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NASA astronauts were treated to an amazing sight on June 22, 2019 when the Raikoke Volcano in Eastern Russia erupted into a massive cloud of dark smoke.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered 20 more tiny moons orbiting Saturn, meaning the gas giant is the new record holder within the confines of our solar system.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, the center of the Milky Way galaxy exploded in a huge flare-up of hot gas. And an explosion might explode again in the future.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are learning more and more ways to gene-hack new traits into animals, including genetic alterations that could enhance their intelligence.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Based on rover findings, NASA scientists envision Mars' Gale Crater to once have resembled the Altiplanos, the high altitude regions of South America.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A visit to the seafloor at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill revealed a nightmarish landscape populated by gruesome, tumor-filled sea life.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have figured out a way to implant memories in the brains of young zebra finches, thereby teaching them how to sing.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Six of the 10 authors behind a controversial mosquito study are calling for its retraction, saying they never approved the version that was published.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Scientists finally managed to directly observe the cosmic web, a vast network of hydrogen gas that connects and feeds galaxies.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope are upping the ante: they just announced plans to capture real-time video of our galaxy's central black hole.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The lung tissue of people suffering from a mysterious vaping-related illness exhibited damage similar to that of lungs exposed to poisons.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Strange balls of fire rained down on a Chilean island last week and astronomers have no idea what they are. Geologists have already ruled out meteorites.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado State University have found "strong links" between air pollution exposure and "aggressive behavior."
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers found traces of organic compounds in plumes that burst from Saturn's moon Enceladus. A sign of life if all the conditions are right.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The newly discovered exoplanet NGTS-10b has set a new record for shortest orbit, zipping around its star in just 18.4 hours.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected some "peculiar sounds" thanks to its onboard seismometer that's capable of picking up on the tiniest of vibrations.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a decade-long study by a team of scientists, human activity emissions total up to 100 times more than all volcanoes combined.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Newly-shared pictures of the cotton plant China briefly grew on the Moon shows that it fared a little bit better than previously thought before freezing.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A nuclear engineer in Russia was just fined $7,000 for using his top-secret lab's supercomputer to illegally mine Bitcoin at work.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes that were mere years away from finding life on Mars thanks to the next generation of future Mars rovers.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers spotted what's believed to be the oldest collection of galaxies in the known universe.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a new investigation, NBC News tested bootleg vape cartridges — and found that they all contained a chemical that can turn into hydrogen cyanide.
Chemistry

By Jon Christian

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.
Science & Energy

By Natalie Coleman

Researchers say new observational equipment could help spot hundreds more interstellar visitors, like 'Oumuamua, every year.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard warns that the field of math could be full of nonsense, as many prominent researchers don't double-check others' proofs.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Wally Conron, the first person to breed a labradoodle, regrets his experiment and says he opened Pandora's box by creating the crossbreed dog.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

After three years of tests, China is opening up its gigantic 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to astronomers from all over the world.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA has launched a criminal investigation into the vaping-related sickness that has now killed 9 Americans and left hundreds of others ill.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Researchers used to think quasars took thousands of years to form. Then they caught six galaxies transitioning into quasars in a matter of months.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The US military PR unit took to Twitter to "joke" that it would attack anyone who tried to storm Area 51 with a stealth bomber.
Military

By Kristin Houser

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

To Our Readers: Why Futurism Isn’t Publishing Today
Climate Change

By Foster Kamer

China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back images of a strange new substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Distant galaxies are being killed off and rendered unable to form new stars. Now, astrophysicists are trying to figure out why.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

The Japanese government has suggested it may dump contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, but experts say it's too dangerous.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers from West Virginia University claim they've discovered the most massive neutron star to date.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Pengyi Li from China attempted to smuggle sensitive spacecraft and military missile components out of the U.S. according to documents obtained by Quartz.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

There's a small chance that a defunct space habitat collides with a retired Russian satellite on Wednesday, illustrating the threat of space debris.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

On Jupiter's moon Io, the strongest volcano in the solar system is likely about to erupt within the next couple of days, according to new calculations.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After hackers revealed flaws in the F-15's cybersecurity, the Air Force plans to invite white hat hackers to probe an active satellite for vulnerabilities.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to Ars Technica, cutting-edge research into ultra-powerful lasers could pulse a laser "through fabric of the Universe."
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Japanese auto giant Toyota has partnered with a local energy company to test a Prius hybrid that's almost entirely covered in solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

An AP investigation shows that a troubling number of CBD products are spiked with synthetic marijuana, which can cause comas, psychotic behavior, and death.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

People from the Russian town Kiselyovsk want to gain entry to Canada as environmental refugees. Coal mining operations in their town have made it unlivable.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

An electrical engineer at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness electricity from a dark night sky to power an LED.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski