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Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

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Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.

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The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Marine scientist David Valentine has made a shocking discovery 3,000 below the ocean's surface just ten miles off the coast of Los Angeles: barrels of DDT.

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“Countless” Barrels of Toxic Waste Found in Ocean Near Los Angeles

By Victor Tangermann

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.

Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

By Victor Tangermann

Bandits in Mexico stole industrial radiographic equipment, including a highly radioactive container of dangerous isotopes.

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Armed Criminals Steal Truck Full of Deadly Radioactive Materials

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities arrested a Michigan man after he claimed to have a bomb parked in a trailer outside of a nuclear power plant in Ohio.

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Man Claimed to Have Car Bomb at Nuclear Power Plant

By Tony Ho Tran

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.

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SpaceX Isn’t Sure If This Object Came From One of Its Rockets

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

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Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

By Tony Ho Tran

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.

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FBI Arrests Man for Plotting to Bomb Data Center, Cause Huge Internet Outage

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers recently discovered that the Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than they previously anticipated — triggering concerns for sea level rise.

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Scientists Discover “Doomsday Glacier” More Unstable Than Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Microsoft Researchers Claim Entire Universe Is a Machine-Learning Algorithm

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just funded a project that wants to explore the clouds of Venus with a swarm of kite-like spacecraft that glide through the atmosphere.

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NASA Funds Spacecraft “Swarm” to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the Starlink network could provite global connectivity after just five more satellite launches.

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SpaceX Says That in Just Five Launches, It’ll Have Full Global Connectivity

By Dan Robitzski

Matt Gaetz seems to have further incriminated himself in an ongoing sex trafficking scandal by leaving his Venmo on public.

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Congressman’s Sex Scandal Explodes Because He Left Venmo Transactions on Public

By Dan Robitzski

The French army's foremost military school has shown off pictures of the latest addition to its team of combatants: a four-legged robotic dog called Spot.

Boston Dynamics Robot Runs Out of Battery During Military Combat Drill, Needs to Be Carried

By Victor Tangermann

The University of Chicago and two national labs are launching the first quantum tech startup-focused accelerator in the country.

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The First-Ever Startup Accelerator for Quantum Tech Just Launched

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.

Scientists: “Direct Fusion Drive” Could Get Us to the Edge of the Solar System in 10 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Theoretical physicist and science communicator Michio Kaku had some words of advice for those who find themselves kidnapped by aliens.

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Michio Kaku Has Advice for Next Time You Get Abducted by Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.

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The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

Oceanic life is fleeing the increasingly-hot equator for more hospitable water, and a mass extinction event is likely to follow.

Scientists: Mass Extinction Is Coming as Organisms Flee the Equator

By Dan Robitzski

A man from Missouri was just sentenced to 12 years in prison after he repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons with Bitcoin.

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Man Sentenced for Buying Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

A French company is developing the world's first hydrogen-powered cargo transport vessel that is set to make its debut some time later this year.

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The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Cargo Vessel Is About to Set Sail

By Victor Tangermann

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.

Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by “Jellyfish-Like Organisms”

By Victor Tangermann

CNN got an exclusive look at the interior of the supersonic 31-passenger jet that might soon be carrying the president around the world.

US Military Working on Supersonic Air Force One

By Victor Tangermann

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

By Dan Robitzski

A giant octopus attacked a 34-year-old geologist in Dunsborough, Australia on March 18 — and video of their confrontation has gone viral.

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Giant Octopus Attacks Australian Geologist

By Tony Ho Tran

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover's Hazard Avoidance Camera picked up what appears to be a perfect rainbow above the Red Planet's arid surface.

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NASA Releases Breathtaking Rover Photo of “Rainbow” on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers posted the leaked private information of over 533 million Facebook users online. The breach was so big it even includes Mark Zuckerberg's data.

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New Facebook Leak Was So Huge It Included Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally figured out what caused the gigantic spider-like formations on Mars' south pole by recreating the planet's environment in a lab.

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Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Spiders” Spotted on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

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World’s Deepest Shipwreck Dive Reaches Sunken WWII US Battleship

By Tony Ho Tran

Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur With Super Hearing

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Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur With Super Hearing

By Tony Ho Tran

Florida Declares State of Emergency Due to Potential Radioactive Material Leak

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Florida Declares State of Emergency Due to Potential Radioactive Material Leak

By Tony Ho Tran

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

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Amazon Admits It Was Fibbing About the Pee Thing

By Tony Ho Tran

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.

