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

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.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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 Fusion

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.
Military

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.
Energy

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.
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur With Super Hearing
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Florida Declares State of Emergency Due to Potential Radioactive Material Leak
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Science & Energy

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."
Energy

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.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Solar Power

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.
Biology

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.
Military

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

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. 
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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.
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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Military

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.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

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Military

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

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

By Dan Robitzski

An extremely rare daytime meteor fell over England on Saturday afternoon, causing a sonic boom loud enough to rattle windows and shake houses.
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

An amateur astronomer discovered a new nova appearing in the Cassiopeia constellation last Thursday — and it's bright enough to see in your own backyard.
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

A man from New York plead guilty to posessing seven sandbar sharks in his basement with intent to sell, this week. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Other planets and asteroids might have volcanoes made of metal instead of rock. Scientists tried to model what an eruption actually looks like.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

China has barred all Tesla vehicles from its military complexes and housing compounds in light of privacy concerns, Bloomberg reports.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

A professor at Canada's York University refused to reschedule an exam that a student in Myanmar was unable to take because of a military coup.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Increasing levels of s ynthetic chemicals and plastics found in the environment and inside our bodies could wreak havoc on our reproductive system.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to a mountain of seismic data from NASA's InSight spacecraft, scientists finally took a precise measurement of the size of Mars' core.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to anonymous sources, president Joe Biden is eying Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) for the role of NASA administrator, The Verge reports.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

There's a growing pile of evidence that dark matter bosons can clump together and form "ghost stars" that are totally invisible to our eyes and telescopes.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists confirmed that a powerful antineutrino crashed into Antarctica in 2016, triggering a subatomic phenomenon that had never been verified before.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently released footage of the first dust devil, a tiny, traveling twister, spotted by the Perseverance rover on Mars.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A rural school in Batesville, Arkansas generated enough solar energy to give every teacher up to $15,000 in raises, as CBS News reports.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Several US states are now using "cloud seeding" to encourage clouds to form and provide drought-stricken regions with some much needed water.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new kind of smart fabric integrates electronics that can turn clothes into glowing, billboard-like screens or even working keyboards.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski