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NASA is finally taking stock and getting rid of the various racist nicknames the space agency has granted objects in space over the years.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists treated the Moon like a giant mirror to study the Earth's atmosphere, a trick they say could help search for inhabited worlds.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Genetics research is full of errors because Microsoft Excel reformats some gene names into calendar dates. To fix it, scientists just renamed the genes.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists made a version of the game "Go" that's played at the quantum scale with entangled photons rather than black-and-white stones.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have observed an unusual young exoplanet some 150 light-years from Earth that's far more dense for its size and age than thought possible.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmologist Katie Mack says that understanding the ways our universe could theoretically come to an end is "freeing," and makes her feel more connected.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought exoplanets appeared bright in sky surveys because of reflective lava oceans, but new research shows something else has to be helping.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A distant galaxy cluster is churning out brand-new stars at a dizzying pace because its central black hole shut down and isn't getting in the way.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, a large number of ancient valleys on the Martian surface today were formed by subglacial meltwater below — not flowing rivers.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

After being dragged to the surface and fed a little snack, ancient oceanic bacteria from over 100 million years ago sprang back to life.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists encoded the entire "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" into a double strand of DNA to demo a vastly improved storage technology.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

China is installing massive 20-megawatt generators to its warships to power high-energy weapons, including lasers and rail guns.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

State-backed Chinese hackers allegedly hacked the Vatican to get a leg up on upcoming diplomatic negotiations over Catholocism in China.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency's Mars Express, a camera-equipped Mars orbiter, is keeping close tabs on a mysterious, "elongated cloud" appearing on Mars.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Marine Corps just issued a memo banning all servicemembers from mining cryptocurrency like Bitcoin on government-issued devices.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers developed a new kind of quantum computer architecture that uses artificial "giant atoms" instead of conventional qubits.
Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

In late April, the international team observed a massively bright outburst of X-rays and radio waves. They traced it back to a magnetar in the Milky Way.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA recently deployed a tiny camera satellite that the agency hopes can take sharp images of exoplanets that are usually washed out of pictures.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

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By Futurism Creative

Engineers have begun construction of the world's largest nuclear fusion project today in southern France, with operations planned to begin in late 2025.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Perseverance will be bringing a rock back to Mars that scientists believe to have originated on Mars roughly 600,000 to 700,000 years ago.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that seismic vibrations generated by humans fell by as much as 50 percent globally in 2020, according to a new paper.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new, comprehensive study found that the worst-case, doomsday climate models are unlikely. But best-case scenarios are also out of the question.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a working model for a bizarre state of matter called "strange metals," and discovered that they behave similar to black holes.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Russia recently tested a weapon capable of shooting down satellites in orbit, which has the Pentagon concerned about off-world escalation.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Finally, a lab-grown meat startup has figured out how to cultivate an approximation of bacon and pork belly out of cultured cells and plant products.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found out that the invasive weed Bidens pilosa a cheap source of enzymes that help make wine and cheese.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

After decades of work, scienitsts revealed a complete map of the universe. In doing so, they also may have solved a major debate among astronomers.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have taken what they claim to be the first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new series of supercomputer-rendered animations shows what would happen to an Earth-like planet with a thin atmosphere if it collided with another object.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

A class of exoplanets thought to resemble gas giants like Neptune may actually be rocky worlds covered in thick, heavily irradiated oceans.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

With help from a Russian 3D printing startup, American fast food chain KFC wants to craft the "world's first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets."
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

Science & Energy

By Futurism Creative

According to new models, climate change may soon get so bad that working outside will put people at risk of organ failure.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Discover “Vantablack” Deep-Sea Creatures
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Geologists are using new techniques like precise GPS measurements to figure out what's driving apart three tectonic plates in Ethiopia.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

National security contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation has won a Pentagon contract to turn its Shooting Star cargo spacecraft into a space outpost.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A supermassive black hole seems to have bugged out: its corona rapidly vanished into nothing before a brand new one took its place.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, courtesy of the Solar Orbiter. And they already made a big discovery.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Right now, the snow at the top of the Italian Alps is bright pink, thanks to an algae bloom that threatens to accelerate snowmelt.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, the Earth's entire atmosphere vibrates much as the same way a ringing bell does.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A white dwarf star from a binary star system was just sent hurtling through the Milky Way at 559,000 mph after experiencing a "partial supernova."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered the first bacteria that chemosynthesizes the metal manganese, and they did it almost by accident while cleaning up an experiment.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

People around the globe are having way fewer babies. By 2100 that might turn into a pretty big problem for humanity — not the relief one might expect.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

With a bit of luck and great timing, astronomers managed to capture a fleeting gamma ray burst from ten billion years ago when its afterglow reached Earth.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Security researchers discovered that Golden Tax Invoicing, which is required for doing business in China, contains spyware that grants backdoor access.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may finally launch in 2021 after having completed its final litany of critical software and electrical systems tests.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As Mashable points out in a fascinating new story, one spot in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean appears to be getting colder each year instead of hotter.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

New models suggest that the Moon could be 85 million years younger than scientists thought, a development that would clarify some of its mysterious past.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Comet NEOWISE has been visible to the naked eye over the weekend. The rare event was captured on camera by amateurs and professionals alike.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

If there's a fundamental unit of time at the tiniest scales of the universe, it's too small to measure. But scientists found what its upper limit must be.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers from Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative developed a new method to hunt for evidence of Planet Nine.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have created a 3D map of a gigantic cosmic structure called the "South Pole Wall" that's 1.4 billion light-years across.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Mysterious ring-shaped objects deep in space have astronomers baffled: after ruling out some usual suspects, they think they're something brand new.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Pioneer Astronautics just got millions in funding from NASA to develop a way to extract oxygen from beneath the lunar surface.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity rover is about to embark on an epic new adventure at Mount Sharp, a gigantic mountain on Mars, to look for signs of ancient life.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A nuclear spill happened at the Los Alamos National Laboratory last month, and 15 workers could have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a stream of 200 stars hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way, and they suspect they came from another galaxy.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski