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Three rhino poachers had a run-in with wild elephants in South Africa's Kruger National Park. One of them ended up being trampled to death.

Science & Energy

Elephants Trample Suspected Poacher to Death

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.

Science & Energy

MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla owner shared footage of a bizarre glitch. His Model 3's Autopilot kept slamming the brakes when it spotted a fake stop sign on a billboard.

Tesla Keeps “Slamming on the Brakes” When It Sees Stop Sign on Billboard

By Dan Robitzski

Spanish police raided a warehouse, full of white supremacist literature and guerilla warfare manuals, where someone was 3D printing guns and bombs.

Police Raided Factory Churning Out Black Market 3D Printed Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

According to Bob Balaram, Ingenuity's chief engineer at JPL, NASA's Mars helicopter has managed to shake off some dust that accumulated on its solar panels.

NASA Says Mars Helicopter Is Now Healthier Than It Was Before Flight

By Victor Tangermann

In just four years, China's population is set to peak, worrying national authorities, as the South China Morning Post reports.

China’s Population Is About to Start Declining, and Its Leaders Are Worried

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has shown off the first high-resolution video of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter taking to the skies on Monday morning.

New Video Shows Mars Helicopter Flight in Higher Resolution

By Victor Tangermann

Over a year after mysterious drone swarms descended on several US states and a federal investigation fell apart, local residents are still seeking answers.

The FBI Investigated Drones That Swarmed Towns in the Midwest

By Dan Robitzski

When SpaceX's Starship will go to the Moon for the first time, it won't be carrying passengers, as per its new contract with NASA.

NASA Will Require SpaceX to Land Empty Starship on Moon Before Sending Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

Russia may soon be abandoning the aging International Space Station — and focus on launching and populating its own space station instead.

International Space Station

Russia Is Reportedly Abandoning the International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Robotics ethicist Kate Darling warns that increasingly humanlike robots could be designed to exploit our emotional connections.

MIT Researcher: Sex Robots May Sell In-App Purchases During Intercourse

By Dan Robitzski

Stars that are forming near each other actually compete for limited resources like cosmic gasses, according to a bizarre new discovery.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Surprised to Find That Stars Compete With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

In a new video released by Gravity Industries, a jetpack suit-wearing special ops soldier can be seen boarding a ship by flying there from a nearby raft.

Advanced Transport

Special Ops Soldier With Jetpack Boards Ship in Amazing Video

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a particular kind of light wave that they can exploit to look straight through an object as if it was never there.

New Tech Makes Objects Invisible by Shining Light Straight Through Them

By Dan Robitzski

Daredevil jetpack pilot Vince Reffet tragically passed away in November 2020 during a training accident. Here's what may have happened.

Advanced Transport

New Details Emerge About Fatal Jetpack Crash

By Victor Tangermann

Footage from a Tesla's built-in security cameras played a part in identifying the guy behind several anti-Black hate crimes in Massachusetts.

Tesla Helps Cops Catch Man Who Committed Racial Hate Crime

By Dan Robitzski

A dire new report shows that only about three percent of the land on Earth remains intact and untouched by human-caused destruction.

Study: Humanity Has Ravaged All But 3 Percent of The Land on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, NASA has officially chosen SpaceX to to build a rocket capable of landing astronauts on the Moon.

NASA Reportedly Chooses SpaceX to Develop Moon Lander

By Victor Tangermann

After Japan announced it's going ahead with the plan to dump Fukushima's contaminated water into the ocean, a Chinese official issued a personal challenge.

Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping It Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

During a recent visit to Tesla's factory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk decided to take the company's long-awaited Cybertruck for a spin.

Elon Musk Takes Cybertruck for Off-Road Joyride

By Victor Tangermann

A single pixel, a part of an NFT by digital artist Pak, sold for $1.36 million worth of Ether at auction house Sotheby's.

Artist Sells NFT of Single Pixel for $1.7 Million

By Victor Tangermann

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.

US Spies Warn That China Is Building Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.

Science & Energy

SETI Research Director Warns of “Malevolent” Alien Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious creature caught in a tree caused residents in Krakow, Poland, to shut their windows and hunker down. It turned out to be a croissant.

Terrifying Mutated-Looking “Creature” Turns Out to Be a Croissant

By Victor Tangermann

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Science & Energy

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is planning to launch a mission to the Moon's south pole — and it's scheduled for launch this October, as Space.com reports.

Russia Is Planning a Moon Landing Later This Year

By Victor Tangermann

During a conference, SpaceX COO and president Gwynne Shotwell said the company is hoping to get the first people to Mars inside a Starship "before 2030."

SpaceX COO: “We Will Fly Large Numbers of People on Starship in Five Years”

By Victor Tangermann

Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.

This Type of Ant Can Shrink and Regrow Its Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Epirus has come up with a novel solution to take out enemy drone swarms: a weapon that can blast out beams of high-power microwaves.

