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Tesla's Chinese battery supplier CATL announced that it has created a power pack that lasts for 2 million kilometers or 1.24 million miles.

Tesla Supplier: New Battery Will Last a Shocking 1.2 Million Miles

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.

Scientists Quantum Entangled a Record-Breaking 15 Trillion Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.

Science & Energy

Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Drifting Off Into Space, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

Police in Massachusetts say they seized one of the Boring Company's Elon Musk flamethrowers during a routine traffic stop.

Police Seize Elon Musk Flamethrower During Traffic Stop

By Jon Christian

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.

Science & Energy

NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.

Science & Energy

This Quasar Warps Itself Into a Ring by Distorting Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.

Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat

By Dan Robitzski

In an email obtained by CNBC, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told his space company's staff that they should "please consider the top SpaceX priority to be Starship."

Elon Musk in Leaked Email: Starship Now “Top SpaceX Priority”

By Victor Tangermann

A biotech company wants to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Texas and Florida to curb insect-spread disease.

Scientists Fight Plan to Release Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in TX, FL

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada have created a badass waist-mounted hydraulic arm that's capable of smashing through walls.

Watch a Badass Wearable Robot Arm Hulk Smash Through a Wall

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.

New Microscope Is So Powerful It Can Watch Light Move

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently called Amazon a monopoly that should be broken up due to allegations that Amazon censored a controversial book.

Elon Musk Calls To “Break Up Amazon”

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force wants to test its artificial intellgience-driven drones in "some sort fo air-to-air" against human fighter pilots.

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers

Electric Vehicles

Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers

By Victor Tangermann

According to ZDNet, SpaceX pulled off its historic Falcon 9 launch using a version of the open source operating system Linux.

SpaceX Sent NASA Astronauts Into Orbit Using Linux

By Jon Christian

Creative school Brother created a fake advertisement for Netflix show "Black Mirror" that in reality is just an actual mirror fixed to a bus canopy.

Fake Ad For “Black Mirror Season 6” Is Just an Actual Mirror

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Harvard have created a tiny cockroach-inspired robot that is only about the size of a penny and weighs only 0.3 grams.

Watch Harvard’s Penny-Sized Robot Scuttle Around Like a Cockroach

By Victor Tangermann

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has announced a new tool that allows users to blur faces in pictures uploaded to the app from Android and iOS.

Messaging App Releases Face-Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Safe

By Victor Tangermann

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

By Dan Robitzski

According to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is seeing its business return as passengers leave their homes during "party hours."

Uber Says Rides During “Party Hours” Are Keeping it Afloat

By Dan Robitzski

NASA might soon end its reliance on Russia to send astronauts into space. In fact, Russian cosmonauts might soon have to chose SpaceX instead.

NASA: Russia May Be Forced to Launch Cosmonauts With SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is still planning on an orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft before the end of the year, despite last week's setback.

After Explosion, SpaceX Still Hoping to Launch Starship This Year

By Victor Tangermann

After over a year, NASA's InSight Mars lander finally managed to get its thermal probe underground, where it can record the planet's internal temperature.

NASA InSight Lander Finally Manages to Bury Its Probe Into Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.

Cops Are Using Military Spy Planes to Surveil BLM Protesters

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.

Artificial Intelligence

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire, weeks-long process of a neutron star absorbing matter and creating a powerful x-ray blast.

Astronomers Watch Neutron Star “Charge Up” Before Huge X-ray Blast

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the early universe was spinning around multiple axes, influencing the direction in which galaxies rotate.

Science & Energy

Evidence Suggests That the Entire Early Universe Was Rotating

By Dan Robitzski

NASA pilots Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley described their experience of riding SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. It was a bit of a rough ride.

Astronaut: SpaceX Ride Not as “Smooth” as NASA Space Shuttle

By Victor Tangermann

A new video by Taiwanese media shows a Tesla Model 3 slamming into the roof of an overturned truck trailer. Self-driving features were reportedly on.

Watch a Tesla — Reportedly on Autopilot — Slam Into Flipped Truck

By Victor Tangermann

A new study identified 515 vertebrate species that are on the brink of extinction. Each one that vanishes could have devastating ecological effects.

Study: More Than 500 Vertebrates Poised To Go Extinct

By Dan Robitzski

Once in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley briefly took manual control over the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Controlling SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is Like Playing A Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

In order to track local outbreaks of the coronavirus, scientists are analyzing samples from sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.

