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NASA satellite scan reveals giant desert dust clouds across the Earth.

Volocopter is a German startup that wants you to hail a drone taxi via app.

NASA's Voyager gave us the first look at the planet's incredible storms.

NASA shows off a tire made for exploring other planets.

See how fires can spread carbon across the globe.

Watch this compilation of huge solar flares.

Space travel has surprising effects on both physical and mental health. Sure, it looks pretty awesome to be an astronaut, going up there where there is no gravity and it seems that you can almost touch the stars. Astronauts always like to prove how cool their job is, maintaining profiles on social media and sharing all of these incredible photos and footages. But the lack of gravity can actually be a real downer, pun intended, affecting both the physical and mental health of those who dwell in space for extended period of time. Wanna be taller? Apparently, living in <a href="https://rumble.com/v39u2l-pilot-takes-a-dive-for-zero-gravity-experiment.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=79" target="_blank">zero gravity</a> will expand the vertebrae, making you grow up to 3%. Sad to say, you will shrink down to your normal height once you touch down on Earth. Oh, vanity. But it isn’t all good news up there. Weightlessness also causes loss in bone density and muscle atrophy. Not doing weight-resistant activities can do that to a human body. That is why <a href="https://rumble.com/v30nx6-did-nasa-send-astronauts-to-another-planet.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=81" target="_blank">astronauts</a> have personal gyms in space, to combat this effect. They exercise regularly and maintain a good diet. Space vacuum is also known to affect the size and shape of the heart muscle. Zero gravity lowers blood pressure and slows down the heart rate, which in turn decreases the flow of blood through the body. Isolation in space also weakens the immune system, allowing unearthly microbes to pass from food and other to you. Radiation and stress also play a huge factor. Last, but not least, being isolated so far away from any living creature on this planet can put you at serious risk of depression and sleep disorders. Since there is only 90 minutes of light-dark cycle, the same we experience in 24 hours down here, it takes a serious dedication to exercise and proper sleeping habits to reduce these changes. All goes back to normal once you come back to sweet, green Earth.

Antarctica is actually a desert.

Time-lapse of galaxy formations around black holes.

Elon Musk's Boring Company is selling the Tesla of flamethrowers. This company is anything but boring. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO says they’ve sold 15,000 flamethrowers since pre-orders started on the company’s website three days ago. All to help us prepare for a ‘zombie apocalypse’ or ‘liven up any party’! Elon Musk wrote ‘When the zombie apocalypse happens, you’ll be glad you bought a flamethrower. Works against hoarders of the undead or your money back!’ and ‘The Boring Company flamethrower guaranteed to live up any party’. At $500 a piece, the company’s raked in at least $7.5 million and at least $90,000 on ‘overpriced’ fire extinguishers. Before making the move to flamethrowers, the company started with selling $20 hats to help build underground tunnels and stop ‘soul-destroying traffic’ in California. However, not everyone is thrilled with the <a href="https://rumble.com/v30a0n-torch-burns-out-hornets-nest-with-a-flamethrower.html" target="_blank">flamethrowers</a>. California assemblyman tweeted this ‘If this is real, I am outraged and you should be too. If this is a joke, then this is terribly insensitive one given we are coming off of the worst wildfire season in history. Either way: NOT FUNNY, NOT GONNA HAPPEN’! Elon ‘Zombie Defender’ Musk has yet to respond to the concerns regarding this issue! In addition, Elon Musk revealed the first teaser image of the new <a href="https://rumble.com/v4dhzh-elon-musk-describes-epic-spacex-launch.html" target="_blank">SpaceX</a> space suit. The white and black streamlined suit is our first official peak at the suits that will be worn by astronauts who will be going to the ISS. Is SpaceX and Elon Musk planning to send a car to Mars? Reports are stating Musk is considering sending a Tesla Roadster to the Red planet aboard a Falcon Heavy on its maiden flight. Some are accusing Musk of spreading fake news about the matter. What are your thoughts about Elon Musk and his company? Let us know in the comments below!

Mysterious gamma rays in the Milky Way can't be explained.

The latest NASA lander, COBALT, is more precise than ever.

What surrounds black holes at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Watch ocean currents as seen from space.

NASA captures a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon.

For Halloween, NASA released an album of creepy audio recordings from space.

Folding electric cars are real-life Transformers.

Could there be a link between these blood-sucking fish & curing spinal cord injuries?

The NASA TESS mission will search for exoplanets that can support life.

We know cockatoos can speak, we know that crows can imitate human laughter, but to see a killer whale imitate human speech, not that is new! A group of scientists taught a 14-year-old <a href="https://rumble.com/v3yfs1-amazing-moment-killer-whale-mimics-boys-movements.html" target="_blank">killer whale</a> named Wikie to copy human speech. She is very well trained and in a previous study, Wikie was taught to copy behaviors. The researchers recorded a talking session with Wikie, where she repeats words like “hello”, “bye bye”, “one two”, even her handler’s name, Amy. “Killer whales use their blowhole to make noises, almost like speaking out of your nose, so we were not expecting it to be perfect,” said Dr Jose Abramson, a researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, who led the study. The goal of the research was to understand how capable <a href="https://rumble.com/v34ca1-orcas-cruise-alongside-jet-ski-off-kaikoura.html" target="_blank">orcas</a> are in imitating noises, so that they can ultimately understand how they learn in their natural habitat. Wikie was also exposed to noises created by other whales, to see if she can imitate them as well. Her trainer trained Wikie to reproduce the sounds by giving her the command “do this”. Wiki’s calf, three-year-old Moana, was even taught to make five unique sounds that could later be used to test her mother’s skill. Human judges were asked to determine whether Wikie’s versions of human speech matched, and then ran algorithms for a more objective assessment. Imitating vocal sounds in this way is a key component of language, and the ability to do so is rare in mammals besides humans.

Whenever we think of the future, we think of robots and flying cars, austere buildings and neatly manicured city greenery. The food deficiency would be replaced with microwaveable pills that will turn into gourmet meals and the only threat to society would be an alien attack. We will end famine and illnesses, and everything will be digitised and stored away in folders, including our thoughts. We will use virtual reality to control <a href="https://rumble.com/v4lbwp-exhibition-of-robots.html" target="_blank">robots</a> that would do the most ordinary tasks, and life would be grand. Okay, this might have been taken from The Fifth Element and a few other movies, but you get the gist, the future looks bright and we are there to enjoy it. What many people can’t fathom yet is that the future may be closer than one might think. We’re not so sure whether the plot would be closer to Luc Besson’s Fifth Element or Pacific Rim, though. Humanity is steadily chipping away at robotics and artificial intelligence. We still don’t know what the end goal might be, but for now, artificial intelligence is here to help us live easier lives. We’re creating robots that help us <a href="https://rumble.com/v3wbm3-robots-grow-produce.html" target="_blank">do menial tasks</a>, as well as robots that do the tasks that are too dangerous for us to do. These machines can withstand harsh conditions and reach inside the places that we can’t and it gets more exciting by the minute. This emergency-response robot looks like something out of a movie and is controlled by a human using VR technology to save lives. It has so far been able to use a fire extinguisher but it still needs to be tweaked a bit in order to move faster. How awesome is that?!

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory takes a picture of the Sun every 12 seconds.

This insanely fast robot is the size of a penny!

The Pelican spider has special adaptations to prey on its own kind.

The world's first robotic fish gets up close with ocean life by blending in with it like a chameleon.