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A Florida couple is headed to space with Blue Origin -- and then, they say, possibly on a longer orbital trip via Elon Musk's SpaceX.

First Married Space Tourist Couple Say They’re Taking a Vacation with SpaceX Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.

Science & Energy

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian

NASA has finalized the list of targets that the James Webb Space Telescope will study, but is keeping the first one a secret.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Is Keeping the James Webb Telescope’s First Target Secret

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk paints him as the lonely, eccentric hero working to colonize Mars, champion AI and harness solar power.

Elon Musk Says Sometimes He Feels Lonely

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UK's Lake District is equipping paramedics with their own Jet Suits, aka jet packs, created by Gravity Industries for emergency response.

Advanced Transport

The UK Is Training Paramedics to Use Jetpacks in Emergencies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Starlink terminals can outmaneuver Russian milles to maintain internet connectivity for Ukraine.

Elon Musk: SpaceX Can Launch Satellites Faster Than Russia Can Shoot Them Down

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is suffering its six mass bleach event because of heat waves caused by climate change.

Scientists say World’s Largest Coral Reef is Bleaching Again

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Government-backed North Korean hackers are likely behind a hack aimed at more than 300 people that used a Google Chrome zero-day vulnerability to exploit.

North Korea Launches Wave of Hacks Directed at US Companies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new report published yesterday includes testimony from Tesla employees who say they were called racist slurs and later fired.

More Employees Are Saying That Tesla’s Factory Is Horrifically Racist

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new robot created at the University of Tokyo is so dextrous it can peel a banana without smushing it, using two arms with two fingers each.

Incredible! This Robot Is So Dexterous That It Can Perfectly Peel a Banana Without Damaging It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Museums financially strapped by the pandemic have turned to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to help them recoup money from eager collectors.

Broke Museums Are Selling NFTs of Famous Paintings by Raphael and Da Vinci

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Wildlife Services department killed about 200 animals every hour in 2021 in the name of agriculture, human safety and disease management, apparantly.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Killing 200 Animals Every Hour

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA and Clemson University are launching a rocket mission directly into the Northern Lights to study temperature, plasma and wind.

NASA Is Launching Two Rockets Directly Through the Northern Lights

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation announced that the country would begin selling NFTs based on the timeline of the Russian invasion.

Ukraine Is Selling NFTs to Finance Its Military

By Tony Ho Tran

The Conger Ice Shelf, a chunk of ice the size of Rome, suffered a collapse in East Antarctica on March 15 and may be connected to a recent heave wave.

City-Sized Ice Shelf Collapses in Antarctica as Heat Surges

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Back in 2016, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a prediction that, unfortunately, turned out to be wildly overconfident.

This 2016 Elon Musk Prediction About the Future Turned Out to Be Hilariously Wrong

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exxon Mobile is used to waste about 18 million cubic feet of gas per month. Now it's using the fossil fuel to power crypto mining rigs.

Exxon Mobil Is Starting to Burn Excess Gas to Mine Bitcoin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk is griping that Twitter's algorithm isn't fair, and that there should be more transparency around how it works.

Elon Musk Is Absolutely Furious at the Twitter Algorithm

By Jon Christian

Insider reports that last summer, an experimental Amazon delivery drone crashed in Oregon and caused a large fire that consumed several acres.

An Amazon Delivery Drone Crashed and Caused a Large Fire

By Jon Christian

NASA announced that the agency would be moving forward with a second human lunar lander as part of the Artemis program to bring astronauts back to the Moon

NASA Says It Wants Second Moon Lander After Jeff Bezos Sued It for Not Wanting a Second Moon Lander

By Tony Ho Tran

Celebrity Spanish chef José Andrés is partnering with Axiom Space to send delicious dishes to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

Spoiled SpaceX Tourists Will Eat Meals Prepared by Famous Chef

By Victor Tangermann

The White House is worried that a frustrated Russian President Vladimir Putin might turn to chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons to tip the scales.

