An airline and university are teaming up to develop the Flying-V, a strange new airplane design that puts passenger seats in the plane's wings.

Winging It

An airline is taking a chance on a radical new design.

New “Flying-V” Plane Puts Passenger Seats in the Wings

A new study figured out how young blood seems to revitalize older neurons. Two proteins from newborn mouse blood revitalized lab-grown human neurons.

Fill 'Er Up

Proteins found in mouse blood could explain this ghoulish phenomenon.

Yeah, Young Blood Transfusions Do Seem to Fight Aging

A distressing Australian climate change analysis has some pretty bad news: human civilization is set out to collapse by 2050 if we ignore climate change.

Point of No Return

We're screwed.

New Research: Human Civilization Will Likely Collapse By 2050

Russian Tinder users could now having their sexts or explicit pictures turned over to the nation's government upon request.

Sex Spies

"Authorities want to control everything that happens online, even dating."

Russia Demands Tinder Turn Over Users’ Sexts, Pics

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), an association made up of more than 12,000 members from across the globe, released a statement regarding concerns over SpaceX's new Starlink satellite initiative.

Bright Star

Scientific breakthroughs like the first black hole image could be hindered by constellations like Starlink.

Astronomers Call for Regulation of SpaceX Starlink Satellites

Astronomers just got their first complete observation of a star outside of our solar system erupting plasma out into the cosmos.

Star Vomit

A distant stellar eruption launched out two quintillion pounds of plasma.

A Star Just Coughed Something Up and Scientists Want to Know Why

"Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.

Chip Shot

And it could help bring brain-computer interfaces into the mainstream.

China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

No Take-Backs

"This is a lesson in humility."

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

Two scientists have invented a device that can create its own source of electricity from an extremely abundant and renewable source: falling snow.

Snow Catcher

Have you ever given yourself an electric shock by rubbing your feet against a carpet?

New Device Generates Electricity From Falling Snow

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.

Target Acquired

Futuristic rifles may decide who to shoot.

The US Army's Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition

In order to pay for Artemis, NASA's upcoming 2024 Moon mission, it may have to cannibalize other parts of the space agency's budget.

Penny Pinching

In order to put people on the Moon in 2024, NASA has to trim some fat.

NASA Is Considering Cutting Other Programs to Pay for Moon Mission

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.

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