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Tesla CEO Elon Musk just announced on Twitter that the electric car company's Full Self-Driving Beta update is officially being rolled out.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Officially Starts Rollout of Full Self-Driving Beta

By Victor Tangermann

Advanced Transport

The All-Electric Hummer Can Turn All Four Wheels and Drive Sideways

By Victor Tangermann

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.

New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station crew had a rough night. The same day they finally found an air leak, an oxygen system, toilet, and oven all broke down.

The Space Station’s Toilet, Oven, and Air Supply All Broke Last Night

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype called SN8 completed a "static fire" test of its three Raptor engines early this morning.

SpaceX Starship Prototype Fires Up Its 3 Engines Ahead of Flight to 12 Miles

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.

Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.

New Voyager Readings: Space Is Much Denser Outside Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation just laid our its five year plan to commercialize space, including plans for a spaceplane.

China Says It’ll Fly Astronauts to Orbit in New Spaceplane

By Victor Tangermann

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

In what sounds like a strange act of divination, the current crew of the International Space Station just used tea leaves to identity the station's leak.

They Found the Space Station Leak… Using Tea Leaves

By Victor Tangermann

Alarming research reveals that each time the Arctic permafrost thawed in the past, it released unimaginable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

This Is the Devastating Potential of the Arctic Permafrost Melting

By Dan Robitzski

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.

Science & Energy

Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

By Dan Robitzski

Robot manufacturer Agility has built a human-like robot called Digit that can load boxes onto a truck — and the company is now selling it for $250,000.

Headless Box-Stacking Robot Ready to Be Enslaved for $250,000

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just paid Bell Labs $14.1 million to develop a 4G network — on the Moon.

The Moon Is Getting Cell Service

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is funding research toward a camera that can detach from a spacecraft and film it landing from the surface of another world.

NASA Wants a Moon Camera to Film Landing Spacecraft From the Lunar Surface

By Dan Robitzski

Speaking at the Mars Society's convention last week, Elon Musk claimed that SpaceX has a "fighting chance" to send a Starship to Mars in 2024.

Elon Musk Wants to Send First Starship to Mars in 2024

By Victor Tangermann

Firefighters across the West Coast are dropping special fireballs from drones to keep an unusually severe wildfire season under control.

Firefighters Are Using Drones That Drop Fireballs

By Victor Tangermann

Two separate mysterious sightings of a person flying a jetpack near the Los Angeles International Airport have law enforcement worried.

Advanced Transport

LA Cops Use Aircraft to Hunt Mystery Jetpack Dude

By Victor Tangermann

Using spinach as a catalyst, a team of scientists built an experimental fuel cell that outperformed conventional platinum cells.

Scientists Built a Fuel Cell Out of Spinach

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government announced that it plans to dump radioactive water stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.

Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

China has released a video of a test involving an array of 48 weaponized drones launching from the back of a truck and from a helicopter.

Brutal Chinese Weapon Launches Swarm of Explosive Suicide Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Three percent of SpaceX's Starlink satellites seem to have failed. That's not bad, but it gets dangerous considering how big the constellation will become.

Science & Energy

Three Percent of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Died

By Dan Robitzski

The German government will soon publish a draft law that would legally enforce workers' right to stay home and do their job remotely.

Germany Wants to Make Remote Work a Legal Right

By Dan Robitzski

If a war were waged in space, it wouldn't look anything like Star Wars or Star Trek, reserachers argue. Any conflict would need to be planned in advance.

Experts: This Is What Actual Space Battles Will Be Like

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, researchers have figured out how to record videos of light moving in three dimensions, shooting at 100 billion frames a second.

Science & Energy

Ultra-Speed Caltech Camera Films Light Moving Through Space in 3D

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco-based engineering company Edge Innovations has designed and built a robot dolphin that looks and acts just like the real thing.

Robots and Machines

Ultra-Realistic Remote Controlled Dolphin Looks Like the Real Thing

By Victor Tangermann

Cruise just got permission from the California DMV to test out fully-driverless cars in the state, and it plans to be the first to test in San Francisco.

Advanced Transport

CA Says General Motors Can Test Fully Driverless Cars on Its Roads

By Dan Robitzski

BepiColombo, the European-Japanese spacecraft headed to Mercury, snapped some incredible selfies while making a close flyby past Venus.

Science & Energy

Spacecraft Shoots Epic Selfies With Venus in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

Call center contractors for Amazon's Ring say they're forced to work in an unsanitary office where dozens have gotten sick.

Amazon Contractors Forced to Work in Office With Sick Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

Two massive pieces of space junk might crash into each other on Thursday night, potentially making low Earth orbit and even more dangerous minefield.

Science & Energy

Experts Predict Sizeable Chance of Epic Space Junk Collision Tonight

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Awards SpaceX $53 Million for Orbital Starship Refueling Test

NASA Awards SpaceX $53 Million for Orbital Starship Refueling Test

By Victor Tangermann

The oxygen supply system providing the Russian segment on board the International Space Station with air has failed, Agence France-Presse reports.

International Space Station

Oxygen Supply Fails on Leaking Segment of International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The engineers behind the YouTube "the Hacksmith" have crafted a real-world "Star Wars"-style lightsaber that burns hot enough to cut through steel.

Robots and Machines

Engineers Create Plasma-Powered Lightsaber That Can Cut Metal

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced on Twitter today that the Tesla Model S "Long Range" sedan is getting a price cut to $69,420, just undercutting competitor Lucid.

Elon Musk Slashes Tesla Model S Price to $69,420

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-discovered tardigrade can survive dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and it glows blue whenever it's exposed.

Science & Energy

Newly-Discovered Tardigrade Glows Blue to Block Deadly Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, The Flaming Lips played a show where every member of the audience was safely sealed away inside a plastic bubble.

Band Plays Show With Each Audience Member Inside a Plastic Bubble

By Dan Robitzski

In a now deleted tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk elaborated on the Boring Company's vision in the future: "We will make a dense Tesla if it matters."

Elon Tweets About New Tesla Vehicle, Then Deletes Tweet

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.

Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

German automaker Audi has introduced new LED headlights can project images just like a movie projector for its new lineup of electric SUVs.

Advanced Transport

Audi’s New Headlights Can Project Images Like a Movie Theater

By Victor Tangermann

$Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.$

Fracking Releases Airborne Radioactivity, Harvard Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is experimenting with satellites that use flax fiber instead of steel-like carbon fibers so that they incinerate easier upon retirement.

The ESA Is Weaving Flax Fiber Into Satellites So They Incinerate Better

By Dan Robitzski

A Soyuz launched a NASA astronaut to the ISS, the last time NASA paid for an American astronaut to fly with the Russian space corporation, Roscosmos.

Russia Launches Final Soyuz With NASA Astronauts Aboard

By Victor Tangermann

On Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off a picture of the underside of the SN8 Starship prototype, featuring three massive Raptor engines.

Elon Musk Shows Off Underside of Gigantic New Starship Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's four-wheeled rover called DuAxel can split into two separate two-wheeled rovers, and is intended to explore hard to reach places in faraway places.

NASA Shows Off Transforming Rover for Exploring Steep Cliffs on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built tiny sensors that can safely detach and fall to the ground after a moth carries it to some hard-to-reach destination.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Want to Use Moths to Blanket the Earth in Tiny Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

Through fortunate timing, the space probe BepiColombo is passing Venus tonight, just a month after scientists first found signs of potential life there.

Science & Energy

A Spacecraft Is Going to Hunt Life in Venus’ Clouds This Week

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla is releasing a "Full Self-Driving Beta" to some owners who are "expert and careful drivers" some time next week, according to CEO Elon Musk.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Musk: Tesla Is Rolling Out a Beta of “Full Self-Driving” Next Week

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists traced the Atlantic Ocean's temperatures over the last 2,900 years. It just had its hottest decade since then, and it's getting worse.

The Atlantic Ocean Had Its Hottest Decade in Three Millennia

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli security researchers have figured out how to trick self-driving cars into slamming on the brakes by flicking an image of a stop sign on a billboard.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Hackers Use Billboards to Trick Self-Driving Cars Into Slamming on the Brakes

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists developed new wearable sensors that can be manufactured directly onto someone's skin — without burning the recipient in the process.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Wearables Can Be Printed Directly Onto Skin

By Dan Robitzski

There's Twitter drama unfolding at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, where former cosmonauts attacked the agency director who responded as a robot.

Science & Energy

Russian Cosmonauts Are Fighting a Robot on Twitter

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook, a company that's been around since 2004, announced on October 12, 2020 that it will prohibit posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.

Facebook Waited Until October 12, 2020 to Ban Holocaust Denial

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

The X4, a smartwatch designed for kids, has a disturbing number of cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could put children at risk.

Robots and Machines

This Smartwatch Lets Creeps Take Pics of Kids

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new feature in the LA Times, a startup called Shiok Meats may be poised to be the first company in the world to sell a lab-grown meat.

Science & Energy

This May Be the First Lab-Grown Meat to Actually Hit the Market

By Jon Christian

Peloton, the digital exercise bike company, is now waging a war against hate speech and misinformation on its online platform.

Peloton — Yes, the Exercise Bike — Is Fighting Hate Speech on Its Platform

By Dan Robitzski

As Antarctica melts, the sea level could rise by an additional four inches over what models predicted by 2100 due to fluctuations in weather.

A Melting Antarctica Could Raise the Sea Level More Than Expected

By Dan Robitzski

$Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explores the implications of new research about a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain a "fractal universe."$

Researchers: Some Black Holes May Contain a “Fractal Universe”

By Jon Christian

Microsoft announced that it will indefinitely extend its remote working policies for employees who don't need a physical office to do their jobs.

Microsoft Says Its Employees Can Work From Home Forever

By Dan Robitzski