Scientists Are Testing Sewers For Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

Watch NASA Astronauts Give Zero-G Tour of SpaceX’s New Capsule

Watch NASA Astronauts Give Zero-G Tour of SpaceX’s New Capsule

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just ushered in a new era in space travel by becoming the private company to launch astronauts from American soil inside a commercial spacecraft.

Breaking: SpaceX Launches Astronauts From American Soil

By Victor Tangermann

The largest electric plane yet just flew for half an hour after taking off for the first time. It's a promising sign for the future of clean aviation.

Advanced Transport

Watch the World’s Largest Electric Plane Take to the Skies

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Breaking: SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Blows Up in Huge Fireball

Breaking: SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Blows Up in Huge Fireball

By Victor Tangermann

In the latest episode of "Lay Leno's Garage," Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Leno that "we want to be the leader in apocalypse technology."

Elon Musk: “We Want to Be a Leader in Apocalypse Technology”

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher, musician, avant-garde artist, and mother of Elon Musk's latest child, has decided to sell a percentage of her soul for $10 million.

Grimes Is Auctioning Off a Fraction of Her Soul

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the European Space Agency have created a tiny miniaturized ion thruster that's capable of keeping a satellite steady while in Earth's orbit.

This Mini Ion Thruster Is Adorably Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists think the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might actually be a hydrogen iceberg. The unusual idea could explain its stranger properties.

Science & Energy

Interstellar Visitor May Be One of Rarest Objects In Universe

By Dan Robitzski

At long last, scientists think they've accounted for the half of all the luminous matter in the universe that's been missing for decades.

Science & Energy

Half the Visible Universe Was Missing. Scientists Just Found It.

By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on people's baseless fears that 5G signals cause health problems by selling a cheap USB drive and claiming it protects people.

Science & Energy

These Scammers Are Selling a Nonsense Anti-5G Gadget

By Dan Robitzski

Officials had to chase away a six foot alligator from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

NASA Had to Chase an Alligator Off the SpaceX Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

China is planning to launch 11 missions before 2023 to construct an orbital, three-module space station.

China’s Plans for “Heavenly Palace” Space Station Are Dazzling

By Victor Tangermann

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."

Artificial Intelligence

To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

Breaking: SpaceX Scrubs Historic Launch Due to Bad Weather

Breaking: SpaceX Scrubs Historic Launch Due to Bad Weather

By Victor Tangermann

A new system allows the interior cabin of Ford Police Interceptor Utility vehicles to literally bake at sweltering temperatures to neutralize any infected surfaces

Advanced Transport

Ford Software Update Lets Cop Cars Bake Away Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.

Science & Energy

This Video of Mars’ Leaking Atmosphere Could Make Elon Musk Cry

By Dan Robitzski

Watch the Astronauts Give Their Kids Virtual Hugs Before Launch

Watch the Astronauts Give Their Kids Virtual Hugs Before Launch

By Victor Tangermann

"I'm the chief engineer of the thing," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told CBS during a Tuesday interview. "Goes wrong, it's my fault."

Elon Musk: “It’s My Fault” If Launch Goes Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

A cafe in Daejon, South Korea has hired a robot barista to take care of making and busing drinks around to avoid spreading the coronavirus.

This Cafe Is Using a Robot Barista to Avoid Spreading COVID

By Victor Tangermann

The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is teasing newambitions — with a line on its site inviting questions about a "private passenger" program.

SpaceX Is Teasing Mysterious “Private Passenger” Spaceflights

By Jon Christian

A team of researchers from Japan have created a "taste display" that's capable of producing any flavor for any tongue that's willing to lick its surface.

Scientists Say This Device Can Simulate Any Flavor

By Victor Tangermann

A cybernetics expert recently made a bold claim: he argues that online privacy has long since vanished, so we may as well embrace contact-tracing.

Tech Expert: Privacy Is a Myth, so We Might as Well Contact-trace

By Dan Robitzski

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.

Science & Energy

New Telescope Will Watch Entire Southern Sky in Infrared

By Dan Robitzski

According to comments made on a recent Instagram post, Grimes revealed that her and Elon Musk's baby's name was updated from "X Æ A-12" to "X Æ A-Xii."

Elon Musk and Grimes Just Updated Their Baby’s Name

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.

Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just cleared SpaceX the go-ahead for its historic launch scheduled for May 27. "We are go for launch!" NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted.

NASA Clears SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission for Liftoff

By Victor Tangermann