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

Trump Suspends Enforcement of EPA Laws, Because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By Victor Tangermann

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

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This Livestream of Tardigrades on Twitch is Oddly Soothing

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.

Meanwhile, The Great Barrier Reef Had a Horrible Bleaching Event

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

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.

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Behold the “Quasar Tsunami,” Which Can Kill an Entire Galaxy

By Jon Christian

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

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

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.

Myth, Dusted: No, Electric Cars Don’t Hurt the Environment That Much

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.

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Scientists Discover That a Squid Can Edit Its Own Genetic Code

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.

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Scientists Find Superconductor Inside Giant Meteorite

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.

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NASA’s New Mars Rover Still Launching in July Despite Coronavirus

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.

Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States

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.

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Astronomer: SpaceX Satellite Swarm Will Be Visible With Naked Eye

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.

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Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

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

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America’s Flimsy Broadband Has Workers, Schoolchildren Isolated

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.

Scientists Say New Nanomaterial Could “Replace Human Tissue”

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.

German Military Laptop With Classified Data Sold for $100 on eBay

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.

An Overwhelmed Italian Hospital Is 3D Printing Replacement Parts

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.

Scientists Discover 139 New “Minor Planets” in Our Solar System

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.

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It’s Not You: Scientists Confirm Days Are Actually Getting Longer

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.

This, Not Hand Sanitizer, Will Save Us from the COVID-19 Coronavirus

By Foster Kamer

The universe might be one big giant bubble.

Physicist: Our Galaxy May Be Located Inside an Enormous Bubble

By Jon Christian

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

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Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

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.

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China Powers Through the Coronavirus to Launch a Mars Mission

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.

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Scientists Still Can’t Tell How Big the North Star Is

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.

Astronomers Found a Brutal Hell Planet Where It Rains Liquid Iron

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.

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Fragment of Planet That Hit Earth May Be Buried Inside Moon

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.

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SpaceX President: We Plan to Launch a Crewed Mission in May

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.

US Military Loads Explosive-Sniffing Dolphins Into Cargo Plane

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.

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Good News: Space Lettuce Is Safe to Eat, Good for You

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.

Brutal “Nanodrills” Can Kill Tiny Living Worms and Water Fleas

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.

Here’s How to Build Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

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.

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Theoretical Holes in Spacetime Could Swallow the Entire Universe

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.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

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.

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Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

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.

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Scientists Want to Build Robots out of Floating Liquid Metal

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.

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NASA Mars Rover Snaps Glorious 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama

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.

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NASA Spacecraft Recovers from Glitch 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth

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.

Scientists Are Storing Energy Using Uneaten Fruit

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.

Anti-Coke Lawsuit: “Plastic Is Set to Outweigh Fish in the Ocean”

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

This Material Makes You Invisible to Night-Vision Goggles

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.

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Astronomers: Something Is Warping Our Entire Galaxy

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.

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Scientists Say Ancient Earth Was Completely Covered in Water

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

Honeywell: We Are Beating Everyone’s Ass at Quantum Supremacy

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.

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NASA Probe Exploring Asteroid Accidentally Snaps Black Hole Image

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.

Scientists Are Building a Quantum Teleporter Based on Black Holes

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.

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Student Discovers 17 Planets, One of Which Could Host Life

By Victor Tangermann

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

The EU Might Make Personal Electronics Use Replaceable Batteries

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."

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Bright-Red “Blood Snow” Is Falling From the Sky in Antarctica

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.

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

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.

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Expert: China is Not Deploying Duck Army to Devour Locusts

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.

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Chinese Rover Discovers It’s Sitting on 39 Feet of Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Astronomers Conclude Massive Exoplanet Could Host Life

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.

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Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

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

DARPA’s Working on a Nuclear-Powered Rocket for Easy Moon Access

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.

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Space Force Working “Pretty Closely With Elon Musk and SpaceX”

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 Storms May Cause Whales to Crash Into Beaches

By Dan Robitzski

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

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” 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.

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Scientists: Unfortunately, Astronauts Will Need to Bone in Space

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.

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Scientists Find “Mysterious” Virus With Almost No Known Genes

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.

JP Morgan Warns Clients of “Catastrophic” Environmental Collapse

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.

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Scientists Warn “Insect Apocalypse” Could Doom Humanity

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.

Touring Musicians Are Brutal on the 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.

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Japan Gives the ‘Go’ to Sample Return Mission to Mars Moon

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.

Flaring Object in Space May Be Two Supermassive Black Holes Colliding