A Mission to Alpha Centauri Within a Human Lifetime has Just Become More Realistic
Mankind’s fastest spaceship will take thousands of years to reach even the nearest stars. Breakthrough Initiatives are exploring the possibility of reducing it in a…
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500-Year-Old Human-Sized “Money” is Like the Original Bitcoin
Few of the world’s currency systems are more unique and attractive than the rye stone circles used on the tiny western Micronesian island of Yap.…
A Herd Of Elephants has Trekked 500 Kilometers Across China — but no One’s Sure Why
A herd of Asian elephants has embarked on a massive journey across China over the past year and time – but no one is sure…
Yet Another Company has Paid a Huge Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers
In the wake of a recent cybertack that shut down many of its plants, billion-dollar meat processing company JBS has paid ransom 11 million in…
This Week’s Global Internet Blackout was Caused by a Single Customer, Says Fastly
The global internet crash that shut down most of the world’s visited websites on Tuesday was caused by a single customer, according to the infrastructure…
El Salvador to Use Volcano Power for Bitcoin Mining
Earlier this week, the small Central American republic of El Salvador went down in history as the first country in the world to recognize Bitcoin…
Earth’s Core is Growing Faster on One Side than the other Making it Lopsided
The innermost part of our planet may be on one side of the core. This advice is based on a model created by seismologists at…
Closest Images of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede in Decades Reveal its Surface in Spectacular Detail
NASA’s Juno probe has just provided the closest images of Jupiter’s ice moon Ganymede that we’ve seen for decades, presenting some incredible glimpses of its…
China’s Zhurong Rover Took a Wireless Camera to Mars and Snapped an Adorable Group Photo
China’s Zhurong rover returned the first batch of scientific images since its historic landing on May 15, when China became the second country to successfully…
Cheap Lithium could be Extracted from Seawater Using this New Technique
Lithium is a common element in modern life, helping to power many of our devices, but for many reasons that encourage capitalism, this valuable resource…
3D-Printed Human Tissue Wins Impressive NASA Challenge
We are probably decades away from being able to create organs in the lab from scratch. One major obstacle is that what we can produce…
Breaking: Major Websites Around the World Down as Cloud Service Fastly Crashes
A number of websites are currently down across the Internet at news outlets, including social media platforms such as Twitch and Reddit, the Financial Times,…
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