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Pieces of Alien Planet Buried Inside Earth Are “Millions of Times Larger Than Mount Everest”

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.

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Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

By Dan Robitzski

A truck carrying barrels of uranium heafluoride, a radioactive ingredient used to make nuclear power plant fuel, crashed on Wednesday morning.

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Truck Carrying Uranium Crashes in North Carolina, Prompting HAZMAT Response

By Dan Robitzski

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.

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NASA’s Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Contains Powdered Bones

By Dan Robitzski

According to the White House, the Biden administration is planning to invest in infrastructure to achieve "100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035."

Biden Wants to Achieve “100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2035”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German researchers have found that a highly controversial spacecraft thruster prototype called the EmDrive may not produce any thrust at all.

New Tests Cast Doubt On NASA’s Physics-Defying Thruster Design

By Victor Tangermann

430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of ultrahot, superaccelerated air hit Earth and incinerated a huge area of Antarctica.

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Ancient Antarctica Was Blasted by a Giant Flamethrower From Space

By Dan Robitzski

Uranus is giving off X-rays, according to a new study. Now scientists need to take a closer look and figure out what's actually causing them.

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Scientists Discover X-Rays Blasting Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can now filter freely-floating DNA out of the air, allowing them to track and monitor what animals are in the area.

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New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

Crypto scammers are publishing apps that imitate real bitcoin wallet companies to scam crypto owners out of their savings.

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Man Downloads Wrong App, Losing $600,000 in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.

This Magazine’s Website Is 100 Percent Solar Powered

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

The US Strategic Command, an agency that oversees the nuclear arsenal, tweeted our some nonsense. Here's what happened behind the scenes.

Child Tweets Nonsense From Official US Military Account

By Dan Robitzski

The US military is developing an aircraft carrier loaded up with semi-autonomous drones that flies in the air instead of floating on water.

DARPA Is Working on a Gigantic, Flying Aircraft Carrier

By Dan Robitzski

An Indonesian oil refinery on the island of Java caught on fire early Monday, ballooning into a massive column of fire and smoke.

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Watch an Oil Refinery Explode After Possibly Getting Hit by Lightning

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered a distant space object that is emitting ultra-low radio frequencies in the shape of a jellyfish.

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Strange, Distant Space Object Is Sending Out Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Signals

By Tony Ho Tran

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.

Government Sources Say Military Is Holding Back Evidence of UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

In a new report, the US National Academies of Sciences is recommending to study the feasibility of dimming the Sun, thereby fighting climate change.

Top US Scientists Propose Research Into Blocking Sun to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A study suggests that the mysterious, giant blobs hidden in the Earth's mantle might be the remains of a protoplanet that crashed billions of years ago.

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There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

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Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

An invisible force is tearing apart the closest star cluster to the Solar System — and astronomers are trying to figure out why.

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Something Is Ripping Apart the Nearest Star Cluster to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet had its Gatling gun discharge a 25mm armor piercing high explosive round causing at least $2.5 million in damages.

A US Military Fighter Jet Accidentally Shot Itself With a Gatling Gun

By Victor Tangermann

A new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in polarized light.

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Astronomers Release Stunning New Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Arizona State University astrophysicists claim they have solved the mystery behind interstellar object 'Oumuamua once and for all.

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Scientists: ‘Oumuamua Was Likely a Chunk of a Pluto-Like Planet

By Victor Tangermann

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Haunting Photos Show Missiles Milliseconds Before Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers found new patterns of a fast radio burst on a microsecond scale, suggesting we could hone in on their location.

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Scientists Find New Patterns In Mysterious Radio Pulses From Distant Galaxies

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates reportedly owns more farmland than anyone else in the United States. He recently tried to explain why, and it was a little hard to follow.

Bill Gates Attempts to Explain Why He Bought More Farmland Than Anyone Else in America

By Jon Christian

Rancho Mirage, California will soon become home to the first neighborhood made entirely of 3D-printed houses in the United States.

An Entire 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Springing Up in a California Desert

By Dan Robitzski