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

Study: More Than 500 Vertebrates Poised To Go Extinct

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Are Testing Sewers For Coronavirus Outbreaks

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.

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Interstellar Visitor May Be One of Rarest Objects In Universe

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.

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Half the Visible Universe Was Missing. Scientists Just Found It.

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.

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These Scammers Are Selling a Nonsense Anti-5G Gadget

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.

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New Research: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

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

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This Video of Mars’ Leaking Atmosphere Could Make Elon Musk Cry

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."

Watch the US Military Kill an Aircraft With an Energy Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

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

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New Telescope Will Watch Entire Southern Sky in Infrared

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

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.

Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

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.

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Experts: China Is Pulling Ahead in Race to Identify Extraterrestrials

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.

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Oil Companies Are Pumping Worthless Oil Back Underground

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.

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A Famed Neuroscientist Is Investigating Near-Death Experiences

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.

Scientists: Climate Change Is Turning Parts of Antarctica Green

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.

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Stunning Images Appear to Show a Planet Being Born

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.

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Mars May Be Covered in Bizarre Mud Volcanoes

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

Study: Pandemic Caused 17% Drop in Global Carbon Emissions

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.

Planetary Scientist’s Video Shows How Slow Light Speed Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

Scientist Discovers Gross New Fungus on Twitter

Scientist Discovers Gross New Fungus on Twitter

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.

Engineers Are 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor

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.

Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids

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.

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Research Spacecraft May Pass Through Tail of Dead Comet

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers: Some Stars Have Something Akin to a Heartbeat

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."

US Military Releases New Info About Navy UFO Videos

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.

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NASA Is Setting a Fire Inside a Spaceship

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 Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

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.

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NASA Wants to Chase Interstellar Objects With “Orbital Slingshot”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Experts: Fever-Detecting Cameras Won’t Really Stop Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

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.

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Amazing Image of Jupiter Looks Like It’s Burning

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.

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A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

Physicists Discover New Trick to Stabilize Fusion Reactors

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.

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Astronomers Solve “X-Galaxy” Mystery With Powerful New Telescope

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.

Scientists Plot 100 Million Cells to Map Full 3D Mouse Brain

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.

NASA Mars Rover Detects Ancient Life… in Australia

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.

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Astronomers Discover Brown Dwarf Covered in Stripes

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.

Scientists Aren’t Buying a Tech CEO’s “Theory of Everything”

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Find Nearest Black Hole to Earth, and It’s Strange

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.

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Scientists Find New Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.

New Military Test Detects COVID-19 Before It’s Infectious

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that unmitigated climate change could create a world where a fifth of the planet is as hot as the Sahara Desert, uprooting billions.

In 50 years, Billions of People Could Face Sahara-Like Heat

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers just detected a fast radio burst (FRB), mysterious millisecond-wave bursts of radio waves, within our own galaxy.

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Scientists Detect Powerful Radio Burst Coming From Our Own Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form

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Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers are baffled by why our Sun is so quiet compared to similar stars. One guess is that it's having a sort of "midlife crisis" transition.

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Astronomers Warn That Our Sun Is Having a “Midlife Crisis”

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.

Quantum Physics

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they may be able to search for signs of life on distant exoplanets that are orbiting collapsed, dead stars.

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Scientists Want to Hunt for Life on Long-Dead Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists built and tested an experimental rocket engine that's powered by a constantly-spiraling explosion.

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Scientists Build Rocket Engine Powered by Spiraling Explosions

By Dan Robitzski

The White House's 2021 budget would cripple NASA's ongoing and future Mars missions. It would also mean shutting down the Curiosity rover.

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The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

The creators of Integrated Information Theory, the bizarre model that suggests the universe could be consciousness, are doubling down on the idea.

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These Mathematicians Think the Universe May Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

Hong Kong researchers developed a protective coating that they say can kill the coronavirus on treated surfaces for up to three months.

This Disinfectant Can Keep Surfaces Coronavirus-Free for Months

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have gene-hacked two species of tobacco to emit a visible glow all by themselves — and around the clock.

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These Gene-Hacked Glowing Plants Look Incredible

By Victor Tangermann

In response to scientists who say SpaceX's Starlink satellites will block astronomical research, CEO Elon Musk suggested launching orbital observatories.

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Launch Orbital Observatories

By Dan Robitzski

New research threatens the idea that the universe expands outward in all directions, suggesting instead that the laws of physics change directionally.

The Laws of Physics May Break Down at the Edge of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a rare, near-death experience play out in space where a black hole devoured the outer layers of a star but left the core intact.

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Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

After studying a population of asteroids called the Centaurs for years, a team of scientists believes they originated outside the solar system.

19 Objects Near Jupiter May Be From Outside the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are suggesting we could explore the surface of Mars using a fleet of "nanocardboard" aircraft.

Researchers Want to Explore Mars Using “Nanocardboard” Aircraft

By Victor Tangermann

Their research falls short of a definite discovery, but researchers think they've found evidence of one of the main theories on why the universe exists.

Scientists May Be Close to Understanding Why the Universe Exists

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the Starlink network is almost ready for its first beta test, and he expects to run a public beta within six months.

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Elon Musk Says the Starlink Network Will Go Live in Six Months

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Space Force recently acquired its first offensive weapon: a satellite jammer that can block communications from the ground.

Space Force Unveils Its First Weapon, a Satellite Jammer

By Dan Robitzski

Advanced simulations suggest that supernovae in the center of the Milky Way galaxy are shooting nearby stars all the way to its outer reaches.

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Astronomers: Our Galaxy Is Belligerently Flinging Stars Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

A new study penned by an international team of researchers could give us clues about interstellar object 2l/Borisov's origins.

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NASA: Something Is Off About This Interstellar Comet

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that filling the Arctic with huge numbers of grazing animals could help fight climate change and keep the permafrost frozen.

Filling Arctic With Giant Animals Could Slow Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, two commercial spacecraft successfully docked while still in orbit: a service vehicle got a derelict satellite running again.

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Parasitic Spacecraft Docks With Dead Satellite, Brings It Back to Life

By Dan Robitzski