Mobile Weapon System Kills Entire Drone Swarms Using Microwaves

By Victor Tangermann

The National Weather Service station in Cape Cod has been abandoned and is scheduled for demolition because it's about to fall into the sea.

Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s Falling Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars lander InSight is caked in so much dust that it can't harness enough solar energy to stay operational through the Martian winter.

NASA Takes Emergency Action to Save Dying Mars Lander

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese space agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi took a gorgeous time lapse of space from a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule currently docked to the ISS.

Watch This Breathtaking Time-Lapse Taken From Inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

MIT scientists converted the structure and construction of spider webs into odd music which they hope could lead to a form of human-spider communications.

MIT Researchers Release Music Made by Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Science & Energy

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous identity masking Bitcoin's creator or creators, has enough of the crypto to be the world's 19th richest person.

Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakomoto Is Now One of the World’s Wealthiest People

By Dan Robitzski

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has signed a "Space Act Agreement" with what could be the first reality show set in space called "Space Hero," as Space.com reports.

NASA Considering Reality TV Show Filmed on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab have concluded that the Ingenuity Mars helicopter needs to have its flight control software reinstalled.

NASA Says Oops, Mars Helicopter Needs Software Update to Fly

By Victor Tangermann

Pizza giant Domino's is partnering with robotics company Nuro to bring autonomous robot pizza deliveries to Houston, Texas.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Domino’s Starts Autonomous Robot Pizza Deliveries

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

California-based exoskeleton manufacturer SuitX is betting its technology will soon go mainstream — with exoskeletons being sold at every big box store.

Prosthetics and Devices

Exoskeleton Maker Says Powered Suits Could Soon Be for Sale at Home Depot

By Victor Tangermann

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

Elon Musk Says He Is Now the “Imperator of Mars”

By Victor Tangermann

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.

Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

By Victor Tangermann

Bandits in Mexico stole industrial radiographic equipment, including a highly radioactive container of dangerous isotopes.

Science & Energy

Armed Criminals Steal Truck Full of Deadly Radioactive Materials

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities arrested a Michigan man after he claimed to have a bomb parked in a trailer outside of a nuclear power plant in Ohio.

Science & Energy

Man Claimed to Have Car Bomb at Nuclear Power Plant

By Tony Ho Tran

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.

Science & Energy

SpaceX Isn’t Sure If This Object Came From One of Its Rockets

By Tony Ho Tran

The White House has reiterated its support for NASA's Artemis program, with the goal of returning the first human astronauts to the surface of the Moon.

NASA Plans to Land First Person of Color on the Moon in Artemis Program

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA released a stunning new photo of Mars on Thursday depicting a series of bright-blue dunes near the Red Planet’s polar cap.

Amazing NASA Photo Shows Bright-Blue Dunes on Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Hits Error, First Flight Delayed

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

Science & Energy

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

By Tony Ho Tran

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.

Science & Energy

FBI Arrests Man for Plotting to Bomb Data Center, Cause Huge Internet Outage

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers recently discovered that the Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than they previously anticipated — triggering concerns for sea level rise.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Doomsday Glacier” More Unstable Than Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't mince words in response to a blog post criticizing electric long-haul trucking penned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Elon Musk Deletes Meme Accusing Bill Gates of Vaccine Mind Control

By Tony Ho Tran

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Microsoft Researchers Claim Entire Universe Is a Machine-Learning Algorithm

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just funded a project that wants to explore the clouds of Venus with a swarm of kite-like spacecraft that glide through the atmosphere.

Science & Energy

NASA Funds Spacecraft “Swarm” to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the Starlink network could provite global connectivity after just five more satellite launches.

Science & Energy

SpaceX Says That in Just Five Launches, It’ll Have Full Global Connectivity

By Dan Robitzski

According to local authorities, the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel could soon be using higher capacity vehicles built by Tesla.

Boring Company Partner Teases 16-Passenger Tesla Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

Matt Gaetz seems to have further incriminated himself in an ongoing sex trafficking scandal by leaving his Venmo on public.

Science & Energy

Congressman’s Sex Scandal Explodes Because He Left Venmo Transactions on Public

By Dan Robitzski

A low resolution video made up of several images shows NASA's Mars helicopter's two rotocopter blades spinning up on the surface of Mars.

Marscopter Spins up Blades in Preparation for Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber decided to trespass on SpaceX's Starship facilities near Boca Chica, Texas, last month — and film himself doing it.

Man Films Himself Trespassing at SpaceX Starship Facility

By Victor Tangermann

The University of Chicago and two national labs are launching the first quantum tech startup-focused accelerator in the country.

Quantum Physics

The First-Ever Startup Accelerator for Quantum Tech Just Launched

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.

Scientists: “Direct Fusion Drive” Could Get Us to the Edge of the Solar System in 10 Years

By Victor Tangermann

When a robot messes up, people are way more likely to find it infuriating if it looks like a person. But we're also more likely to accept its apology.

Study: Humanoid Robots Are More Annoying When They F*ck Up

By Dan Robitzski