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Authorities in Ukraine have sized over 1,500 bottles of a spirit made out of apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as USA Today reports.

Science & Energy

Authorities Seize “Atomik” Booze Made Near Chernobyl Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers may be able to spot alien technosignatures, including the heat given off by satellite constellations like the one launched by Starlink.

Science & Energy

Scientist: We Should Be Searching for the Alien Version of Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

China is pushing back against all the criticism over the uncontrolled reentry and landing of its Long March 5B rocket on Saturday

China: Actually, Our Hurtling Deathrocket Was Totally Fine

By Dan Robitzski

Advanced Transport

Tony Hawk Reveals Electric Minivan With Built-In Electric Longboard

By Victor Tangermann

Melinda Gates reportedly met with divorce lawyers as far back as 2019, around the time Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and his ties to Bill Gates went public.

Melinda Gates Met With Divorce Lawyers Around the Time of Epstein’s Arrest

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's SN15 Starship prototype's job isn't over. According to a Friday tweet by CEO Elon Musk, the company "might try to refly SN15 soon."

SpaceX Is Getting Ready to Fly Starship SN15 Again

By Victor Tangermann

Dogecoin is officially going to the Moon — with the help of a SpaceX satellite called Doge-1, a mission paid for entirely with Dogecoin.

SpaceX Is Now Taking Dogecoin for Upcoming Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Jokes About Mars Colonists Dying Horribly

Elon Musk Jokes About Mars Colonists Dying Horribly

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is barred from collaborating with China and its leadership says it's not concerned about China's ambitions. But experts suggest it should be.

Head of NASA Slams China for Crashing Used Rocket Into Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla drove their much anticipated Cybertruck through the streets of New York City — and broke a few traffic laws while doing it.

Tesla Cybertruck Hits Streets of NYC, Breaks Several Traffic Laws

By Tony Ho Tran

Cryptocurrency Is Now Worth More Than All US Currency in Circulation

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to post a meme about the alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin, sending it soaring by 25 percent.

Dogecoin Price Fell the Instant Elon Musk Went on “SNL”

By Jon Christian

The disintegrating rocket parts left over from China launching the first segment of its new space station into orbit are now visible from the ground.

Expert: China’s Disintegrating Rocket Debris Spotted in New Video

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that people should be cautious with how they approach investing in cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin.

Elon Musk Tweets About Doge Being a Guest on SNL, Dogecoin Prices Soar

By Tony Ho Tran

A massive Long March 5B core stage that recently helped launch the first piece of China's space station will soon make its uncontrolled reentry.

Chinese Deathrocket Expected to Crash Land on Saturday

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk contemplates the difficulties of rolling out self-driving car technologies. Perhaps humans are to blame?

Tesla Admits Elon Musk Exaggerated Autopilot Capabilities

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its fifth flight — a one-way trip to the Martian craft's new home base.

NASA Mars Helicopter Completes One-Way Flight to New Home Base

By Tony Ho Tran

First, Musk claimed the title "Technoking of Tesla." Now, the billionaire has added the phrase "Imperator of Mars" to his Twitter bio.

Elon Musk’s Name Appears in 69-Year-Old Book About Colonizing Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

A questionable paper claiming NASA photos revealed fungal life on Mars didn't survive scrutiny, but that doesn't mean Martian life is impossible.

The Mars Mushrooms Are Probably Fake, But Organisms Could Likely Survive on the Red Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is once again under fire for his reputation as a notorious meme thief who refuses to give artists credit.

Elon Musk Just Got Majorly Called Out for Stealing Memes

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

Science & Energy

Scientist Spot Star That’s Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Officials just found that buried uranium at Chernobyl is triggering new nuclear reactions, raising the possibility of another dangerous accident.

Scientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site

By Dan Robitzski

Melinda Gates was reportedly furious at her husband for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, which may have contributed to their pending divorce.

Before Divorce, Melinda Gates Was Furious at Bill Gates for Epstein Relationship

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has released the first-ever sounds of its Mars Helicopter in flight, picked up by the agency's Perseverance rover some 262 feet away.

Listen to NASA’s Mars Helicopter Taking Off

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that people should be cautious with how they approach investing in cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin.

Elon Musk Isn’t So Sure About Dogecoin: “Invest With Caution”

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that Mars could still have active volcanoes, and recent eruptions could have happened 50,000 instead of billions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Study: Mars Could Still Have Active Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing has announced it is targeting July 30 for its second and much overdue uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft.

Boeing Is Still Trying to Get Its Doomed Space Shuttle Off the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

As a Chinese rocket plummets to Earth after launching a space station module, the US military is taking a bold "wait and see what happens" plan of attack.

Science & Energy

Secretary of Defense: We Will Not Shoot Down Plummeting Chinese Deathrocket

By Dan Robitzski

Ohio state senator Andrew Brenner tried and failed miserably to hide the fact that he was driving a car during a Zoom meeting.

Advanced Transport

Watch This Politician’s Horrible Attempt to Hide That He’s Driving on a Zoom Call

By Dan Robitzski

The world's biggest jeweler Pandora has announced it will cease to sell all mined diamonds and will switch exclusively to lab-made diamonds.

Science & Energy

World’s Biggest Jeweler Will Only Sell Lab-Grown Diamonds

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers found a way to take over most of a Tesla's functionality just by broadcasting a WiFi signal from a drone hovering overhead.

Hackers Broke Into Tesla Using a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

After a not-so-sneaky attempt to get back on Twitter, former US President and serial poster Donald Trump finds himself banned once more.

Trump Just Got Kicked Off Twitter AGAIN

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service isn't going to give you a pass for downloading copyright-infringing content online.

