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For a brief and shining moment, this week's lunar eclipse allowed for the Milky Way to be incredibly visible here on Earth.

Watch the Milky Way Instantly Pop Into View During Lunar Eclipse

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new startup called Air Company is producing vodka by making use of carbon dioxide emissions, a futuristic new beverage.

Renewable Energy

Bless This Startup That’s Turning Horrible CO2 Emissions Into Delicious Vodka

By Victor Tangermann

A security researcher has demonstrated how easy it is to trick a Tesla into thinking its owner is nearby, thereby potentially giving hackers a way inside.

Hacker Shows Off Cool Trick for Stealing Teslas

By Victor Tangermann

In a candid moment, the administrator of NASA said very plainly how he feels about the way China "steals" spacecraft designs from the US.

Head of NASA Accuses China of Being “Good at Stealing”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dogecoin founder Billy Markus apparently doesn't think very highly of the people who invest in cryptocurrencies like his.

Dogecoin Creator Says That 70 Percent of Crypto Investors Are Complete Morons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Retired US general Barry McCaffrey shared video game footage online, allegedly showing Ukrainian air defense systems shooting down Russian jets.

Retired General Accidentally Tweets Video Game Footage Thinking It’s Real

By Victor Tangermann

Following a prolonged drought, California's water levels are at a historic low point, with the government placing unprecedented restrictions on water usage.

Science & Energy

Wealthy Horrified That Drought Could Affect Their Luxurious Pools and Koi Ponds

By Victor Tangermann

Apparently the photo of a "door" on the surface of Mars was cropped just so to make it seem like something much cooler than it really is.

Bad News! That “Door” on Mars Doesn’t Look Like Much When Zoomed Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

West Virginian scientists may have found a life form more than 800 million years old — and no, it's not their senator, Mitch McConnell.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Organisms Trapped in This Ancient Rock May Still Be Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

British history professor Matthew McCormack made a rather strange discovery during his morning bike ride: a delivery robot seemingly lost in the woods.

Sad Delivery Robot Gets Lost In The Woods

By Victor Tangermann

The classified payload Angara-1 rocket was supposed to deliver to orbit for Russia wasn't working after it launched last month. "Z" is painted on its side.

Advanced Transport

Russia Totally Screws Up Space Launch

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a picture of a foot-high rock feature on Mars that looks like an alien door or tomb entrance. Cue the conspiracies!

Mars Rover Spots Something That Looks an Awful Lot Like a Door

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A passenger with absolutely no flight experience just landed a small Cessna plane after the pilot was incapacitated earlier this week.

Listen to the Moment a Passenger Lands a Plane During Emergency

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The value of Bitcoin is dropping precipitously, while gang violence is on the rise in El Salvador, a country that adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.

Gang Violence Surging as Crypto Crashes in Bitcoin Country

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is itching to meet his Chinese doppelgänger — that is, if the man actually looks like that.

Elon Musk Wants to Meet His Chinese Doppelgänger

By Noor Al-Sibai

Watch two mechanics in Germany convert a Tesla Model 3 into a tank with chain tracks to go off-roading. Electric conversions are expensive but needed.

Guy Turns Tesla Model 3 Into Giant “Mad Max”-Esque Tank

By Lonnie Lee Hood

If the great crypto crash of 2022 is giving you deja vu, you're not alone as blockchain expert David Gerard argued.

Expert Says Crypto Crash is Just Like 2008 Financial Crisis

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing's Starliner has clearly been cursed from the start — but apparently it runs far deeper than initial reports suggested.

Boeing’s Attempt to Compete With SpaceX Is Even More Cursed Than We Thought

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's Crew-3 splashed said they weren't too scared when Russia launched an anti-satellite missile test, nearly hitting the International Space Station.

NASA Astronauts Say There Was a Bright Side to Almost Getting Blown Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook emperor Mark Zuckerberg has teased the existence of his company Meta's latest mixed reality headset dubbed Project Cambria.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off New AR Headset But Blurs It Out for Some Bizarre Reason

By Victor Tangermann

A New York elephant named Happy is getting her day in court after activists filed to establish her as a legal person in the eyes of the law.

