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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

By Futurism Creative

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

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.

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

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Discover “Vantablack” Deep-Sea Creatures

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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.

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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.

The Pentagon Is Quietly Working on a Military Space Station Outpost

By Victor Tangermann

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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.

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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.

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.

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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."

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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.

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