This cyclone is soaking Southern California with welcome rain
A big, spinning storm has moved over Southern California, and will douse the region in much needed rain. Seen in the satellite image above, it's a common winter storm, called...
As coronavirus spreads, it’s time for serious social distancing
Their faces plastered in blue makeup, some 3,500 people gathered in Western France over the weekend to break the record for the largest-ever crowd of Smurfs. The next day, the...
By just thinking about it, amputees move robot hands with unprecedented precision
In a major breakthrough in prosthetics, researchers at the University of Michigan have been able to amplify nerve signals from residual limbs using tiny muscle grafts. The improved connection means...
Stop sneeze-shaming. It isn’t even a coronavirus symptom.
Everyone in the path of the novel coronavirus, which at this point is pretty much all of us, should know by now the best advice to avoid catching this highly...
Coronavirus is a breeding ground for conspiracy theories – and that has serious consequences
The novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, with new cases being reported all the time. Spreading just as fast, it seems, are conspiracy theories that claim powerful actors...
Not all of it will work
Misinformation spreads faster than the coronavirus, and it's important to stay vigilant as we try to stay healthy. With demand for hand sanitizer so high, not all products are equally...
The story of Katherine Johnson, the scientist who helped NASA send humans to space
Katherine Johnson, who has died at the age of 101, was an amazing woman. But up until a few years ago, hardly anyone had heard of her or her achievements....
Watch SpaceX launch the last of its original Dragon spacecraft to resupply the ISS tonight – TechCrunch
SpaceX is launching its 20th resupply mission the International Space Station tonight, but this one has a bittersweet twist: It’s the last such mission that will use the first iteration...
Scientists discover strong evidence of life on Mars
We’ve been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ever got the chance to take hold? A pair...
Scientists figured out how to fool state-of-the-art Deepfake detectors
A team of researchers from UC San Diego recently came up with a relatively simple method for convincing fake video-detectors that AI-generated fakes are the real deal. AI-generated videos called...