Head of Russian Space Program says cosmonauts are in a fighting mood

Dmitry Rogozin, the outspoken head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, expressed his excitement of delivering the next crew of cosmonauts to the International Space Station. | Continue reading


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Universal Music Buys Ape NFT to Frontline a New Cursed Band

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


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Space Conference censors name of first human in space because he's Russian

While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda. | Continue reading


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NFT Buyers Furious After Art They Spent $70M Turned Out to Be Hideous

Imagine the worst aspects of both Pokémon and non-fungible tokens and you begin to get the gist of what happened with Pixelmon. | Continue reading


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Apple retail employees organize a union using Android phones to prevent spying

Apple retail employees are beginning to quietly organize a union but have to use Android phones to avoid the company spying on them. | Continue reading


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Bionic eye patients are going blind after their implants become obsolete

Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products. | Continue reading


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NASA Spots High Energy X-Rays Coming from Jupiter

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter. | Continue reading


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OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

OpenAI's chief scientist has admitted what we all fear — that artificial intelligence may be gaining consciousness.  | Continue reading


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Chemical Used in Deadly Agent Orange Toxin Found in 1 in 3 Americans

Researchers have discovered that nearly 33 percent of all Americans have detectable amounts of a weed-killing chemical in their bodies.  | Continue reading


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Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it. | Continue reading


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SpaceX Tests Giant “Chopsticks” for Catching Starship as It Lands

SpaceX has tested out its massive "chopstick" tower, a structure designed to guide its Starship and Super Heavy booster during launches and landings. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work

"These are smart kid. They're doing astrophysics. They get stuff. But they were not getting this." | Continue reading


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Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice with Spinal Cord Implants

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials. | Continue reading


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The 27 most expensive recorded NFT sales in January amounted to $1.3 billion — but it came from just two crypto wallets trading with each other. | Continue reading


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NASA Announces Plans to Destroy the International Space Station

After years of exploring options, NASA has finally decided on how it wants to retire the International Space Station. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Demands Former SEC Lawyer Be Fired

Elon Musk wants to fire a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer who'd previously interviewed him during a 2018 Tesla investigation. | Continue reading


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China’s “Social Credit System” Will Rate How Valuable You Are as a Human

China is making Black Mirror a reality. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Say the Laws of Physics May Be Changing

A new scientific study says the universe may actually change its own laws of physics to achieve stability and evolution, called "The Autodidactic Universe." | Continue reading


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Genius builds computer inside Minecraft that can run its own games

Holy crap. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Human Brain Cells in a Dish Play 'Pong'

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Say They Caught China Successfully Changing the Weather

China has succeeded in literally changing the weather, a new study claims. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Assisted-Suicide Chamber Approved by Authorities in Switzerland

Exit International, a non-profit dedicated to assisted suicide advocacy, has developed a 3D-printed suicide capsule dubbed Sarco. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

New Humanoid Robot with Ultra-realistic is disturbing some

"Neat! Is this the Hunter-Killer or Human Infiltration model?" | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

IBM Says IT’S Achieved a Quantum Computing Breakthrough

"It would take a normal computer bigger than this planet" to keep up. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Mas says he got a job at NASA accidentally

"I got to work on things that went into space and physically touch them and make a difference." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

AR Pioneer warns Metaverse will be a Dystopian Nightmare

An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could destroy reality as we know it. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Precious NFT

"Even if you save it, it's my property." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Scammers Create Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Use Them for Spam

Scammers are cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university’s website -- and the practice appears to be widespread. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

New Brain Implant Lets Blind Patient See Without Eyes

Scientists in Spain have successfully created an implant that allowed a blind patient to see by directly stimulating her brain’s visual cortex. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, but It Turned Out Super Racist

Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI created Ask Delphi to make ethical judgments — but it turned out to be awfully bigoted and racist instead. | Continue reading


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Space Tourism Company Cancels Launch Because It Couldn’t Find Any Passengers

The most established space tourism company says it had to cancel its upcoming launch with SpaceX because it couldn't find any passengers for the journey. | Continue reading


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Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Tesla Is Up $1B on Its Bitcoin Investment

Tesla's treasure chest of 42,902 Bitcoin is worth over $2.5 billion right now.  | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Bezos interrupts Kirk's soliloquy to douse everyone with champagne

As soon as famed "Star Trek" actor William Shatner stumbled out of Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, he was born a new man. But Jeff Bezos was distracted. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

SpaceX tourist says she was sick first two days of mission

The space sickness is real. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

El Salvador Officially Starts Mining Bitcoin Using Power from an Actual Volcano

"We’re still testing and installing, but this is officially the first Bitcoin mining from the volcanode." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Lockheed Delivers Laser Weapon for Mounting to Military Gunship

Planes with freakin' laser guns. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Man Attempting to Trade Derelict USSR Space Shuttle for Human Skull

This story is absolutely wild. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

China's population projected to fall by half in 30 years

The researchers found that having more kids is simply too expensive. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Half of American Kids Have Lead in Their Blood, Doctors Say

"For lead there's no too low. We want zero." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Thrusters on New NASA Spacecraft Are Solar Powered

Chemical propellants are so last century. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper

Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated by an AI-assisted sniper rifle remotely controlled by Israeli operatives. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

China Analizing Moon Rocks as Potential Fusion Power Source

Chinese scientists are studying lunar rock samples to assess whether or not they're a good fuel source for nuclear fusion. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Startup Says Its Tech Can Kill Hurricanes Before They Get Strong

A company called OceanTherm says its tech can kill hurricanes by using bubbles to cool down sea temperatures, cutting off the supply of warm water. | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

New Military Test Detects Covid-19 Before It’s Infectious

The researchers say it could be "absolutely a gamechanger." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Create 3k TB Simulation of the Universe You Can Download

Researchers have created the largest computer simulation of the Universe, and have made the data available for anyone to download for free | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

Doctors Claim to Have Discovered How to Reverse Cell Aging

"This is a huge discovery. It is like finding a needle in a haystack." | Continue reading


@futurism.com | 2 years ago

A Single Alcoholic Drink Immediately Increases Risk of Heart Dysfunction

"The effects seem to be fairly linear: the more alcohol consumed, the higher the risk of an acute [atrial fibrillation] event." | Continue reading


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