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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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