US Create Emergency Plans Just In Case Putin Decides to Nuke the World

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists discovered that the Earth's magnetic field fluctuated like clockwork every seven years, drifting westward at 900 mph around the equator.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Strange Tiny Signals Coming From Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

The US government has finally released a UFO briefing report that the Director of National Intelligence sent to Congress in June 2021

Robots and Machines

US Government Releases Classified UFO Report With Huge, Intriguing Redactions

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists created a newly discovered type of ice that could help us better understand whether other planets have enough water to harbor life as we know it.

Science & Energy

Physicists Create Freakish New Type of Ice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Now, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule sending the fourth operational crew to the International Space Station has a name as well.

SpaceX’s Latest Spacecraft Officially Has a Name

By Victor Tangermann

The Boeing 747 that crashed in a horrifying 90 degree nosedive is is puzzling experts and investigators looking into the dramatic accident.

Advanced Transport

Experts Puzzled by Video of Jet Diving Five Miles Straight Into Ground

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new paper suggests that quantum technology could allow future electric vehicle owners to be able to charge their cars in just three minutes

Advanced Transport

Scientists Say Quantum Tech Will Charge Electric Cars as Fast as Gas Ones

By Tony Ho Tran

Ukraine claims Russian forces have looted and destroyed the lab that was used to monitor radiation levels of nuclear waste at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

Science & Energy

Ukraine Says Russia Destroyed Lab That Monitors Chernobyl Radiation Levels

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news, weed nerds — it looks like SpaceX's maiden voyage won't have a "420" joke after all.

SpaceX Fans Annoyed That Starship Orbital Launch Won’t Involve a Weed Joke

By Noor Al-Sibai

Beijing hopes to allow tourists to visit its Tiangong space station in the next decade — but it all depends on how many people actually want to do it.

China Says It’ll Let Tourists Pay to Vacation on Its Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Several forest fires have erupted near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was taken over by Russian troops late last month.

Science & Energy

Russia Accused of Impeding Efforts to Fight Fires Near Seized Chernobyl Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese startup wants you to be able to feel pain inside the metaverse through a wristband that electrically stimulates its wearer's muscles.

Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Extraterrestrials may have already made themselves evident to us by creating massive wormholes sophisticated enough to bend the laws of space and time.

Science & Energy

Astrophysicist Says We May Have Already Observed Wormholes Created by Alien Civilization

By Victor Tangermann

When you look into the void, the void, inevitably, also looks back at you.

NASA’s New Moon Rocket Is So Huge You Can See It from Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A British startup claims to have created a real "invisibility shield" that doesn't even need power to operate.

Science & Energy

Startup Says It’s Created an Actual “Invisibility Shield”

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off his incredibly awkward dance moves during the electric car company's grand opening of its Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany.

Elon Musk Busts Enthusiastic Dance Moves at Tesla Gigafactory Opening

By Victor Tangermann

We finally have a date for SpaceX's long-awaited, first orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft for "hopefully May."

Elon Musk Sets Tentative Date for First Starship Orbital Test Flight

By Victor Tangermann

The nightmare neural networks are back at it again — and this time, they're taking requests.

Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Twitter Bot Creates Whatever Delights Or Nightmares Its Fans Force Upon It

By Noor Al-Sibai

UN Taking Carbon Removal Tech Very, Very Seriously in New Report

UN Taking Carbon Removal Tech Very, Very Seriously in New Report

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia is officially labelling Meta, the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram, as an extremist organization, according to state news network TASS.

Russian Court Rules Facebook and Instagram as “Extremist”

By Victor Tangermann

Russia is reportedly considering withdrawing from diplomacy with the United States — a move that threatens the International Space Station's existence.

The ISS: Possibly the ‘Last Formal Diplomatic Link’ of U.S. and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is looking to arrest a driver, who attempted to make a rented Tesla Model S fly over the weekend.

