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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.

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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

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.

Signal From Deep Space Perfectly Harmonizes With Elvis Song

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.

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The Rich Don’t Know How to Use Vacuum Cleaners

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Spot Strongest Cosmic Storm in Known Universe

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.

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This Blurry Photo May Show a Planet in a Neighboring Star System

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.

A Star Is Circling a Black Hole and Its Orbit Is Absolutely Nuts

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Discover “Intriguing,” Extremely Earth-Like Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

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

US Military: Unlikely COVID-19 Was Created in Lab as Bioweapon

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.

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The Pentagon Wants Quantum Sensors to Track Faraway Spacecraft

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.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

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.

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NASA Spots “Dragon” in Stunning Mars Orbiter Image

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.

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Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas

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.

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Astronomers Spot Brightest Supernova Ever Observed

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.

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Astronomers Use New Instruments to Probe Rings Around Uranus

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.

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NASA Releases Breathtaking Infrared Image of Pillars of Creation

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.

New Study Predicts the Ocean Ecosystem Will Collapse This Decade

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.

The Coronavirus Is Deadlier in Places With Bad 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.

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“UFO-Like” Sea Creature Made up of “Millions of Clones”

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.

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Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

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.

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NASA Funds Giant Radio Telescope Concept on Far Side of Moon

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.

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The Pandemic Stranded Them in the Worst Place: Antarctica

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.

A New Hole Is Forming in the Ozone Layer Over the Arctic

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.

Physicists Are Crashing Matter into Antimatter to Hunt a New Boson

By Dan Robitzski

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

A Colorado Neighborhood Runs on a Self-Reliant, Clean Energy Grid

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

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Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

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.

A Fire at Chernobyl Is Releasing Large Amounts of Radiation

By Jon Christian

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

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Mathematicians Are Shocked That This Paper Got Published

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.

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The Earth is Standing Still During the Pandemic. Literally.

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.

Scientists Are Printing Living “Xenobots” out of Biological Cells

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.

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Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

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 Experts Suggest Tobacco-Like Warnings on Gas Pumps

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Experts Warn That Hackers Can Use Zoom to Take Over Your Computer

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.

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Star Blasts Own Planets Into Shattered Corpses, Devours Remains

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Poison in the Hearts of Stars Can Make Them Explode

By Dan Robitzski

Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue

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Nasty Images Show How Bacteria Colonize Your Tongue

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.

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Astronomers Call on Quarantined Citizens to Hunt for Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski