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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

Here’s Why NASA’s Next Rover is Bringing a Mars Rock Back to Mars

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

Thanks to COVID, the Earth’s Surface Is Shaking 50 Percent Less

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

Scientists: Climate Change Is Going to Suck, But It Won’t Be Armageddon

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

Cornell Scientists Say “Strange Metals” Are Similar to Black Holes

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

Russia Just Tested a Military Satellite That Kills Other Satellites

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

Rejoice, Nerds! Lab-Grown Bacon Is Here

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

Scientists Made Wine and Cheese Using an Annoying Weed

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

Astronomers Release Largest Map of the Universe in History

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

This is the First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star

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

Watch These Brutal Simulations of Apocalyptic Planetary Collisions

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

“Mini-Neptune” Exoplanets May Actually Be Covered in Radioactive Oceans

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

KFC Is Working on 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets

By Victor Tangermann

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Science & Energy

Curiosity Stream Is a Streaming Smörgåsbord of High-Quality Science-Focused Programs

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

Scientists: Climate Change Will Get So Hot Your Organs Shut Down

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Discover “Vantablack” Deep-Sea Creatures

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

Geologists Say a New Ocean Is Opening up in Africa

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

The Pentagon Is Quietly Working on a Military Space Station Outpost

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

This Black Hole Just Glitched

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

Scientists Found Something Surprising in Closest-Ever Photos of the Sun

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

There’s Pink Snow in Europe. That Could Be Bad, Scientists Say

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

Scientists Detect “Ringing” in the Earth’s Atmosphere

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

This Star Appears to Have Survived a Supernova

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Climate Change

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Physics

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
Solar Power

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Nuclear Fusion

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.
Science & Energy

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Physics

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.
Energy

Scientists Are Renting out Giant Batteries to Areas Without Power

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider just discovered a new type of subatomic particle that's made entirely of charm quarks.
Physics

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.
Nuclear Fusion

“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.
Physics

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Military

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."
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Chemistry

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Military

Lawsuit Alleges Coverup at US Nuclear Weapon Facility

By Dan Robitzski