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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 Plans to Launch Its Strategy for Militarizing Space This Week

NATO officials cite growing concerns over space aggression.

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

Startup Unveils World’s First Long-Range “Solar Car”

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

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

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

The research weakens the anthropic argument for life.

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

Retailers Are Judging Consumers By Using Secret “Surveillance Scores”

The scores determine how much a company will charge you.

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

Watch Toyota’s Basketball-Playing Robot Set a World Record

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

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

SpaceX Aces Falcon Heavy Launch, Despite Booster Explosion

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

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

FBI Investigating uBiome’s Billing Practices

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

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

Crypto CEO Funneled Client Money Into Fake Accounts Before Death

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

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

Elon Musk: This Is SpaceX’s “Most Difficult Launch” Ever

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

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

Crab Nebula Has Hit Earth with Highest-Energy Light Ever Recorded

We've never seen photons like these before.

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

Amazon Beats South American Nations in Fight Over .amazon Domain

Ultimately, ICANN ruled against Brazil and Peru.

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

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Just Resuscitated Bitcoin

Bitcoin is back from the dead.

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

Cannabis Compound Could Be Latest Weapon in War Against Superbugs

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

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

Why Is a Strange Plastic Crust Spreading on This Island’s Coast?

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

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry
Climate Change

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

Jay Inslee's plan would end government subsidies while supporting workers.

A new study found that frozen sperm samples survived in microgravity, suggesting reproducing in space with sperm sent from Earth could be possible.
Mars

Study: Sperm Banks in Space Could Make Colonizing Mars Possible

We might not need male astronauts for reproducing in space after all.

Dozens of newly-uncovered climate studies that were buried by Trump's USDA reveal how major foods like rice are becoming less nutritious.
Climate Change

Trump Admin. Hid Climate Reports Warning of New Dangers

The uncovered findings have widespread public health implications.

Science leaders tell STAT there's nothing they can do to stop a Russian scientist's plan to create more CRISPR babies from progressing.
Prosthetics and Devices

Science Leaders: We Can’t Stop Russian’s Plan for CRISPR Babies

His home nation will need to put a stop to the controversial experiment — or not.

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.
Science & Energy

New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on Mars

Curiosity just detected mysteriously high levels of methane on the Red Planet.

Scientists recreated the extreme conditions of salty mud puddles on Mars in order to see whether microbial life could feasibly survive there.
Mars

Extraterrestrial Life Could Feasibly Live in Salty Puddles on Mars

At least, microbes survived similar conditions on Earth.