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During Thursday's debate, Bernie Sanders suggested cutting the military's bloated budget and putting it towards a more important fight: climate change.

Bernie Sanders: Spend Money on the Climate Instead of Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.

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Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Marijuana can literally change a user's heart, enlarging its left ventricle and impairing function, according to a new study.

New Research: Marijuana Changes Heart Structure

By Kristin Houser

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.

The Army Wants to Generate Electricity Inside Soldiers’ Boots

By Dan Robitzski

Ocean acidification is literally eating away at sharks' skin, destroying the layer of tiny scales that helps them swim and hunt.

Our Acidic Oceans Are Eating Away at Sharks’ Skin

By Dan Robitzski

The internet has a shockingly large environmental impact, and data centers are giving off an increasing amount of carbon emissions. Something has to give.

In the Face of Climate Change, the Internet Is Unsustainable

By Dan Robitzski

China says its HL-2M tokamak should be operational in 2020, and the “artificial sun” could potentially make nuclear fusion a viable energy option on Earth.

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China Expects Its “Artificial Sun” to Be Operational in 2020

By Kristin Houser

If companies are given free rein to scrape the ocean floor for precious minerals, entire undiscovered ecosystems will be snuffed out.

This Plan to Mine the Ocean Floor May Erase Whole Ecosystems

By Dan Robitzski

The Earth's magnetic north pole has been wandering towards Siberia at an increasing pace that has scientists scratching their heads.

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Earth’s Magnetic Field is Doing Something Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Russia is pouring big money into quantum research in a bid to catch up to other world leaders' quantum computer programs.

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Russia Desperately Wants a Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.

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Check Out This Hypnotic Array of Colossal Storms on Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that Mars auroras — the Red Planet's version of the Northern Lights, are far more common than previously thought.

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Majestic Auroras Sweep the Martian Sky Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.

Scientists Are Working on Spray-On Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.

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Strange “Cocoons” Surround These Young Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.

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NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

By Dan Robitzski

Thousands of engineers have been designing and working on a gigantic intergovernmental radio telescope network called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).

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Africa Unveils Massive Alien-Hunting Antenna Network

By Victor Tangermann

A proposed NASA space telescope called HabEx would use a gigantic sail to filter out the light from distant stars while hunting new exiplanets.

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Scientists Want a Giant Folding Space Telescope to Find Earth 2.0

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.

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Europe is Launching a Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Tomorrow

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.

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Astronomers May Have Been Wrong About The Milky Way’s History

By Dan Robitzski

A hundred lights that have appeared and disappeared in the night sky over the past 70 years could be signs of the existence of aliens.

Newly Discovered Blinking Space Lights Could Be Signs of Aliens

By Kristin Houser

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.

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Scientists Spot One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever: MAMBO-9

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.

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Stare Into the Brutal Maw of This Barbarous Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

Nonprofit New Story has unveiled the first 3D-printed houses in what will eventually be a community boasting 50 of the unique homes.

These Adorable 3D-Printed Houses Could Solve Homelessness

By Kristin Houser

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."

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Our Galaxy Might Have — Two! — Black Holes at Its Center

By Kristin Houser

Russia is launching a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don't collide with Earth.

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Russia Is Working on Its Own Plan to Blow up Killer Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

A true mad scientist bred 97 different kinds of broccoli and mapped their DNA. The verdict? all of them were "delicious."

A Researcher Grew 97 Kinds of Broccoli and Sequenced Their DNA

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists have come up with a solution to the time travel paradox that requires a very large — but not infinite — number of parallel histories.

Paradox-Free Time Travel Possible With Many Parallel Universes

By Victor Tangermann

A new study reveals that extreme weather events have been linked, almost without fail, to the worsening effects of climate change.

Study: Many Extreme Weather Events Were Caused by Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A viral video uploaded on Wednesday by college student Erica Church shows her physics professor David Wright jovially pull off some amazing tricks in class.

Adorable Physics Prof Finally Gets His Viral Moment of Fame

By Victor Tangermann

New radar maps and digital models reveal a massive underground valley beneath Greenland, including a thousand-mile-long "Dark River."

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Scientists Discover “Dark River” Under Greenland

By Dan Robitzski

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.

Our Attempts to Kill Rats Are Making Them Evolve at Super Speed

By Kristin Houser

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

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MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

After analyzing the atmospheres of 19 exoplanets, researchers determined that 14 contained water vapor — more than they'd anticipated.

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Survey Finds That Water Is Common Around Exoplanets

By Kristin Houser

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has resurfaced his idea to turn 10,000 square miles in the U.S. desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation.

Elon Musk Is Talking About Powering All of America with Solar

By Victor Tangermann

TIME magazine has chosen 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year for launching a global movement.

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s Person of the Year

By Kristin Houser

The World Wildlife Fund published a report arguing that if we want to stop the worst impacts of climate change, world leaders need to take stronger action.

WWF: Climate Change Efforts Need “Dramatic Increase” in Response

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA has built an AI that can create a detailed 3D model of an object in less than 100 milliseconds from just a single image of it.

New AI Can Create a 3D Model of an Object From a Single 2D Image

By Kristin Houser

Scientists encoded instructions for creating a 3D-printed plastic bunny in DNA and then embedded the DNA right in the bunny itself.

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This Plastic Bunny Has DNA Explaining How to Make More Bunnies

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is reportedly testing bullets that can be shot underwater.

The U.S. Military Is Reportedly Testing Underwater Bullets

By Victor Tangermann

Elizabeth Warren just announced a package of environmental protection policies focused on the ocean that she's calling the Blue New Deal.

Elizabeth Warren Announces Ocean-Protecting “Blue New Deal”

By Dan Robitzski

a recent discovery about 1,600-foot space rock Bennu has scientists scratching their heads: it keeps spitting up small asteroid particles.

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NASA Baffled: Asteroid Bennu Keeps Spitting Out Small Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

The Tennessee Aquarium's electric eel, Miguel Wattson, can control the lights on a Christmas tree next to his tank through his shocks.

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Watch an Electric Eel Light up a Christmas Tree

By Kristin Houser

Scientists built a new remote acoustic survey tool to track wild frog populations. The best part is they decided to name it the FrogPhone.

Scientists Built a “FrogPhone” to Remotely Survey Frog Habitats

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control has released a list of vaping brands EVALI sufferers said they used prior to contracting the lung disease.

CDC: These Are the Brands Linked to the Vaping Epidemic

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

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New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A woman developed a rare disease called "cobalt lung" after vaping marijuana for just six months, according to a new case study.

Doctors Think Vaping Gave This Woman a Rare Lung Disease

By Kristin Houser

Oregon startup Silo Wellness created a nasal spray that delivers precise amounts of the magic mushroom compound psilocybin with each pump for microdosing.

This Startup Made a Nose Spray for Microdosing Psilocybin

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.

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Organism That Eats Meteorites Could Help Us Find Alien Life

By Kristin Houser

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.

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Scientists Find Dead Star Roasting Its Giant Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists observed surprisingly complex behavior from a single-celled organism that strongly resembles active decisionmaking.

This Single-Celled Creature Is Weirdly Smart

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

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19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.

DARPA Scientist: Engineers Must Stop Making Autonomous Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Four new papers reveal new findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe that could rewrite the way we understand the way stars are born, evolve, and die.

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Scientists Mystified: Sun’s Magnetic Field Appears to be Flipping

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.

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Watch NASA’s New Footage of a Comet Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese construction company Winsun has finished building a 3D-printed river revetment more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) long.

China Just Completed the World’s Largest 3D-Printed Structure

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers developed a new trick that will help them determine whether so-called Earth-like exoplanets actually have their own atmospheres.

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Scientists’ New Trick Can Tell if an Exoplanet Has an Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.

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NASA Suggests Giant Dust Storms Blew Mars’ Water Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers stole the personal data of women who bought plus-size clothing, selling the records to online advertisers who can now target the victims.

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Hackers Stole, Sold Data of Women Who Bought Plus-Sized Clothes

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just unveiled its new quantum computer cloud service, Braket, which will give developers a chance to test out their quantum applications.

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Amazon Is Now Letting Anyone Run Programs on Its Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that fish would flock to dead coral reefs if researchers blasted the sounds of a healthy reef from nearby underwater speakers.

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Fish Rave: Loudspeakers Draw Wildlife to Dead Reefs

By Kristin Houser

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.

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NASA Is Sending Dummies Around the Moon to Test Cosmic Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.

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Russia Wants to Build an Observatory on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.

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Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Department released a new report detailing its goals and plans for creating cyborg soldiers by the year 2050.

US Military Warns of “Augmented Human Beings”

By Dan Robitzski