It appears billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is taking #deletefacebook seriously. During a tweetstorm on Friday, Musk nonchalantly erased Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook accounts. The abrupt move came after a Twitter user urged him to delete his company’s accounts from the world’s most popular social media platform. Both pages had roughly 2.6 billion ‘likes’ but …

Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up. On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light years away that were created by a tidal disruption flare — an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole …

A new breed of superhumans that can communicate using their thoughts alone could be a reality within decades, a brain surgeon has predicted. These telepathic superhumans will transfer information to other people and machines using brain implants, according to Dr Eric Leuthardt. The Washington University brain surgeon believes getting a brain implant will be as …

Supersonic air travel could be making a return if a plane that aims to replace Concorde takes to the skies. Richard Branson-backed Boom Supersonic expects a prototype of its passenger plane to make its first test flight by the end of this year. The firm this week came a step closer to that goal after …

Scientists reduced hunger in obese patients by muffling the signal sent by a nerve to tell the body its hungry, according to newly-published research. For the 160 million Americans who are overweight or obese, only five to 10 percent are predicted to have long-term success with their weight loss programs. In an effort to improve …