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After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new lawsuit claims that JUUL shipped a million contaminated vape pods to customers and then fired an exec for voicing his concerns about it.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center believe the recently discovered interstellar comet 2I/Borisov may hold water.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released an image for Halloween that looks like a ghostly face but is actually two galaxies colliding some 704 million light-years away.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report found that Army soldiers' heavy reliance on bottled water won't be sustainable in the future due to climate change.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A tracked eagle spent five months in an area without data coverage, racking up enough roaming charges to wipe a research team's entire budget.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A free-to-play video game like Oregon Trail called "Climate Trail" imagines an apocalyptic world in which we failed to fight climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just publicly presented the first ever images of the German space agency's (DLR) X-ray telescope eROSITA. And they're magnificent.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Dubai has unveiled the world's largest two-story 3D-printed building, a 31-foot-tall structure covering an area of 6,889 square feet.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

A team of MIT engineers claims to have built a carbon capture system that could remove carbon dioxide from the environment at an industrial scale.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Population control wouldn't solve climate change, several experts recently told CBC News, as it doesn't address a number of other contributing factors.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Scientists from Harvard University found the smallest possible size planets can be before it loses its atmosphere and chances of sustaining life.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Venus is covered in mountains made of crystal, which scientists now think are formed by lava made of "crystal mush" that squeezes through the crust.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The world's largest 3D-printed boat took just 72 hours to construct using the world's largest 3D printer — and it didn't even push the device to its limits.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Los Angeles is working with TechniSoil Industrial to repave a road using a mixture of recycled plastic and existing asphalt.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Temperatures are so high in Qatar, the nation has begun air conditioning its open-air sports stadiums, malls, and markets.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A newly discovered monster galaxy fills a gap in astronomers' understanding of galactic formation soon after the birth of the universe.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers have spotted a rocky planet with three suns, which greatly increases its chance of having its own atmosphere.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

With Google's quantum computer superiority, we can look at 10 million billion states at every one time and solve complex problems much faster than before.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

People with celiac disease may finally be able to enjoy foods with gluten thanks to a new nanoparticle technology developed at Northwestern University.
Nanotech

By Kristin Houser

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

New data reveals that hospitals in the United Kingdom treat more patients for heart attacks and strokes on days with worse air pollution.
Pollution

By Kristin Houser

A strange "contaminant" hitchhiked on the glove of NASA astronaut Christine Koch's spacesuit and made its way back into the station.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

California-based company Made in Space is launching a special machine to the ISS that can turn plastic waste into feedstock for the comapny's 3D printer.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

California just legalized eating roadkill, but only if people sign into an app to log the crash and get meat salvage permit.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The ozone hole above Antarctica is the smallest it's been since scientists first began observing it in 1982, according to NASA and the NOAA.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The China Lunar Exploration Program has released a new photo of the mysterious "gel-like" and "colored" substance found by its Moon rover.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Over the past six months, hundreds of endangered species, especially the Helmeted Hornbill, have illegally gone up for sale on Facebook.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the University of Richmond, Virginia have taught rats how to drive tiny cars around a track to get to a food reward.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A famous supernova has a cloudy, cotton candy-like appearance. Finally, scientists think they may have an idea of where its bizarre clumps came from.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As lab-grown mini brains become increasingly complex, some neuroscientists warn that scientists may be creating and killing off sentient life.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Severe storms can actually shake the ocean floor, causing "stormquakes," according to a newly published study of seismic activity.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new technique for Identifying stranded whales in satellite imagery could make it possible for conservationists to detect strandings sooner.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Space.com delves into the the history of research into the star, and finds that though scientists have made some progress, the mystery remains unexplained.
Physics

By Jon Christian

The One Daily Science and Technology Newsletter You Absolutely Need to Read
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

Using data gathered by the Hubble space telescope, astronomy professor Paul Karas created a remarkable video of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

NASA required SpaceX to undergo review to make sure workers weren't getting high after Elon Musk smoked weed. But, inexcplicably, NASA paid for it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are getting closer to cracking the physics of warp drive, according to aerospace engineering professor Jason Cassibry.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

China is building a flying saucer-like experimental attack helicopter, and according to state media, it could fly as soon as 2020.
Military

By Jon Christian

To find out what teens are smoking, two researchers collected trash from the grounds of 12 high schools over the course of eight months.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

At least six of the smaller galaxies orbiting the Milky Way were stolen from one of its other satellites, according to new research.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A Yahoo software engineer hacked 6,000 people's accounts in a systematic, far-reaching hunt for nudes and other sexually-explicit media.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

In an unusual stunt, former Paralympian and bronze medal winner James Brown glued himself to the top of a British Airways plane at a London airport.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

France is assembling a "red team" of sci-fi writers to help it predict what sorts of technologies it might face on the battlefield of the future.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Big tech companies have by and large avoided the blackouts in California, as they're powered by more robust transmission lines.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin argues we already discovered we're not alone in the universe during NASA's Viking mission to find life on Mars in 1976.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Navy "UFO "scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais has filed another bizarre patent. This time, it's for a compact nuclear fusion reactor.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out how to breed hornless bulls by editing their genes, providing a painless alternative to horn-removing procedures.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

electrons are round
Physics

By Dom Galeon

According to a new essay, several companies trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors believe they're getting pretty close.
Energy

By Cameron McCloskey

Researchers have recorded a video of pigs using tools, a hallmark of advanced intelligence exhibited by only the smartest species.
Evolution

By Kristin Houser

Starting Wednesday, the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric will turn off customers' power to prevent its aging infrastructure from causing wildfires.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a paper, NASA scientist Jeremy Schnittman argues that it's pretty unlikely planets that orbit black holes could harbor life.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann