Colossal mine in fat bear country just passed a major hurdle
Alaska's Bristol Bay, a region teeming with fat bears and the richest run of sockeye salmon in the world, is one of the wildest lands left in North America. Now,...
Here’s why AI didn’t save us from COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic began we were all so full of hope. We assumed our technology would save us from a disease that could be stymied by such modest steps...
NASA to fly a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon to study light from newborn stars – TechCrunch
NASA’s latest mission won’t actually reach space – but it will come very close, with a massive observation craft made up of a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon, along with a...
Scientists put penis rings on bisexual men to prove they exist
A team of researchers recently published a study on bisexual men that, surprisingly, indicates they exist. This comes as a shock because the lead researcher, Professor J. Michael Bailey of...
SpaceX and NASA target September for first operational astronaut crew launch – TechCrunch
SpaceX and NASA are aiming to launch the first official operational mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon human-rated spacecraft sometime in September, the agency revealed via a media update this...
China’s first Mars rover is en route to the Red Planet after successful launch of Tianwen-1 – TechCrunch
China successfully launched a combination Mars orbiter and rover early this morning, using a Long March 5 rocket that took off from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island at...
Asteroids may be the reason Earth is covered in water
Add a little acid, some herbs, and you have an interplanetary salad dressing Researchers assembled a mixture of water, ammonia, and carbon monoxide, which they then exposed to ultraviolet light,...
The Atlantic Ocean is now hurricane fuel, inviting big storms
The Atlantic keeps breaking records. Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, the earliest time on record for the seventh named storm of the season to...
$75M in federal grants will fund a new trio of quantum institutes – TechCrunch
Quantum science is just getting started, and although we’ve already hit some important milestones in both theory and practice, basic research is still needed in just about every nook and...
Elon Musk claims his brain chip can stimulate your pleasure center
Neuralink‘s mission has never quite been clear. We know it’s working on a chip designed to be surgically inserted into the human skull called a brain-computer interface (BCI), but exactly...