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Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.

Bacteria Could Allow Us to Recycle Electric Car Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Germany's minister of transportation Andreas Scheuer is reportedly in talks with Tesla about opening up its Supercharger network to other carmakers.

Germany Wants Tesla to Share Its Supercharger Network With Other Carmakers

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.

Facial recognition

Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

Three astronauts successfully entered China's Tiangong space station on Thursday afternoon Beijing time, just hours after launching.

First Astronauts Arrive at China’s New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The world's first flying race car has taken to the skies for the very first time, setting the stage for an entirely new kind of racing league.

Advanced Transport

Watch the World’s First Flying Race Car Take Flight for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

China just launched the first astronauts to its nascent space station, who blasted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket, a sign of its immense space ambitions.

China Just Launched the First Astronauts to Its Space Station

By Jon Christian

A gigantic swarm of autonomous warehouse robots becomes both more sophisticated and efficient the more individual robots are put to work.

Terrifying Robot “Swarm” Gets Smarter the More We Make It Work

By Dan Robitzski

Streamers are trying to preserve fading indigenous languages live by broadcasting them on Twitch, but they say it's an uphill battle.

Activists Are Keeping Fading Indigenous Languages Alive — on Twitch

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers are shipping the world's most powerful magnet to the construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor called ITER.

World’s Strongest Magnet Could Help Make Fusion Energy a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that a mysterious dip in the brightness of Betelgeuse was not the sign of an imminent supernova, but evidence of the creation of stardust.

Science & Energy

Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Dimmed Mysteriously, and Now We Know Why

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope experienced an issue with its payload computer, forcing scientific operations to grind to a halt over the weekend.

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Just Glitched Into Safe Mode, Whoops

By Victor Tangermann

US regulators have rung the alarm bells over the recent rise in stablecoins, cryptocurrency tokens that have a fixed price and are backed by reserves.

US Regulators Are Terrified of Stablecoins

By Victor Tangermann

Two NASA astronauts conducted an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday morning to install new solar panels on the International Space Station.

Watch Astronauts Venture Outside the Space Station to Install Solar Panels

By Dan Robitzski

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

Science & Energy

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

By Dan Robitzski

According to a shocking new report by the Associated Press, north of 1,900 firearms were lost by or stolen from the US military between 2010 and 2019.

US Military Admits That It Lost 34 Rocket Launchers

By Victor Tangermann

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin

By Dan Robitzski

In order to determine how a scrappy snail evaded an invasive predator for decades, scientists turned it into a cyborg with a mini shell computer.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Turned Snails Into Tiny Cyborgs

By Dan Robitzski

Just weeks after news emerged Elon Musk paid zero dollars in federal income tax over several years, the billionaire has decided sell his last home.

Elon Musk: “Decided to Sell My Last Remaining House”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists modeled how long it would take for an advanced alien race to colonize an entire Milky Way-like galaxy, assuming it would want to.

Science & Energy

Here’s How Quickly Aliens Could Conquer the Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Tencent Robotics X Lab, a Chinese robot maker, has unveiled a terrifying new "novel wheel-legged robot" that can backflip using its tail.

Robots and Machines

Watch This Terrifying Segway on Steroids Backflip Using Its Tail

By Victor Tangermann

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.

Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now

By Dan Robitzski

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made

It’s Official: Tesla Model S Plaid Fastest Production Car Ever Made

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has made big progress towards building its first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy.

Elon Musk Shares New Pic of Giant Starship Rocket Booster

By Victor Tangermann

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

By Dan Robitzski

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

Science & Energy

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

Science & Energy

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Giant Arc of Galaxies That Could “Overturn Cosmology”

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA has approved development of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to hunt out potentially life-threatening asteroids approaching our planet.

NASA to Build an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope

By Tony Ho Tran

restly sleep app

Corporations Want to Put Advertisements In Your Dreams

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA engineers have finished assembling the Space Launch System that will take astronauts back to the Moon. The rocket is taller than the Statue of Liberty.

NASA Has Assembled a Megarocket to Take Humans to the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists have sent a sample of mouse sperm into the Internation Space Station to study the effects of radiation on mammalian reproduction.

Researchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation

By Tony Ho Tran

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter

From Quarks to Quasars

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter

By Tony Ho Tran

Arizona has refurbished its old gas chamber to execute more death row prisoners again. The state also purchased gas used by Nazis during the Holocaust.

Arizona Has Fixed Up an Old Gas Chamber So It Can Kill Prisoners Again

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is well aware of a potentially fatal flaw in the company's plan to use a Moon base as a refueling station.

NASA Is Planning to Land on Far Side of the Moon for the First Time

By Tony Ho Tran

An NFT of the Doge meme has been sold for more than $4 million on Friday making it the highest ever paid for an NFT of a meme.