SpaceX Could Cut Your Starlink Internet Service If You Pirate Movies

By Victor Tangermann

Russia is preparing to test launch its powerful new RS-28 Sarmat hypersonic nuke, which has been given the appropriate nickname "Satan II."

Russia Announces Plans to Test Nuclear Weapon Called “Satan II”

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill in front of the New York state senate would impose a three-year ban on all crypto mining to take stock of its environmental impacts.

New York May Ban All Bitcoin Mining

By Dan Robitzski

As Dogecoin's price spiked, a huge influx of people trying to get in on the action overwhelmed and took down the trading app Robinhood

Science & Energy

Robinhood Went Down Yet Again, This Time Due to Dogecoin Spike

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at NASA have turned the radio signals picked up by the Parker Solar Probe in Venus' ionosphere into sound.

Science & Energy

Scientists Turn Radio Signal From Venus Into Audio You Can Listen to

By Victor Tangermann

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.

Artificial Intelligence

People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

By Dan Robitzski

Another day, another chance of SpaceX launching its next Starship prototype. Local sheriffs have cleared the beach in preparation.

Cops Clear Beach in Preparation for Starship Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon is launching an investigation into its own handling and response to various UFO and UAP sightings over the years.

Robots and Machines

The Pentagon Is Investigating Potential Mishandling of UFO Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent opinion piece for NBC News, MIT graduate and entrepreneur Rizwan Virk argues studying UFOs could potentially redefine "all of science."

MIT Researcher Says UFO Research Could Lead to New Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

The Parker Solar Probe broke two of its own records, for being fastest human-made object and taking the closest apporach to the Sun.

Science & Energy

A NASA Spacecraft Just “Touched” the Outer Layer of the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

A Las Vegas-based company has put up a RV add-on called CyberLandr for the Cybertruck, cashing in on more than $50 million in future revenue.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck RV Attachment Sells $50 Million in Preorders

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates announced on Twitter that he and his wife Melinda are getting a divorce, but their work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will continue.

Bill Gates, Who Wants to Geoengineer the Earth, Is Getting a Divorce

By Dan Robitzski

When SpaceX's crews pulled the Crew Dragon capsule out of the water on Sunday, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins did a little dance.

Watch Astronaut Do a Victory Dance After Climbing Out of Charred SpaceX Capsule

By Victor Tangermann

Avi Loeb says stars ejected by supermassive black holes travel so fast they essentially time travel, and they may make for great alien tourist destinations.

Science & Energy

Specific Stars Are Effectively Time Traveling

By Dan Robitzski

Former Senator Harry Reid says that he was led to believe Lockheed Martin had stockpiled pieces of a crashed UFO, but he never got to see it for himself.

Former Senator Says Military Wouldn’t Let Him See UFO Wreckage

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese law enforcement likened the burn off from its recently launched space station module to the mass cremations taking place in India on social media.

China Deletes Post Mocking COVID Death Toll

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by jetpack maker Gravity Industries shows a Royal Marine using a jet-powered suit to land on a nearby ship.

Advanced Transport

Watch a UK Marine Jetpack onto Speeding Ship, Pull Out Gun

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Charlie Munger, vice chairman of the Warren Buffett-led investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, had no kind words to spare for Bitcoin.

Warren Buffet Associate Calls Bitcoin “Disgusting and Contrary to the Interests of Civilization”

By Victor Tangermann

Guy Fieri Blasts Jeff Bezos for Not Helping Struggling Restaurant Workers

Guy Fieri Blasts Jeff Bezos for Not Helping Struggling Restaurant Workers

By Tony Ho Tran

A 330-ton fatberg has clogged the sewers in Birmingham, England. Officials say it's going to take several weeks to completely clear the blockage.

Science & Energy

330-Ton Disgusting Blob of Garbage, Fat Clogs City’s Sewers

By Tony Ho Tran

Thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in their brains, two monkeys were able to "see" and recognize individual shapes — without using their eyes.

Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Co-Founder Leaves Company For Unknown Reasons

By Jon Christian

The United States announced that it supports Japan's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.

Science & Energy

Dumping Radioactive Water Into Sea Won’t Solve Japan’s Issues

By Tony Ho Tran

Vandals have stuffed meat into the connectors of an electric vehicle charging station in Germany -- and it's part of a growing trend.

Electric Vehicles

Vandals Are Stuffing Meat Into Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers observed glaciers using NASA satellite datasets and discovered that glacial melt has doubled between 2000 and 2019.

Science & Energy

World’s Glaciers Melting Way, Way Faster Than We Thought

By Tony Ho Tran

After their initial return was delayed due to inclement weather, the astronauts of the Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft are slated to splashdown in the dark.

Crew Dragon Astronauts Stranded in Space by Weather Will Splashdown in Dark

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement last week about how he's disappointed with SpaceX's efforts to return Americans to space.

In Stunning Reversal, NASA Halts $2.9 Billion Contract with SpaceX

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX cancelled the test launch of its SN15 Starship prototype for an undisclosed reason and will likely try again on Monday.

SpaceX Cancels Launch of Spaceship That Keeps Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

After a failed attempt earlier this week, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully taken to the skies for a fourth time, soaring to new heights.

After Failed Flight, Mars Helicopter Successfully Soars Once Again

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during an internal Q&A that any employee who wants one could expense an Oculus Quest 2 to the company.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Is Giving a VR Headset to Every Employee Who Wants One

By Dan Robitzski

The Senate unanimously voted to confirm Biden nominee Bill Nelson, a former Senator and astronaut, as the new Administrator of NASA.

Congress Names Former Astronaut as New NASA Leader

By Dan Robitzski