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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Biology

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Climate Change

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Solar Power

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.
Solar Power

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Jon Christian

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have managed to program data into the DNA of living bacteria for the first time, allowing the data to be passed on to the next generation.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As scientists put more and more resources into studying wormholes, it may become possible to find and even travel through them.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, we could theoretically extract energy from the enormous amounts of emissions emanating from black holes.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have made a baffling discovery: the Earth's spin is accelerating. In fact, the Earth is spinning faster than ever recorded.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Saudi Arabia has announced it's newest zero-carbon city project called "The Line" that's being built in a straight 100 mile line.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The activist group DC Marijuana Justice plans to hands out free bags of weed to people who get the coronavirus vaccine in Washington D.C.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

After two white dwarf stars managed to merge without destroying each other, scientists say they've observed a brand new type of star.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Because of bad weather here on Earth, a SpaceX Dragon that was supposed to head home from the International Space Station is hanging out in orbit.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is developing night-vision goggles that look just like glasses instead of the bulky, binocular-like tech that currently exists.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change could hit cities particularly hard in the future, heating them up several degrees hotter than the global average.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

If the planet reaches net-zeo carbon emissions soon, new research suggests rising temperatures could stabilize within a matter of decades.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Climate expert Matthew Hoffman argues that despairing over the environment or calling climate change a lost cause will only make things worse.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A military robot demonstrates its shooting skills in a new parody video created by Los Angeles-based production studio Corridor Digital.
Military

By Kristin Houser

South Korea's fusion reactor just set a new world record, maintaining temperatures of over 100 million degrees for 20 long seconds.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Congress is expecting a progress report from the National Science Foundation on how to rebuild the collapsed radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a new book, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argues that interstellar space rock 'Oumuamua could be an alien probe sent to us by an advanced civilization.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists found that Irish soda bread can serve as a viable, low-cost alternative for cell scaffolding in the lab.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

MIT artist-in-residence Deimut Strebe mirrored COVID-19's spread across the U.S. with an unsettling slime mold experiment. Here, she explains why.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists caught octopuses occasionally punching nearby fish on film. Sometimes its to keep them in line during a hunt, other times it just seems spiteful.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard astrophysics professor Avi Loeb called on the scientific community to search not just for mysterious radio signals, but for alien probes as well.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Oxford scientists found a way to take carbon dioxide and turn it back into jet fuel, potentially cleaning up the aviation industry.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The massive, almost-certainly-Russian hack on the U.S. fedearl government compromised high-level networks used by the Treasury Department.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The SETI Institute has finally chimed in on the mysterious discovery of a signal emanating from the Sun's closest star neighbor Proxima Centauri.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A physics student used a scanning tunneling microscope to built a "Christmas tree" that's barely thicker than a DNA strand.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Arctic sea ice caps are influencing weather elsewhere.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

A restaurant in Singapore just became the first in the world to serve a "chicken nugget" made of lab-grown chicken meat made by US-based startup Eat Just.
Science & Energy

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos is prepared to ship additional oxygen supplies to the International Space Station, which continues to slowly leak oxygen.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A massive hack on U.S. infrastructure and federal agencies, likely perpetrated by Russia, targeted nuclear weapon facilities.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim to have achieved sustained, long-distance quantum teleportation for the first time, setting the stage for a quantum internet.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Joe Biden reportedly plans to nominate Michael Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It would be his third time at the EPA.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force just let an AI-powered algorithm take over the navigation and sensor systems of a spy plane during a training flight on Tuesday.
Military

By Victor Tangermann