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Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization

By Jon Christian

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company hopes to launch its first orbital Starship flight some time in July, but several challenges remain.

SpaceX President Says Orbital Starship Launch Is “Shooting for July”

By Dan Robitzski

The heat wave is shattering temperature records in Canada and the northwest United States, where temperatures are typically 40 degrees lower in late June.

This Heat Wave Is Smashing All-Time Records in the US and Canada

By Dan Robitzski

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian astronaut and former space station commander Chris Hadfield urges NASA and other space agencies to partner rather than compete with China.

Former Astronaut Calls for NASA Collaboration With China

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have uncovered dozens more subterranean lakes near Mars' south pole, but some of their locations defy explanation.

Science & Energy

NASA Research Identifies Dozens of Underground Lakes on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

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Highly-Classified British Military Documents Found at Bus Stop

By Tony Ho Tran

The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Facebook can be held liable if sex traffickers use the platform to victimize children on Friday.

Facebook Can Be Held Liable for Sex Trafficking, Says Texas Court

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists have discovered an entire lake in East Antarctica has completely disappeared into the ocean — and it could be the result of climate change.

Science & Energy

A Lake in Antarctica Has Suddenly Disappeared

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists have discovered a subspecies of bees that can create perfect clones of itself — rendering it virtually immortal.

A Single Bee Has Created an Immortal Army with Millions of Clones

By Tony Ho Tran

The Chinese rover Zhurong sent footage of its descent along with a video of its drive off of the Tianwen-1 landing platform on Sunday.

Chinese Rover Sends Video, Audio Back From Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

In 2018, Consultants reported damage that included cracks in support columns and walls at the Surfside, Florida condo that collapsed this week.

Before The Horrific Florida Condo Collapse, the Building Owners Were Warned

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to express his frustration in not being able to fly spacecraft "from one space station to another."

Elon Musk Criticizes NASA, Says Spaceships Should Fly Between Space Stations

By Tony Ho Tran

After a series of tests this week, researchers discovered that the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer was also glitching.

Welp, the Hubble Backup Computer Just Broke Too

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a recent tweet by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's first prototype of its Starship booster Super Heavy is "almost done."

Elon Musk: First SpaceX Starship Booster Prototype “Almost Done”

By Victor Tangermann

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.

Military Report Says Space Force Must Prepare for Moon Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.

Physicist: The Universe Has Likely Been Expanding “Eternally”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that an ancient skull belonged to a new species in the Homo genus that's even closer related to us than Neanderthals.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Ancient Skull Belonged to “Dragon Man” Related to Modern Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Guggenheim's chief investment officer (CIO) and noted Bitcoin bear Scott Minerd expects Bitcoin to sink as low as $15,000, a drop of over 50 percent.

Expert: Bitcoin Is Gonna Crash Below $15,000

By Victor Tangermann

Google's search engine misidentified an engineer's likeness as belong to a serial killer, who happens to have the same name.

Google Algorithm Accuses Random Guy of Being a Serial Killer

By Victor Tangermann

Israel has deployed a military robot called the Jaguar, which is armed with a machine gun, to the border of the Gaza Strip.

Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to have aa chat with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at a Bitcoin event on July 21, according to a recent Twitter exchange.

Elon Musk Is in Bitcoin Talks With the CEO of Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

China's state-owned Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has announced some ambitious plans to establish a permanent crewed base on the surface of Mars.

China Releases Plans for Permanent Mars Base

By Victor Tangermann

A tech startup says it's gene-hacked trees to asborb and sequester more climate change-inducing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Science & Energy

A Startup Is Working on Gene Hacked Trees to Gobble Up Tons of Climate-Destroying Carbon Dioxide

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli biotech company Future Meat has opened what it claims to be the "world's first industrial cultured meat facility."

Science & Energy

The World’s First Lab Grown Meat Factory Just Opened Up

By Victor Tangermann

Orbital Assembly Corporation has unveiled a robot capable of churning out parts for a ring-shaped luxury hotel that's meant to one day orbit the Earth.

Startup Successfully Tests Space Hotel Building Robot

By Victor Tangermann

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.

We’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's new house is a $50,000 prefabricated house that's only about 400 square feet, located at SpaceX's Boca Chica site.

Elon Musk’s New House Is a $50,000 Shack

By Victor Tangermann

An ancient comet impact may have helped jumpstart human civilization, according to a study linking the collision to cultural and societal shifts.

Science & Energy

Study: A Comet Hitting Earth May Have Helped Spark Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

Members of Congress tried to pass the buck for NASA's small budget for the Artemis missions, but Administrator Bill Nelson wasn't having it.

Head of NASA Slams Congress’s Hypocrisy

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla and the electric scooter company Revel planned to launch a fleet of taxis in New York City, but regulators shot the plan down.

NYC Just Shut Down a Tesla Taxi Fleet

By Dan Robitzski

In a new "vlog" released on Chinese social media, three astronauts can be seen living life on board the country's new "Heavenly Palace" space station.

New Video Shows Chinese Astronauts Hanging Out in Brand-New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's government is now recommending companies to allow their staff to work for four, not five, days a week, as Deutsche Welle reports.

The Japanese Government Is Strongly Encouraging Four-Day Work Weeks

By Victor Tangermann

In a video, a Tesla Model S could recharge its batteries at a rate of 65 kilowatts while being towed by a different vehicle at 70 mph.

Towing a Tesla Recharges It Really Quickly Due to Regenerative Braking

By Victor Tangermann

A professor who specializes in oil drilling and engineering claimed that he disproved Einstein, just to face mockery online.

Professor Mocked for Claiming to Have Disproved Einstein

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists are still furiously trying to fix the main payload computer onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. But they may be closer to finding a fix.

NASA Says It’s Still Trying to Fix Damaged Hubble

By Victor Tangermann

A leaked UN climate report reveals that humanity and ecosystems around the world are on the absolute brink of destruction.

Leaked UN Climate Report: The Apocalypse Is Almost Here

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have recreated the conditions in Pluto's atmosphere in a lab to investigate what's behind the red spots observed by New Horizons.

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is having some serious issues with procuring parts for its Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines.

The Navy Says Its Nuclear Submarines Are Beat Up Pieces of Crap

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new op-ed that 'Oumuamua, UAP sightings, and alien scientists could all be connected.

Harvard Professor Says Alien Spacecraft May Have Dropped Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

NASA still has a few things it can try to revive the Hubble Space Telescope, but there's a chance the observatory is gone for good.

It’s Looking Possible That the Hubble Is Dead Forever

By Dan Robitzski

A new paper warns that increasingly acidic oceans will lead to a collapse of the global food web within the next few decades.

Researchers Claim Collapsing Ocean Ecosystem Will Devastate Humanity Within 25 Years

By Dan Robitzski

After spending over two and a half years on the surface of Mars, NASA's Insight Mars Lander is looking a little worse for wear.

NASA’s Mars Lander Is Dying

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla just showed off its massive new supercomputer — and according to their numbers, it may just be the fifth most powerful one in the world, according to Electrek.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Built One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Train Its Self-Driving System

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is finally preparing to loan out its newly-retrieved lunar samples to scientists for their research.

China Is Now Letting Scientists Study the Rocks It Took From the Moon Last Year

By Dan Robitzski

A massive clump of galaxies 3.3 billion light-years across seems to defy the cosmological principle and our understanding of the universe.

Science & Energy

Giant Arc of Galaxies Is Way Too Big to Exist, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Back in 2019, the folks behind the startup Furrion Exo-Bionics took their 9,000 pound mechanized suit called Prosthesis for a spin in the desert.

Robots and Machines

Watch Dudes Tow a Pickup With a Giant Mecha Suit

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials continued their crackdown on cryptocurrencies in the country, ordering banks to stop supporting any transactions involving crypto.

China Orders Banks to Stop Handling Crypto, Bitcoin Plummets

By Victor Tangermann

A video reportedly shows part of China's Long March 2F rocket lying in the middle of the field, leaking what appears to be nitrogen tetroxide.

Video Reportedly Shows Chinese Rocket That Smashed Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to tackle the steep hills of Mars.

Scientists Built a Walking Mars Rover That Can Climb Steep Hills

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy detonated 40,000 pounds worth of explosives right next to a a warship to make sure it can weather battle conditions.

Robots and Machines

US Navy Sets Off Giant Explosion That Registers as 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake

By Victor Tangermann

The Israeli military just tested a plane equipped with a new laser weapon that's capable of burning through drones in midair.

Watch Israel’s Military Shoot Down Drones With a Laser

By Dan Robitzski

After Subway was sued for allegedly lying about its tuna sandwiches, a NYT reporter decided to buy some of the meat and test its DNA.

Science & Energy

DNA Test Fails to Find Any Tuna in Subway Tuna Sandwiches

By Dan Robitzski

A new video going viral on social media shows a helmeted daredevil shooting through Times Square in New York City — while flying on a hoverboard.

Video Shows Man Flying Through Times Square on Giant Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) simulated what happens when a satellite burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Watch What Happens When a Satellite Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a team of geologists found that our planet goes through a cycle of severe geological events — almost like clockwork.

Science & Energy

The Earth Suffers a Regular Cycle of Horrific Catastrophes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre space rock called 2014 UN271 will come near Earth within the next decade before continuing along its 600,000-year-long orbit.

A Tiny Planet Will Soon Drift Nearer to Earth Than Since Caveman Times

By Dan Robitzski

China's authorities are increasingly cracking down on cryptocurrency mining practices, causing the price of graphics cards to plummet.

GPU Prices Plummet After China Cracks Down on Bitcoin Mining

By Victor Tangermann

A new Change.org petition is politely asking Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos to please stay in space forever after he takes off next month.

Petition: Please Keep Jeff Bezos in Space Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.

Sun Heat on Earth Doubled In 15 Years, You Dumb Melting Morons

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is starting to squeeze ads into the magical virtual reality environments enabled by its Oculus Quest VR headset.

Virtual Reality

Dystopian Marketers, Unite: Facebook to Start Dropping Ads Into VR Spaces

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian fusion energy company is set to break ground on a large-scale nuclear fusion demonstration plant in Culham, UK — and it's being funded by richest man in the world

Jeff Bezos Is Helping Build a Fusion Power Plant in the UK

By Victor Tangermann

Killer drones are already making airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report.

Robots and Machines

Academics: Ban the Killer “Slaughterbots” Before We All Die

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists unraveled a mystery of planetary formation by discovering that chaotic perturbations help trigger protoplanetary disks to clumb together.

Science & Energy

Study: An Extra Pinch of Chaos, and BAM, New Planets

By Dan Robitzski