A small suborbital rocket from Colorado-based company UP Aerospace failed shortly after its launch on Monday, exploding seconds after liftoff over the New Mexico desert. The rocket was carrying over a dozen student experiment payloads for NASA, as well as the cremated remains of a late NASA astronaut. Read more… Read More

Dune: Part Two released a new trailer today, offering our best look yet at director Denis Villeneuve’s continuation of his 2021 Frank Herbert adaptation. There will be a revolution, there will be assassins, there will be mystical orders of generational witches vying for political power via bloodline manipulation, and… Read more… Read More

What was once the realm of science fiction and grifters who claim to have psychic powers takes another step towards reality as a team of researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) successfully developed a machine-learning algorithm that can decode a mouse’s brain signals and reproduce images… Read more… Read More

Have you ever wondered if animals can use technology to communicate with each other? It seems that there’s a possibility for that since researchers from Northeastern University, MIT, and the University of Glasgow were able to teach a group of parrots how to video call through Facebook Messenger, and the results were surprising. The parrots …

Star Wars is a franchise that’s taken inspiration from plenty of things over the decades to become what it is today. Sometimes it requires work to figure out what it’s drawing on for a particular character, location, or plot point. Other times, it hits you dead in the face and despite that, might still work for …