No need to panic, folks! Just Russian hackers claiming “hundreds of victims” to infiltrate U.S. electric utilities, giving them the ability to cause blackouts. The state-sponsored hackers used fairly common tactics to compromise the vendors that supplied those utilities, according…
iStockphoto Despite the best efforts of people who think Reefer Madness is a documentary, marijuana is becoming increasingly normalized in the United States and beyond. At this point, legalization in America seems inevitable as more and more people realize weed doesn’t cause…
The latest robots out of MIT are small enough to float “indefinitely” in the air. Researchers accomplished the feat by attaching 2D electronics to colloids — tiny particles measuring around one-billionth to one-millionth of a meter. All told, the devices…
ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor, and it apparently has been hiding a dark past. Scientists from the University of Michigan discovered that this sinister figure cannibalized our sibling approximately two…
Vyacheslav Prokofyev via Getty Images Leveraging robotics to undertake dangerous missions has obvious benefits for mankind, and space travel is no exception. In 2011, NASA sent its dexterous assistant ‘Robonaut 2‘ on a trip to the International Space Station (ISS)…
Qualcomm One of the biggest challenges in tapping millimeter waves (mmWaves) for 5G is overcoming signal interference. Because they’re easily disrupted by something as simple as someone walking in between a transmitter and receiver, mmWaves require technological finesse to be…
Summer festivals? No, the most epic onstage moment for this summer has to be Kraftwerk jamming live with the International Space Station – and an iPad as the first electronic musical instrument in space. Take a look (German-language text with…
Mikhail Kokorich, the founder of Momentus, a new Y Combinator-backed propulsion technology developer for space flight, hadn’t always dreamed of going to the moon. A physicist who graduated from Russia’s top-ranked Novosibirsk University, Kokorich was a serial entrepreneur in who…
john finney photography via Getty Images While scientists have been learning more and more about our solar system and the way things work, many of our Sun’s mechanics still remain a mystery. In advance of the launch of the Parker…
Dala has officially announced a new multi-chain strategy that will include Stellar, the technology behind the seventh largest cryptocurrency (lumens) by market cap. Dala is looking to create the most decentralized financial system available by bring together top blockchains and protocols.…