
Elon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX’s Human-Carrying Rocket
Elon Musk was visibly excited as he took the stage on Saturday night at SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Behind him stood the hull...
Elon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX’s Human-Carrying Rocket
Elon Musk was visibly excited as he took the stage on Saturday night at SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Behind him stood the hull...
NASA’s Nuclear Idea, an Unfixable Apple Flaw, and More News
Nuclear rockets could wind up in space, a researcher unveiled a massive and unfixable iPhone flaw, and US police forces are using...
NASA’s Nuclear Idea, an Unfixable Apple Flaw, and More News
Nuclear rockets could wind up in space, a researcher unveiled a massive and unfixable iPhone flaw, and US police forces are using...
What to Expect From the 2019 World Track Championships
KR: I’m a sucker for those German TV journo hit jobs! Watching those videos you’d think EPO and PEDs are so widespread—like, athletes as...
Three Simple Tests Might Help Prevent Athletes’ Injuries
The Washington Redskins have been beaten up on the football field this year. With 10 players on the injured reserve list, and quarterback...
NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars
Just north of the Tennessee River near Huntsville, Alabama, there’s a six-story rocket test stand in a small clearing of loblolly pines....
Why Google’s Quantum Victory Is a Huge Deal—and a Letdown
They finally did it. After years—no, decades—of declaring their hopes and dreams with hardly any practical results, researchers in the...
Lots of Athletes Say CBD Is a Better Painkiller. Is It?
In his eight seasons in the National Hockey League, Riley Cote estimates he got into hundreds of fistfights. Cote was an enforcer—a tough...
Lots of Athletes Say CBD Is a Better Painkiller. Is It?
In his eight seasons in the National Hockey League, Riley Cote estimates he got into hundreds of fistfights. Cote was an enforcer—a tough...
The FDA Tells Congress E-Cigarettes Are Unsafe—and Illegal
Public pressure is mounting against e-cigarettes. At a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing today on e-cigarettes’ effect on...
We’re Killing the Oceans, and We’ll Pay Dearly for It
When the sun sets on the human race, and the cause of death isn’t an asteroid scorching the Earth, whoever or whatever comes after our...
A Robot Dog for Rent, Apple’s Secret AR Glasses, and More News
Apple might be giving away its own AR secrets, an infamous robot dog is ready for lease, and we have some suggestions for electric cars...
Remember The Dress? Here’s Why We All See Colors Differently
When The Dress went viral in 2015—driving tens of millions of online onlookers into existential conniptions over whether the garment was...
Spot, the Internet’s Wildest 4-Legged Robot, Is Finally Here
That and Spot might not even be the right tool for your needs—if you want to remotely monitor five gauges, just train five stationary...
How Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
Back in the lab at Georgia Tech, Fritz could superimpose the real-life scan onto the original video to figure out how high the water got...
Tesla’s Million-Mile Battery, Greta Thunberg’s UN Speech, and More News
A lofty Elon Musk promise may soon be realized, a teen activist blistered members of the UN, and we have some recommendations for fitness...
We Are Nowhere Close to Meeting Our Climate Goals
It was unseasonably warm in New York City as world leaders convened at the United Nations headquarters for the Climate Action Summit on...
Even Huge Molecules Follow the Quantum World’s Bizarre Rules
Magnify a speck of dirt a thousand times, and suddenly it no longer seems to play by the same rules. Its outline, for example, won’t look...




















