COVID Drones

April 27, 2020

Westport, Connecticut is the latest US city to use camera drones to try to slow the spread of COVID-19.

CDC’s COVID-19 Tests Were Seeded With Coronavirus

April 23, 2020

Tests sent out by the CDC in early February were unusable because they were contaminated with coronavirus, sloppy work that cost the US weeks in getting a handle on the spread of COVID-19.

Russia Names Nuke Targets

February 26, 2019

Russian state television Sunday night named a number of targets inside the U.S. for hypersonic missiles in the event of a nuclear exchange.

SciFriday: Robot Love

January 25, 2019

Researchers have noticed a growing trend—people identifying as “digisexual” or “cybersexual.” What does it mean for society when people are trading human contact for love with a cyborg?

Eyes on the stars, heads in the sand

December 17, 2017

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Defense ran a secretive project to check out UFOs between 2007 and 2012, according to a new report in The New York Times.

SciFriday: High-Tech Surrender to Ancient Temptation

September 8, 2017

As virtual reality becomes ever more realistic, and AI makes more human jobs obsolete, we discuss the possibility that VR is a trap being laid by principalities and powers to lure us into a virtual hell.

The iMom

March 11, 2016

Technology is dehumanizing us. We discuss a startling new short film from Australia, The iMom.

Mixing iron and miry clay

March 4, 2016

Scientists have created artificial DNA bonded together with mercury instead of hydrogen.

US secret weapon against ISIS: Hollywood?!

February 23, 2016

Confronted by a murderous group founded on 1,400 years of religion-sanctioned violence, the US government pulls out its secret weapon: Hollywood movie producers.

The face of Jesus

December 16, 2015

Forensic researchers have released images of what Jesus might have looked like–or, more accurately, images of what a typical man in Galilee looked like in the first century.

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