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An Indian official announced that a major power outage initially dismissed as a technical failure seems to have been caused by Chinese hackers.

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Indian Official Claims Huge Blackout May Have Been a Hack

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the Earth's inner core has yet another core hidden inside of it with a different structure of iron.

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Scientists: There’s Something Lurking in the Center of Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in New Zealand have discovered how three species of sharks can glow in the dark well below the surface of the ocean.

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Scientists Discover Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, researchers were able to catch space-time crystals on camera using a transmission X-ray microscope.

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A Breakthrough: Actual Video of a Time Crystal

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

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Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool

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New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.

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Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.

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Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

By Dan Robitzski

Stray dogs with strangely bright blue fur have been spotted roaming the streets near an abandoned chemical plant in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk.

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Blue Dogs Discovered Near Abandoned Chemical Plant

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth.

US Military Tests Satellite for Beaming Power Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The European Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050, so scientists are building a simulation of the entire planet to help it get there.

Scientists Start Work on Simulation of Entire Earth

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.

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Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

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Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at the University Of Colorado At Boulder have developed a wearable that can use its wearer's natural body heat as a power source.

This Wearable Uses Your Body Heat as an Energy Source

By Victor Tangermann

Whistleblowers at the Arizona Department of Corrections say hundreds of inmates are being held past their release date due to buggy management software.

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Whistleblowers: Flawed Software Held Hundreds of Prisoners Past Release Dates

By Dan Robitzski

British engineers are preparing to test the fuel mix that could one day power the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world, as Nature reports.

Scientists Now Testing Fuel for Giant New Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.

Neanderthals May Have Been Killed Off By Magnetic Pole Flip

By Tony Ho Tran

The United States has formally reentered the Paris Climate Agreement today. 2030 carbon goals will be set by Earth Day in April.

US Formally Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.

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Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists cloned an endangered species for the first time with the successful birth of Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret.

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For the First Time, Scientists Clone Endangered Species

By Dan Robitzski

Another earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday, further complicating the effort to manage and decommission it.

Another Earthquake Nails the Crumbling Fukushima Power Plant

By Dan Robitzski

Scienists managed to open a two-way line of real-time communication with people who were having lucid dreams, some of whom were able to solve math problems.

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Scientists Communicate With Lucid Dreamers During Sleep

By Dan Robitzski

Epic Games plans to release a browser tool that will quickly create almost-photorealistic CGI characters with the Unreal Engine.

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New Browser App Lets You Create Photorealistic Fake People

By Dan Robitzski

A group that dispenses instructions on how to 3D print functional guns at home is about to release an upgraded assault rifle.

You Can Now 3D Print an Entire Semi-Automatic Rifle at Home

By Dan Robitzski

Plunging temperatures are wreaking absolute havoc with the country's second largest state's electrical grid, sending prices soaring.

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Texas Snap Freeze Causes Electricity Prices to Soar 10,000 Percent

By Victor Tangermann

Cities are literally starting to sink under their own weight — all the while, climate change is causing sea levels to rise.

Cities Are So Heavy That They’re Sinking Into the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a gene-hacked version of the fall armyworm, a notorious pest, that lays eggs that die off before hatching.

Scientists Gene-Hacked a Pest Caterpillar’s Eggs to Self-Destruct

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered a bizarre ecosystem of creatures on the seafloor under Antarctica, hundreds of miles from any apparent source of food.

Scientists Surprised by “Strange Creatures” Under a Mile of Antarctic Ice

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to cause two plastic trays to hover using only light — opening the doors to research unexplored parts of the sky.

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Scientists Make “Magic Carpet” Hover Using Only Light

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

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Astronomers Discover Hannibal Lecter Stars That Wear Planet Corpses

By Tony Ho Tran

After years of testing and development, NASA is ready to start assembling the spacecraft that will visit the metallic asteroid Psyche.

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NASA Ready to Start Building Its Asteroid-Bound Psyche Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.

NASA Is Hunting Alien Civilizations by Looking for Their Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

Shell just announced that it plans to decrease oil production by a small amount every year for the rest of its existence.

Shell Says Oil Production Will Fall Every Year, Forever

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Purdue University have successfully taught four pigs how to use a joystick, a "remarkable" level of behavioral and mental flexibility.

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Scientists Taught Pigs to Play a Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers may have spotted evidence for a new planet orbiting one of the closest stars in the star system called Alpha Centauri.

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Astronomers May Have Spotted a New Planet Around the Nearest Star

By Victor Tangermann

China's Tianwen-1 mission is now in orbit around Mars, where it will remain for several months before attempting to land on the surface.

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Chinese Rover Officially Reaches Mars Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is developing new military drones that can fire missiles after being launched out of a fighter or bomber plane at a safe distance.

DARPA Wants Fighter Planes to Launch Drones That Then Launch Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

Climate activists in Sweden oppose a planned test for geoengineering technology in the country, saying it does nothing to prevent climate change.

Activists Oppose Upcoming Test of Geoengineering Technology

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists are investigating a radical quantum theory of time which posits that there is an asymmetry between time and space.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Are Investigating If Time Warps Near a Nuclear Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg says that future military tanks should fuel themselves with attached solar panels.

NATO Chief Wants Military Tanks to Have Solar Panels

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose a fifth dimension and a Higgs Boson-like particle in order to provide a "natural explanation" for dark matter.

The Universe May Have a Fifth Dimension, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists engineered spinach plants with carbon nanotubes that can send alerts when they spot pollution, explosives, or signs of climate change.

MIT Scientists Hack Spinach Plants to Send Emails

By Dan Robitzski

A study shows that the sea level is even more sensitive to increasing temperatures than experts predicted, making fighting climate change even more urgent.

The Ocean Is Rising Faster Than Anyone Feared

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI algorithm, scientists identified over 1,200 gravitational lenses, potentially helping them find and understand dark matter.

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Astronomers Find Over 1,200 Dark Matter Hot Spots

By Dan Robitzski

The only carbon capture plant in the United States shut down because it was entirely financially dependent on the success of the fossil fuel industry.

The Only Carbon Capture Plant in the US Just Shut Down

By Dan Robitzski

The first livable 3D-printed house in the U.S. is on sale in Long Island for $300,000, considerably cheaper than its neighbors.

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First 3D Printed House Goes on Sale in United States

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered an unusual phenomenon happening beneath the Earth's crust that's responsible for pushing the Atlantic Ocean apart.

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The Atlantic Ocean Is Growing Larger and Larger, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists put out a call for a global, "wartime-like" push to build hundreds of carbon capture facilities around the world.

Scientists Call For Massive Global Network of Carbon Capture Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Australian company Lavo has decided to take on Tesla's Powerwall by developing a home battery storage solution that uses hydrogen.

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This is the World’s First Home Hydrogen Battery

By Victor Tangermann

According to astronomers, the mysterious radio signal picked up back in December is extremely unlikely to have come from another advanced civilization.

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Sorry Folks: Signal From Nearest Star Not Alien Civilization, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.

Astronomers Discover Solar System With Six Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at Stanford have found a way to stabilize perovskite, a natural mineral, setting the groundwork for more efficient solar panels.

Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

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New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

European Space Agency scientists on the International Space Station captured dazzling footage of unusual lightning called blue jets and elves.

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Space Station Captures Amazing Footage of Lightning From Above

By Dan Robitzski

Biden has said very little about space. Here's what NASA could look like under his administration.

Biden Moves to Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

By Jon Christian

Scientists in New Zealand are bombarding rooftops with volcanic rock to help the area prepare for any potential future eruptions.

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Scientists Fire Volcanic Rocks at Rooftops to Prove Volcanoes Are Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Juno spacecraft reportedly detected an FM radio signal coming from the Jovian moon Ganymede, local Utah news station KTVX reports.

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NASA Reportedly Detects Signal Coming From One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin miners and PC gamers are keeping their homes warm using the heat generated by their computers, as The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Chicken Coops With Their Rigs

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a new type of "spider star," highly energetic pulsars that tear up their companion stars, that defies classification.

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Astronomers Discover “Spider Stars” That Tear Apart Other Stars

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.

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Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a trick that generates methanol fuel out of water and carbon dioxide without using any fossil fuels.

New Trick Turns Air Into Synthetic Gasoline Without Using Any Fossil Fuels

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is such a huge threat to the planet that it's difficult to conceptualize, even for experts in the field, argues a new report.

Scientists Warn of “Ghastly Future” for Global Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The UFC is working with Johns Hopkins University to see if psychedelic drugs can help fighters with traumatic brain injuries.

UFC Investigating Whether Psychedelics Help Fighters With Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Dan Robitzski