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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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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

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

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Renewable Energy

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

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

New Leak May Force Russia to Ship Oxygen to Space Station

By Dan Robitzski