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Scientists identified 24 distant exoplanets that all seem to have even better conditions for hosting life than Earth does.
Science & Energy

Astronomers: These 24 Exoplanets May Be Better for Life Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

A new Consumer Reports analysis found that, over their lifetime, electric vehicles cost half as much to maintain as gas-powered cars do.
Electric Vehicles

Report: Electric Vehicles Cost Half as Much to Maintain

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Still, the White House says it will not require people to wear masks.
Developments

Masks Still Aren’t Required on White House Grounds, Official Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a change in blue whales' songs that signals they're about to migrate south. They say it could be used to warn ships in the area.
Biology

Scientists Suggest Teaching Ships to Speak Whale Language

By Dan Robitzski

More companies are trying to make ocean wave energy a thing, including one firm that's been operating a massive generator since early 2019.
Energy

Huge Machine Captures Energy From Ocean Waves

By Dan Robitzski

Trump may have shown COVID-19 symptoms as early as Wednesday, meaning he could have inadvertently and knowingly spread the disease during his busy week.
Developments

Trump Exposed Countless People to COVID-19 After Learning He Might Have It

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

President Trump says he caught the coronavirus. If it's true, his weight and age put him at an above-average risk compared to the typical patient.
Developments

People in Trump’s Age Range Are 90 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19 Than Young Adults

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to send a $23 million space toilet up to the International Space Station — its first new toilet in 30 years — for a test run.
NASA

NASA’s New Space Toilet Is Heading to the Space Station For, Uh, Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Pharamceutical companies have different definitions of success for their COVID-19 vaccines, making it hard to tell if the first vaccine will be the best.
Viruses

Pharma Companies Never Agreed What Makes a “Successful” COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

By Dan Robitzski

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.
Science & Energy

New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that restructuring global society could grant every human on Earth a decent quality of life while cutting energy use to 1960s levels.
Energy

We Could Cut Energy use in Half and Still Give 10 Billion People “Decent” Lives

By Dan Robitzski

New demonstrative Toyota robots show how warehouse-like technology could help seniors keep up on housework like the dishes.
Robotics

Toyota Built a Robot to Do Grandpa’s Dishes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.
Science & Energy

Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

By Dan Robitzski

Earth will likely capture a new minimoon in its orbit later this year. But signs suggest that it's actually a hunk of space garbage.
Science & Energy

Earth Appears to Be Capturing a Tiny New Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints
Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Have Proved That Crows Have Conscious Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

At Huawei's request, the Chinese government plans to launch a new antitrust probe into Google over its Android operating system's market dominance.
Future Society

China Plans to Launch an Antitrust Probe Into Google

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists warn that as climate change progresses, even traditionally wet and humid forests around the world could be consumed by worsening fires.
Climate Change

Scientists Warn: Someday, Even Wet Forests Could Burn

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

The HP Omnicept measures biometrics to tell when people are stressed, which could be a good tool for high-stakes job simulations.
Virtual Reality

New VR Headset Reads Your Biometrics to Find Your Breaking Point

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company LambdaVision is launching a project to manufacture artificial retinas for blind patients out in space.
Developments

Biotech Company Plans to Manufacture Artificial Retinas in Space

By Dan Robitzski

A new enzyme, which is really a hybrid of two others, can break down plastic waste six times faster than the next best one.
Environment

Scientists Create Enzyme That Devours Plastic at Incredible Speed

By Dan Robitzski

Despite all of Amazon's claims to the contrary, warehouse workers suffer extremely high rates of injuries, and impossible quotas and robots make it worse.
Future Society

Injuries Went Up When Amazon Deployed Warehouse Robots

By Dan Robitzski

An aviation company ZeroAvia successfully flight tested a hydrogen-powered passenger plane and has more ambitious tests planned in the future.
Advanced Transport

Researchers Successfully Test Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Plane

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.
Science & Energy

Watch a Meteoroid Bounce Off the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists developed a robot so tiny that it's invisible to the human eye — and they say it could someday hunt for cancer inside your body.
Robotics

This Robot Is So Tiny You Could Fit Ten of Them on a Single Period

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.
Physics

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

By Dan Robitzski

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.
Neuroscience and Brain

New System Reads Your Brain Waves, Draws a Picture of What You’re Thinking About

By Dan Robitzski

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.
Military

The US Military Wants Access to SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent interview, Elon Musk suggested that oil tycoons might not have known how much they were damaging the planet when they got into the business.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: “I Feel a Bit Bad About Hating on the Oil and Gas Industry”

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop lasers that can detonate landmines and other hazards from a safe distance.
Military

The Air Force Is Getting a Laser That Detonates Landmines From Afar

By Dan Robitzski

An AI algorithm learned how to dose anesthetized patients during surgery. In a simulated environment, it outperformed what doctors use today.
Developments

