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Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers say they've used cutting-edge imaging techniques to discover huge, "unexpected" structures near the Earth's core
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists recreated the conditions under which life originated. They think they've kickstarted the whole process by generating new vesicles.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

In 2010, a scientist published research suggesting that 2020 would be a total shitshow. It goes without saying he really nailed it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.
Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that water vapor in the atmosphere has the potential to become a viable source of renewable energy.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix was way ahead in registering a trademark for "Space Force" than the military, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have discovered a "fast radio burst" (FRB) signal, mysterious flashes of millisecond wave energy, that repeats itself every 157 days
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Building on existing research, researchers suggest that Mars' moon Deimos will likely be split up into tiny rocks, forming a ring around the planet.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the early universe was spinning around multiple axes, influencing the direction in which galaxies rotate.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new study identified 515 vertebrate species that are on the brink of extinction. Each one that vanishes could have devastating ecological effects.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In order to track local outbreaks of the coronavirus, scientists are analyzing samples from sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists think the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might actually be a hydrogen iceberg. The unusual idea could explain its stranger properties.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

At long last, scientists think they've accounted for the half of all the luminous matter in the universe that's been missing for decades.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on people's baseless fears that 5G signals cause health problems by selling a cheap USB drive and claiming it protects people.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers was able to confirm the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-like planet that's orbiting the star closest to the Sun.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say that China is becoming the new international leader in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. They hope for newfound international cooperation.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies in Texas reportedly started to pay buyers to take oil off their hands and even pumping it underground for storage.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is grapping with why so many people experience blissful near-death experiences, a rush that he compares to extreme activities.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A British team of biologists have created the first-ever large-scale map of algae blooming across the Antarctic that's turning parts of the peninsula green.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists may have caught pictures of a planet being born around a young star using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

By playing around with mud in a special lab, an international team of researchers found that Mars is likely covered in strange mud volcanos.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, daily emissions decreased by 17 percent, or 17 million tons of carbon dioxide, worldwide to 2006 levels.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new animation by JAXA planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows just how slow the speed of light is on a cosmic scale.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Scientist Discovers Gross New Fungus on Twitter
Biology

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers and physicists is 3D printing a nuclear reactor, which they say will help speed up the pace at which the slow-paced industry innovates.
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers managed to create the most thoroughly-intermixed human-mouse chimera hybrids to date, thanks to a weird stem cell-manipulating trick.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

In a stroke of incredible luck, a NASA/ESA spacecraft is on the right pass to fly right through the tail of a passing comet.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that a certain class of star gives off rhythmic pulsations that are similar to a person's heartbeat.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon has released"hazard reports" that give us more details about a series of encounters between US Navy pilots and "unidentified aerial phenomena."
Military

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to set off an intentional and controlled fire inside a spacecraft — and it just left the International Space Station.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT researchers are suggesting that we could use a "dynamic orbital slingshot" to get an unprecedented up-and-close look at interstellar objects.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The thermal, fever-detecting cameras being installed in workplaces and hospitals are unlikely to actually stop future coronavirus outbreaks.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A beautiful new infrared image of Jupiter makes the entire gassy planet look like it's turned into a giant, swirling fireball.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers claim they have solved the mystery behind why some highly active galaxies have four jets of radio waves, forming an X.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of neuroscientists just created a complete, three-dimensional map of a mouse brain that they say could be a game changer for researchers.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

NASA' Perseverance rover just found signs of ancient life in Australia, giving researchers hope that it's well-equipped to do the same on Mars.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered bizarre stripes of storm clouds blanketing a brown dwarf "star" with an old technique that's relevant again thanks to new tech.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Tech CEO Stephen Wolfram says he's come up with a theory of everything, but physicists at large aren't convinced by his ideas.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) claim to have spotted the closest black hole to Earth ever discovered.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have found new evidence of the earliest rivers that once flowed on Mars billions of years ago for around 100,000 Earth years.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann