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Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

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Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

By Jon Christian

According to a study published earlier this month in journal Genome Biology and Evolution, woolly mammoth genes had many bad mutations from inbreeding.

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So, Uh, the Last Woolly Mammoths Were Inbred, Mutated Wretches

By Foster Kamer

What’s The Highest Known Temperature?

What’s The Highest Known Temperature?

By Jolene Creighton

In October 2019, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to snap a photo of a massive active dust devil — and you can now see it for yourself.

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NASA Snaps Photo of Epic Dust Devil on the Surface of Mars

By Kristin Houser

Rather than euthanize lab animals after testing, the Food and Drug Administration is now allowing sanctuaries and shelters to adopt the critters.

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You Can Now Adopt Lab Animals That the FDA Experimented On

By Kristin Houser

Journals have retracted seven papers co-authored by spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt after his co-authors find evidence he falsified data.

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Scientist Who Said Spiders Have Personalities May Have Faked Data

By Kristin Houser

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.

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Next NASA Mars Rover Will Sport a Rock-Vaporizing Laser

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.

Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence researchers are studying the brain waves and eye movements of gamers to train an AI that can control fleets of military robots.

DARPA Is Using Gamers’ Brain Waves to Train Robot Swarms

By Kristin Houser

A team of Cornell University researchers have spotted a fast radio signal source that pulses on an astonishingly regular 16-day cycle.

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Powerful Radio Signal From Distant Galaxy Seems to Have a Pattern

By Victor Tangermann

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.

UN Secretary-General: “A Wind of Madness Is Sweeping the Globe”

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a binary star system called HD101584 after a particularly violent and close fly-by.

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This Epic Star Battle Looks Like Something From a “Thor” Movie

By Victor Tangermann

Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...

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If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Army is working with chemists to develop fabrics that can absorb and neutralize nerve agents for use in future military uniforms.

The US Army Is Developing Fabrics That Neutralize Nerve Agents

By Kristin Houser

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.

Nuclear Waste Storage Containers Break Down When Exposed to Water

By Dan Robitzski

Several climate change simulations predict drastically worse warming per level of greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting the problem is worse than thought.

Several Climate Change Simulations Just Snapped Into Doomsday Mode

By Dan Robitzski

An updated NASA animation reveals what the world would look like if all of Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes slowly vanished.

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Amazing Vid Shows How Earth Would Look If All Its Oceans Dried Up

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

By Kristin Houser

There’s something remarkably human in our search for aliens among the stars and goal of learning more about life in general to learn more about ourselves.

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Could Searching for Alien Life Attract Hostile Extraterrestrials?

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have released into the wild a strain of genetically engineered diamondback moths that could suppress the pest population in a sustainable way.

Scientists Release Genetically Engineered Moths for First Time

By Kristin Houser

There's a decent chance that two satellites will collide this evening, potentially releasing a cloud of hazardous debris into orbit.

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Two Satellites May Collide Today, Exploding Catastrophically

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released the highest resolution images of the Sun's surface ever taken using the largest solar telescope in the world.

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The Highest Def Photo of the Sun Looks Like Caramel Popcorn

By Victor Tangermann

A new study has found that the Pacific Ocean's increasingly acidic water is dissolving the shells of newly hatched Dungeness crabs.

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The Ocean Is Getting so Acidic That It’s Dissolving Crabs’ Shells

By Kristin Houser

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