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The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.

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Spiral Formations on the Moon Appear to Deflect Cosmic Rays

By Dan Robitzski

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.

NATO Boss: Space Is Now a Military “Operational Domain”

By Kristin Houser

An app called Spelfie can take a picture of you from a satellite. The resolution won't be good enough to pick yourself out, but it can show for big groups.

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This App Takes a Picture of You From a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck?

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How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck?

By Jolene Creighton

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.

Our Solar System Is Blanketed in a Giant Wall of Fire

By Dan Robitzski

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

Physicists Discover Evidence of a New Force of Nature

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.

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It’s Official: NASA Is Considering an Interstellar Mission

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.

Satellite Mission Will Investigate Whether Reality Is Pixelated

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.

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Astronomers Just Found the Wreckage Cloud From a 1987 Supernova

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."

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Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

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.

NASA Says It Found Building Blocks of Life in Fallen Meteorites

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.

People Are Selling 3D Virtual Sex Models of Celebs, Exes

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.

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Computer Scientist: Ghosts Could Be Sign Universe Is Simulated

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.

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Unveils “Holy Grail” of Solar Energy

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.

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Astronomers: SpaceX’s Satellites Are Blocking View of Stars

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.

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NASA Finds Supermassive Black Hole Birthing Stars at “Furious Rate”

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."

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NASA: Neptune’s Moons “Dance” to Avoid Smashing Into Each Other

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.

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Scientists Confirm Water Vapor Above the Surface of Europa

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.

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Watch a Galaxy Form Over More Than 13 Billion Years

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.

Here’s What Happens When a Solar Storm Slams Into the Earth

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.

As Air Pollution Spikes, Indian “Bars” Sell Clean Oxygen

By Dan Robitzski

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Is That Viral Catfish/Egg/Coke/Mentos Vid Real? An Investigation

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

DARPA Is Engineering Glowing Bacteria for Bomb Detection

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.

UK Teen Needed Life Support After Vaping for Just Five Months

By Kristin Houser

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

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Kanye West Unveils Yeezy Sneakers Made of Algae Foam

By Kristin Houser

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

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Ammunition Stockpiles Are Exploding As Global Temps Rise

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.

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New Research: Astronauts Are Experiencing Cognitive Decline

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.

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A 9-Year-Old Genius Is Getting an Engineering Degree Next Month

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

Bizarre New Quantum Research: Reality Itself May Be Subjective

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.

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Scientists Create Holograms You Can See, Hear, and Feel

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.

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Apple Exec: Kids With Chromebooks Are “Not Going to Succeed”

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.

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Japanese Space Probe Returning to Earth, With Chunks of Asteroid

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."

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Nobel-Winning Scientist: I Have No Idea if the Big Bang Happened

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.

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to “Dark Universe”

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.

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This Startup Says It Can Create “Meat” Out of Thin Air

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.

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“Mind Boggling” Behavior of Oxygen on Mars Has NASA Stumped

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.

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Professors are Naming Their Kids as Co-authors in Academic Papers

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.

Veterans Claim Military Immediately Seized Video of UFO Encounter

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.

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A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

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.

Nuclear Waste Tomb Unlikely to Survive 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.

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Scientists Thought This Creature Was Extinct For 30 Years. Then It Returned.

By Kristin Houser

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

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Scientists: SpaceX Satellites Threaten “Astronomy Itself”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch

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.

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Something Very Strange Seems to Be Synchronizing Distant Galaxies

By Victor Tangermann

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

The CDC Says It Really Knows What’s Causing “Vape Lung” This Time

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.

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Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

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.

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These Photos Make Molecular Structures Look Like Psychedelic Art

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.

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Trump Advisers Want to Get WiFi, Amazon Deliveries in National Parks

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.

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India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Watch a Piece of Metal Refuse to Sink in Water

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.

Italy Will Soon Force Public Schools to Teach 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.

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This Neural Network Quickly Solves a Major Astronomical Problem

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.

11K Scientists: Please Panic, Climate Change Will Kill Us All

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.

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To Chat With Aliens, We Should Beam an Encyclopedia to Space

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..

The Air Force Is Trying to Beam Solar Power Down to Earth

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.

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NASA Is Seriously Considering a Pluto Orbiter

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.

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The Universe May Loop Around Like an Old Video Game

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.

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Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists 3D-Printed Living Skin, Complete With Blood Vessels

By Victor Tangermann

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

This Physicist Believes There Are Countless Parallel Universes

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.

Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal Claims Women Are Bad at 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.

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Did This Planet Survive Getting Swallowed By Its Sun?

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.

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Here’s How to Check Your Totalitarian “Social Credit Score”

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.

Scientists: Something About the Universe Doesn’t Look Right

By Kristin Houser