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Police reportedly trained a dog to sniff out electronic storage devices, which cops claim helps them find hidden digital evidence.

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Police Trained a Dog to Sniff Out Electronic Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today that calls for a complete ban of the sale of any new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

California Is Banning All Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in Just 15 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia is gettings its first major redesign in a decade, with changes scheduled to slowly trickle out over the coming years.

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Please No: They’re Redesigning Wikipedia

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

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Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Tuesday that China would attempt to go completely carbon neutral by the year 2060.

China Suddenly Pledges to Become Completely Carbon Neutral

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Space Force plans to swear NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins into its ranks during a ceremony aboard the International Space Station.

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The International Space Station Had to Dodge a Piece of Space Junk Last Night

By Dan Robitzski

By digging through infrared images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, scientists have found "strong evidence" of "fresh ice" in its northern hemisphere.

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NASA Finds Evidence of “Fresh Ice” on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

By Victor Tangermann

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.

The US Military Used Emergency Coronavirus Money to Buy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of scientists has some guesses for how any theoretical life hiding away under the acid clouds of Venus might have originated.

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Scientists Speculate About How Life on Venus Could Have Begun

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that rats let out a high-pitch squeak when they're happy, giving a rare, measurable window into animal well-being.

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Finally: Scientists Discover Which Rats Like to Be Tickled

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strangely light colored rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu — likely from an entirely different asteroid.

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Astronomers Spot Bits of Entirely Different Asteroid on Surface of Bennu

By Victor Tangermann

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.

Scientists Warn That Indian, Pakistani Nuclear Plants Could Get Wrecked by Tsunamis

By Dan Robitzski

The wealthiest one percent in the world emits twice the carbon as does the poorer half of the Earth's population, revealing stark global inequalities.

The Richest One Percent Emits Twice as Much Carbon as Half the World

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is interfering with sensitive observatories and telescopes, making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos.

Astronomers Complain That Climate Change Is Making Telescopes Worse

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a "pi Earth," an Earth-sized planet that orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.

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Astronomers Discover “Pi Earth” Planet That Orbits Every 3.14 Days

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a gorgeous new close-up image of Jupiter some 406 million miles from Earth, with Europa off to the left.

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Hubble Catches Massive New Storm Brewing on Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

The dimmer version of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are still too bright in the sky for astronomers to conduct their research.

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SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Still Ruining Astronomers’ Research

By Dan Robitzski

Smoke from the devastating wildfires that have swept across the West Coast this past week has now reportedly drifted all the way across the United States.

West Coast Wildfire Smoke Hits NYC, Causing Weird-Looking Sunsets

By Jon Christian

Private New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab is already working on sending a probe to Venus's atmosphere to look for signs of life.

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Life on Venus? This Rocket Company Is Already Planning a Mission to Have a Closer Look

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, acidic fluids may have long destroyed evidence of past biological life inside Martian clay on the Red Planet's surface.

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Acids May Have Destroyed Evidence of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Designers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created the "Living Cocoon," a moss-filled, "living" coffin made out of fungus.

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This Moss-Filled Coffin Is Made Out of Fungus

By Victor Tangermann

In a CNN opinion piece, Sarah Seager, member of the team that announced it had found evidence for life on Venus, argues that the discovery is "crazy."

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Scientist Behind Venus Life Claim Describes It as “Crazy”

By Victor Tangermann

Some experts are currently sounding the alarm, arguing that what we're seeing are the early days of increasingly lethal extreme weather and fires.

Scientists Warn That Fires, Extreme Weather Events Are Getting Worse

By Jon Christian

Authorities say that groups of killer whales have been attacking boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, the area between Spain and Morocco.

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Gangs of Ferocious Killer Whales Are Attacking Boats

By Jon Christian

Some carbon-rich exoplanets could be made out of diamonds and silica, according to a new study published recently in The Planetary Science Journal.

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Scientists: There Are Likely Entire Planets Made Out of Diamond and Silica

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered significant sources of phosphine, colorless and odorless gas, in the atmosphere of Venus — a possible sign of life.

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Breaking: Researchers Discover Signs of Life on Venus

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than we initially thought. The theoretical maps aren't lining up with observations.

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Dark Matter’s Effect Is 10x What It Should Be, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

AmazonBasics products seem to have a troublesome tendency to explode or catch fire. Despite that, many troublesome products are still avaialbe online.

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Amazon Products Are Reportedly Exploding and Catching Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Colleges that pivoted to online education still need to find out how to do science labwork — some are mailing animal parts to students to dissect at home.

Colleges Are Mailing Brains to Students to Dissect at Home

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

By Dan Robitzski

Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, has unveiled a new drone called the Ghost 4.

New Military Drone Fits in Backpack, Can Carry Lasers, Radio Jammers, Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists suggests that meteor impact craters could have offered the perfect conditions for life on Earth to emerge.

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Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters

By Dan Robitzski

While scientists predicted that forests would continue to serve as carbon sinks, the benefits may be short-lived as too much CO2 makes trees die younger.

Too Much CO2 Is Killing Trees, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got an up-close look at the asteroid Bennu as it crumbled apart and left a trail of debris and particles in its wake.

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NASA Got an Up-Close Look at an Asteroid Crumbling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Major wildfires are blanketing the West Coast right now, turning the skies an apocalyptic shade of orange. Parts of the Bay Area are seeing snowing ash.

The Skies in California Basically Look Like the Apocalypse Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.

US Approves First Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicists investigated if "boson stars," theoretical objects made out of boson particles, could account for the existence of some black holes.

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Physicists Say Universe Could Be Filled With Invisible “Boson Stars”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is using a kind of heavy-duty metallic glass to develop rovers that can explore colder environments than ever before.

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NASA Is Making Moon Rover Parts Out of Metallic Glass

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force deployed four-legged "robot dogs" to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, as The Drive reports.

US Military Deploys Robot Dogs to Guard Air Force Base

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey reveals that a majority of Generation Z believes that humanity might be able to slow down climate change but not stop it.

The Majority of Gen Z Thinks Climate Change Is Inevitable

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new paper, changes in the composition of tree and shrub canopies could guide search and rescue teams to find human remains.

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Plants Do Something Weird When They Grow Near Human Corpses, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

By Dan Robitzski

Using the recently upgraded GREGOR telescope on Tenerife, Spain, researchers zoomed in on the surface of the Sun to study its magnetism.

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Close-Up Images of Sunspots Look Like Horrible Gaping Mouths

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a solar system with three stars that tore apart its own protoplanetary disc with the stars' bizarre orbits.

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A Three-Star System Ripped Apart Its Own Protoplanetary Disc

By Dan Robitzski

A team of psychophysicists believe they've figured out how consciousness works in our mind. If so, they would also have settled a 1,500-year-old debate.

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Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

By Dan Robitzski

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.

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SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have no idea what formed a series of bizarre ridges on the surface of Mars, and they're not confident in their guess.

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Scientists Still Baffled by Bizarre Martian Ridges

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a shark that had its teeth and skin almost completely eaten away by ocean acidification and chemical pollution.

Pollution Dissolved This Shark’s Teeth and Skin, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

An energy startup called NDB says it's making progress on a battery technology powered by small pieces of nuclear waste. Oh, and they say it's safe.

Researchers Test Battery Powered by Nuclear Waste

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.

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Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

In order to learn how cells can navigate large distances within our bodies, scientists plopped them into increasingly-complex mazes.

Researchers Forced Living Cells to Navigate Tiny Mazes

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite from 1964 is going to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere for an extremely fiery retirement at some point this weekend.

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A NASA Satellite From the 1960s Is About to Die

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to powerful new lasers, scientists can now observe space debris orbiting the Earth during the daytime and better predict their paths.

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Scientists Saw Space Debris During the Day for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just watched as a doomed sungrazer comet hurtled directly toward the Sun, ultimately crumbling apart along the way.

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This Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

According to some bizarre theoretical physics, the human-traversable wormholes from science fiction should be possible to create.

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

By Dan Robitzski

With fires causing dangerous levels of airborne particulates, Colorado officials are urging residents to set up "safe rooms" with air purification systems.

Colorado Urges Residents to Hide Inside Air Filtrated “Safe Rooms”

By Jon Christian

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.

Scientists: Lab Mice Deserve Happier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have long suggested that microbes could theoretically live in the sulfurous clouds of Venus. An MIT team has more ideas on how that would work.

MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus

By Dan Robitzski

Watching a short video explaining how the questions on an IQ test work can boost one's score by 18 points, calling the test's validity into question.

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Watching This Video Raises Your IQ Score 18 Points, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers were able to track down a mysterious fast radio burst thanks to years of previous research allowing them to predict when it woke up.

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That Mysterious Space Signal Just Woke Up Again, Just as Predicted

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronomers spotted a galaxy some 500 million light-years away that looks suspiciously like Darth Vader’s TIE fighter spacecraft from 'Star Wars.'"

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NASA Amused by Galaxy That Looks Like a TIE Fighter

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found new evidence that Earth is moving through the remains of exploded stars for at least the last 33,000 years.

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Scientists: Earth Moving Through Radioactive Debris of Exploded Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say that bacteria "scream" as they die, giving off chemical alarms that warn their brethren of danger like antibiotics.

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Scientists: Unfortunately, Bacteria Scream When They Die

By Jon Christian