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The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe just made its first close approach of the Sun, getting to 47.8 million miles from the star's surface.

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A Space Probe Just Took the Closest Pictures of the Sun Ever

By Victor Tangermann

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.

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Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have identified a green glow in the atmosphere of Mars caused by oxygen atoms being released from carbon dioxide due to sunlight.

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Scientists Detect Green Glow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

New Research: There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy

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New Research: There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire, weeks-long process of a neutron star absorbing matter and creating a powerful x-ray blast.

Astronomers Watch Neutron Star “Charge Up” Before Huge X-ray Blast

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.

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Scientists Hunting For Signs of the “Dark Age” Before Stars Formed

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers say they've used cutting-edge imaging techniques to discover huge, "unexpected" structures near the Earth's core

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Scientists Discover “Unexpected” Structures Near Earth’s Core

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists recreated the conditions under which life originated. They think they've kickstarted the whole process by generating new vesicles.

Scientists Claim to Have Recreated Earth’s First Life

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.

Bizarre Subatomic “Quasiparticle” Reproduces Like a Living Cell

By Dan Robitzski

In 2010, a scientist published research suggesting that 2020 would be a total shitshow. It goes without saying he really nailed it.

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A 2010 Scientific Paper Predicted That 2020 Would Be a Shitshow

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.

Collapsed Star Proves Another of Einstein’s Theories

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.

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IBM Director: Get Ready For Quantum Computing App Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that water vapor in the atmosphere has the potential to become a viable source of renewable energy.

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Scientists Say You Could Charge Batteries Using Humidity

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix was way ahead in registering a trademark for "Space Force" than the military, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Oops: Netflix Trademarked “Space Force” Before the US Military

By Victor Tangermann

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.

This Madlad Wants to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.

Scientists Quantum Entangled a Record-Breaking 15 Trillion Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.

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Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Drifting Off Into Space, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.

Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.

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NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.

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This Quasar Warps Itself Into a Ring by Distorting Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have discovered a "fast radio burst" (FRB) signal, mysterious flashes of millisecond wave energy, that repeats itself every 157 days

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Astronomers Record Signal Coming From Deep Space Every 157 Days

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.

New Microscope Is So Powerful It Can Watch Light Move

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible

By Dan Robitzski

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.

Cops Are Using Military Spy Planes to Surveil BLM Protesters

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

Building on existing research, researchers suggest that Mars' moon Deimos will likely be split up into tiny rocks, forming a ring around the planet.

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New Research: Mars May Have Once Had Rings

By Victor Tangermann

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the early universe was spinning around multiple axes, influencing the direction in which galaxies rotate.

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Evidence Suggests That the Entire Early Universe Was Rotating

By Dan Robitzski

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.

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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