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The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

By Dan Robitzski

Manhattan offices are adding gardens, terraces, and rootop beehives in order to entice workers who have gotten accustomed to working from home.

Offices Are Trying to Tempt Workers Back With Live Bees for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to print lab-grown steak that greatly resembles products made from Wagyu cattle.

Japanese Scientists 3D Print Lab-Grown Wagyu Steak

By Victor Tangermann

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon subsidiary, is working on life support technologies for a "privately owned and operated low Earth orbit outpost."

Someone Is Secretly Working on “Privately Owned” Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

In order to keep Fukushima's radioactive water from impacting the fishing industry, the nuclear power plant's operators plan to dig an undersea tunnel.

Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists stumbled upon a giant, surprisingly healthy mass of coral that's survived in the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds of years.

Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral

By Dan Robitzski

Rocket companies are out of liquid oxygen, a cryogenic oxidizer used to propel rockets into orbit, because hospitals need it to treat COVID patients.

SpaceX Doesn’t Have Enough Rocket Fuel Because COVID Patients Need It to Breathe

By Victor Tangermann

A suspected new case of the mysterious "Havana syndrome" has reportedly delayed US vice president Kamala Harris' visit to Vietnam, ABC News reports.

VP Kamala Harris’ Trip to Vietnam Delayed by Mysterious Havana-Like Incident

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin is working on a fully reusable rocket stage to launch its New Glenn rocket, according to images taken near the test site.

Blue Origin Is Working on a SpaceX Super Heavy Clone

By Victor Tangermann

Manatees are dying off en masse as a result of worsening pollution and ecosystem collapse off the coast of Florida that took away their food supply.

Manatees Are Starving en Masse as Florida’s Ecosystem Crumbles

By Dan Robitzski

When SpaceX ships rocket hardware or launches a rocket, it has to shut down the local highway. Now The Boring Company wants to dig a new tunnel.

Elon Musk Wants To Dig a New Tunnel Near his Texas Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

China is reportedly working on a "ultra-large spacecraft" that is so large, it spans entire miles, according to the South China Morning Post.

China Reportedly Working on “Ultra-Large” Spacecraft That’s Miles Across

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur warns space tourists that life in orbit is no walk in the park, and that surviving takes real "grit."

NASA Astronaut Warns Wealthy Space Tourists: Space Requires “Grit”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA revealed that Mark Vande Hei, a current crew member on board the International Space Station, suffered a "minor medical issue." Now we know what it is.

NASA Canceled Spacewalk Because Astronaut Had Pinched Nerve

By Victor Tangermann

A gigantic iceberg almost crashed into and destroyed a major ice shelf in Antarctica, according to satellite imagery of the close call.

Watch a Floating, 500 Square Mile Iceberg Nearly Crash Into Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

GM just recalled every single Chevrolet Bolt ever sold due to a fire hazard caused by manufacturing defects in their batteries.

Advanced Transport

GM Just Recalled Every Chevy Bolt Ever Made

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA's Mars rover Perseverance messed up trying to collect rock samples, the agency is trying again somewhere else.

NASA Has a New Plan After Mars Rover Fumbles Rock Collection

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers has discovered the fastest-orbiting asteroid in the solar system. It gets even closer to the Sun than Mercury.

Scientists Just Discovered the Fastest Asteroid in the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Army researchers found a way to genetically alter disease-spreading mosquitoes to be infertile, hopefully presenting a tool to limit disease transmission.

The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile

By Dan Robitzski

According to NASA, Mark Vande Hei, a current crew member on board the International Space Station, has suffered a "minor medical issue."

Astronaut Suffers Medical Incident on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has confirmed that Blue Origin's lawsuit against the agency will result in "further delay" for NASA's return to the Moon.

NASA Head Confirms Blue Origin Lawsuit Will Delay Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

Electric car charging stations and smart home chargers are extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to new research.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicle Chargers Are Shockingly Vulnerable to Hacking

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists created a sunlight-reflecting "metafabric" to keep people cool without air conditioning in the face of climate change.

Science & Energy

Scientists Develop “Metafabric” To Help us Survive Extreme Heat

By Dan Robitzski

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy has shared an amazing video taken on board the ISS' latest addition, Russia's Multipurpose Laboratory Module or "Nauka."

International Space Station

Russian Cosmonaut Shares Incredible View From New ISS Module

By Victor Tangermann

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

By Tony Ho Tran

The Zhurong rover has officially finished its 90-sol mission to explore Utopia Planitia on the martian surface — but it's going to keep working.

China Declares “Mission Complete” for Mars Rover Zhurong

By Tony Ho Tran

Blue Origin has lost roughly 17 top employees this summer alone with many seemingly exasperated by the company's work culture and public feuds.

Blue Origin Is Bleeding More of Its Top Workers to Its Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope depicting a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years away from Earth.

Science & Energy

Hubble Takes Breathtaking Image of “Furnace” Galaxy

By Tony Ho Tran

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

After Killing Department Stores, Amazon Now Plans to Make Department Stores

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have captured the most detailed images of deep space yet using a network of more than 70,000 radio telescopes.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Capture Most High-Resolution Images of Deep Space Yet

By Tony Ho Tran

Canadian musician Claire Elise Bouche (aka Grimes) posted a TikTok on Friday defending her partner Elon Musk while brandishing a knife.