Science & Energy

Lawyers File on Behalf of Elephant to Make Her a Legal Person

By Noor Al-Sibai

Actor Ezra Miller was apparently having a normal one during their recent arrest in Hawaii when they claimed they filmed an altercation to put it into NFTs.

Actor Ezra Miller Claims They Filmed Alleged Assault to Turn It Into NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bay Area startup Brownstone Shared Housing is offering a miniature bunk bed pod for $800 a month, in a space you'll also have to share with 13 others.

A Startup Is Renting Tiny Bay Area “Pods” for $800 Per Month

By Victor Tangermann

A report says scientists discovered tiny rock fragments believed to be from the day an asteroid struck Earth 66 mllion years ago and killed the dinosaurs.

Team Claims to Have Found Chunk of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like the Facebook Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion.

Facebook Reportedly Already Running Out of Money for Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto CEOs are losing billions of dollars in wealth amid an implosion of the value of several mainstream cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg reports.

Coinbase Founder’s Wealth Shrinks From $13.7 Billion to $2.2 Billion

By Victor Tangermann

In a Crew-3 splashdown news conference one astronaut compared the three ships he's been on, built by SpaceX, NASA and Russia.

Astronaut Compares the SpaceX, NASA and Russian Spacecraft He’s Flown In

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Young Israelis were arrested after sending photos of deadly plane crashes to passengers on a Turkish flight headed to Istanbul. The plane aborted takeoff.

Flight Cancelled After Passengers Start Receiving Photos of Plane Crashes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The crypto wallet company Coinbase appears to have quietly snuck a mutually-assured destruction clause into its latest earnings report.

Coinbase Says If It Goes Bankrupt, It Might Seize Users’ Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two homes in North Carolina collapsed into the ocean. The most recent house was on stilts. Local park service captured video of the moment.

Watch an Entire House Suddenly Fall Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk said he believes the Chinese workforce is harder working than Americans. That tracks with a long history of grueling work at his companies.

Elon Musk Says Americans Are Super Lazy Compared to People in China

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boeing and its supplier, Aerojet Rocketdyne, are playing the blame game as the May 19 launch date for Starliner approaches swiftly.

Boeing Reportedly Melting Down Over Disastrous Spacecraft

By Noor Al-Sibai

The SpaceX Starship 24 might have a problem with its payload door, according to photos on Twitter. Elon Musk is sending more Starlink satellites to orbit.

SpaceX Starship Spotted With What Looks Like a Janky Payload Door

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk has announced that when and if he takes the reins of Twitter, he would reverse the ban on Donald Trump's account.

Welp, Elon Musk Says He’s Gonna Unban Trump on Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Top Apple employees wrote an open letter to executives. They resigned rather than quit working from home and return to the office.

Apple Staffers Quit Rather Than Return to Office

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bitcoin is down horrendously — and it's losing money for many investors who thought it was a sure shot during balmier days.

Analysis Finds That 40 Percent of Bitcoin Investors Have Lost Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope just sent NASA a photo of a far-away neighboring galaxy. Scientific observations begin in July, says AP.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Provides Dazzling New Image of Neighboring Galaxy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lake Mead in Nevada, just oustide Las Vegas, is at record lows because of draught, revealing two bodies within day. One was found in a barrel.

Climate Change Exposing Murdered Bodies in Dried-Out Lakebed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Users discovered a genuinely puzzling bug that caused the browser-based Google Docs to crash when confronted with repeated instances of the same word.

User Discovers That Google Docs Crashes When You Type a Specific Phrase

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Texas woman told Bloomberg her Tinder boyfriend scammed $8 million of her inheritence in crypto. She's suing him and the exchanges.

Woman Scammed for $8 Million in Crypto, Sues Exchanges

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's plucky little Mars helicopter is once again having issues — but an ingenious workaround may have given it an extended lifespan.

NASA Is Now Running Into Serious Issues With Its Mars Helicopter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rogozin broadsided Musk for "supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment" and demanded that he "answer in an adult way."

Elon Musk Alarmed by Threat From Russian Space Program Chief

By Noor Al-Sibai

European Space Agency astronaut on Crew-4 mission posted the first TikTok made in space while on the International Space Station.

POV: You’re Watching the first TikTok Made in Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla's Elon Musk tried to finish the ElonJet tracker Twitter account but got ratted out yesterday for a 9-minute private jet flight in California.

Environmental Champion Elon Musk Flies Private Jet 31 Miles Instead of Driving

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers at Nanjing University in China say lunar soil may support long-term human life on the Moon because by providing resources like oxygen and fuel.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Turn Moon Soil Into Spaceship Fuel and Oxygen

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA released creepy wailing noises made by a black hole in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on Wednesday. Researchers have studied it since 2003.

Scientists Capture the Mournful Wailing of a Black Hole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One of SpaceX's top employees said in a conference this week that SpaceX will likely make it to Mars before the NASA Artemis mission does.

Elon Musk’s #2 Says Humanity Will Be on Mars Within the Decade

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus discvered a "yellow brick road" that looks it leads to Atlantis. Climage change may affect future ocean studies.

Scientists Discover Something That Looks Like a Road Deep Under the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bunch of animals are going extinct, but don't worry, you can buy NFTs of them!

Bored Apes’ Latest Drop Cratered in Price After Fans Snapped Them Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The California redwood forest where Star Wars filmed the Endor location has Ewoks no more — it was cut down, as are billions of trees each year.

Bad News! The Ewok Forest From “Star Wars” Got “Obliterated” In Real Life

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A New York-based tattoo artist has really outdone themselves with one of the most grotesquely hideous Elon Musk tattoos we have ever seen.

We Are in Awe of This Absolutely Horrifying Elon Musk Tattoo

By Victor Tangermann

In a BBC interview the former world's richest man and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he shouldn't have been friends with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Gates Says It Was a Bad Idea to Pal Around With Jeffrey Epstein

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Russian rocket part, which has spent more than a decade in orbit, suddenly exploded into at least 16 potentially dangerous piece of space debris.

Ancient Russian Rocket Debris Suddenly Explodes in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

European Space Agency astronaut Maurer shows us how to brush your teeth, get ready for bed and sleep aboard the International Space Station.

Please Enjoy This Cozy Video of an Astronaut Getting Ready to Slumber

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More and more pilots are coming out to publicly talk about what they saw in the time leading up to a report by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

Senators Reportedly Annoyed With Military for Not Taking UFOs Seriously

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bro are you really using 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices just so you can create 3 new apes? You could make serious bucks on this Bored Ape mint.

NFT Thing Mocked for Ludicrously Incomprehensible Tweet

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

On its way to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Boeing's Starliner lost a piece of its windows. It's not a good look, considering the development hell.

Piece Falls Off Boeing Starliner as It Trundles Toward Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists used machine learning to discover a new enzyme that could speed up the process of plastic breaking down significantly, Vice reports.

Science & Energy

Scientists Claim New Enzyme Can Break Down Plastic in a Single Week

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, called the "Hero of Russia" won't return to the ISS because he'd have to help Americans with experiments in space.

Cosmonaut Quits Because He Doesn’t Want to “Work for the Americans”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers suggest we could use existing quantum computing methods to build massive telescopes the size of entire planets.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Propose Planet-Sized Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

New Zealand-based space startup Rocket Lab pulled off an amazing stunt on Tuesday: it caught the first stage of its Electron rocket with a helicopter.

Amazing Video Shows Helicopter Catching Falling Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists told national French news outlet AFP that human urine may be a way to better fertilize agricultural produce and reduce climate change.

Scientists Say Key to Feeding World May Be Human Urine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Terrifying new drone footage shows a massive tornado leaving a devastating trail of debris behind in Andover, Kansas.

Science & Energy

Terrifying Footage Shows Epic Destructive Power of Tornado

By Victor Tangermann