Crook Tries to Make Tesla Model S Fly, Crashes Into Parked Cars Instead

By Victor Tangermann

Want another reason to loathe Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Just look at how it may completely screw up the Paris climate accords — and our planet.

UN: Ukrainian War Fossil Fuel ‘Madness’ Might Destroy The Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

After El Salvador's disastrous decision to make Bitcoin legal tender, Malaysia is excited to follow suit, Bloomberg reports.

Malaysian Government: Let’s Turn Bitcoin Into Legal Tender

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based satellite internet company OneWeb has signed a contract with SpaceX — shortly after ditching the Russian-made Soyuz over the Ukraine invasion.

Satellite Company Now Launching With SpaceX After Ditching Russia

By Victor Tangermann

Both the Earth's North and South poles in the Arctic and Antarctica are experiencing unprecedented warming and soaring temperatures this week.

Something Is Up With Earth’s North and South Poles

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says wind and solar jobs will be among the fastest-growing occupations in the next ten years.

Government Says Wind and Solar Among Fastest-Growing Occupations in Next Ten Years

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Days after Gulf States invited rebels from Yemen called the Houthi to sit down for peace talks, the group bombed gas stations with drones and UAVs.

Gas Stations in Yemen Attacked With Drones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that thre cosmonauts from Russia aboard the ISS were not wearing blue and yellow to support Ukraine.

International Space Station

Russia Says It’s Just a Coincidence That Its ISS Cosmonauts Are Wearing the Colors of Ukraine’s Flag

By Lonnie Lee Hood

UCLA posted a "job" opening for an assistant adjunct professor in the chemistry and biochemistry department but it's unpaid.

Miserly University Trying to “Hire” a Professor Who’s Completely Unpaid

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk Has a New Date He Says He’ll Land People on Mars

Elon Musk Has a New Date He Says He’ll Land People on Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown says nobody will be eating meat from animal agriculture by 2035, positive news for the environment and climate change.

CEO Says It’s Possible Nobody Will Eat Meat by 2035

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Three Russian cosmonauts boarded the International Space Station wearing blue and yellow space suits that looked like the colors of the Ukraine flag.

Russian Cosmonauts Board Space Station Wearing Colors of Ukraine Flag

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Heineken released a virtual beer in the metaverse and served edible gold and lobster, but one writer who attended wasn't impressed.

Heineken’s Metaverse Event Was So Awful, Even Tabloids Want Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Move over, Clifford — there's a new big dog in town, and this one's semi-autonomous.

New York is Deploying Robot Dogs to Fight Fires Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of expert Ukrainian drone pilots called the Aerorozvidka are holding off advancing Russian troops by striking when the invading force sleeps.

Elite Ukrainian Drone Pilots Are Reportedly Making All the Difference

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The self-appointed Queen of Rap is back and has a new texting friend to boot.

Jeff Bezos Name-Checked by Nicki Minaj in New Song

By Noor Al-Sibai

Universal Music has purchased a Bored Ape NFT to the tune of $360,817 to frontline a new all-NFT music group called Kingship.

Universal Music Buys Ape NFT to Frontline a New Cursed Band

By Tony Ho Tran

Cornell University's AutoPhoto robot uses machine learning to take images of rooms like a robo realtor. It could also have uses in war and conflict zones.

New Photographer Robot Has One Job: Make Your Place Look Awesome

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A rock in Japan known as the "Killing Stone" has broken in half — potentially releasing an evil fox spirit that was believed to have resided in the rock

Japanese “Killing Stone” Snaps In Half, Demon Possibly Set Loose

By Tony Ho Tran

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet isn't worried about Russia's invasion of Ukraine effecting operations on board the International Space Station.

International Space Station

French ISS Astronaut Says Everything Is Totally Fine Up There

By Victor Tangermann

Kawasaki unveiled a new rideable, robotic goat last week at the International Robot Exhibition that they say can be used to carry cargo for businesses.

Watch: Kawasaki’s New Deeply Weird, Chaotic Robotic Goat

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.

Quantum Physics

Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

By Victor Tangermann