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

Newly-Discovered Bacteria Can Eat Metal as Food

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.

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Researchers Say Earth Is Headed for “Jaw-Dropping” Population Decline

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.

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Two Neutron Stars Collided, Creating an Unbelievable Explosion

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Experts Say China Hid Spyware in Mandatory Tax Software

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.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Its Final Tests

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.

One Particular Spot on Earth Is Getting Colder Instead of Hotter

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.

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Scientists Say the Moon Is Way Younger than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists: Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Shift 100x Faster Than Observed

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.

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Here Are The Most Amazing Shots of the NEOWISE Comet

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.

Physicists Say This Is the Smallest Unit of Time That Could Exist

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

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Astronomers Want to Figure Out What the Hell Planet Nine Is Once and For All

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.

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Astronomers Discover Deep-Space “Structure,” 1.4 Billion Light Years Across

By Victor Tangermann

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Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Ring-Shaped Objects in Deep Space

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.

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NASA Pumps Funding Into Startup That Says It Can Harvest Oxygen From Lunar Regolith

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.

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NASA Rover Starts New “Road Trip” Across Martian Wasteland

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.

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US Investigating “Breach” at Nuclear Weapons Facility

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.

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Astronomers Surprised to Find Stars Streaming Into the Center of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA scientists found that there might be more subsurface metals beneath the Moon's surface than previously thought.

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NASA Discovers Huge Potential Caches of Metal On the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that climate change could kill off 60 percent of all fish species this century. It's a sharp increase over past estimates.

Climate Change Threatens 60 Percent of the World’s Fish Species

By Dan Robitzski

Chondrules, mysterious spherical bubbles found in meteorites, could have an incredibly-hellish origin story from the beginning of the solar system.

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Planets With Oceans of Lava May Have Given Us Meteorites

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at LIGO noticed that minuscule quantum fluctuations actually knocked a large mirror in the observatory out of alignment.

Tiny Quantum Fluctuations Can Actually “Kick” Large Objects

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers is trying to build sustainable energy in developing communities with a new battery pack rental program.

Scientists Are Renting out Giant Batteries to Areas Without Power

By Dan Robitzski

The Large Hadron Collider Just Discovered a Brand-New Particle

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are hoping that tiny graphite-coated balls of uranium could revolutionize and bring back nuclear energy production to the United States.

“Radioactive Gobstoppers” Could Stop the Next Nuclear Reactor Meltdown

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have yet to find any evidence of life on another planet.But that hasn't stopped some rogue scientists from making outlandish claims.

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Extremely Dubious Scientist Believes There’s Mushrooms and Lichen on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

When astronomers went to update their models for a giant, bright star, they instead found an empty space where it used to be.

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A Giant Star Appears to Have Winked Out of Existence

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just delayed the launch date for its Mars rover, Perseverance. But barring any future delays, the mission should still go off without a hitch.

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NASA Pushes Back Mars Rover Launch Due to “Contamination Concern”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have discovered a swine flu virus that has the potential to mutate and be transmitted to and eventually between humans.

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Scientists Are Worried This New Swine Flu Strain Could Cause Another Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

Omega Ingredients, a UK-based natural flavors company for the food and beverages industry, has created a fragrance that it claims smells like outer space.

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Someone Made a Perfume That Smells Like Outer Space

By Victor Tangermann

Radiation sensors recently identified a harmless-but-significant leak, likely from a nuclear power plant, in east Europe.

Researchers: Findings Suggest Something Is Leaking Radiation in Europe

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers say they have found that exposing the human eye at deep red light for three minutes a day could improve declining eyesight.

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Researchers Say You Can Improve Your Eyesight by Staring at This Specific Type of Light

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found an incredibly rare explosion that they think was caused by two black holes merging while orbiting an even larger one.

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When Two Black Holes Collided, NASA Spotted Something Very Surprising

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials may start administering an early candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine to China's military. Early trials showed it had limited efficacy.

China Is Providing a Controversial COVID-19 Vaccine to Its Military

By Victor Tangermann

After hitting the Caribbean, dust from the Sahara Desert just arrived at the US gulf coast, forming what experts referred to as a "Godzilla dust cloud."

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A “Godzilla Dust Cloud” From the Sahara Desert Is Hitting the United States Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

During an early-morning spacewalk, one of the wrist mirrors on NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy's spacesuit broke off almost immediately.

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A Piece of a NASA Astronaut’s Spacesuit Just Fell Off During a Spacewalk

By Dan Robitzski

The first long-term study on vaping has found that it increases a person's chances of developing lung disease by about a third.

Study: Just Three Years of Vaping Increases Lung Disease Risk

By Kristin Houser

The National Science Foundation is investing in a crypto startup that plans to explore ways to get Americans on the blockchain.

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The US Gov Is Paying a Crypto Startup to Explore a Digital Dollar

By Dan Robitzski

Peter Williams, formerly a physicist at a nuclear weapons research facility, claims that his superiors tinkered with important models then covered it up.

Lawsuit Alleges Coverup at US Nuclear Weapon Facility

By Dan Robitzski

US armed forces killed the suspected head of a Qaeda affiliate in Syria this month using an inert Hellfire missile warhead with six blades.

The US Military Crushed, Chopped Up Al Qaeda Terrorist With Sword-Covered Hellfire Missile

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently discovered an exoplanet the size of Neptune that whips around its star nearly once per week, all while being bombarded by solar storms.

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NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Whipping Around Star Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

In the coming years, NASA plans to crash a SpaceX rocket into a tiny moon as a test run for diverting asteroids. But the moon's name was way too boring.

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NASA Renames Small Moon It Plans to Smash With SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught the "bat shadow" of a newborn star moving, as if it was a pair of flapping bat wings.

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NASA Says Hubble Observed a “Flapping Shadow” in Distant Space

By Victor Tangermann

Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.

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This Music Made by Stars Is Actually Extremely Beautiful

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees finally identified climate change as a reason refugees are forced out of their homes.

For the First Time, UN Warns of “Climate-Related” Refugees

By Dan Robitzski

The US Senate Intelligence Committee wants US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to release all data relating to "unidentified aerial phenomenon."

Congress Is Trying to Force the Military to Release More UFO Info

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists assume the first life on Earth used RNA and that DNA developed later. But an experiment suggests both genetic molecules formed at the same time.

Experiment Shows That DNA May Have Existed Before Life

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for signs of technological signatures from alien civilizations.

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NASA Funds Harvard Hunt for Alien “Technological Civilizations”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's 2.6 solar masses, too big to be a neutron star, too small to be a black hole.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered First-Ever “Black Neutron Star”

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, Pluto may have started its life as a hot world with a massive underground ocean of liquid water.

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Scientists: There’s Evidence Pluto Has an Underground Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

A new study outlines a new discovery of a surprisingly young hot Jupiter class exoplanet called HIP 67522 b, some 490 light-years from Earth.

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This Super Young Jupiter-Sized ‘Hot Planet’ is Puzzling Astronomers

By Victor Tangermann

Rather than relying on GPS satellites, scientists propose using neutron stars, the dead remains of exploded stars, as "cosmic lighthouses."

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“Cosmic Lighthouses” Could Help Astronauts Navigate Space

By Victor Tangermann

While working from home during the ongoing global pandemic, biologists have plenty of time — and they're discovering new insect species left and right.

Biologists Are Somehow Discovering a Ton of New Species in Quarantine

By Victor Tangermann

A new system makes carbon capture more feasible for power plants and can convert carbon emissions into raw materials for fuel.

New Tech Captures Power Plant Exhaust to Generate More Power

By Dan Robitzski

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Realistic, Interactive VR Sex Is Finally Here, and It’s Affordable

By Futurism Creative

A team of researchers claim to have achieved quantum teleportation using individual electrons. The discovery could revolutionize quantum computing.

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Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation Using Electrons

By Victor Tangermann

CERN wants a bigger, better particle collider. But with no guarantee for breakthrough discoveries, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder says don't bother.

Physicist Pleads: Stop Building Stupid, Expensive Particle Colliders

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's New Horizons space probe is so far away from Earth that it can see stars from entirely different angles than ever before.

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NASA Spacecraft so Far Away It Can See Stars from Different Angle

By Dan Robitzski

A telescope called eROSITA on board the Spektr-RG space observatory has captured breathtaking X-ray observations of the entire sky.

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This X-Ray Map of the Entire Sky Is a Psychedelic Dreamworld

By Victor Tangermann

A new Defense Department report identifies Russia and China's nuclear capabilities as an immediate threat to U.S. satellites.

The Pentagon Is Worried a Space Nuke Will Fry Its Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers made several new discoveries about what stars go through as they're dying thanks to new images by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble Captures Heartbreaking Images of Dying Stars

By Victor Tangermann