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Scientists have developed a unique radar system that relies on microwaves and allows us to produce real-time images and videos of objects through walls.

Science & Energy

New Microwave Tech Can See Through Walls, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.

China Secretly Developed Autonomous Killer Robot Submarines

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher at a university in South Korea has come up with a toilet that can turn human waste into power -- and it's on the blockchain.

Scientist Invents Toilet That Turns Human Feces Into Cryptocurrency

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.

Science & Energy

Elon Musk Slams Bitcoin’s Underlying Technology

By Dan Robitzski

According to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, cosmonauts are still trying to identify the source of a leak causing air to escape from the ISS.

Cosmonauts Are STILL Hunting Down the Damn Leak on the ISS, Russian Media Reports

By Victor Tangermann

Dubai has opened the deepest pool in the world, with a depth of 196 feet. It features an "abandoned" underwater city with state-of-the-art lighting.

Dubai Builds “Underwater City”

By Victor Tangermann

Hunter Kowald, inventor of a real-life hoverboard called the SkySurfer, rejects the obvious comparison to the Green Goblin.

Advanced Transport

Guy Who Built “Green Goblin” Hoverboard Says He’s Not a Supervillain

By Dan Robitzski

The producers of the popular Netflix series "Queer Eye" are working on a new major TV network show — and its a bit of a doozy.

Reality Show Seeks Idiots Who Have Forgotten Their Bitcoin Passwords

By Victor Tangermann

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US Military Document Admits That Risk of Nuclear War Is Growing

By Dan Robitzski

The startup Halo wants to use driverless, remote-controlled cars to make renting a car less of a headache and pave the road for autonomous vehicles.

Advanced Transport

Driverless Car Startup Actually Uses Remote Controls

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's groundbreaking Mars Helicopter has sent back some stunning color pictures it took on July 5 while flying over the Red Planet's rocky landscape.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Sends Back Stunning Color Photos

By Victor Tangermann

As the death toll from last week's heatwave continues to climb, officials in Oregon have officially designated it a "mass casualty event."

Officials Declare Deadly Heatwave as “Mass Casualty Event”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA will attempt to switch to the Hubble Space Telescope's backup hardware some time next week after a glitch shut down operations.

There’s Officially Hope for NASA’s Broken Hubble Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

The scientists and entrepreneurs who helped pioneer and popularize carbon capture technology now say it probably can't save us from climate change.

Carbon Capture Pioneers Say Carbon Capture Tech Won’t Save Us

By Dan Robitzski

In a Wednesday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that a Starship "itself" could serve as the "structure for a new giant telescope."

Elon Musk Suggests Turning a Starship Into a Giant Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

Video shows a U-Haul full of fireworks catching fire and detonating everything at once during a block party in Toledo, Ohio.

Science & Energy

Watch a U-Haul Full of Fireworks Explode Spectacularly

By Dan Robitzski

The Ever Given, a 1,310-feet-long vessel loaded with around 18,300 containers, finally resumed its journey to leave the Canal on Wednesday.

Robots and Machines

Remember That Stuck Container Ship? It’s Finally Leaving the Suez Canal

By Victor Tangermann

A fatal crash involving a Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot turned on is raising questions about the safety of the car company's self-driving feature.

In Lawsuit, Family Blames Tesla Autopilot For Death of Son

By Victor Tangermann

After once again delaying the launch of the next Tesla Full Self-Driving beta, Elon Musk said he was surprised by how hard making autonomous cars can be.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Says He’s Surprised to Discover That Self-Driving Cars Are Difficult

By Dan Robitzski

In a Saturday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that Starship might be a potential solution to the growing space junk problem.

Elon Musk Says New Spacecraft Will “Chomp Up” Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

Iceland experimented with a four-day work week that made workers across a variety of industries both happier and more productive.

Iceland’s Four-Day Week Trial Made Workers Happier and More Productive

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found an entire population of free-floating exoplanets toward the center of our galaxy by spotting tiny microlensing events at nearby stars.

