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

Watch a Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Designed for Military Use

By Kristin Houser

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

Astronomers Spot Black Hole the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Accidentally Recreate Big Bang Detonation in the Lab

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.

The US Said This Pipeline Would Have “No Impact.” Now It’s Leaking Crude Oil.

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.

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Scientists Discover New Class of Tiny Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

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

Someone Hacked India’s Nuclear Power Plants

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.

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark 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.

Former Juul Exec: Company Shipped a Million “Contaminated” Pods

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.

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This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA Scientists Say Interstellar Object May Hold Alien Water

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.

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Colliding Galaxies Look Like the Glowing Eyes of a Ghostly Face

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.

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US Army Says Thirsty Soldiers Are Drinking Too Much Bottled Water

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.

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Eagle With Tracking Device Racks up Enormous Roaming Charges

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.

This Game Is “Oregon Trail” Meets Climate Catastrophe

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.

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Here Are The First-Ever Images From the Dark Matter Telescope

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.

Watch a Massive 3D-Printed Building Take Shape

By Kristin Houser

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

Scientists Detect the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

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.

MIT Scientists Say They Found a New Way to Scrub Atmospheric CO2

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.

Experts: Population Control Won’t Solve 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.

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Life Could Evolve on Tiny Planets With 3% of Earth’s Mass

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.

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Venus Is Covered in Gigantic Crystal Volcanoes

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.

Watch a Giant 3D Printer Spit out an Entire Boat

By Kristin Houser

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins

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NASA Engineer Says New Thruster Could Reach 99% Speed of Light

By Jon Christian

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

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Los Angeles Is Building a Road From Recycled Plastic Bottles

By Kristin Houser

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

Qatar Is Air Conditioning the Outdoors to Battle 120-Degree Heat

By Kristin Houser

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

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Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

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.

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Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Find Evidence of A “Monster Galaxy” Like No Other

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.

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

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.

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This Rocky World With Three Suns May Have an Atmosphere

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.

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Here’s Why Quantum Supremacy Matters

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.

UN Scientists: We Could Pause Global Warming With $300 Billion

By Kristin Houser

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

MIT Scientist: Capitalism Will Solve 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.

Nanoparticle Tech Reduces Celiac Disease Symptoms by 90%

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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.

Study: Strokes, Heart Attacks Spike on Days With Poor Air Quality

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.

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Something “Contaminated” Spacesuit During NASA Spacewalk

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.

New Machine on ISS Will Turn Trash Into “Ink” For 3D Printers

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.

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California Legalizes Eating Roadkill, But Only Through an App

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.

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Good News: The Ozone Hole Is Smaller Than We’ve Ever Seen It

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.

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China Releases New Pic of Weird Substance Its Moon Rover Found

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Traffickers Are Using Facebook to Sell Endangered Bird Skulls

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.

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Scientists Taught Rats How to Drive Tiny Cars

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.

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Here’s Why the Remains of This Supernova Look Like Cotton Candy

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Worried That Human Brains Grown in Lab May Be Sentient

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Some Storms Are so Strong They Shake the Ocean Floor, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

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

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Scientists Are Now Detecting Stranded Whales From Orbit

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.

This Star Appears to Be Older Than the Universe

By Jon Christian

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

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

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

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See a Video of the Interstellar Comet Created From Hubble Data

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.

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NASA Paid $5 Million to Make Sure SpaceX Workers Don’t Smoke Weed

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Professor: Progress Toward Warp Drive Has Been “Enormous”

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.

New Chinese Military Aircraft Looks Exactly Like a Flying Saucer

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.

Scientists Dug Through Teens’ Trash to See What They’re Smoking

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.

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Our Ravenous Galaxy Keeps Stealing Smaller Galaxies

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.

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Yahoo Engineer Admits He Hacked User Accounts to Hunt for Nudes

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.

Interstellar Object’s Home Solar System May Resemble Our Own

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.

A Climate Protester Just Glued Himself to the Top of an Airplane

By Victor Tangermann

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

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This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

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.

France Is Hiring Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Military Threats

By Kristin Houser

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

The CA Blackouts Are Oh-so-Coincidentally Not Affecting Big Tech

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.

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Former NASA Scientist “Convinced” We Already Found Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

Navy Scientist Known For “UFO-Like Tech” Patents Fusion Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Breed Hornless Bulls

By Dan Robitzski