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India just laid the foundations for what officials are claiming will be the world's largest renewable energy park producing 30 gigawatts of green energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Cornell scientists traced a radio signal back to a hot Jupiter exoplanet. If confirmed, it could help the hunt for habitable worlds.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After studying hundreds of marsquakes, data from NASA's InSight rover suggests that the crust of Mars is layered like a three-tiered cake.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A system that can turn pee into drinking water on the International Space Station could also improve access to clean water on Earth.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists suggests that treating the Sun like a giant gravitational lens would give us a clear view of distant exoplanets.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

European Space Agency scientists put out a time-lapse video showing how the Milky Way galaxy will evolve over 400,00 years.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have figured out a way to store energy from the Sun for several months at a time and release it on demand later.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new vertical farm opening on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, is set to start producing 1,000 metric tons of greens a year.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of professors from North Carolina State University are proposing an entirely new model of physics that could rewrite the way we think about matter.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant had a close call Thursday, initiating an emergency shutdown after one of its reactors leaked.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study published in the reputable journal Nature this week, the total mass of human-made materials outweighs all living biomass.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An artificial chicken venture called the Chicken seems to have nailed the flavor and texture of a fried chicken sandwich using lab-grown cells.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

China has successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time according to Agence France Presse.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An ultrahot gas giant that's even darker than asphalt is going to crash into its star significantly sooner than scientists thought.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese space agency instructed part of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to crash back into the Moon after its job was done so it wouldn't become space junk.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Aptera Motors says its upcoming electric car may never need to be plugged in thanks to solar panels that give it 45 miles of extra range every day.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The Inouye Solar Telescope, the largest solar observatory in the world, just released the first-ever image of a sunspot.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

China plans to expand its weather modification system to cover 5.5 million square miles. Neighboring India is worried it could become a weapon.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists working at the Arecibo Observatory, right until it collapsed earlier this month, are calling for the massive radio telescope to be rebuilt.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from University of Science and Technology of China have just claimed quantum supremacy using a photon-based quantum computer.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Newly released footage, including several drone shots, shows the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsing in on itself.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Astrophysics professor Ray Norris discusses how he and his colleagues spotted strange, unusually shaped objects in recent radio astronomical data.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Ian Beer, a professional hacker at Google, found an exploit that lets him completely take over any nearby iPhone with little more than a WiFi antenna.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

China's robotic Chang'e-5 space probe successfully gathered up lunar samples and is poised to be the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A startup called NewRocket developed a gel-like rocket fuel that's less toxic and more easily controlled than existing fuels.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon, where it's expected to bring the first lunar samples back to earth in almost 50 years.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Google's DeepMind AI team built an algorithm called AlphaFold 2 that can solved the protein folding problem with better accuracy than any other team.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

The iconic Arecibo Observatory collapsed on Tuesday, according to officials. The 900-ton platform suspended above the 1,000 foot dish antenna crashed.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union expects to meet two of its three 2020 climate goals, setting the stage for even more ambitious projects in the future.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

With the recent discovery of phosphorus, scientists have found all six elements on a list of crucial ingredients for life on various comets.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a gene that allows coral to survive hot water, and they want to gene-hack it into reefs to protect against climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The military confirmed that it buys people's location data from apps, especially those targeting the Muslim community, and uses it operationally.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in the U.K. may soon put out a call for everyone to stop sending useless emails, citing the toll that they take on the environment.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The observable universe and the neuronal networks of the human brain are astonishingly alike according to a new paper by an astrophysicist and neurosurgeon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built miniature living factories where photosynthetic algae produce viable hydrogen, all inside a droplet of water.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of cosmologists claim they have found evidence that the expansion of the universe is caused by "quintessence," a form of dark energy.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified massive ripples on the surface of Mars likely formed by an ancient megaflood and planet-covering storm clouds.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In the latest perplexing turn of events, state officials say the a mysterious monolith has vanished from the Utah desert.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Army is developing a system that can hide or replicate the electromagnetic signals given off by a soldier's gear to make them harder to track.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created a sensor that can function for an entire year with a single tiny jumpstart of power by using quantum tunneling.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

In order to prevent a Day Zero drought in Cape Town, South Africa, scientists suggest reflecting sunlight away from Earth with stratospheric particles.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found evidence of a "fossil galaxy" buried deep inside the Milky Way. It seems our galaxy gobbled up one of its neighbors 10 billion years ago.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that leftover milk could be a crucial ingredient for the sort of carbon capture tech we may need to stop climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The same team that announced the detection of phosphine gas, a biomarker, in Venus's atmosphere, just found a processing error in its data.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The National Science Foundation has announced that the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is officially being decommissioned and demolished.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Filter out every star, galaxy, and other source of brightness we know about, and half of the light in the universe will still remain.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have created diamonds at room temperature in mere minutes using extremely high levels of pressure.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, in what seems to be an unauthorized stunt or part of a music video, a man jumped onto an occupied NYC bus and fired a flamethrower into the air.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Bennu, the asteroid on which NASA landed a spacecraft to gather samples, seems to be hollow and gradually crumbling apart.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Geoengineering alone may not save us from the worst impacts of climate change, a study says, because greenhouse gas emissions do more than warm the planet.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have brought a wild concept back from the grave: a liquid-mirror telescope, 100 meters in diameter, built on the surface of the Moon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that amino acids can form in space without energy input, suggesting they may be older than stars and planets.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

An independent review board assembled by NASA urged the space agency to proceed with an amibitous plan to gather Mars samples and bring them to Earth.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

There's a nearly impenetrable fog of hype surrounding graphene batteries. But it turns out the technology has a whole lot of promise, too.
Graphene

By Dan Robitzski