MIT Trains Neural Network to Keep Patients Anesthetized During Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that personally experiencing wildfires makes people more likely to support anti-climate change policy, regardless of political leanings.
Climate Change

Scientists: When People Experience Climate Change Firsthand, They Get Serious About It

By Dan Robitzski

After about a year, NASA and Roscosmos have just about narrowed down the source of the ongoing air leak on the International Space Station.
Science & Energy

NASA Says It’s Almost Found the Leak on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.
Biology

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

The smart doorbell company Ring just announced a drone that flies around and records video inside your home. It sounds like a privacy nightmare.
Drones

Amazon Announces Security Drone That Flies Around Your Home

By Dan Robitzski

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Climate Change

Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Space debris could pose an even bigger threat than we thought, thanks to new research that found smaller pieces of junk that were never cataloged.
Science & Energy

Research: Most Geosynchronous Space Junk Has Never Been Catalogued

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.
Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Police reportedly trained a dog to sniff out electronic storage devices, which cops claim helps them find hidden digital evidence.
Science & Energy

Police Trained a Dog to Sniff Out Electronic Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

Wikipedia is gettings its first major redesign in a decade, with changes scheduled to slowly trickle out over the coming years.
Science & Energy

Please No: They’re Redesigning Wikipedia

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the city of Manaus, Brazil may be experience a coronavirus slowdown because enough people got sick to develop herd immunity.
Developments

A Brazilian City May Have Had Enough COVID-19 Cases to Reach Herd Immunity

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Tuesday that China would attempt to go completely carbon neutral by the year 2060.
Climate Change

China Suddenly Pledges to Become Completely Carbon Neutral

By Dan Robitzski

The idea of deep space explorers growing their own food just became more feasible with the discovery that worms can still hunt pests in microgravity.
Off-World

Scientists: Worms Could Kill Pests on Space Vegetables

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Space Force plans to swear NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins into its ranks during a ceremony aboard the International Space Station.
Science & Energy

The International Space Station Had to Dodge a Piece of Space Junk Last Night

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm learned from 17,000 celebrity headshots, and now it can take a quick doodle and turn it into a brand new person.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Generate Headshot Photos From Slapdash Doodles

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization and other groups are coordinating a global effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. refused to help.
Viruses

US, Russia, China Opt Out of Global Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are launching a spacecraft to the far side of the Moon so it can listen to extremely faint radio signals.
Moon

NASA Is Heading to the Far Side of the Moon to Study the Ancient Universe

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the U.S. Space Force just signed a formal agreement to collaborate on objectives ranging from space travel to planetary defense.
NASA

NASA and the US Space Force Are Officially Teaming Up

By Dan Robitzski

The City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, just unanimously voted to decriminalize all psychedelic plants and mushrooms, citing potential health benefits.
Developments

A City in Michigan Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

A former YouTube content moderator just sued over psychological trauma induced by being overworked and undersupported while flagging graphic videos.
Future Society

YouTube Content Moderator Sues Over Psychological Trauma

By Dan Robitzski

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.
Military

The US Military Used Emergency Coronavirus Money to Buy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of scientists has some guesses for how any theoretical life hiding away under the acid clouds of Venus might have originated.
Science & Energy

Scientists Speculate About How Life on Venus Could Have Begun

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that rats let out a high-pitch squeak when they're happy, giving a rare, measurable window into animal well-being.
Science & Energy

Finally: Scientists Discover Which Rats Like to Be Tickled

By Dan Robitzski

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Warn That Indian, Pakistani Nuclear Plants Could Get Wrecked by Tsunamis

By Dan Robitzski

The wealthiest one percent in the world emits twice the carbon as does the poorer half of the Earth's population, revealing stark global inequalities.
Climate Change

The Richest One Percent Emits Twice as Much Carbon as Half the World

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is interfering with sensitive observatories and telescopes, making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos.
Climate Change

Astronomers Complain That Climate Change Is Making Telescopes Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers designed a new orbital space habitat that tries to accomodate everyday people rather than just specially-trained astronauts.
Off-World

A New Space Habitat Design Simulates Gravity by Spinning

By Dan Robitzski

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.
Space

Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

The dimmer version of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are still too bright in the sky for astronomers to conduct their research.
Science & Energy

SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Still Ruining Astronomers’ Research

By Dan Robitzski

The SpaceX rideshare program is designed to launch small satellites into orbit. Here's what it would be like to hitch a ride.
SpaceX

Could I Climb Into a SpaceX Cargo Rideshare and Yeet Myself Into Space?

By Dan Robitzski

The latest coronavirus scam pretends to come from the government, claiming that victims need to pay a fine for violating quarantine.
Developments

Scammers Are Demanding “Fines” for “Violating Quarantine”

By Dan Robitzski