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Beijing-based private space mining company Origin Space is launching its first ever "space mining robot" in November on top of a Long March series rocket.

Chinese Startup Launching Space Mining Robot in November

By Victor Tangermann

German startup Volocopter just announced its taking reservations for the first-ever public electric air taxi rides on board its VoloCity aircraft.

Advanced Transport

This Company Just Opened Reservations for Public Air Taxi Flights

By Victor Tangermann

The Wyoming Banking Board just voted to approve Kraken, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, as a special purpose depository institution.

For the First Time, a Cryptocurrency Exchange Is Becoming a US Bank

By Victor Tangermann

Smoke from the devastating wildfires that have swept across the West Coast this past week has now reportedly drifted all the way across the United States.

West Coast Wildfire Smoke Hits NYC, Causing Weird-Looking Sunsets

By Jon Christian

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to carry what will soon become the International Space Station's first privately-built airlock.

International Space Station

The ISS Is About to Get Its First Commercial Airlock

By Victor Tangermann

Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin called Venus a "Russian planet" on Tuesday at an industry exhibition taking place in Moscow.

Head of Russian Space Program Says Venus Is a “Russian Planet”

By Victor Tangermann

Military contractor Dynetics has revealed a full-scale model of its human landing system designed to return NASA astronauts to the Moon in 2024.

New Video Shows Inside of NASA Contractor’s Proposed Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has teamed up with legendary Italian carmaker Lamborghini to create... an electric go kart from hell?

Advanced Transport

This Electric Lamborghini Go-Kart Looks Fun as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Private New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab is already working on sending a probe to Venus's atmosphere to look for signs of life.

Science & Energy

Life on Venus? This Rocket Company Is Already Planning a Mission to Have a Closer Look

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, acidic fluids may have long destroyed evidence of past biological life inside Martian clay on the Red Planet's surface.

Science & Energy

Acids May Have Destroyed Evidence of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Two major convenience store franchises in Japan are testing out robots capable of stocking shelves using two creepy hands with three "fingers" each.

Stores In Japan Are Stocking Shelves With Remote-Controlled Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Aerospace multinational Airbus is investigating a new way for airliners to save fuel: fly in formation, just like a herd of migrating geese.

Advanced Transport

Here’s Why Airliners Might Soon Fly in Formation Like Birds

By Victor Tangermann

General Motors has announced that it will finally fully reveal its long-awaited all-electric Hummer SUV to the world on Tuesday, October 20.

Advanced Transport

Watch the Much-Hyped All-Electric Hummer “Crabwalk” In a New Video

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities say that groups of killer whales have been attacking boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, the area between Spain and Morocco.

Science & Energy

Gangs of Ferocious Killer Whales Are Attacking Boats

By Jon Christian

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 Shreds Bill Gates For Insulting Electric Semi Trucks

By Victor Tangermann

Some carbon-rich exoplanets could be made out of diamonds and silica, according to a new study published recently in The Planetary Science Journal.

Science & Energy

Scientists: There Are Likely Entire Planets Made Out of Diamond and Silica

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's latest full-scale Starship prototype dubbed SN8 will ultimately attempt to fly to 60,000 feet.

Elon Musk: Next Starship Launch Will Fly 12 Miles High

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's space agency has announced it's planning to film Mars's mysterious moons with cameras that can shoot in 8K ultra-high-definition.

Japanese Spacecraft Will Shoot Martian Moons in 8K Resolution

By Victor Tangermann

AmazonBasics products seem to have a troublesome tendency to explode or catch fire. Despite that, many troublesome products are still avaialbe online.

Science & Energy

Amazon Products Are Reportedly Exploding and Catching Fire

By Dan Robitzski

China's largest defense contractor is constructing a floating spaceport to launch its rockets off the coast of Haiyang city on the Eastern coast.

China is Building a Floating Spaceport to Launch Rockets

By Victor Tangermann

According to Tesla forum posts, some Tesla Model Y cooling systems are being patched by what appears to be faux wooden trim pieces.

Tesla Model Y Owners Are Discovering Fake Wood in Their Cooling Systems

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin, currently under construction, is facing yet another big hurdle in winning over the hearts of local citizens and regulators.

Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin Faces 406 Objections from Locals

By Victor Tangermann

The dimmer version of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are still too bright in the sky for astronomers to conduct their research.

Science & Energy

SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Still Ruining Astronomers’ Research

By Dan Robitzski

The US Space Force just deployed its first troops — not to space, but to the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

The US Space Force Just Deployed Its First Troops

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced it's soliciting commercial companies to collect space resources, including Moon "dirt," an effort to create a marketplace for space rocks.

NASA Wants to Pay Private Companies to Bag Moon Dirt

By Victor Tangermann

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

By Dan Robitzski

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

By Victor Tangermann

Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, has unveiled a new drone called the Ghost 4.

New Military Drone Fits in Backpack, Can Carry Lasers, Radio Jammers, Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists suggests that meteor impact craters could have offered the perfect conditions for life on Earth to emerge.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart just kicked off its own drone delivery pilot, a collaboration with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.

Walmart Just Started Delivering Stuff With Drones

By Victor Tangermann

While scientists predicted that forests would continue to serve as carbon sinks, the benefits may be short-lived as too much CO2 makes trees die younger.

