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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

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.

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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