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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

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’

Image taken of JAXA SLIM lunar lander on moon upside down

Japan’s SLIM lunar lander stuck the landing—upside down

Close up of teens with smartphone

Facebook and Instagram are making it harder for strangers to DM teens

Apple’s electric vehicle delayed at least four more years

GIF of Sierra Space LIFE module exploding during pressure test

Watch a giant, inflatable space station prototype explode during its intentional ‘ultimate burst’

Joe Biden speaking in front of American flag

A deepfake ‘Joe Biden’ robocall told voters to stay home for primary election

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter concept art above moon

NASA bounced a laser off a cookie-sized device on the moon

JAXA lunar lander robots, LEV-1 and LEV-2

Japan makes history with its first uncrewed moon landing

Woman on phone in bed in darkened room with face obscured

Instagram will start telling teens to put down their phones and go to sleep

Orpheas Kofinakos, Herui Chen, Peter Zhang – The eXpressive Electronic Keyboard Instrument (XEKI)

Check out some of the past year’s most innovative musical inventions

Water skimmer inspired robot atop water

These micro-robots were inspired by mini-bugs and water striders

Google chrome web browser incognito mode, selective focus

Google clarifies Chrome’s ‘Incognito Mode’ isn’t as private as you might think

A colorized view of the DOLCE structure finalizing its uncoiling process, as seen from the boom camera, over Antarctica, on August 22, 2023.

The first-ever space solar power tests are finished after a year in orbit

John Deere 8R Autonomous Tractor in field

John Deere and Starlink partner to provide satellite internet for rural farmers

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography

Check out some of the past year’s best close-up photography

Interior of Boeing 737-9 Max with emergency passenger door plug blown off

Boeing faces FAA audit after its 737 Max 9 plane’s door plug blew off mid-air

GIF of Ouroboros-3 test rocket igniting

Watch this rocket ‘eat’ its own body for fuel

NASA plans to unveil experimental X-59 supersonic jet on January 12

NASA plans to unveil experimental X-59 supersonic jet on January 12

Two phone screens displaying Facebook content filters for minors

Meta begins automatically restricting teen users to more ‘age-appropriate’ content

Microscopic view of Oikopleura dioica

This tiny sea creature builds a ‘snot palace’ to capture food

OpenAI argues it is ‘impossible’ to train ChatGPT without copyrighted work

Sound level visualization of audio clip

The FTC wants your help fighting AI vocal cloning scams

Screenshot of emulator running 86-DOS version 0.1

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

Robert Lodder sends Lexington tourism data ad into space at evening launch event with horses in background

Lexington, Kentucky sent a tourism ad to ‘extraterrestrials’ with a DIY laser rig

Rendering of Astrobotic Peregrin lunar lander on moon's surface

NASA is headed for the moon next week, and it’s bringing lots of weird stuff

Data visualization of all maritime activity in the North Sea

AI and satellite data helped uncover the ocean’s ‘dark vessels’

Chinese exchange student leaving tent after being rescued by law enforcement after cyber kidnapping scam

Teen ‘cyber kidnapping’ victim found hiding near Utah canyon

Japan Airlines Airbus on fire at Tokyo airport

Here’s what to know about the Japan Airlines collision

GIF of Willis Gibson achieving kill screen on classic Tetris

A 13-year-old wunderkind is the first human to ‘beat’ Tetris

Black and white aerial shot of Mars Ingenuity helicopter in flight

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new flight distance record on Mars

Closeup of woman's hand holding white iPhone

Apple may owe you some cash after settling a false advertising lawsuit