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Columbia University astronomer David Kipping argues that there's about a 50-50 chance we are living inside a simulation, but we don't know for sure.

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Columbia Professor: There’s a 50% Chance We’re Living in a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann

Through fortunate timing, the space probe BepiColombo is passing Venus tonight, just a month after scientists first found signs of potential life there.

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A Spacecraft Is Going to Hunt Life in Venus’ Clouds This Week

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists traced the Atlantic Ocean's temperatures over the last 2,900 years. It just had its hottest decade since then, and it's getting worse.

The Atlantic Ocean Had Its Hottest Decade in Three Millennia

By Dan Robitzski

There's Twitter drama unfolding at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, where former cosmonauts attacked the agency director who responded as a robot.

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Russian Cosmonauts Are Fighting a Robot on Twitter

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

According to a new feature in the LA Times, a startup called Shiok Meats may be poised to be the first company in the world to sell a lab-grown meat.

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This May Be the First Lab-Grown Meat to Actually Hit the Market

By Jon Christian

As Antarctica melts, the sea level could rise by an additional four inches over what models predicted by 2100 due to fluctuations in weather.

A Melting Antarctica Could Raise the Sea Level More Than Expected

By Dan Robitzski

$Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explores the implications of new research about a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain a "fractal universe."$

Researchers: Some Black Holes May Contain a “Fractal Universe”

By Jon Christian

A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have created a car that's almost entirely made out of recycled waste.

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This Sporty Car Is Made Almost Entirely From Recycled Waste

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

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NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.

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Black Holes “Chirp” Repeatedly When They Merge

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.

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Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

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Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.

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The Moon Might Be Littered With Ancient Shrapnel From Venus

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says it successfully tested its Zircon, a hypersonic nuclear missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound, on Tuesday.

Russia Says It Successfully Tested a Hypersonic Nuke

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.

UK Pledges to Get 100% of Residential Power From Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

By Victor Tangermann

With just hours left before he turned 13, Jackson Oswalt managed to fuse two deuterium atoms together in a fusion reactor he built — in his play room.

Middle Schooler Builds Tiny, Working Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists figured out what happened to Cassiopeia A, a star that had its outer layers blown away before it ultimately exploded in a supernova.

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Something Peeled an Entire Layer Off This Star Like a Giant Orange

By Dan Robitzski

Surfers in Kamchatka, Russia are reporting that the ocean water is leaving them with poisoning-like symptoms, including nausea, weakness, and high fever.

Russian Surfers Say Mysterious Pollution Is Poisoning Them

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just won a contract with the military's Space Development Agency to build four satellites that can track missiles like ICBMs.

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The Pentagon Commissioned SpaceX to Build Missile-Tracking Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Rising temperatures are a big problem for the dairy industry, so scientists are gene-hacking cows to keep them cool and help them survive.

Scientists Tried to Gene Hack Cows to Survive Climate Change but the Cows Died

By Dan Robitzski

NASA released a "treasure trove of cosmic delights," gorgeous imagery courtesy of telescopes from around the world, last month.

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Gorgeous NASA X-Ray Images of Universe Look Like an 80s Nightclub

By Victor Tangermann

Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers managed to confirm the existence of an exoplanet by taking a picture of it for the first time.

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Scientists Just Took an Actual Picture of a Planet in Another Star System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists found individual neurons that had been turned into glass in the brain matter of an ancient Mount Vesuvius victim.

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Scientists Find Preserved Brain Cells in Ancient Man Crushed by Volcano

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station finally got is new space toilet, which crewmembers will test for several months before deciding if it should go to the Moon.

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The International Space Station Finally Got Its New Space Toilet

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, investing in nuclear power doesn't tend to lead to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions like using renewables does.

Scientists: Nuclear Energy is a Waste of Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists 3D printed fake sea turtle eggs and stuffed them with GPS transmitters to track and stop poachers from selling the endangered species.

Scientists Put GPS Trackers Inside Fake Sea Turtle Eggs to Catch Poachers

By Dan Robitzski

According to internal documents obtained by Bloomberg, America's largest oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil has been planning to increase annual emissions.

Exxon Mobil Planning to Massively Increase Its Annual Emissions

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified 24 distant exoplanets that all seem to have even better conditions for hosting life than Earth does.

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Astronomers: These 24 Exoplanets May Be Better for Life Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The UK military has created a drone that's equipped with two shotgun barrels and a "machine vision" system to identify targets indoors.

UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a change in blue whales' songs that signals they're about to migrate south. They say it could be used to warn ships in the area.

Scientists Suggest Teaching Ships to Speak Whale Language

By Dan Robitzski

More companies are trying to make ocean wave energy a thing, including one firm that's been operating a massive generator since early 2019.

Huge Machine Captures Energy From Ocean Waves

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have developed "transparent wood," a glass-like material that is more cost efficient, stronger, and safer than glass.

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Scientists Create Clear, Glasslike Material Out of Wood

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

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Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have spotted something strange and unexpectedly sad: a rogue planet floating freely in the dark confines of our galaxy.

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An Earth-Sized Planet Is Floating Around Without a Star

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the massive heft of Jupiter may have disturbed Venus's orbit to the point where it was no longer capable of hosting life.

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Research: Jupiter Likely Turned Venus Into an Uninhabitable Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.

Elon Musk: Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind, Solar

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system in space.

DARPA Is Considering a Nuclear Rocket for Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.

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New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that restructuring global society could grant every human on Earth a decent quality of life while cutting energy use to 1960s levels.

We Could Cut Energy use in Half and Still Give 10 Billion People “Decent” Lives

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a brief, but extremely intense event: a star self-detonating star some 70 million light-years away.

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Hubble Just Watched a Star Explode In a Massive Supernova

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.

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Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

Earth will likely capture a new minimoon in its orbit later this year. But signs suggest that it's actually a hunk of space garbage.

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Earth Appears to Be Capturing a Tiny New Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints

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Scientists Claim to Have Proved That Crows Have Conscious Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists warn that as climate change progresses, even traditionally wet and humid forests around the world could be consumed by worsening fires.

Scientists Warn: Someday, Even Wet Forests Could Burn

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.

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Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

As their eerie name suggests, "zombie storms" occurs when strong tropical climates cause storms to come back from the dead.

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National Weather Service Warns of “Zombie Storms”

By Victor Tangermann

A new enzyme, which is really a hybrid of two others, can break down plastic waste six times faster than the next best one.

Scientists Create Enzyme That Devours Plastic at Incredible Speed

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.

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Watch a Meteoroid Bounce Off the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

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Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

By Dan Robitzski

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.

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Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.

The US Military Wants Access to SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop lasers that can detonate landmines and other hazards from a safe distance.

The Air Force Is Getting a Laser That Detonates Landmines From Afar

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that personally experiencing wildfires makes people more likely to support anti-climate change policy, regardless of political leanings.

Scientists: When People Experience Climate Change Firsthand, They Get Serious About It

By Dan Robitzski

After about a year, NASA and Roscosmos have just about narrowed down the source of the ongoing air leak on the International Space Station.

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NASA Says It’s Almost Found the Leak on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Investigations reveal that hundreds of elephants died due to cyanobacteria, toxic microscopic algae found in larger bodies of blue-green water.

Hundreds of Elephants Suddenly Dropped Dead Because of Neurotoxin, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In a recently uploaded preprint, researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine on Venus could be chalked up to asteroids grazing Earth's atmosphere.

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Life May Have Hopped From Earth to Venus on Asteroid, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Space debris could pose an even bigger threat than we thought, thanks to new research that found smaller pieces of junk that were never cataloged.

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Research: Most Geosynchronous Space Junk Has Never Been Catalogued

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.

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Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists claim they have determined a way to figure out if there's life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars.

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Harvard Study: We Shouldn’t Rule Out Underground Life on the Moon and Mars

By Victor Tangermann