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For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has fired up the three Raptor engines attached to its latest Starship prototype called SN8 for the fourth time on Tuesday evening.

SpaceX Fires Up Starship Engines Ahead of Miles-High Flight Test

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Army is trying to develop technology that could read a soldier's thoughts, allowing them to communicate silently.

Neuroscience and Brain

The US Army Is Developing Tech That Reads Soldiers’ Minds

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built miniature living factories where photosynthetic algae produce viable hydrogen, all inside a droplet of water.

Scientists Create Living Factories That Churn Out Hydrogen Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has started stacking booster segments of its first heavy-lift Space Launch System at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Is Officially Assembling the SLS in Florida

By Victor Tangermann

A group of eagle-eyed Reddit users have already discovered the location of the mysterious ten to 12 foot monolith on Google Earth.

Mysterious Monolith Has Been There For Years, According to Google Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An amateur astronomer may have found where the elusive Wow! Signal came from, tracing it back to a sun-like star in Sagittarius.

Strongest-Ever Candidate For Alien Message Came From Sun-Like Star, Researcher Says

By Dan Robitzski

A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Tesla refused to fix and even covered up a safety issue with Model X and Model S suspensions.

Tesla Accused of Covering Up Safety Issues in Class Action Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

Utah public safety officials are calling for the removal of an "illegal" metallic monolith eretced in the middle of the Utah wilderness.

Utah Authorities Say Mysterious Monolith Is Illegal, Even If Aliens Put It There

By Victor Tangermann

The government of the Solomon Islands, a nation of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific, is defending its decision to temporarily ban Facebook.

An Entire Island Nation Is Banning Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified massive ripples on the surface of Mars likely formed by an ancient megaflood and planet-covering storm clouds.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Evidence of Ancient “Megafloods” on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Security researchers have figured out a way to hack into a Tesla Model X by overwriting the firmware of the car's key fob via a Bluetooth connection.

New Hack Steals a Tesla in Minutes via Bluetooth

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has dethroned Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.

Elon Musk Just Became the Second Richest Person in the World

By Victor Tangermann

In the latest perplexing turn of events, state officials say the a mysterious monolith has vanished from the Utah desert.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Mysterious Metal “Monolith” in Utah Wilderness

By Victor Tangermann

The Army is developing a system that can hide or replicate the electromagnetic signals given off by a soldier's gear to make them harder to track.

The Army Is Developing a Way to Spoof Soldiers’ Electromagnetic Signatures

By Dan Robitzski

China has successfully launched its sample return mission to the Moon as part of the country's Chang'e-5 mission at 3:31 pm Eastern time.

China Successfully Launches Lunar Sample Return Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created a sensor that can function for an entire year with a single tiny jumpstart of power by using quantum tunneling.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create Electronic Gadget Powered by Quantum Tunneling

By Victor Tangermann

In order to prevent a Day Zero drought in Cape Town, South Africa, scientists suggest reflecting sunlight away from Earth with stratospheric particles.

South African Academics Are Considering Dimming the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

China is about to launch an ambitious mission to the Moon in an attempt to retrieve the first lunar samples and bring them back to Earth since the 1970s.

Watch China Launch Its Lunar Sample Return Mission Live

By Victor Tangermann

Greenhouse gas emissions dipped during the coronavirus pandemic, but not enough to have a serious or lasting effect on global climate change.

UN: Despite the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gases Are at an All-Time High

By Dan Robitzski

In order to teach AI how to use words with specific intentions rather than babbling, scientists made an AI agent play a fantasy role-playing game.

Artificial Intelligence

To Teach an AI to Pursue Goals, Scientists Made It Play an RPG

By Dan Robitzski

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Science & Energy

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are testing if we can harness the heat of the Sun to travel to interstellar space.

NASA Tests Experimental Interstellar Propulsion System

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found evidence of a "fossil galaxy" buried deep inside the Milky Way. It seems our galaxy gobbled up one of its neighbors 10 billion years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Remnants of “Fossil Galaxy” Inside the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla Crashes at 100 MPH, Sending Flaming Batteries Into Multiple Homes

Tesla Crashes at 100 MPH, Sending Flaming Batteries Into Multiple Homes

By Victor Tangermann

AI legal expert Frank Pasquale says that Asimov's laws of robotics are outdated, and he has some ideas for new ones to supplement them.

Robots and Machines

Professor: Asimov’s Laws Are Outdated and It’s Time to Write More

By Dan Robitzski

The Vatican is investigating why Pope Francis' official Instagram account accidentally liked a Brazilian model's revealing picture.

Vatican Confused by How Pope Account “Liked” Sexy Pic

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent report, NASA admitted that landing the first astronauts on the Moon since the Apollo era in 2024 might be a bit of a stretch.

NASA Admits It Probably Won’t Be Able to Land Moon Astronauts by 2024

By Victor Tangermann

Lil Nas X got his hands on a genuine SpaceX astronaut helmet for a recent "Space Odyssey"-themed photoshoot, and Elon Musk personally approved the loan.

How Lil Nas X Obtained an Actual SpaceX Helmet

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that leftover milk could be a crucial ingredient for the sort of carbon capture tech we may need to stop climate change.

Leftover Milk Could be the Key Ingredient for Carbon Capture Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in the U.K. may soon put out a call for everyone to stop sending useless emails, citing the toll that they take on the environment.

UK Officials: Useless Emails Are Killing the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

The same team that announced the detection of phosphine gas, a biomarker, in Venus's atmosphere, just found a processing error in its data.

Science & Energy

Venus Life Finding Might Be Based on a Data Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

Filter out every star, galaxy, and other source of brightness we know about, and half of the light in the universe will still remain.

Astronomers Can’t Explain Where Half the Universe’s Light Is Coming From

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have created diamonds at room temperature in mere minutes using extremely high levels of pressure.

Science & Energy

Scientists Create Diamonds at Room Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, in what seems to be an unauthorized stunt or part of a music video, a man jumped onto an occupied NYC bus and fired a flamethrower into the air.

Science & Energy

Man Seen Shooting Flamethrower on Roof of NYC Bus

By Dan Robitzski

Investors and automotive companies themselves are currently investing heavily in electic vehicles, all while the industry launches a new lobby group.

Electric Vehicles

Huge Amounts of Money Are Pouring Into the Electric Vehicle Market

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a gene that allows coral to survive hot water, and they want to gene-hack it into reefs to protect against climate change.

Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Bioethicist Nancy Jecker argues that sex robots catered to their specific needs could provide much-needed companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Bioethicist: We Should Give Sex Robots to Lonely Seniors

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI is commissioning a fleet of 140 robots to help manage a warehouse where it keeps billions of sensitive paper files.

The FBI Is Buying 140 Robots to Handle Paper Records

By Dan Robitzski

The Federal Aviation Administration just cleared the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to fly after the plane was involved in two crashes resulting in 346 deaths.

Advanced Transport

Boeing’s Jet That Kept Crashing Is Now Cleared to Fly Again

By Victor Tangermann

China is preparing to launch its Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission early next week and the rocket to get it to the Moon was just rolled out.

China Is About to Launch a Lunar Sample Return Mission

By Victor Tangermann

NASA modeled how much air pollution humanity would have caused without a pandemic this year to find out how much emissions dropped.

NASA Figured Out How Much Less We Polluted Under Lockdown

By Dan Robitzski

In July, a NASA launch will send vials of human cremains and DNA samples to their final resting place on the surface of the Moon.

Upcoming Mission Will Fly Human Remains to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Vince Reffet, a person known for soaring above Dubai using a jet-powered wingsuit, has passed away during a training accident on Tuesday.

Jetpack Test Pilot Dies During Training Accident

By Victor Tangermann

Geoengineering alone may not save us from the worst impacts of climate change, a study says, because greenhouse gas emissions do more than warm the planet.

Even More Scientists Say Geoengineering Can’t Save Us

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that amino acids can form in space without energy input, suggesting they may be older than stars and planets.

Building Blocks of Life Can Form in Deep Space, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Toyota has patented an autonomous refueling system that could allow for cars to top up their gasoline tanks, hydrogen fuel cells or batteries on the go.

Toyota Patents Autonomous Battery Drone That Recharges Your Car

By Victor Tangermann

The head of the U.N.'s World Food Program warns that without emergency funding, 36 countries around the world could face severe famines next year.

UN Official Warns of “Famines of Biblical Proportions” in 2021

By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, a jet pilot flying inside a real aircraft just fought an artificial intelligence-powered virtual fighter jet in real time.

Virtual Reality

A Pilot Flying a Real Jet Just Fought an Augmented Reality Enemy

By Victor Tangermann

An independent review board assembled by NASA urged the space agency to proceed with an amibitous plan to gather Mars samples and bring them to Earth.

Science & Energy

Experts Urge NASA to Return Mars Samples to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

With the 2021 model year refresh around the corner, Tesla has decided to stop selling its cheapest car, the $35,000 Model 3, as Electrek reports.

Tesla Cancels Its Cheapest, $35,000 Car

By Victor Tangermann

The military confirmed that it buys people's location data from apps, especially those targeting the Muslim community, and uses it operationally.

The Military Is Buying People’s Location Data From Popular Phone Apps

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now accepting contractor proposals for its plan to power lunar and Martian outposts with small nuclear fission reactors.

NASA Is Looking for Someone to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Astronauts on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule currently headed to the ISS brought a Baby Yoda doll along as a "zero-gravity indicator."

SpaceX’s Latest “Zero-G Indicator” Is a Baby Yoda

By Victor Tangermann

At 7:27 pm on Sunday, SpaceX launched a crew of four aboard a Crew Dragon module, carried into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket.

Liftoff! SpaceX Launches NASA Astronauts Aboard Dragon Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

Here's how to watch SpaceX and NASA's historic Crew-1 launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday evening.

Here’s How to Watch NASA’s Historic SpaceX Launch Today

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency just signed off on two years worth of feasibility studies, clearing an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029.

Science & Energy

Upcoming Space Telescope Will Study the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

General Motors just recalled about 69,000 Chevrolet Bolts to repair a battery issue that's causing fires in some older models.

Advanced Transport

General Motors Recalls Almost 69,000 Electric Cars Over Battery Fires

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that climate change will continue for centuries, even if we completely stop burning fossil fuels today.

Surviving Climate Change Will Require Geoengineering, Scientists Say [UPDATED]

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft claims Russian and North Korean hackers are trying to get a hold of COVID-19 vaccine data using brute force attacks and phishing lures.

Microsoft Claims Russia and North Korea Hacked COVID Vaccine Data

By Victor Tangermann

The massive alien hunting radio telescope at the Aericbo Observatory is at risk of collapse after several support cables failed leaving extensive damage.

Science & Energy

Giant Arecibo SETI Telescope Could Collapse After Mysterious Damage

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters that he expects SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to "quarantine and self-isolate" after testing for the coronavirus.

NASA Head: Elon Musk Needs to “Quarantine and Self-Isolate” After COVID Diagnosis

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's SN8 Starship prototype had a bit of a hiccup during its third static fire test late Thursday night at the company's testing facilities in Texas.

SpaceX Test Fired Starship, But Something Started Dripping Out

By Victor Tangermann