Science & Energy

Scientists Spot Earth-Like Planets Floating Around Without Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A 11-year-old boy from Belgium just graduated from the University of Antwerp with a bachelor's degree in physics — and with the highest distinction.

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality

By Victor Tangermann

China has announced that two of its astronauts have completed the very first spacewalk outside of the Tiangong station.

Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk Outside New Station

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of astronauts were able to use CRISPR gene editing in space for the first time ever to study microgravity and DNA repair.

Astronauts Use CRISPR Gene Editing in Space for First Time Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla is hiring a "customer support specialist" that is meant to "escalate complaints [...] and address social media escalations directed at the CEO."

Elon Musk Joins Call to Free Britney Spears

By Tony Ho Tran

Giant “Mud Volcano” Explosion Seen Near Oil Platform

Science & Energy

Giant “Mud Volcano” Explosion Seen Near Oil Platform

By Tony Ho Tran

The California Highway Patrol ticketed a motorist for driving their car with a Starlink antenna mounted to the vehicle's hood.

Police Ticket Driver Who Bolted Starlink Antenna to Car Hood

By Tony Ho Tran

YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet Against Physicist, Drives Wind-Powered Car

Advanced Transport

YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet Against Physicist, Drives Wind-Powered Car

By Tony Ho Tran

According to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Tesla failed to preapprove CEO Elon Musk's tweets, as it was required to do by a court order.

Elon Musk Suggests That a Brain Parasite Is Forcing Humans to Create Superhuman AI

By Tony Ho Tran

An undersea pipeline ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico today — and then somehow ignited, causing the surface of the ocean to catch fire.

Underwater Pipeline Leaks, Gulf of Mexico Ocean Catches on Fire

By Jon Christian

The BBC released then promptly edited a climate change for kids that listed a bunch of "positive impacts" that it would have on the UK and the world.

BBC Mocked For Teaching Kids Climate Change Will Have Nice Upsides

By Dan Robitzski

Porsche has finally issued a recall and update to fix a battery problem that made its electric car, the Taycan, suddenly die in the street.

Advanced Transport

Porsche’s Electric Car Keeps Suddenly Dying in the Street

By Dan Robitzski

In a world saturated with Amazon's Alexa, bullied kids have actually had to change their names in hopes of a fresh start.

Teenager Named Alexa Legally Changes Name Because of Amazon Product

By Dan Robitzski

90 percent of Lytton, British Columbia, a small village of approximately 250, burned to the ground after recording Canada's highest ever temperature ever.

Science & Energy

Town Sets All-Time Heat Record, Then Burns to the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Branson just announced that he's going to travel to space on a Virgin Galactic rocket, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days.

Mischievous Richard Branson Slams Accelerator, Will Go to Space 9 Days Before Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

"Baby Doge, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo," the billionaire wrote in a Thursday tweet, a song presumably about the synonymous alternative cryptocurrency.

Elon Musk Tweets About Dogecoin Knockoff, Sending It Skyrocketing

By Victor Tangermann

A huge chunk of the United States is primed for a horrific wildfire. Backyard fireworks displays are definitely not worth the risk.

Science & Energy

We Are Literally Begging You Idiots To Skip The Fireworks This Year

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover is making another pit stop on its exciting journey to probe the surrounding Jezero Crater for signs of ancient life.

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Reached a New Area and It’s Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

A prominent lobbyist for ExxonMobil admitted that the company actively fights climate science and climate change legislation in secret.

In Secret Recording, ExxonMobil Lobbyist Brags About Only Pretending to Care About Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

China is seriously starting to crack down on crypto mining within its borders, forcing miners to sell off their hardware in record numbers.

After Ban, Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Flooding the Market With GPUs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA chief Bill Nelson instructed agency scientists to start studying UFOs, but they can't do that unless the military releases its raw data.

Science & Energy

Astrobiologist Demands Pentagon Release Raw UFO Data

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recent investigation, China is constructing about 119 identical missile silos in a desert near the city of Yumen in northwest China.

Robots and Machines

China Is Building 119 Mysterious Missile Silos in the Desert

By Victor Tangermann

As the heatwave continues, hundreds of heat-related deaths have been reported in Canada and some US states, presenting a dire warning for climate change.

The Climate Change-Linked Heatwave Has Now Killed Hundreds of People

By Dan Robitzski

In an early Thursday morning post on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is about to make some moves.

SpaceX Almost Ready to Move Super Heavy Booster to the Launch Pad

By Victor Tangermann

Uber drivers report that the company was charging rather than paying them for some trips, causing some to quit the platform altogether.

Advanced Transport

Uber Glitch Makes Drivers Pay for Their own Rides

By Dan Robitzski

Investing platform Robinhood has agreed to pay a fine of nearly $70 million to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for misleading millions.

Robinhood Paying $70 Million Fine For Being Absolutely Terrible

By Victor Tangermann

A Transformer-like car that can switch back and forth into a personal airplane just completed a brief test flight in Slovakia.

Advanced Transport

Car With Pop-Out Wings Aces Test Flight

By Dan Robitzski

Following Virgin Orbit's successful launch of seven satellites earlier this morning, CEO Richard Branson threw a jab at the competition.

Richard Branson Roasts Jeff Bezos Going to Space: “Jeff Who?”

By Victor Tangermann

New York City really messed up its first attempt at ranked-choice voting when the Board of Elections erroneously counted 135,000 extra votes.

New York City Absolutely Botched Its Futuristic Voting System

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste

Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste

By Victor Tangermann

A comet that flew past Earth in late 2018 was releasing a shockingly high amount of alcohol in its wake, according to a new study.

Science & Energy

Comet Sails Past Earth, Leaving Trail of Alcohol in Its Wake

By Dan Robitzski

In a light-hearted exchange on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to give rocket competitor, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a leg up.

Elon Musk Offers to Bring a “Few Spare Engines” to Rocket Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

As the record-shattering heatwave continues, officials report dozens of sudden, heat-related deaths in Canada and the northwestern United States/

Horrific Heatwave Kills Dozens

By Dan Robitzski

Satellite delivery company Virgin Orbit just flew a Boeing 747 to a lofty height before launching a space rocket strapped to the bottom of one of its wings.

Virgin Orbit Just Launched a Rocket Strapped to the Wing of a 747

By Victor Tangermann

A new startup called Worldcoin plans to offer a crypto of the same name to everyone on Earth in exchange for scanning their eyeballs.

This Startup Is Paying People to Scan Their Eyeballs

By Dan Robitzski

After complaining that regulators are keeping his space company's ambitions back for years, Elon Musk had yet another setback to contend with.

SpaceX Scrubs Launch After Aircraft Enters “Keep Out Zone”

By Victor Tangermann

Clay samples from Mars suggest that the Red Planet once experienced a long-lasting era of temperate, habitable conditions.

Science & Energy

Clay Dug Up by NASA Mars Rover Makes It Seem Like Red Planet Could’ve Supported Life

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.

Science & Energy

Scientists Turn Galaxy Cluster Into Giant Magnifying Lens To Study Even Farther Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The tragic collapse of a Miami condo building that killed at least a dozen people seems to have been caused, at least in part, by worsening climate change.

Deadly Condo Collapse Linked to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

It has been four days since we've last heard from NASA about Hubble's condition after a glitch forced it to halt scientific operations on June 13.

The Hubble Space Telescope Is in Really Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin billionaire and crypto exchange founder Mircea Popescu has reportedly been found dead off the coast of Costa Rica, MarketWatch reports.

Bitcoin Billionaire Reportedly Found Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Stock market company Public.com decided to give Tesla CEO Elon Musk a gift for his 50th birthday on Monday: a terrifying, life-sized bronze statue.

Bronze Statue of Elon Musk Looks Nothing Like Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the government doesn't know what's behind the recent UAP sightings, but he does believe aliens are out there.

Science & Energy

The Head of NASA Says He Believes in Aliens

By Dan Robitzski