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3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new paper, electric cars are, in fact, better for the world, despite the environmental cost involved in making them.
Environment

By Foster Kamer

The longfin inshore squid can alter its own genetic code on the fly, and new research shows its the first animal to do so outside of its cells' nuclei.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers found a superconducting metal inside metoerite fragments, suggesting the advanced material is forming on its own out in space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Despite budget overruns — and a pandemic — NASA is determined to get its next Mars rover called "Perseverance" off the ground in July.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A group of roughly 300 nuclear fusion researchers put together a massive report of goals and priorities for making fusion power a reality.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As SpaceX continues to launch more of its Starlink satellites, new research suggests hundreds will be visible from Earth with the naked eye.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have found a way to predict an intricate internal structure within black hole images caused by gravitational light bending.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Now that many workplaces and schools are operating remotely, America's terrible broadband access is revealing major societal inequalities.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Ther are no bones about it: European researchers say they've invented a rubbery nanomaterial that seamlessly integrates with the human body.
Nanotech

By Jon Christian

A team of security researchers bought a German armed forces laptop for only 90 euros ($99) on eBay that contained classified military information.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

When an Italian hospital started to run out of ventilator valves, 3D printing firms came in to make some more on the spot.
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study on ancient mollusk fossils, a day on Earth used to be half an hour shorter and a year was a full week longer.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

If you think you're cleaning your hands right with hand sanatizer, or gels, or swipes, think again. There's only one right way to do it — and here's how.
Chemistry

By Foster Kamer

The universe might be one big giant bubble.
Physics

By Jon Christian

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Even in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, China has remained on track to launch its planned mission to Mars later this year.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Depending how they measure it, scientists get vastly different answers for the mass of the North Star. A rare cosmic fusion could be the problem.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered an exoplanet called WASP-76b with an extreme atmosphere: iron is vaporized in the day and rains back down at night.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Photos emerged this week, on social media, of dolphins loaded into a military transport jet — chilling, like blocks of tofu, in shallow tubs of water.
Military

By Jon Christian

According to a new study, lettuce grown in space isn't just delicious, it's just as nutritious and safe to eat as boring-old Earth lettuce as well.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers created tiny "nanodrills" that were able to cut themselves into the cells of worms and plankton. They could even cure skin diseases.
Nanotech

By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

"Bubbles of nothing," extra dimensional holes, could cause the universe to consume itself from inside out, according to a group of phycisists.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material to build robots that is so light, it can float on water.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped more than 1,000 images, which teams back on Earth composed into a 360 degree Martian landscape panorama.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Voyager 2, currently in interstellar space billions of miles from Earth, has recovered from a serious glitch it experienced in late January.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a way to turn biowaste, specifically the inedible cores of jackfruit and durian, into high-density ultracapacitors for storing energy.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An environmental group filed a lawsuit last week against big plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much plastic is being recycled.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they've built a "thermal camouflage" material that can hide from tech like night vision goggles.
Future Materials

By Jon Christian

According to a new study using data collected by the ESA, the Milky Way is being warped as it's slowly colliding with a smaller neighboring galaxy.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've found compelling new evidence that the ancient Earth was an unbroken expanse of water, without a single continent.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Tech conglomerate Honeywell just dropped the hammer: By the middle of 2020, they'll be releasing the most powerful quantum computing machine in the world.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an unexpected discovery, spotting a black hole emitting a massive cloud of X-rays some 30,000 light years away.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists think they've figured out how to build quantum circuits that behave like entangled black holes, which would be able to teleport information.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Michelle Kunimoto, an astronomy student, has discovered 17 new planets, including an Earth-like one that could host life, using data from NASA.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A draft proposal, if enacted, would force vendors selling phones, tablets, or earbuds in the European Union to use replaceable batteries.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A Facebook post by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine shows a research station in antarctica covered in "raspberry snow."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious video that claimed China would be sending 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to help deal with a locust invasion went viral on Chinese social media.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have started analyzing data collected by China's Yutu-2 Moon rover's ground-penetrating radar. They found mostly Moon dust.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers determined that an exoplanet called K2-18b is capable of holding liquid water at habitable conditions.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a nuclear-powered rocket to move cargo around Earth's orbit.
DARPA

By Jon Christian

Space Force Lt. General David Thompson clarifies what, exactly, the new military branch does, and how it plans to work with private companies.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As crewed missions to space venture deeper and deeper, two scientists argue that space agencies ought not to ignore astronauts' human needs.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the coronavirus outbreak could get worse if countries don't nip it in the bud.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Prominent investment bank JP Morgan Chase has sent a report to clients warning that climate change could have cataclysmic effects on civilization.
Environment

By Jon Christian

Scientists have published a stark warning: If humankind doesn't manage to save the global bug population, it could spell doom for us all.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Touring musicians have a large carbon footprint, the New Yorker writes, so eco-conscious bands are working to lower their environmental impact.
Environment

By Natalie Coleman

Japanese space agency JAXA announced today it has greenlit a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos called the Martian Moons Exploration mission.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A flair in outer space may be a sign of a phenomenon first proposed in 2017: two massive black holes, wrapping around each other on a collision course.
Physics

By Jacob Banas

Quantum physicists have figured out a way to "hold" individual atoms in place, offering up an unprecedented look at the way they interact with each other.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers and citizen scientists discovered a never-before-classified species of rare snail and named it after climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Biology

By Jacob Banas

All coral reefs across the planet will likely be dead in 80 years — killed by a combination of warming waters and ocean acidification.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

Fifty years later, scientists debunked the idea that dinosaur footprints left on the ceiling of an Australian cave were left by one walking upside down.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created tiny solar powered wings that can flap faster than butterfly wings and only need sunlight as a power source.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann