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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

In a new study, two astronomers argue that 'Oumuamua can't be a giant lump of molecular hydrogen. It's probably too old and wouldn't survive as an iceberg.

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Astronomers: There’s Still a Chance ‘Oumuamua Is Alien Tech

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently put out a weird little cartoon that introduces kids to surprisingly complex topics like special relativity and the scale of the universe.

Video Shows NASA’s Bizarre Guide to Near-Light-Speed Travel

By Dan Robitzski

The Arecibo Observatory, a staple of the SETI research community, will be out of commission for months after a supper cable mysteriously fell.

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SETI Telescope Down for Months After Mysterious Damage

By Dan Robitzski

NASA warns that harvesting lunar ice for future settlers' drinking water could make it impossible to study the ice down the road.

Mining Lunar Ice Could Irrevocably Damage the Moon’s Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA facility will communicate with distant spacecraft via lasers, vastly improving the bandwidth of interplanetary communications.

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NASA Facility Will Beam Messages to Space Through Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a new kind of plastic that can be broken down and recycled an indefinite number of times without losing quality.

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A New Kind of Plastic Could Be Recycled Indefinitely

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."

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Astronomers Detect “Bullets” of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Florida just approved a plan for biotech company Oxitec to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes over the next two years.

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Florida Is Releasing Almost a Billion Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.

DARPA Is Testing F-16s Flown by AI in Virtual Combat

By Dan Robitzski

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Once the James Webb Space Telescope launches, NASA plans to use it to take 3D images of distant quasars and their host galaxies.

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3D Space Images Could Reveal How Quasars Influence Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

An upcoming experiment called DUNE hopes to scoop up neutrinos, elusive particles blasted out by supernova explosions, as they sail through Earth.

This Underground Experiment Will Hunt for Supernova Shrapnel

By Dan Robitzski

Mitochondria, as we all know, are the powerhouse of the cell, but if something dampers the mighty mitochondria it can be difficult to determine why.

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Scientists Made Mice Glow in the Dark to Study Mitochondria

Tesla senior industrial designer Remy Labesque, who normally works on solar panels and EV chargers, just reinvented the chocolate chip.

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Tesla Designer Reinvents the Chocolate Chip

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Stanford researchers have created a "hydrodynamic treadmill," essentially an endless loop of water, to closely observe microorganisms.

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Scientists Built a Tiny Treadmill for Microscopic Water Creatures

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have been tracking a strange "dent" in the Earth's magnetic field as its slowly moving westwards over the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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NASA Is Tracking a “Dent” in the Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a supernova some 65 light-years from Earth caused a mass extinction event during the Late Devonian period, 359 million years ago.

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Scientists: Exploding Star Likely Caused Mass Extinction on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

MIT engineer Asegun Henry has a dire warning: if we don't stop pouring heat into the environment soon, humanity won't live much longer.

MIT Professor: I Fear Imminent Human Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists saw bacteria subjected to different conditions rapidly develop different evolutionary strategies, helping explain why some become dangerous.

Scientists Just Watched Bacteria Evolve in Real Time

By Dan Robitzski

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.

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An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple federal law enforcement agencies are buying people's cell phone location data, circumventing the need to obtain a warrant.

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Cops Are Buying Your Social Media Location Data Without a Warrant

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have a wild new theory: the Sun used to have a star companion while the solar system was being formed.

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Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

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Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

By Dan Robitzski

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.

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Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system "coherent," or operational, 10,000 times longer than before.

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Scientists Create Quantum System That Stays Operational 10,000 Longer

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's EPA just rolled back the last of the Obama-era carbon emission regulations that held oil companies responsible for methane leaks.

Trump’s EPA Says Oil Industry Can Relax About Methane Leaks

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists refuse to stop using indecipherable, vague acronyms that could have multiple meanings, and it's a serious problem for accessibility.

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Scientists Furious That Scientists Keep Using Indecipherable Acronyms

By Dan Robitzski

The star S62 whips around the Milky Way's central black hole at a dizzying eight percent of lightspeed. It's so fast scientists can see time slow down.

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This Star Is Moving So Fast it Visibly Warps Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just blew the distance record for long-range quantum-encrypted messages after beaming one down from a satellite in orbit.

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Chinese Scientists Figured Out How to Beam Quantum Messages From Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. federal law enforcement reportedly funneled millions in crypto from terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS in a record-breaking seizure.

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The US Seized Millions in Crypto From Terrorist Groups

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can use magnetic fields to levitate dead cells, all without disturbing the living cells crucial to their experiments.

Bioengineers Are Using Levitation on Dead Cells to Preserve the Living

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered an astonishingly Milky Way-like galaxy called SPT0418-47 more than 12 billion light-years away from our own galaxy.

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Astronomers Puzzled By Ancient Milky Way-Like Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Washington University in St Louis have figured out a way to turn regular ol' bricks into batteries.

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They Turned a Brick Into a Battery

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, physicists observed the Higgs boson decay into a pair of particles called muons, further reinforcing the Standard Model.

CERN Says the Higgs Boson Did Something Unexpected

By Dan Robitzski