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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

There's a mysterious asteroid stuck in Mars' gravitational pull, and astronomers suspect it might be the Moon's long-lost twin.

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A Stolen Chunk of Earth’s Moon Seems to Be Orbiting Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force opened a new research lab that it says will enable it to build new resilient, high-strain spacecraft and satellites.

Air Force Opens New Lab for Spacecraft Materials

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.

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New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have presented new evidence that a magnetar within the Milky Way was the source of a strange fast radio burst recorded in April.

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Astronomers Pinpoint Source of Mysterious Radio Burst Signal

By Victor Tangermann

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped

By Victor Tangermann

After a years-long waiting period, President Donald Trump's ill-advised decision to leave the Paris climate agreement took effect Tuesday.

US Formally Ditches Paris Climate Agreement

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.

Scientists Just Fired Up an Experimental Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.

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There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

By Dan Robitzski

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.

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Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.

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NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Failing to reach the Paris agreement's goals and heating Earth by two degrees Celsius could trigger the release of 230 billion tons of carbon from the soil.

Our Soil is Poised To Release Billions of Tons of Carbon

By Dan Robitzski

New analysis of ancient Martian meteorites adds 400 million years to our historical knowledge of water on the surface of Mars.

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Martian Meteorites Show Red Planet Had Water Billions of Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.

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This Guy Is Creating Actual Diamonds From Reclaimed CO2

By Dan Robitzski

According to researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, our planet will be hit with more prolonged "mega-droughts" thanks to cliamte change.

Scientists: Earth Should Brace Itself For Multi-Decade “Mega-Droughts”

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers pilfered $2.3 million from Trumps re-election campaign by sending it fake invoices supposedly from vendors the Wisconsin GOP worked with.

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Hackers Siphoned $2.3 Million From Trump’s Campaign

By Dan Robitzski

Images taken from satellites reveal that a massive amount of electricity is being wasted just to illuminate cities overnight.

City Uses Satellite to Measure Wasted Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

This Nonprofit Is Making Sunglasses Out of Recovered Ocean Waste

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This Nonprofit Is Making Sunglasses Out of Recovered Ocean Waste

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found some unusual activity coming from a Centaur, or a comet-liked planetary object that orbits deep in our solar system.

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Astronomers Found Unusual Activity on a “Centaur” Planetary Object

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just dropped its hottest mixtape on Soundcloud — and it's super creepy sounds from space just in time for Halloween.

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NASA Releases Playlist of Spooky Space Sounds

By Victor Tangermann

President Trump's re-election campaign website was temporarily defaced by hackers accusing him of spreading fake news and interfering in the 2020 election.

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Trump’s Campaign Site Got Hacked for Spreading “Fake News”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a massive new coral reef lurking near Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the first time in over 120 years.

Scientists Discover Huge, Unknown Coral Reef

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing the second 'touchdown' site on comet 67P by the Philae lander, ESA scientists were able to gain valauble insights into the nature of comets.

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Final Clues From Derelict Lander: Comet Interior “Extraordinarily Soft”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Leeds and Edinburgh in the UK have 3D printed the "first ever biomimetic tongue surface."

Scientists 3D Print “Biomimetic” Copy of Human Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that the Arctic is already releasing mass amounts of methane into the air and water, potentially signalling serious climate impacts.

Ah Crap: The Arctic Is Releasing a Ton of New Greenhouse Gas

By Dan Robitzski

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.

New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field

By Dan Robitzski

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.

New Voyager Readings: Space Is Much Denser Outside Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, a team of NASA scientists spotted a highly unusual molecule in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

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NASA Scientists Spot “Really Unexpected” Molecule in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A "pristine" meteorite that landed in 2018 and was studied before it could be contaminated was chock-full of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

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Scientists: 2018 Michigan Meteorite Was Filled With Organic Compounds

By Dan Robitzski

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.

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The White House Got Caught Burying Studies About Renewable Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Daniel Deudney warns that space exploration could give rise to a totalitarian empire — and human extinction.

Johns Hopkins Professor Warns of Totalitarian Military Space Empire

By Dan Robitzski

Finding evidence of water on the Moon is a tantalizing prospect — but only meaningful insofar as we're able to actually make use of it.

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There’s One Big Problem With NASA’s Moon Water Announcement

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists discovered what may be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet, though it's too far away to find out for sure.

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Finally, Scientists Find an Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Its Star’s Habitable Zone

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers from the University of Kansas have discovered evidence for an atmosphere around an extremely hot exoplanet — that shouldn't exist.

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If the Readings Are Right, There’s Something Very Strange About This Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann