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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

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

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

Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

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

Alphabet-Owned Company Unveils Plans for Smart City

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

Feds Bust Dark Web Drug Dealers After They Buy Postage Online

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

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

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

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

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

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

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

AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

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

CRISPR Helps Scientists Cure HIV In Living Animals For First Time

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

Billionaires Are Dead Serious About Moving Factories to Space

"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

Possible Alien Radio Signals Way More Common Than Believed

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

The Pentagon Wants Its Own Orbital Space Station, Like a Death Star, But Not, Okay?

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

Scientists Are Calling for More Dogs in Space

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

White Paper: These 12 Principles Are Shaping the Future of Autonomous Cars

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

This Room-Sized Device Could Create Artificial Gravity in Space

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

By Victor Tangermann

Facebooks is changing how it ranks "miracle cures" and unproven medical treatments — but will it be enought to stem the medical misinformation tide?
Meta

Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

These "treatments" are ineffective at best — and deadly at worst.

By Kristin Houser

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

The scientist behind the cat-naming neural network is back.

By Kristin Houser

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.
Solar Power

Here’s How You Can Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse

This livestream could save you from permanent eye damage.

By Kristin Houser

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.
Climate Change

“Climate Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

A UN report predicts the global poor won't be able to escape the worst of the climate crisis.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.
Physics

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

The signal left home 4 billion years ago.

By Dan Robitzski