Q: Can we predict volcanic eruptions?

Few places on Earth are as inhospitable as Antarctica. Perhaps the bottom of the sea, or inside a lava lake, but of all the places that people can technically survive, Antarctica's pretty rough. Sustaining the research at McMurdo station is a civilian-headed effort with military components. Multiple American services and the Coast Guard work together to run Operation Deep Freeze, a recurring resupply mission. This year, to scout for their icebreakers, the Coast Guard brought along drones.

Google's Android operating system for mobile devices has over a billion users. But the first company in Google's alphabet isn't stopping there. The search company that recently surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable wants to add even more users to Android. Mainly by taking back control of the operating system by making its own smartphones.

The first case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex in the U.S. has been confirmed by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and the Dallas County Health Department is Dallas, Texas (DCHHS).

Nintendo may not be willing to spill details on its upcoming NX console, but it continues to drop hints regarding its mobile strategy. The gaming giant first revealed plans to take back some of its lunch being eaten by smartphone games almost a year ago, and has since put out a mobile Pokémon title and said to expect its communication app Miitomo in March.

NASA is running out of plutonium. The space agency uses Pu-238 to fuel many of its deep space missions, including New Horizons, Voyager, the Curiosity rover, and the Mars 2020 rover. These long-lasting batteries were the byproducts of nuclear weapons manufacturing, and now that the world is making less of those, NASA's stockpile of plutonium fuel is dwindling.

Despite Jeff Bezos' recent celestial achievements, it seems Amazon will still be investing in bricks and mortar.

It wouldn't be election 2016 without at least one bizarre conspiracy theory about cyber fraud. As the first official tallies emerged from the snowy banks of the Iowa caucuses last night, with results showing Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in a clear second place to the suddenly surging Republican Senator Ted Cruz (and only a few points ahead of third place Senator Marco Rubio), some supposed Trump supporters took to Twitter to accuse Microsoft of rigging the caucus against Trump using the hashtag #MicrosoftRubioFraud. A sampling:

The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge release date has yet to be announced ahead of Mobile World Congress 2016 this year, the annual smartphone and portable device conference held in Barcelona, Spain (February 22-26 this year). But that hasn't stopped the internet's rumor machine from pumping out new details. Now the existence of the upcoming Galaxy S7 Edge has been revealed by none other than...Samsung itself.

North Korea, an international pariah state known equally for its reckless nuclear program and its population's mass starvation, announced today that it plans to launch a satellite into space later this month. Despite its hobbled economy and diplomatic isolation, this won't be the first satellite launch for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

In a surprise move around 2:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, February 2, 2016, Uber changed its branding. That is not momentous, but the company has gone on a tear about two of their new obsessions: bits and atoms.

It starts with a metaphorical open door. According to files posted on the text sharing website Pastebin by self-proclaimed hackers AnonSec on January 31st (which have since been removed), the hackers used Bitcoin to purchase access to a NASA computer network from another hacker outfit in China.

Great things come in very small packages. When the Space Launch System--NASA's new heavy-duty rocket--lifts off in 2018, the primary mission will be to put the uncrewed Orion capsule in a safe orbit out past the moon. (Safe being a key word here.) But the secondary part of Exploration Mission-1 will be to launch several tiny satellites, sending them out to the moon, space, and even an asteroid.

According to Greek mythology, when Zeus fell in love with the Phoenician princess Europa, he gave her three gifts--one of them was a javelin that would always hit its target. That's why a team of 80 scientists has named their proposal to throw a projectile at the Jupiter's moon Europa "Akon", the ancient Greek word for javelin. (No relation to the rapper Akon.)

More than 1.5 million people have watched Paul Rudd challenge Stephen Hawking in the game of quantum chess. But although the "Anyone Can Quantum" video is fictional, the game is not. It's the brainchild of University of Southern California graduate student Chris Cantwell. And he's looking for funding to bring it to life.