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A team of scientists have created a white paint that's so white, it reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight that reaches its surface.

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This Whiter-Than-White Paint Is Like the Opposite of Vantablack

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an ancient, long-gone tectonic plate that they say explains the volcanoes around the northern Pacific.

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Scientists Discover “Lost” Tectonic Plate With Ominous Name

By Dan Robitzski

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.

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Researchers: Claim of Life Molecules on Venus May Have Been an Error

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer Alexandre Milovanoff argues that electric cars won't stop climate change becuase private cars are inherently a problem.

Researcher: Electric Cars Aren’t the Answer to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.

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Watch NASA’s Spacecraft Touch Down on a Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who won an Ig Nobel for his work on vibrating earthworms with a speaker say their research may be the key to brain-computer interface.

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Scientist: Please Stop Laughing at My Research About Placing Earthworms on Loudspeakers

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.

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Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military to build a rocket that could ship weapons anywhere in the world in one hour.

SpaceX Is Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.

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Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

Alarming research reveals that each time the Arctic permafrost thawed in the past, it released unimaginable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

This Is the Devastating Potential of the Arctic Permafrost Melting

By Dan Robitzski

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.

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Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

By Dan Robitzski

Using spinach as a catalyst, a team of scientists built an experimental fuel cell that outperformed conventional platinum cells.

Scientists Built a Fuel Cell Out of Spinach

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government announced that it plans to dump radioactive water stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.

Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

Three percent of SpaceX's Starlink satellites seem to have failed. That's not bad, but it gets dangerous considering how big the constellation will become.

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Three Percent of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Died

By Dan Robitzski

"Doesn't seem to be any life in this solar system," billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a recent tweet, responding to fan mail from a 13-year-old.

Elon Musk: “Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Life in This Solar System”

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, researchers have figured out how to record videos of light moving in three dimensions, shooting at 100 billion frames a second.

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Ultra-Speed Caltech Camera Films Light Moving Through Space in 3D

By Victor Tangermann

For years, astronomers have been speculating that Betelgeuse was about to explode in a supernova. But such an event could still be a long way off.

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Astronomers: This Star Isn’t As Giant As We Thought, Just Closer

By Victor Tangermann

BepiColombo, the European-Japanese spacecraft headed to Mercury, snapped some incredible selfies while making a close flyby past Venus.

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Spacecraft Shoots Epic Selfies With Venus in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

Two massive pieces of space junk might crash into each other on Thursday night, potentially making low Earth orbit and even more dangerous minefield.

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Experts Predict Sizeable Chance of Epic Space Junk Collision Tonight

By Dan Robitzski

The Arctic Ice Project wants to protect and rebuild crucial ice formations by covering the Arctic in reflective glass beads.

The Plan to Sprinkle Reflective Glass Over the Arctic

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered tardigrade can survive dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and it glows blue whenever it's exposed.

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Newly-Discovered Tardigrade Glows Blue to Block Deadly Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

$Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.$

Fracking Releases Airborne Radioactivity, Harvard Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

In a Fox News interview over the phone on Sunday, Trump was asked why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force. His answer was perplexing.

Trump Implies That the US Military Could Defeat Aliens If They Show Up

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.

The US Military Developed AR Goggles For Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Bolt Threads is using a special kind of fiber made from mycelium, the underpinning of mushrooms, to create "Mylo," a leather-like material.

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Adidas, Lululemon Say They’ll Make Clothes Out of Mushroom Leather

By Victor Tangermann

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

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