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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

A team of astronomers discovered a new type of supernova, a "calcium-rich supernova," that produces a ton of calcium through a chemical reaction.

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Your Bones Are Made Out of Exploded Stars, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a gigantic wall of clouds is traveling around the surface of Venus every 4.9 days and has been doing so for decades.

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A Poisonous Tsunami Is Screaming Across the Surface of Venus

By Victor Tangermann

How much effort should we place on preserving World Heritage Sites threatened by climate changes brought on by human activity?

New Climate Paper: Maybe Let’s Let Venice Sink?

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

By Victor Tangermann

A new NASA simulation shows the ghostly ultraviolet flashes of Mars's "nightglow," represented by greenish hues in the Martian night sky.

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New NASA Animation Shows Mars’ Creepy Greenish “Nightglow”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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NASA Says It Will Stop Using Racist Names for Space Objects

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.

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Scientists Are Using The Moon as a Giant Mirror to Search For Aliens

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.

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Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel

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.

NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes

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.

Scientists Played a Game of Go at the Quantum Scale

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."

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Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

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.

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Like Your First Quarantine Sourdough Attempt, This Exoplanet Is “Surprisingly Dense”

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.

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Physicist: Knowing How the Universe Will Die Comforts Me

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.

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Super-Earth Exoplanets Could Have Bright-Shining Metallic Atmospheres

By Dan Robitzski

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This Galaxy Cluster Is Spewing a Surplus of Stars Because of a Lazy Black Hole

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.

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Study: Ancient Mars Was Covered in Ice Sheets, Not Rivers

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.

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Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Lifeforms

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.

Scientists Stored “The Wizard of Oz” on a Strand of DNA

By Dan Robitzski

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

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

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

Chinese Navy Installs Generators to Power Rail Guns, Energy Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

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

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China Allegedly Hacked the Vatican, Other Catholic Computer Systems

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.

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Strange, Giant Cloud Reappears on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

Marine Corps Bans Service Members From Mining Bitcoin on Military Devices

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers

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.

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A Dead Star Gave Off Something Scientists Have Never Seen Before

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 Deploys Tiny Satellite That Could Take Best Pictures of Space Ever

By Dan Robitzski

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This High Tech Virtual Trainer Is the Future of the at Home Workout

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

Scientists Start Construction of World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Watch These Brutal Simulations of Apocalyptic Planetary Collisions

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.

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“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."

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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