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Japanese scientists have analyzed asteroid dust collected the by the country's Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found "clues to the origin of life on Earth

Japanese Scientists: This Asteroid’s Samples Contain “Clues to the Origin of Life”

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Transportation is now looking so deeply into Tesla Autopilot crashes that it's probing almost every car the company has sold in the US.

Tesla Now At Risk of Massive Recall Over Autopilot Crashes

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you've ever eyed at a Moon rover and thought, "that thing should look like a four-legged humanoid spider crab," you're in luck.

Why Does This New Moon Rover Look Vaguely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A typo in the New York Times was tweeted out by Twitter bots called New New York Times and NYTfirstsaid Context. The typro was "crytpo" instead of "crypto."

In Hilarious Typo, New York Times Complains of “Crytpo” Miners

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China has created a map of the Moon's surface more detailed, and at a greater scale, than any single map that came before it.

China Publishes the Most Detailed Map of the Moon Ever Made

By Noor Al-Sibai

Congress maay actually regulate crypto after the market's latest crash that wiped out $40 billion in crypto assets. It may regulate stablecoins completely.

Congress Moves to Regulate Crypto After Meltdown Wipes Out Investments

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Actor Seth Green has been reunited with his pet Bored Ape NFT less than a month after losing it to an anonymous scammer, BuzzFeed News reports.

Family Guy Actor Pays Huge Ransom for Stolen Bored Ape

By Victor Tangermann

Researcher Yannic Kilcher trained an AI bot using millions of 4chan post from the Politically Incorrect board "/pol/." He called the bot "vile" on YouTube.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Trains Particularly Horrible AI Bot Using Millions of 4Chan Posts

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and "slightly sweaty" robotic finger that is covered in a pink layer of living skin.

Scientists Create Robot “Finger” With Living Skin That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Hopkins appears to be getting into crypto and NFTs – but there may be a deeper reason the actor has taken on his cringiest role yet.

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Anthony Hopkins Is Suddenly Shilling NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced it is commissioning a study to examine reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), events in the sky that cannot be explained.

NASA Says It’s Officially Investigating UFO Reports

By Victor Tangermann

English TV presenter and record executive Simon Cowell was shocked to find a performer with his own face singing a tune on "America's Got Talent."

Artificial Intelligence

Simon Cowell Shocked by Deepfake Copy of Himself

By Victor Tangermann

NASA suffered a tragic typo while trying to discuss the American-led Artemis Accords initiative, and Twitter had a field day.

NASA Mocked for Misspelling “New Zealand”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing scores of employees over Zoom, the CEO of Better.com is in legal hot water for allegedly defrauding investors.

The CEO Who Fired 900 People Over Zoom Is in Big Legal Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new Ford F-150 Lightning is electric and comes with an adapter for charging dead Teslas. The aftermarket accessory was posted to a Lightning forum.

New Adapter Lets Electric Ford-150 Rescue Stranded Teslas With Its Mighty Battery

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk tells customers not to use Tesla's recirculation mode because it spikes carbon dioxide levels in the car cabin.

Elon Musk Alarmed by Tesla Feature That Spikes CO2 Levels Inside Vehicle

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's ultra expensive James Webb Space Telescope has already had to endure a dust-sized micrometeoroid impacting with one of its primary mirror segments.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Was Struck by a Small Meteoroid, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video showing an explosion at an aluminum factory that miraculously left no one injured is cause for a lot of speculation and jokes.

Science & Energy

Watch a Factory Descend Into a Vision of Hell Within One Minute

By Noor Al-Sibai

OnlyFans says it isn't experiencing subscriber losses like Netflix is, which reported the first paid customer drop in a decade.

OnlyFans Taunts Netflix, Says Its Subscriber Numbers Are Just Fine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Climate change is causing Utah's Great Salt Lake to continue to shrink, paving the way for an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

Experts Warn of Toxic Arsenic Clouds as Great Salt Lake Dries Up

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has unknowingly been traveling with a pet rock companion since at least early February, covering over five miles.

There’s a Rock Stuck in the Mars Rover’s Wheel, NASA Complains

By Victor Tangermann

An Indiana woman allegedly told someone that she used an Apple AirTag to stalk a man and kill him because he was cheating on her.

Woman Arrested for Murdering Boyfriend After Tracking Him With Apple AirTag

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's imminent cargo launch has been delayed until at least the end of June because, well, the Dragon spacecraft may be leaking fuel.

NASA Alarmed by SpaceX Spacecraft Seemingly Leaking Fuel

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new piece for Big Think, Hartsfield argues that massive particle accelerators simply aren't worth the colossal amounts of money and effort.

Physicist Begs Colleagues Not to Build Another Large Hadron Collider

By Victor Tangermann

An early Tesla Cybertruck prototype made a rare public appearance during the commissioning ceremony of the car company's Megapack project in California.

Tesla Shows Off Cybertruck, But There Are a Bunch of Wires Ripped Out of the Steering Wheel for Some Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Inventor Unveils Flying Motorcycle Powered by Eight Jet Engines

Advanced Transport

Inventor Unveils Flying Motorcycle Powered by Eight Jet Engines

By Victor Tangermann

Venus may have once been a life-supporting system, and NASA is looking to shed light on how Earth's "twin" came to be — and how, more sinisterly, it died.

NASA Plotting Journey Through the Hellish Atmosphere of Venus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roscosmos is reportedly trying to gain control over a German telescope currently orbiting the Earth almost a million miles away.

Russia Reportedly Trying to Hijack Space Telescope Currently Orbiting Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars helicopter has run into a bit of trouble 28 successful flights and well over an entire dusty Earth year into its mission on the Red Planet.

Navigation Sensor on Mars Helicopter Dead, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

During the undocking of Roscosmos spacecraft Progress MS-18, ISS Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakav discovered "stowaways" gripping the un-crewed freighter.

No, These Aren’t Weird Visitors on the Outside of the Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We know space food is gross, but these pizzas eaten aboard the International Space Station really take the cake — or rather, the pie.

NASA Astronauts Spotted Eating Nasty-Looking Pizza on Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a surreal display of absolutely unmatched energy, the Queen journeyed through through the streets of London via hologram.

The UK Is Apparently Just Driving Around a Hologram of the Queen Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Russian government is clearly fed up with speculation about the state of often-shirtless president Vladimir Putin's health.

Russia Says That Vladimir Putin Definitely Does NOT Have a Terminal Illness, Thank You Very Much!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Chinese gamer has posted classified military information on the forum of a tank video game to get developers to change the stats of the game's tanks.

Chinese Military Secrets Leaked on Video Game Forum

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has identified a top priority of what to study once on the Moon: the Gruithuisen Domes, two mysterious mounds that have scientists puzzled.

NASA Says It’s a Priority to Investigate Strange Domes on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

It sounds like Sheryl Sandberg, the outgoing COO of Meta, might have left the social media giant for more complicated reasons than she initially let on.

There May Be a Secret Reason Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A heavy machinery maker in Japan called IHI Corp has successfully tested a prototype of a massive turbine that can generate electricity from ocean currents.

Science & Energy

Japan Tested a Giant Turbine That Generates Electricity Using Deep Ocean Currents

By Victor Tangermann

Wow! Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Person in a Robot Costume Will Become a Real Robot at Some Point in the Future

Wow! Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Person in a Robot Costume Will Become a Real Robot at Some Point in the Future

By Victor Tangermann

Nothing inspires investor confidence during an economic crisis quite like rescinding job offers, as Coinbase may soon learn.

In Very Classy Move, Coinbase Is Withdrawing Job Offers From People Who Already Accepted Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

A California court has ruled that bees technically count as fish in a conservation effort that could actually end up helping the buzzy boys.

Science & Energy

Court Rules That Legally, Bees Can Be Classified as Fish

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk claims a "bad feeling" is driving his decision to cut 10 percent of Tesla's workforce — but serious braking issue complaints may also be involved.

This Might Be the Reason Elon Musk Is Firing a Ton of People at Tesla

By Noor Al-Sibai

Now, we get to see Curiosity's next fascinating discovery: two ancient "spikes" of cemented rock that almost look like the petrified remains of ancient trees.

NASA Rover Spots Extremely Weird Spikes on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is planning to cut ten percent of Tesla staff and freeze hiring worldwide because he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy.

Elon Musk Says He’s Cutting Ten Percent of Tesla’s Workforce Because He Has a “Bad Feeling”

By Victor Tangermann

Tosca Musk, the sister of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has found her own niche market and is running the Netflix of romance novels called Passionflix.

Elon Musk’s Sister Runs the Tesla of Erotic Fan Fiction, and We’re Here for It

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is still planning to fly at least one cosmonaut to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket — if Roscosmos agrees to do the same.

Awkwardly, Russian Cosmonaut Still Scheduled for Space Station Launch With NASA Astronauts

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former executive from one of the world's largest NFT marketplaces has been charged with insider trading by the US government.

Former OpenSea Executive Arrested by Feds for Insider Trading

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup called SpinLaunch has been working to fling satellites into orbit via giant cannon for nearly a decade. Bad news: it won't work on humans.

Company Says Giant Cannon for Shooting Satellites Into Orbit Would Be Fatal for Astronauts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with an ingenious new solution to tackle our renewable energy storage woes — which would turn skyscrapers into massive batteries.

Science & Energy

Scientists Propose Turning Skyscrapers Into Massive Gravity Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Australian scientists got a fascinating surprise whenthey discovered what appears to be the world's largest organism, living under the ocean.

Scientists Discover World’s Largest Organism, Chilling Out Under Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Limitless Space Institute non-profit is generating enough excitement and funding for the idea for a warp drive it has started giving out grants.

SpaceX-Affiliated Group Giving Out Funding for Warp Drive Research

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix tried to ban password sharing in three Latin American countries — but apparently, they simply can't get their own policies straight.

Netflix’s Password Sharing Ban Already Sounds Like an Absolute Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember those plants grown in soil collected by Apollo astronauts? Bad news -- it sounds like they didn't turn out so great.

Bad News! The Plants Grown in Moon Soil Turned Out Wretched

By Noor Al-Sibai

Web3 sure is going great — just ask Molly White, the researcher whose crypto scam-busting skills have felled con artists left and right.

Awesome Woman Destroys “Predatory” Crypto Scams by Shaming Them to Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

French Jetpack inventor Franky Zapata lost control over his device during a recent flight demonstration and fell roughly 50 feet into a lake.

Advanced Transport

Video Shows Jetpack Inventor Crash Into a Lake

By Victor Tangermann

Somebody may have tried to "jam" signals at a Chinese space launch center — and it's raising some major red flags.

Chinese Researchers Reportedly Found Possible Sabotage Attempt Near Astronaut Launch Site

By Noor Al-Sibai

During Ingenuity's 25th flight on April 18, the tiny Mars helicopter really outdid itself, covering just over 2,300 feet at a brisk 12 mph.

New Video Shows Mars Helicopter Screaming Across Alien Landscape

By Victor Tangermann

DeLorean Shows Off New Electric Car With Iconic Gull-Wing Doors

Advanced Transport

DeLorean Shows Off New Electric Car With Iconic Gull-Wing Doors

By Victor Tangermann

China, banned from the International Space Station, prepares to launch three of its astronauts to its own space station, Tiangong, this year.

China Launching Three Astronauts As It Expands Its Space Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A few wind farms in Scotland were asked to reduce output by 25 megawatts because turbines produced more power than the UK's electric grid could handle.

The UK Is Producing Too Much Wind Power, Actually

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Shakey's Pizza fans are upset Tesla filed plans to demolish the Hollywood building and replace it with a supercharger, diner and drive-in theater.

Hollywood Locals Upset Tesla Is Replacing Shakey’s Pizza

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he wanted to open an old-school diner, Tesla this week filed papers to open a drive-in supercharger location in Hollywood.

Tesla Planning 24-Hour Drive-In Theatre and Diner in Hollywood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two robotic buoys will relay location info on North Atlantic right whales back to shore so mariners and the public can help save the endangered species.

Marine Scientists Deploy Whale-Monitoring Robots to Save Endangered Species

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team published a new study in the preprint journal Arxiv and said humanity could become an interplanetary Kardashev Type I Civilization by the year 2371.

Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood