The sun is gonna keep boring a hole through our souls, but an ambitious idea to soften the blow is progressing.

NASA just locked four people in a 3D-printed habitat on a fake Mars for one year.

Archaeology may not be like the movies, but it’s getting more advanced by the minute.

Dr. John B. Goodenough, humble creator of the lithium-ion battery, dies at 100.

A startup hopes its delicate automations can improve an error-prone manual industry.

A black fungus coats everything near distilleries. A woman who runs a wedding venue near a Jack Daniel’s operation has had enough.

Could we de-age and live longer? Maybe with $2m and some veggie gruel.

The Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for our destruction, is now set to 90 seconds to midnight. Why?

A rocket went down, but not all was lost.

For the first time, scientists were able to cause a fusion reaction with a net energy gain.

Brain training games that require quick recall may delay or prevent dementia.

Scientists are using machine learning algorithms to analyze communication patterns in animals.

Plus: India’s electric boom, cheap pheromones, and Saudi tourism.

Plus: Music royalties and sky-high art prices.

Plus: Nationwide IQ loss, and ads in our dreams.

We’re not that far off from printing steaks for dinner.

Isomorphic Laboratories is Alphabet’s play for the $110B+ drug discovery market.

Bezosism is the management philosophy powering Amazon’s warehouses, and making free 2-day shipping possible.

A genetic company wants to bring back the woolly mammoth by editing Asian elephant cells with mammoth DNA.

How an accident that led to Viagra informed the concept behind Healx.

Insectta is a startup that uses flies to combat food waste, and create a variety of byproducts.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, which launches small satellites, prepares to go public in a $3.7B SPAC deal.

NASA chose SpaceX -- not Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin -- to build its lunar landing vehicle. Now, Blue Origin is suing NASA.

Plus: Online groceries, an asteroid, and kids’ diets.

Plus: Olympian tax breaks, remote work is happening from the couch, and Amazon’s record employment.

After a failed December 2019 attempt, Boeing will attempt to send its Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) again.

Google’s DeepMind unit has predicted the shape of 350k+ proteins, which can have huge implications for health and medicine.

Omniscient Technology raised $30m to map our brains, making it easier for doctors to find and treat issues.

Blue Origin was founded in 2000 with a mission to “preserve the Earth” by going “to space to tap its unlimited resources and energy.”