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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.

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Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

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.

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A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

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

Astrophysicist Says It’s Likely We Can Travel Through Wormholes

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.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

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

Physicists Outline Plan to Harvest Energy From Black Holes

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.

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The Earth is Spinning So Fast, We Might Need to Skip a Second

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.

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Saudi Arabia Is Building a Zero-Carbon City in a 100-Mile Straight Line

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.

Activists Plan to Hand Out Free Weed at DC Vaccination Sites

By Dan Robitzski

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

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An Unusual Merger Seems to Have Created a New Type of Star

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.

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Bad Weather Leaves SpaceX Dragon Stuck at Space Station

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 Working on Night-Vision Goggles the Size of Normal Glasses

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 Will Roast Cities More Than Anywhere Else

By Dan Robitzski

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

New Analysis Shows Climate Could Stabilize in Several Decades

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

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.

Climate Expert: Don’t Give Up, We Can Still Fix the 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.

CGI Video Shows Military Robot Flipping a Table of Guns

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.

Korean “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Sets New World Record

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.

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Congress Is Investigating the Collapsed Arecibo Observatory

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.

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Harvard Astronomer Argues That Aliens Visited Us in 2017

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.

Scientists Are Using Bread as a Scaffold for Human Cells

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

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.

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An MIT Artist Used Slime Mold to Simulate COVID Spread

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.

Scientists Say That “Spiteful” Octopuses Punch Fish When They’re Angry

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.

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Harvard Astronomer Says We Should Hunt for Alien Probes

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.

Oxford Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Say There Was a Huge, Mysterious Object in the Early Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Hackers Stole Top Officials’ Emails, Government Admits

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.

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SETI Institute Admits That Proxima Centauri Signal Is Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

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

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World’s Tiniest “Christmas Tree” Is Barely Thicker Than a DNA Strand

By Dan Robitzski

Arctic sea ice caps are influencing weather elsewhere.

Report: MIT Violated Law By Dumping Dangerous Chemicals

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.

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For the First Time, a Restaurant Is Serving Actual Lab-Grown Meat

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.

Scientists: Genetically Modified Trees Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

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

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New Leak May Force Russia to Ship Oxygen to Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Hackers Reportedly Targeted US Nuclear Weapons Facilities

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

Researchers Achieve First “Sustained” Long Distance Quantum Teleportation

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.

Biden’s EPA Pick Seems to Actually Care About the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

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

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A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

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.

The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet

By Victor Tangermann

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.

India Is Building a Green Energy “Megapark” the Size of Singapore

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.

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Cornell Scientists Find Radio Signal Coming From an Exoplanet

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.

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Mars’ Crust Structure Is Like a Layer Cake, NASA Scientists Say

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.

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Scientists Say Pee-Drinking Machine Could Save Lives

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.

Giant Telescope Could Spot Individual Continents on Exoplanets

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.

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Dazzling Video Shows How Milky Way Will Evolve Over 400,000 Years

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.

Researchers Debut Whole New Type of Solar Energy Storage

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.

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A NASA Scientist Heralds “One of the Most Profound Discoveries” of the Space Age

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.

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This Massive New Vertical Farm Can Produce 1,000 Tons of Produce a Year

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

New Theory Throws Out Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

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

Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

By Dan Robitzski

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

There Was a Close Call at a Nuclear Power Plant Today

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

Global Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Living Biomass

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.

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Lab-Grown Chicken Sandwich Tastes Like Real Thing, Says Person Who Ate It

By Dan Robitzski

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

China Just Powered Up Its “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor

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

A Super-Black Planet Is About to Literally Crash Into Its Star

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.

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China Crashed Spacecraft Into the Moon so It Wouldn’t Become Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

Startup Says Solar-Powered Electric Car Never Needs to Charge

By Dan Robitzski

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

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The Sharpest-Ever Image of a Sunspot Looks Like a Portal to Hell

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.

China Is Rolling Out an Enormous “Weather Modification” System

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

Researchers Call For Rebuilding Collapsed SETI Observatory

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

China Claims Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Dramatic Drone Video Shows Collapse of Alien-Hunting Observatory

By Victor Tangermann