An NFT of the Original “Doge” Pic Just Sold For $4 Million

By Tony Ho Tran

In the new photos from China's Mars lander, there's an interesting detail with profound implications for the future of Mars exploration: a huge hole.

Check Out This Huge Hole That China’s Mars Rover Blasted Into the Ground While Landing

By Jon Christian

The Bitcoin Mining Council, a group of miners trying to make crypto more sustainable, left a prominent figure in the industry behind: Elon Musk.

Sustainable Bitcoin Mining Group Disavows Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

A farmer in Wales built his own Bitcoin mine, which he powers by burning the methane emitted from his cows' decomposing turds.

A Farmer Is Using Cow Turds to a Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk finaly showed off the new Tesla Model S Plaid playing the game "Cyberpunk 2077" during a brief demo event on Thursday.

Elon Musk Plays Cyberpunk 2077 on Tesla’s In-Car Console

By Dan Robitzski

The White House's plane was grounded by cicadas. One particularly adventurous cicada managed to get a hold of POTUS Joe Biden.

Watch President Biden Get Attacked by a Brood X Cicada

By Victor Tangermann

Uber accidentally offered health insurance to some of its drivers then took two weeks to clarify that they're actually ineligible.

Advanced Transport

Uber Offers Drivers Health Insurance, Then Says Oops Nevermind

By Dan Robitzski

Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.

Congressman Asks If Changing the Moon’s Orbit Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities arrested over 1,100 people accused of laundering money through Bitcoin in order to hide their telecom fraud.

China Arrests Over 1,100 People for Laundering Crypto

By Dan Robitzski

New research found over 500 new fast radio bursts, giving scientists much more to work with as they figure out what's causing them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Found Hundreds of New Mysterious Signals From Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

After making Bitcoin legal tender, president Nayib Bukele wants to use volcano-based geothermal energy to mine the cryptocurrency.

New Facility Will Use Volcano to Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Victor Tangermann

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.

Google’s DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Mark Buchanan argued we should be grateful for not having made contact with alien civilizations yet in a piece for The Washington Post.

Robots and Machines

Physicist Warns That Contacting Aliens Could End All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

China is set to launch the first astronauts to its new orbiting space station. A Long March 2F rocket rolled out onto the launch pad on Wednesday.

China Is About to Launch Astronauts to Its New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said that he'd love to work with Elon Musk to host the first-ever concert in space.

Rock Band Pleads for Elon Musk to Send Them to Space for Concert

By Dan Robitzski

The secondhand market for electric vehicles has a sticky issue: it's impossible to figure out the health of any given electric car's battery.

Electric Vehicles

There’s a Huge Problem With Buying Used Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a stunning 360-degree panorama of its surroundings while parked at the "Van Zyl Overlook" in the Jezero Crater.

NASA Releases Breathtaking Panorama From New Rover

By Victor Tangermann

Former employees and associates of Bill Gates are speaking up about the open secret that, despite his public persona, he's actually a horrible boss.

Bill Gates Was Reportedly Horrible to His Employees

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has some strong feelings on the topic of space junk, as evidenced in a recent interview with CNN.

NASA Head Slams United States for “Shameful” Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.

Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found and woke up a microscopic creature that froze and went dormant in Siberian permafrost about 24,000 years ago.

Scientists Resurrect Creature That’s Been Frozen for 24,000 Years

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter nailed its seventh flight without facing any of the glitches that forced an emergency landing during its previous journey.

After Past Glitches, Mars Helicopter Nails Flight Number Seven

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with CNN, NASA administrator Bill Nelson chimed in on the topic of UFOs ahead of the release of a long-awaited report on the matter.

NASA Head Says He’s Talked to Pilots Who Encountered UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

According to a team of researchers, the existence of an extra dimension in space-time could explain the existence of dark mater

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists found organic molecules inside of planetary nebulae, challenging astronomers' assumptions about what could and couldn't survive.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Find Organic Compounds Inside Multiple Dying Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Coating the platters of a high-density hard drive with graphene instead of a carbon-based overcoat results in ten times the storage capacity.

Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data

By Dan Robitzski

Rumors are spreading that Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson will attempt to beat rival and Blue Origins CEO Jeff Bezos to space this summer.

Richard Branson Is Reportedly Racing to Go to Space Before Jeff Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers are working on drones that can track people down based on the sound of their screams — scary-sounding tech that could save lives in a disaster.

Engineers Build Drones That Hunt Screaming Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Aibnb, Uber, Lyft, and other similar companies are becoming considerably more expensive as they attempt to stop burning through so much cash.

The Price of Ubers and Airbnbs Is About to Get Jacked Up

By Dan Robitzski