Grimes Defends Elon Musk on TikTok While Wielding Knife, Petting Robot Dog

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Nature revealed that heat eminating from the Erath's upper mantle is speeding up the Doomsday Glacier's ice melt.

“Doomsday Glacier” Melting Even Faster Due to Earth’s Core

By Tony Ho Tran

A Swedish company has created the world’s first carbon-free steel marking a big step forward in the fight against climate change.

Scientists Develop the World’s First Carbon-Free Steel

By Tony Ho Tran

Report: Pentagon Working on Space-Based Anti-Satellite Tech

Report: Pentagon Working on Space-Based Anti-Satellite Tech

By Victor Tangermann

Wildfires are raging across the entire globe right now, producing unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases, visible scars left behind by climate change.

2021 Wildfires Spewed Record Breaking Amount of C02

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is bringing hops to space and hopes to auction them off to a brewery to raise money for charity.

Billionaire Buys SpaceX Ticket To Make “Space Beer” in Absurd PR Stunt

By Dan Robitzski

Massive Asteroid That Could Obliterate Earth to Fly By, Case the Joint

Massive Asteroid That Could Obliterate Earth to Fly By, Case the Joint

By Foster Kamer

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has peered into the sky for an epic time lapse — and caught the Red Planet's tiny moon Deimos.

NASA Rover’s New, Gorgeous Time Lapse Spots Tiny Martian Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight

By Dan Robitzski

Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange

Science & Energy

Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange

By Dan Robitzski

The Space Force met its initial deadline to get its act together. Now it has to figure out what, exactly, it's supposed to be doing.

US Space Force: Successfully Assembled. Next up: Making Itself Useful.

By Dan Robitzski

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

Artificial Intelligence

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

By Dan Robitzski

A judge has awarded Blue Origin a "stay" after the Jeff Bezos-led space company sued NASA over losing the HLS contract to SpaceX.

Blue Origin Lawsuit Could Be Massive Setback to Starship Development

By Victor Tangermann

A huge rain storm, the first in recorded history to hit Greenland's ice sheet, caused a record-breaking ice melt last week.

Red Alert: It Rained in Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time in Recorded History

By Dan Robitzski

Japan's space agency JAXA has announced that is has successfully demonstrated the operation of a "rotary detonation engine" in space, a world's first.

Japan Tests Exploding Rocket Engine for the First Time in Space

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's constellation of Starlink satellites are responsible for 1,600 near-collisions every week, and that number is going to keep growing.

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Cause 1,600 Near-Crashes in Orbit Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

In a video shared by the Twitter account Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley, a Tesla can be seen wading through several feet of flood waters.

Do Not Attempt To Imitate This Video of a Tesla Forging Floodwaters

By Victor Tangermann

The latest Boston Dynamics video shows the humanoid robot Atlas jumping and flipping. Here's a cut of all the times it fell or tripped.

Boston Dynamics

Here’s a Therapeutic Video of Those Boston Dynamics Robots Busting Ass

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis of the environmental impact of the 1987 ban on CFCs found that it bought us crucial time to stave off the worst of climate change.

Study: A 1987 Chemical Ban Saved the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

The Army announced plans to develop and launch a series of high-altitude devices that can spy on and jam enemy communications.

The Army Plans To Build Balloons That Can Jam Communications From Above

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is sending a Japan-made robotic arm to the International Space Station that could give astronauts a (mechanical) hand.

SpaceX is Sending a Robotic Arm Assistant to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.

Science & Energy

Magic Tricks Can Fool Birds, Say Scientists With Nothing Better To Do

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Scientists tried to build a better map of the Milky Way galaxy just to discover a sharp break in one of its spiral arms.

Science & Energy

Milky Way Has Broken Arm That Never Healed, Astronomers Say

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent Venture Capitalist Admits That the “Climate Is F’d”

Prominent Venture Capitalist Admits That the “Climate Is F’d”

By Victor Tangermann

Robot maker Boston Dynamics has released its latest video of its two-legged pioneer called Atlas performing some impressive parkour.

Boston Dynamics

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Do Actual Parkour

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, Space.com reports.

Space Junk Reportedly Smashed a Chinese Military Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

The lead engineer of the team behind Blue Origin's lunar lander is leaving the company to join SpaceX, according to an update on LinkedIn.

Blue Origin Lead Lunar Lander Engineer Jumps Ship, Joins SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot assisted driving software.

US Gov Investigating Tesla Autopilot for Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

YouTuber Shane Wighton from the channel "Stuff Made Here" has created a terrifying bow that literally aims itself and never misses.

Robots and Machines

Inventor Builds Auto-Aiming Bow That Never Misses

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur told Insider about the unfortunate experience of being stationed on board the ISS while wildfires are raging across the world.

Science & Energy

Astronauts Alarmed by Huge Fires on Surface of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just got its first round of funds from NASA to develop a lunar lander capable of sending the first astronauts to the surface of the Moon.

SpaceX Gets Huge Check From NASA for Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has backed up their astronaut after a state-owned Russian news agency claimed that she intentionally sabotaged them during a mental breakdown,.

NASA Defends Astronaut Accused by Russia of Space Sabotage

By Tony Ho Tran

As the Taliban continues their ruthless takeover of Afghanistan, they’ve taken to banning the COVID-19 vaccine in certain regions of the country.

Taliban Conquers Much of Afghanistan, Bans COVID Vaccine

By Tony Ho Tran