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Researchers have discovered new evidence of a fifth force of nature, and if confirmed, the work could help us understand dark matter.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

A group of researchers are eager to get back to exploring the far reaches of the universe and send a probe on a NASA mission into interstellar space.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new mission plans to determine once and for all whether spacetime is a smooth fabric or a chunky mess of discrete units.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Over 30 years after it blew up, astronomers finally spotted the cosmic wreckage — a neutron star hidden in a dense cloud of dust — of a famous supernova.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A group of scientists are suggesting that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are surrounded by, and devour, much smaller "baby black holes."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists found evidence that ribose, a key sugar in genetic molecules, may have come to earth through the impacts of meteorites.
Evolution

By Dan Robitzski

People are creating realistic avatars of celebrities or their own exes and having sex with them in virtual reality, raising issues of consent and privacy.
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

A professor speculating about simulation theory suggests that ghosts and other paranormal sightings could be signs that our simulated reality is glitching.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers are finding that the 122 satellites SpaceX has launched so far are already ruining the night sky, showing up as bright trails in observations.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA found a weak supermassive black hole in the Phoenix Cluster billions of light years away that is not strong enough to stop stars from forming.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New NASA research found that Neptune has two moons that are locked in a strange orbital dance in order to "maintain the peace."
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A team out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has confirmed traces of water vapor being released above Jupiter's moon Europa.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists used a powerful supercomputer to create a new simulation that lets you see a galaxy form over the course of 13.8 billion years.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists used data collected by the European Space Agency's Cluster mission to map out Earth's "eerie song" it sings during a solar storm.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Companies in India like Oxy Pure are selling customers access to pure oxygen as the area's air pollution becomes increasingly dangerous.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

A haunting quest to source a viral video of a man apparently capturing catfish using Coca-Cola brand soda, Mentos, and an ordinary egg.
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.
DARPA

By Kristin Houser

When British teen Ewan Fisher was 16 years old, he took up vaping. Within five months, he was in intensive care on two forms of life support.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Kanye West just shared a new shoe prototype from his Yeezy fashion line — and the kicks contain environmentally friendly algae foam.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Rising global temperatures could lead to more unplanned explosions of military ammunition stockpiles, experts told Scientific American.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Nine year old Belgian genius Laurent Simons is on track to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering this year. He plans to grow artificial organs.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a new paper, an international team of quantum physicists argue that thanks to the unusual rules of quantum mechanics, reality is actually be subjective.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Sussex have found a way to create cutting-edge holograms that you can not only see but also hear and even feel.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Phil Schiller, the head of marketing at Apple, argues that students with Chromebooks in their classroom instead of iPads won't succeed.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe started making its long trek back to Earth after collecting asteroid rock samples some 186 million miles away.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles argues that we need a better way to describe how the beginning of the universe happened than the "Big Bang."
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

California’s Air Protein says it’s figured out how to make meat from thin air — by building on an idea NASA had in the 1960s.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Academics in South Korea are naming kids — theirs, their friends, or others — as coauthors on their papers to help with college admissions.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Several witnesses to the U.S. Navy's 2004 UFO encounter have detailed the immediate aftermath of the event, and that the video was seized by the military.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A nuclear tomb full of radioactive material is at risk of busting open as climate change causes both sea levels and temperatures to rise.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

After 30 years, conservationists have finally confirmed using camera traps that the deer-like silver-backed chevrotain is not extinct.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Not only could SpaceX's satellites interfere with radio wavelengths, they're already proving to be brighter than expected.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Astro Live Experiences is just about ready to send its long-promised, artificial shooting star-launching satellite into orbit.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Galaxies millions of light years away seem to be connected by network of unseen forces, forcing them to move with each other in unexpected ways.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New CDC research solidifies scientists' hunch that a compound called vitamin E acetate is causing the ongoing "vape lung" outbreak.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists use an electron microscopy science technique called 4D-STEM to image the molecular structure of materials with the beautiful result of art.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A number of Trump advisers have offered their "modernized" vision of national parks and campgrounds, including WiFi, food trucks, even Amazon deliveries.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an unsinkable metal by using lasers to etch an air-trapping pattern onto an aluminum structure's surface.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from the University of Cambridge believe a nueral network could solve the three-body problem much faster than existing computer software.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it does not contain much good news.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Instead of crafting a complex code to share mathematical and scientific knowledge with aliens, the best way to communicate might be using our lanuages.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth with the help of Northrop Grumman..
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just funded a study to determine the feasibility of a Pluto orbiter, which would provide a much closer look at the dwarf planet than New Horizons did.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In a new paper, cosmologists argue that the shape of the universe is more like an inflating balloon than a flat sheet of paper.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have 3D-printed skin that's alive and has blood vessels.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with NBC, theoretical phycisist Sean Carroll argues that there "are multiple worlds where you made different decisions."
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

A peer-reviewed academic journal has made the bizarre choice to publish a paper that says women are inherently worse at physics despite knowing it's flawed.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an exoplanet that should've been swallowed by its Sun during the red giant evolutionary stage — but they could still pinpoint its location.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

While the U.S. doesn't have a social credit score system like China, several shadowy companies are using private data to do something similar in the U.S.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Yet another study has calculated the Hubble Constant and come to a different conclusion, raising more questions about the nature of our universe.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Hyperstealth Biotechnology has filed a patent on a new invisibility cloak material that bends light to make objects disappear.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers claim to have spotted a tiny black hole that's only 20 kilometers across. That's tiny.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

While studying hypersonic jet propulsion, a team of engineers stumbled upon the mechanism that could've led to the Big Bang.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

The Keystone Pipeline just had a spill of over 380,000 gallons of crude oil into North Dakota wetlands, the latest in a line of catastrophic oil spills.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Ohio State University claim to have discovered an entirely new and previously missing class of black holes.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann