RIP Atlas, the world’s beefiest humanoid robot
Atlas, the hulking 330-pound acrobatic Boston Dynamics robot (that filled us with equal parts awe and horror) is officially going...
Science
This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds
Life may “find a way,” but how living things evolve is not a neat and orderly process. Instead of a...
Grizzlies are getting killed by roads, but the risks are bigger than roadkill
More than 4 million miles of roads crisscross the US. So it’s little surprise that roadkill makes up a big...
Beep beep: Fiat charms city drivers with revived all-electric 500e
In 2013, Italian automaker Fiat launched its first EV, the 500e. The car was sold only in California and Oregon...
The Air Force’s big new electric taxi flies at 200 mph
Today, members of the military and an executive from Joby Aviation used a giant pair of scissors to cut a...
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
The “object from the sky” that pierced through a home in Naples, FL. last month wasn’t a meteorite after all....
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
The “object from the sky” that pierced through a home in Naples, FL. last month wasn’t a meteorite after all....
How super resilient tardigrades can fix their radiation-damaged DNA
Microscopic tardigrades have fascinated scientists for their incredible toughness since they were first discovered back in 1773. They can sense...
This gnarly fungus makes cicadas hypersexual
As we wait for this spring and summer’s “cicadapocalypse,” when trillions will emerge across the Southern and Midwestern United States,...
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way
Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times more massive than...
Earth’s stinkiest flower is threatened with extinction
As their giant petals open, the blooming of flowers in the genus Rafflesia brings with them an overwhelming odor mimics...
NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables
Even without any known active tectonic movement, the moon can still rumble. Its dramatic thermal changes, miniscule contractions from cooling,...
