Death

“Fire engulfed the car and burned Dr. Awan beyond recognition — all because the Model S has inaccessible door handles."

By Victor Tangermann

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.
Global Warming

UN Scientists: We Could Pause Global Warming With $300 Billion

The money could halt carbon emission increases for up to two decades.

By Kristin Houser

Compared to the casualties caused by the mysterious vape lung illness, taking up smoking at all is still drastically more deadly.
Developments

Idiots Are Starting to Vape, Then Switching to Cigarettes

A half million Americans have become cigarette smokers after they started vaping.

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.
Climate Change

MIT Scientist: Capitalism Will Solve Climate Change

"We used to increase our prosperity by taking more from the earth year after year. Now we know that we can grow and flourish while taking less."

By Dan Robitzski

A startup called MayMaan Research claims it has developed a system that allows an engine to run on an alt-fuel comprising just water and alcohol.
Advanced Transport

Startup Claims It Could Power Your Car on Just Alcohol and Water

Our take: this is probably a scam.

By Kristin Houser