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Timelapse of total solar eclipse showcasing Baily's beads

NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipse

High traffic road with signs and light trails on sunset

EPA says over half of all new cars must be EVs or hybrids by 2032

Female hand with mobile phone on blurred night lights background

‘Cyberflasher’ sent to prison for the first time in England

Woman talking with nurse chatbot on iPad

Silicon Valley wants to deploy AI nursebots to handle your care

Engineers constructing structure using their origami module materias

Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones

SpaceVIP SpaceBalloon above Earth concept art

Private Space Flight

For nearly $500,000, you too can have dinner in the ‘SpaceBalloon’ above Earth

three stories of round library shelves

Every subscription you can cancel by going to the library

Starship rocket launching during third test

Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams

Pyxis Ocean shipping vessel with two WindWing sails

A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

Group of Marco Polo Sheep on a snowy mountainside.

Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting

Traffic light flashing yellow signal

Electric Vehicles

Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for hypothetical self-driving car future

CorPower C4 buoy turbine in ocean

Huge 60-foot-tall buoy uses ocean waves to create clean energy

CCTV security camera operating in home.

Airbnb finally bans all indoor security cameras

Concept art of cyborg jellyfish with forebody attachments

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

Google Earth Image of seismic center and truck road

‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck

Concept of human intelligence with human brain on blue background

VR and electric brain stimulation show promise for treating PTSD

Passenger staying at self-scan TSA station

TSA is testing a self-screening security checkpoint in Vegas

NASA astronaut training

International Space Station

NASA’s astronaut applications are open again. Do you have what it takes?

Oh good, the humanoid robots are running even faster now

Oh good, the humanoid robots are running even faster now

Varda W-1 capsule reentry video screenshot

Private Space Flight

Watch the plasma fly in space capsule’s dramatic fall to Earth

Vacuum moving towards two blocks with Wordpress and Tumblr logos

OpenAI wants to devour a huge chunk of the internet. Who’s going to stop them?

The Priority Current Plus electric commuter bike in white parked on the grass overlooking the Potomac River and DCA airport in the background

The best electric commuter bikes for 2026, tested and reviewed

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet

Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet

The Apple Car is dead

Jellyfish glowing green underwater

Jellyfish-inspired glowing dye can glom onto fingerprints at crime scenes

Tiger walking across snow

NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers

Hand holding cube of 3D printed titanium allow metamaterial

A 3D-printed titanium ‘metamaterial’ design solved a longtime engineering issue

Image taken of JAXA SLIM lunar lander on moon upside down

SLIM lives! Japan’s upside-down lander is online after a brutal lunar night

Pigs in sty at factory farm

Gene-edited pigs immune to deadly virus could arrive on farms by next year

Colorful cricket on green leaf

NASA wants you to record crickets during April’s solar eclipse

A total solar eclipse is seen on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, from onboard a NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Gulfstream III 25,000 feet above the Oregon coast. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina.

Delta’s solar eclipse flight sold out, but your best bet to see it is still down here

Close up of laser etching optical disk

This DVD-sized disk can store a massive 125,000 gigabytes of data

The best portable printers on a plain white background.

The best portable printers for 2025, tested and reviewed

Satellite image of ERS-2 deorbiting in Earth's atmosphere

Dead satellite hurtles towards Earth in new grainy images

Concept art of NASA Mars habitat

How to apply for NASA’s next Mars habitat simulation

Sora AI generated video still of woolly mammoth herd in tundra

OpenAI’s Sora pushes us one mammoth step closer towards the AI abyss

Surgeon using spaceMIRA remote surgery tool on ISS

First remote, zero-gravity surgery performed on the ISS from Earth (on rubber)

Edible soft robot on table

This edible, wriggling robot mimics experience of eating moving food

Pink lab-grown beef rice in white bowl

Scientists swear their lab-grown ‘beef rice’ tastes ‘pleasant’

MethaneSAT concept art above Earth

A new AI-powered satellite will create Google Maps for methane pollution

Minesto Dragon 4 undersea kite turbine traveling atop water

Huge underwater ‘kite’ turbine powered 1,000 homes in the Faroe Islands

Phobos creating partial solar eclipse on Mars, image taken by Perseverance rover

A Martian solar eclipse turns the sun into a giant googly eye

Destroyed Waymo on after attacked by vandals in San Francisco

Electric Vehicles

A crowd torched a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco

pleurocystitid soft robot

A sea creature extinct for half a billion years inspired a new soft robot

Interior of JET fusion reactor with plasma superimposed

Aging reactor sets new fusion energy record in last hurrah

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

Hand reaching to press 'accept' on unknown smartphone call

FCC bans AI-generated robocalls

Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria)

Cyborg locusts may one day help search-and-rescue missions

Abandoned car in aluminum red mud spill

Aluminum’s notorious, toxic red mud could one day help make ‘green steel’

Twitter alternative Bluesky is now open to the public

The latest emojis feature a mushroom, a phoenix, a lime, and more inclusive family options

The latest emojis feature a mushroom, a phoenix, a lime, and more inclusive family options

Antique zimingzhong mechanical clock

It’s time to check out these incredible antique musical clocks

Illustration of 3D printed brain tissue culture with 25nm scale

Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue

SLIM lunar lander final moon photo

This may be SLIM’s farewell transmission from the moon

Comcast Xfinity utility vehicle in parking lot

No, ’10G internet’ is not a thing

In tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically associated with biologically inherited traits to physically conveyed communications.

Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages

Screenshot showing shaded rendering of Doom via E. Coli bacteria display

Running ‘Doom’ on E. coli cells… very, very slowly

As AI becomes more ubiquitous and naturalistic, many industry critics have voiced concerns about a potentially increasing number of people turning to technology instead of human relationships.

13 percent of AI chat bot users in the US just want to talk

Arrow pointing towards potential sonar scan of Amelia Earhart's airplane

Did sonar finally uncover Amelia Earhart’s missing plane?

Elon Musk alleges Neuralink completed its first human trial implant

Black and white portrait of George Carlin

Humans actually wrote that fake George Carlin ‘AI’ standup routine

Biohybrid robot legs in underwater container

Watch this cool, useless biohybrid robot take a stroll

Man waiting for new Microsoft default font

Get ready for Aptos, Microsoft’s new default font

Ingenuity rotocopter on Mars

RIP Mars Ingenuity, the ‘little helicopter that could’