Noor Al-Sibai

Sub It Out In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. As the South China Morning Post reports, engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province — where, notably, China's first experimental submarine was developed — claim that the country's military is close to […]

Sub It Out In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. As the South China Morning Post reports, engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province — where, notably, China's first experimental submarine was developed — claim that the country's military is close to […]

To save his own hide, disgraced FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to work with prosecutors to name and blame some of the celebrities who shilled his company. As Bloomberg reports, disgruntled investors have agreed to drop their cases against Bankman-Fried in exchange for his cooperation, which will shield him from further civil liability if and […]

Paint It Black The home panopticon is approaching, and apparently, it will be able to detect people with AI, scream at them, and shoot them with either paintballs or teargas pellets. Known as "Paintcam Eve" — or EVA, depending on which part of the website run by the Slovenia-based OZ-iT's startup you're checking out — […]

Race Day NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities and, in the process, fueling the off-world rivalry between the two. "We believe that a lot of [China's] so-called civilian space program is a military program," Administrator Bill Nelson said during remarks on Capitol Hill this week, per The Guardian. "And […]

Beyond Neptune Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet out in the furthest reaches of our Solar System — and new research suggests with even more credibility that it's out there. In two new papers — one published in the Astronomical Journal, another, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, posted to the arXiv […]

After decades of cloud seeding, which involves manipulating clouds to make it rain, the United Arab Emirates is insisting that Dubai's historic flooding is not related to its long-running weather modification experiments. In a statement to The National, the UAE's state-owned English-language newspaper, a representative from the country's National Centre of Meteorology said that the government's […]

After decades of cloud seeding, which involves manipulating clouds to make it rain, the United Arab Emirates is insisting that Dubai's historic flooding is not related to its long-running weather modification experiments. In a statement to The National, the UAE's state-owned English-language newspaper, a representative from the country's National Centre of Meteorology said that the government's […]