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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.
Military

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.
Climate Change

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.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Biology

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.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Physics

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.
Science & Energy

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.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Physics

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
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.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A pairing of orbiting black holes gave off gravitational waves that resonate at a perfect fifth, which makes them the perfect harmony to an Elvis song.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Many of the mega-rich who are self-isolating without their household staff are learning that they have no idea how to do household chores.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a quasar that's giving off uncharacteristically, mind-bendingly fast winds unlikely anything they'd ever seen before.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers think they've captured an image of an exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star that's closest to our solar system.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After nearly 30 years of research, astronomers found that a star orbiting a black hole does so in a rosette shape, supporting Einstein's general relativity.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists have discovered an exciting Earth-sized exoplanet that's capable of supporting liquid water.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A top Pentagon general said during a Tuesday briefing that the "weight of evidence" points towards the coronavirus having "natural" origins.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.
Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

NASA spotted a "dragon" in a image taken by University of Arizona's HiRISE camera attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have spotted the brightest supernova in a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. About 500 times brighter than a normal supernova.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers at UC Berkeley just took the temperature of the mysterious rings surrounding Uranus for the first time. They're cold: 77 degrees Kelvin.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A spectacular new view of the Pillars of Creation, released by NASA, shows the iconic cosmic image in a new light: in infrared.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new study predicts that climate change will kill so many oceanic organisms this decade that the entire ecosystem could fall apart.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary reseach suggests that areas with higher levels of air pollution are also experiencing a higher death rate among COVID-19 patients.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

According to a Newsweek report, researchers found a bizarre deep sea organism off the cost of Western Australia. And it's an absolute mammoth.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has awarded a Phase 1 grant for a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the far side of the Moon that could one day be deployed by wall-climbing robots.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

When the pandemic hit, researchers working in Antarctica had a particularly difficult time finding a safe way to make their way home.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An unexpectedly large hole in the ozone layer formed over the Arctic because of an unusually cold winter and an extreme polar vortex.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are colliding electrons with their antimatter counterparts, positrons, in order to hunt and study a subatomic particle called the Z' boson.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

In Basalt, Colorado, a neighborhood built its own virtual power plant, letting them generate — and share — clean energy as needed.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986.
Energy

By Jon Christian

Eight years after it was shared online, a highly-controversial proof claiming to verify the abc conjecture is going to be published in an academic journal.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to seismologists, this drastic reduction in the hustle and bustle of people living their lives is causing the Earth to literally move less.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with living cells.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

To get consumers to change their attitudes toward fossil fuels, experts suggest covering gas pumps with the same warnings we see on cigarettes.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In 2015, a international team of astronomers watched a white dwarf star gobbling up the planets in its very own system like a mother devouring its young.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New research on a bizarre nuclear reaction could explain why some stars explode like gigantic stellar thermonuclear bombs.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Just because you're holed up at home for the time being doesn't mean you can't help out with important scientific research.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to suspend its enforcement of environmental laws indefinitely in light of the ongoing pandemic.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian artist Julie Laurin recently started a livestream of tardigrades — eight-legged micro-animals also known as "water bears" — on Twitch.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Barrier Reef just suffered its third mass coral bleaching event in three years, forcing authorities to make grim predictions for its future.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope details the "quasar tsunami," a cosmic storm of such terrifying size that it can tear apart an entire galaxy.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian