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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.

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This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way in History

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence

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MIT Team “Accidentally” Invents Blackest Material in Existence

By Kristin Houser

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

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Astronomers Puzzled by “Ghostly” Unidentified Objects in Deep Space

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.

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Horrifying Hack Takes Over iPhones Just by Pointing an Antenna at Them

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.

Eventually, Other Stars Will Steal our Solar System’s Planets

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.

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Chinese Robot Mission Successfully Collects Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

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

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New Rocket Engine Could Use Slimy Gel as Fuel

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.

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China Lands on Moon Before Returning to Earth With Lunar Rocks

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.

Google AI Solves Longstanding, Near-Impossible Biology Problem

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.

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Arecibo SETI Telescope Collapses Completely

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.

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We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

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.

It Looks Like Europe Will Hit Two of its Three 2020 Climate Goals

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.

Comets Can Carry the Six Most Important Elements for Life on Earth

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.

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

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.

Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive 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.

The Military Is Buying People’s Location Data From Popular Phone Apps

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.

UK Officials: Useless Emails Are Killing the Planet

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.

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Scientists: The Human Brain Has Odd Similarities to the Entire Universe

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Create Living Factories That Churn Out Hydrogen Fuel

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.

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Physicists Say Universe Filled With Mystery Substance Called “Quintessence”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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NASA Data Shows Evidence of Ancient “Megafloods” on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Discover Mysterious Metal “Monolith” in Utah Wilderness

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.

The Army Is Developing a Way to Spoof Soldiers’ Electromagnetic Signatures

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

Scientists Create Electronic Gadget Powered by Quantum Tunneling

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.

South African Academics Are Considering Dimming the Sun

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.

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Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

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.

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Scientists Find Remnants of “Fossil Galaxy” Inside the Milky Way

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.

Leftover Milk Could be the Key Ingredient for Carbon Capture Tech

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.

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Venus Life Finding Might Be Based on a Data Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Iconic Arecibo Alien-Hunting Observatory Will Be Demolished

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.

Astronomers Can’t Explain Where Half the Universe’s Light Is Coming From

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Create Diamonds at Room Temperature

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.

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Man Seen Shooting Flamethrower on Roof of NYC Bus

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA Data Appears to Show That Giant Asteroid Is Hollow

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.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

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.

Even More Scientists Say Geoengineering Can’t Save Us

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.

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Astronomers Propose Giant “Liquid Mirror” Telescope on the Moon

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.

Building Blocks of Life Can Form in Deep Space, Scientists Say

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.

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Experts Urge NASA to Return Mars Samples to Earth

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.

If Graphene Batteries Do Everything Scientists Say, They Could Be a Gamechanger

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just signed off on two years worth of feasibility studies, clearing an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029.

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Upcoming Space Telescope Will Study the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that climate change will continue for centuries, even if we completely stop burning fossil fuels today.

Surviving Climate Change Will Require Geoengineering, Scientists Say [UPDATED]

By Dan Robitzski

The massive alien hunting radio telescope at the Aericbo Observatory is at risk of collapse after several support cables failed leaving extensive damage.

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Giant Arecibo SETI Telescope Could Collapse After Mysterious Damage

By Victor Tangermann

In a move that makes the game a bit more appropriate to our current reality, "Plague Inc" made a mode where players stop rather than spread a pandemic.

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Reading the Room, “Plague Inc” Makes Game About Stopping Pandemics

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher told Agence France Presse that small laser pointers could be used to guide lightning strikes and thereby prevent them from igniting wildfires.

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Scientists Say Laser Device Can Make Lightning Strike Specific Targets

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists quickly set their sights on an unusual neutron star merger that had an explosion ten times more powerful than expected and created a magnetar.

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Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Just Saw Two Stars Crash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

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This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski

Distant supernova explosions seem to line up with spikes in radioactivity recorded in old tree rings, showing how cosmic events can alter our planet.

New Research: Supernovas Leave Traces in Tree Rings Here on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials granted final approval to bring one of the nuclear reactors damaged by a 2011 tsunami and earthquake back online.

Japan Is Bringing One of Its Tsunami-Damaged Nuclear Reactors Back Online

By Dan Robitzski

According Washington state officials, an investigation of the latest murder hornet nest found 500 live specimen in various stages of development.

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Scientists Peel Open Murder Hornet Nest, Find Something Terrifying

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists think that Jupiter's moon Europa might glow in the dark and that by measuring that glow they can detect what's hidden in its oceans.

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NASA Project Could Peer Inside Europa to Find Alien Life

By Dan Robitzski

The universe has been steadily heating over billions of years due to the violent process of dragging matter together into new galaxies.

The Universe Is Getting Steadily Hotter, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

More bad news for the alien-hunting Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico: a second cable has fallen, crushing the intricate reflector dish below.

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More Damage Reported at Alien-Hunting SETI Facility

By Victor Tangermann

When Joe Biden takes office, he may shift NASA's priorities away from space exploration and toward a renewed focus on climate change.

Biden May Slow Down Moon Program to Focus NASA on Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a new brown dwarf with a radio telescope, revealing a new way to find celestial bodies too cold to pick up in infrared.

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Scientists Discover a “Failed Star” Too Cold to Show up in Normal Scans

By Dan Robitzski

McDonalds is launching a plant-based platform called McPlant. Menu items based on the platform, including a sandwich, will be made available next year.

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McDonald’s Is Making a Huge, High Tech Push Into Fake Meats

By Victor Tangermann

A team in the United Kingdom has started work on what the BBC reports is the world's first facility to store energy as highly compressed air.

New Facility Will Store Wind Power as Highly Compressed Air

By Jon Christian

Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

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Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

By Dan Robitzski

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

By Dan Robitzski

By revisiting 20-year-old data, scientists say they've located 40 percent of the visible matter in the universe that had gone undetected.

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Scientists Say They’ve Found the Missing 40 Percent of the Universe’s Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a low-cost system that can be mounted on a standard camera and make infrared light visible to the human eye.

Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The Trump administration has now formally pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, but Biden says he'll rejoin on day one if elected.

Biden Says He’ll Rejoin Paris Climate Accord on First Day of Presidency

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA criticized the satellite startup AST & Science for its plans to launch a fleet of telecom satellites, AST's founder fights back.

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The Satellite Startup That NASA Criticized Is Firing Back

By Dan Robitzski

NASA commissioned Nokia to build a 4G network on the Moon, but doing so could spell doom for radio astronomers trying to filter out all the noise.

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That 4G Network on the Moon Could Ruin Astronomy

By Dan Robitzski