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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

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

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Rare Daytime Meteor Fell Over England, Caused House-Shaking Boom

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.

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A New Object Just Appeared In This Constellation

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.

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New York Man Pleads Guilty to Keeping Sharks in Basement

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.

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Here’s What a Metal Volcano Would Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

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

China’s Military Just Banned Teslas, Citing Security Concerns

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 Is Funding Nanoparticles That Permeate Brain to Read Neural Signals

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.

Professor Refuses to Reschedule Exam Because of Military Coup

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 Is Shrinking Human Penises, Warns Famous Environmentalist

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.

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Scientists Finally Measure the Size of Mars’ Core

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.

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Biden Reportedly Picks Former Astronaut as a New Head of NASA

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.

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There’s Growing Suspicion That The Universe Is Filled With Invisible “Ghost Stars”

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica

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.

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Spotted a Tiny Twister on Mars

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.

A School Bought Solar Panels and Saved Enough to Give All Its Teachers Raises

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.

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A Bunch of US States Are Now Using Weather Modification Technology

By Victor Tangermann

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

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New Smart Fabric Can Turn Clothing Into a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new paper published by researchers at Caltech, Mars may still hold anywhere between 30 and 99 percent of its ancient water within its crust.

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Mars’ Oceans May Have Drained Into Its Interior

By Victor Tangermann

After the military coup in Myanmar, Japan's space agency halted a joint project with Myanma scientists to prevent it from being exploited by the army.

Satellites Are Stranded on the ISS Because of a Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.

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Stars Apparently Used to Be Way, Way, Way Bigger

By Tony Ho Tran

Incredibly Rare Asteroid Fragments Land on Couple’s Driveway

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Incredibly Rare Asteroid Fragments Land on Couple’s Driveway

By Tony Ho Tran

Beer giant Molson Coors filed a report with the SEC revealing that it's the victim of a hack that seems to have brought beer production to a stop.

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Hackers Bring Beer Production To a Halt

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

By Dan Robitzski

A meteor rocketed over Vermont and exploded with such a powerful blast that it shook buildings and registered as seismic activity.

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This Meteor Exploded So Violently That It Shook Entire Buildings Below

By Dan Robitzski

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers has dug through hundreds of years worth of data surrounding the Earth's magnetic field and found something unusual.

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A Huge “Magnetic Anomaly” Struck One Geographic Spot, Hundreds of Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.

Report: Climate Change Is Now Causing “Worrying” Health Impacts

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took a closer look at the comet-like tail that our Moon often grows and figured out that it comes from sporadic meteor impacts.

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The Moon Has a Huge, Invisible, Comet-Like Tail

By Dan Robitzski

In one billion years, all complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete in our planet's atmosphere.

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In the Distant Future, All Earth’s Creatures May Asphyxiate From Lack of Oxygen

By Victor Tangermann

NASA research reveals that Mars dust is whipping around the inner solar system, blasting spacecraft and even reaching Earth.

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Mars Is Spraying the Earth With Dust Storms, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

Two separate groups of researchers have suggested new theories as to how to make wormholes safe enough to be traversable by humans.

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Physicists Propose New Idea for “Human-Safe” Wormholes

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial 2018 research paper about the discovery of an elusive subatomic particle has been retracted by the reputable journal Nature.

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Microsoft Retracts Paper Claiming Quantum Computing Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new analysis, a meteorite found last year in Algeria is a piece of an ancient planet, older than the Earth itself.

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Scientists Believe They Found a Chunk of an Ancient Planet in Africa

By Jon Christian

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has encountered a software glitch and had to put itself into a protective "safe mode" over the weekend.

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Software Glitch Shuts Down Hubble Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

If a new tweet means anything, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes set on a much higher-tech rocket fuel: antimatter.

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In Cryptic Tweet, Elon Musk Refers to Antimatter-Powered Rockets

By Jon Christian

A meteorite fell to France last week — sparking calls by amateur astronomers to help search for and find the apricot-sized space rock.

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A Meteorite Fell In This Area and Everybody Is Looking For It

By Tony Ho Tran

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a call for military jetpack, wingsuits, parafoils, and glider designs. for use in combat.

DARPA Is Officially Studying Combat Jetpacks for the Military

By Tony Ho Tran

Astrophysicists just uncovered why some dying stars' supernovae appear to lack high-energy gamma ray bursts. A protective cocoon has been blocking them.

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New Paper: Space Is Full of Naturally Occurring Atomic Bombs

By Tony Ho Tran

Saharan dust carrying radioactive isotopes from France's nuclear bomb tests in the 1960s is now blowing back into France.

France Tested Nuclear Weapons in Africa. Now Radioactive Dust Is Drifting Back Into France.

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre photograph of a ship seemingly hovering above the sea off the coast of Cornwall, UK, made its rounds late Thursday.

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Optical Illusion Photo Shows Huge Oil Tanker Hovering Over the Sea

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.

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Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski