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Earlier this month, China announced a new five-year plan to eventually ban single-use plastic waste in the entire country.

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China Announces Plan to Ban Single-Use Plastics

By Victor Tangermann

Massive gravity theory modifies Einstein’s theory of general relativity to explain the universe's accelerating rate of expansion.

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New Theory Could Solve Universe’s Biggest Paradox

By Kristin Houser

Researchers 3D-printed a replica of the mummy Nesyamun's vocal tract — and then used it to hear what his voice would've sounded like when he was alive.

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Hear an Ancient Mummy “Talk” Using a 3D-Printed Vocal Tract

By Kristin Houser

Boeing has quit DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) project, prompting the military agency to announce it was killing the project altogether.

Boeing Quits — and Kills — DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program

By Kristin Houser

Scientists from Purdue University have built the world's fastest-spinning object, a nanoparticle capable of completing 300 billion revolutions per minute.

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Scientists Break World Record for Fastest-Spinning Object

By Kristin Houser

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.

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Australian Wildfires Could Release a Billion Tons of Carbon

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just experienced a technical glitch losing its orientation, forcing it to stop in its tracks.

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Glitch Puts NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Out of Commission

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.

New Technique Turns Nuclear Waste Into “Diamond Batteries”

By Dan Robitzski

Rolls-Royce is eyeing two building sites for its first mini nuclear power stations called "small modular reactors" (SMR) in Wales and northern England.

Rolls-Royce Is Building Tiny Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

Rand Paul's bizarre tweet suggests that we're not creating climate change on Earth, but perhaps we should be on Mars or some exoplanet.

Senator: Climate Change Is Fake. Also, Let’s Terraform New Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe has published an essay explaining how invisible aliens could already be living on Earth — and how they might have gotten here.

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Astrobiologist Explains How Invisible Aliens Could Live on Earth

By Kristin Houser

President Donald Trump regrets getting personally involved in his administration's vape ban, which could help curb teen vaping.

Trump Says He Now Regrets Pushing for Vape Ban

By Kristin Houser

A research facility that studies how cadavers decompose had a break in of hungry feral cats, which actually gave forensics experts new insights and tools.

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Feral Cats Break Into Research Facility, Eat Human Cadavers

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have built a new model that could answer lingering questions about Betelgeuse — by positing that it was once two stars.

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Giant Star Betelgeuse May Have Eaten a Smaller Companion

By Kristin Houser

European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have figured out a way to produce oxygen from Moon dust. The team just opened up their own "prototype oxygen plant."

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Make Oxygen From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

The blob, a patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, caused the deaths of an estimated one million seabirds, according to a new study.

Pacific Ocean’s Warm “Blob” Killed a Million Seabirds in One Year

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a "strange metal" that could help us harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.

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Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed With Entangled Electrons

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists is exploring a bizarre idea: finding a way to build structures, circuitry, and other materials out of living fungal architecture.

These Researchers Want You to Live In a Fungus Megastructure

By Dan Robitzski

Vanderbilt University law student Ramon Ryan argues in a new paper that the FCC's approval of over 30,000 planned SpaceX satellites could've been unlawful.

Researcher: SpaceX Satellite Plans Break US Environmental Law

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists sequenced the entire giant squid genome, revealing new hints into how the unusual creature reached its huge size and developed a complex brain.

Researchers Finally Sequence Giant Squid’s Entire Genome

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Strange Shape-Shifting Objects Found Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

An international team of astronomers have found new evidence of a second exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, called Proxima c.

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Scientists Find Evidence of Second Planet Orbiting Closest Star

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.

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Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists working with DARPA developed a living concrete, teeming with bacteria, that resembles Jell-O. It can grow and regenerate itself when it breaks.

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Scientists Create “Living Concrete” That Can Heal Itself

By Dan Robitzski

Even tardigrades — one of the most resilient creatures in the known universe — might not be able to survive global warming, according to a new study.

Scientists: Global Warming Could Kill Tardigrades

By Kristin Houser

A new book takes a deep dive into panpsychism, a millennia-old theory that argues that all forms of matter experience consciousness.

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Professor: Electrons and Quarks May Experience Consciousness

By Kristin Houser

For the second time, LIGO researchers detected gravitational waves given off by a merging pair of neutron stars, but the collision challenges their models.

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Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist has compared the amount of heat causing ocean warming to the amount of energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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Scientists: Ocean Warming at the Rate of Five A-Bombs per Second

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers confirmed that climate change is indeed making wildfires worse after analyzing 57 peer-reviewed papers published since 2013.

Research: Climate Change Is Indeed Making Wildfires Worse

By Victor Tangermann

China's world record, "alien-hunting" telescope, FAST, became fully operational on Saturday, quadrupling the amount of the universe astronomers can examine.

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China Finally Boots Up Colossal Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

On opposite side of the Earth's core lie two massive, mysterious blobs of ultrahot ancient rock that have scientists locked in a decades-long disagreement.

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Geologists Baffled By “Massive Anomalies” at Edge of Earth’s Core

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

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Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Department of Energy will build the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a cutting-edge particle collider, at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

DOE: New York Will Be Home to a New Particle Collider

By Kristin Houser

A study of mass mortality events involving feral pigs could yield insights that help Australia repair its ecosystem after its devastating brushfires.

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15 Tons of Rotting Feral Pigs May Help Save Australian Ecosystem

By Kristin Houser

A new report suggests that the U.S. military might be holding on to more footage of a mysterious 2004 "unidentified aerial phenomenon" UFO encounter.

US Military Admits It Has Secret Footage of UFO Incident

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German researchers have finally solved the mystery of a mysterious seismic humming first discovered in November 2018: an underwater volcano.

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Scientists Find Source of Bizarre Worldwide Humming Noise

By Victor Tangermann

The Radcliffe Wave is an unbroken stream stars and stellar nurseries 9,000 light-years long — and it may be the biggest structure in the Milky Way.

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Wave of “Stellar Nurseries” May Be Our Galaxy’s Biggest Structure

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have found a way to increase the lifespan of C. elegans worms fivefold, which would be equivalent to a human reaching the age of 500.

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Scientists Extend Lifespan of Worms by 500 Percent

By Kristin Houser

Two stars that make up the binary system called V Sagittae some 1,100 light years away are going to collide in an enormous explosion around 2083.

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These Two Stars Will Collide in a Spectacular Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

NASA released a new panorama image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Aside from looking cool, it could help reveal how the galactic core operates.

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Check Out This Incredibly Beautiful New Image of Our Home Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

While the massive Australian fires were often treated as a local story, they could have massive, far-reaching effects on the global environment and climate.

The Huge Australian Fires Could Change the Entire Earth’s Climate

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Italy claim to have discovered two new cannabinoids, including one they say is 30 times more potent than THC.

Newly Discovered Weed Compound Is 30 Times More Potent Than THC

By Kristin Houser

Startup Ao Air has announced a $350 face mask called the Atmos Faceware, a gadget that promises to protect its wearer against dangerous air pollution.

This $350 Breathing Mask Is Cashing in on Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

For the second time ever, scientists found a repeating radio burst from deep space. This time, it came from a galaxy that resembles the Milky Way.

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Astronomers Capture Repeating Radio Burst From Spiral Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Intense cosmic rays given off by short-lived stars are bombarding a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, from within.

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Intense Stellar Activity Is Ripping Apart a Nearby Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

The fires currently raging in Australia are turning New Zealand's glaciers brown and potentially speeding up their melting.

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The Fires in Australia Are Turning Distant Glaciers Brown

By Kristin Houser

A team of astronomers combined data from three different NASA observatories to create a 3-D visualization of the Crab Nebula.

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Check Out the 3D Wreckage From This Exploded Star

By Victor Tangermann

The local government overseeing Fukushima has vowed to supply the region with 100% renewable energy by 2040, The Guardian reports.

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Fukushima Plans to Power Region With 100% Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT scientists belive that the magnetic field of the Moon was caused by a crystallizing iron core "dynamo" about a billion years ago.

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MIT: A “Dynamo” Inside the Moon Shut Down a Billion Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced the Earthshot Prize, an initiative designed to solve Earth's greatest environmental problems before 2030.

UK Royals’ “Earthshot Prize” Aims to Save the Planet by 2030

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Stanford have created a silicon microchip that can act as a particle accelerator — a kind of scientific instrument that usually is far larger.

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This Tiny Particle Accelerator Fits on a Microchip

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he's figured out how to build a time machine that would allow someone to travel to the past.

Astrophysicist Says He Knows How to Build a Time Machine

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.

Scientists: Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible by 2050

By Dan Robitzski

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.

Pentagon Urges Military Members to Skip At-Home DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

It's becoming increasingly likely that Japan's decision will be to dump the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima power plant into the ocean.

Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Go Into the Ocean or Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.

The Military Is Unprepared for Nuclear Strikes on Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.

The Coolest (and Scariest) Military Tech of 2019

By Kristin Houser

A team of physicists at Lancaster University have found that LEGO bricks are excellent insulators a couple of millidegrees above absolute zero.

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LEGO Bricks Are Excellent Insulators at Cryogenic Temps

By Victor Tangermann

The year 2019 was filled with weird, comical, and truly "WTF" moments that had us scratching our heads. Here's the craziest science and tech news of 2019.

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JFC: The Most WTF Science and Tech Moments of 2019

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just shared new information on the bizarre class of exoplanets that they'e named "super-puffs" due to their cotton candy-like fluffiness.

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These Rare Exoplanets Have the “Density of Cotton Candy”

By Dan Robitzski

Medical researchers gave Alzheimer's patients LSD to see how it affected their cognition. The treatment seemed safe, paving the way for future studies.

Doctors Are Giving Alzheimer’s Patients LSD

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a single speech that he both “doesn’t understand wind” and has “studied it better than anybody.”

Donald Trump Doesn’t Seem to Know Anything About Wind Power

By Kristin Houser

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.

Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant Began Generating Electricity

By Dan Robitzski

Authorities have identified the green slime oozing onto a highway in Michigan as groundwater contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical.

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Green Slime Oozing Onto US Highway Tracked to Illegal Waste Site

By Kristin Houser