Too Much CO2 Is Killing Trees, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got an up-close look at the asteroid Bennu as it crumbled apart and left a trail of debris and particles in its wake.

Science & Energy

NASA Got an Up-Close Look at an Asteroid Crumbling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.

US Approves First Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

Graduate designer Dorothee Clasen has come up with an unusual new way to interface with a computer: a tongue-operated controller.

This Device Allows You to Control a Computer With Your Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.

Artificial Intelligence

Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is using a kind of heavy-duty metallic glass to develop rovers that can explore colder environments than ever before.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Making Moon Rover Parts Out of Metallic Glass

By Dan Robitzski

According to state media, China's mysterious recently launched spacecraft made it's way safely back down to Earth after spending two days in orbit.

China’s Mysterious Reusable Spacecraft Just Spent Two Days in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force deployed four-legged "robot dogs" to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, as The Drive reports.

US Military Deploys Robot Dogs to Guard Air Force Base

By Victor Tangermann

The electric automaker Nikola just partnered up with General Motors, which will handle manufacturing and supply batteries for its upcoming electric truck.

General Motors Is Teaming Up With Tesla Competitor Nikola

By Dan Robitzski

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.

Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

One of China's Long March 4B rocket boosters exploded in a cloud of orange smoke not far from a school after a successful launch.

Chinese Rocket Booster Crashes Near School, Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers ran a flight test of a model Flying-V, the experimental plane that has seats inside its wings, for the first time.

Advanced Transport

Engineers Test Jetliner Where You Ride in the Wings

By Dan Robitzski

China quietly launched a mysterious reusable spacecraft into orbit this morning on top a massive Long March 2F rocket. Could it be the country's spaceplane?

China Just Launched a Mysterious “Reusable Test Spacecraft”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

By Dan Robitzski

But not everybody was impressed with Neuralink's recent demo. To many experts, the demo seems to have raised far more questions than it was able to answer.

Prosthetics and Devices

Neuroscientist: There Was a Huge Problem With Neuralink’s Demo

By Victor Tangermann

Using the recently upgraded GREGOR telescope on Tenerife, Spain, researchers zoomed in on the surface of the Sun to study its magnetism.

Science & Energy

Close-Up Images of Sunspots Look Like Horrible Gaping Mouths

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a solar system with three stars that tore apart its own protoplanetary disc with the stars' bizarre orbits.

Science & Energy

A Three-Star System Ripped Apart Its Own Protoplanetary Disc

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is launching a Alexa for Residential service that makes it easier for landlords to convert units into smart apartments.

Amazon Promises Its Alexa For Landlords System Doesn’t Spy on Tenants

By Dan Robitzski

The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 prototype is absolutely insane. It can barely keep itself on the road during a drag race.

Advanced Transport

Watch Ford’s Insanely Powerful Electric Mustang Pop a Wheelie on the Drag Strip

By Victor Tangermann

A team of psychophysicists believe they've figured out how consciousness works in our mind. If so, they would also have settled a 1,500-year-old debate.

Science & Energy

Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's sixth Starship prototype has "hopped" to 150 meters (492 feet) during a test at the company's test site in Texas, the second hop of its kind.

Breaking: SpaceX Hops Gigantic Starship Prototype to 150 Meters — Again

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey reveals that a majority of Generation Z believes that humanity might be able to slow down climate change but not stop it.

The Majority of Gen Z Thinks Climate Change Is Inevitable

By Dan Robitzski

There's a hole on the International Space Station, allowing air to leak out — and NASA is still having trouble tracking it down.

Weeks Later, NASA Still Can’t Find Hole in Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

In an experiment, a team of scientists have created a levitating fluid that allows a tiny boat to float both on top of it — and below it.

Scientists Debut Hovering “Antigravity” Device

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman just ignited a booster for NASA's long-awaited Space Launch System (SLS). The ensuing fireball was so huge, it lit a nearby hill on fire.

NASA Tests Rocket So Huge It Lights Entire Hillside on Fire

By Victor Tangermann

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.

Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

By Dan Robitzski

Russia has officially declassified footage from 1961 of the biggest ever nuclear blast of the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, better known as Tsar Bomba.

Russia Declassifies Video of World’s Biggest Nuclear Blast

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have no idea what formed a series of bizarre ridges on the surface of Mars, and they're not confident in their guess.

Science & Energy

Scientists Still Baffled by Bizarre Martian Ridges

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.

Science & Energy

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla competitor Lucid Motors claims to have beaten a Tesla Model S in a quarter mile race, covering the distance in a blistering 9.9 seconds.

Lucid Motors Claims to Have Beaten Tesla Model S on Drag Strip

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists speculate that a bizarre form of extraterrestrial life might be able to survive and rapidly evolve inside stars.

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

By Dan Robitzski

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

During a virtual summit on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on his ambitions of building a self-sustaining city on Mars — and the dangers involved.

Elon Musk: “Good Chance You’ll Die” On Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers have built a true hologram, not unlike the ones seen in "Star Wars": a short loop of the Earth spinning on its axis.

Virtual Reality

Scientists Create True, “Star Wars”-Style Hologram

By Dan Robitzski