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Physics Breakthrough: Quasiparticle Formation Was Observed for the First Time Ever

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

What You Need To Know About Fusion Energy

By Cameron McCloskey

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

Pigs Caught Using Tools in First-of-Its-Kind Video

By Kristin Houser

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

California Is Cutting Power For Nearly a Million Homes

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA Scientist Ponders Life on Planets Orbiting Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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Watching This Volcano Erupt From Space Is Absolutely Epic

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.

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Astronomers Just Found 20 More Moons Around Saturn

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.

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3.5 Million Years Ago, Our Galaxy Was Rocked by an Explosion

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.

Fringe Idea: Should We Gene-Hack Animals to Make Them Smarter?

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.

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NASA: Rover May Have Found Remnants of Ancient Martian Oasis

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.

The Deepwater Horizon Spill Created Horrific Mutant Creatures

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.

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TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

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.

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Scientists Zap Birds’ Brains With Light to Implant False Memories

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.

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Gene-Hacked Mosquito Researchers Are Battling Amongst Themselves

By Kristin Houser

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

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Here’s the First-Ever Pic Of “Cosmic Web” Connecting All Galaxies

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.

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Scientists Plan to Capture a Feasting Black Hole on Video

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.

Lungs of “Vape Lung” Patients Look Like They Inhaled Poison

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.

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Flaming Objects Falling From Sky Were Not Meteorites, Experts Say

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."

Study: Higher Air Pollution Linked to Increases in Violent Crime

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.

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Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

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.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark 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.

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Doomed Exoplanet Sets Record for Shortest Orbit Around a Star

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.

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NASA Mars Lander Detects Creepy “Dinks and Donks” Sounds

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.

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Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Volcanoes Combined

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.

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China Shares Photos of Its Doomed Moon Plant

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.

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Russia Punishes Guy Who Mined Bitcoin at Top-Secret Nuclear Lab

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.

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SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

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.

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NASA’s Chief Scientist is Oddly Terrified By Finding Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Astronomers Just Found the Oldest Galaxies in the Universe

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.

Investigation Finds Cyanide, a Literal Poison, in Vape Cartridges

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.

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Contaminating Mars With Microbes Could Kickstart Colonization

By Natalie Coleman

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

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Scientists Say We’ll Soon Discover More Interstellar Visitors

By Jon Christian

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

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Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

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.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong

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.

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Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

By Jon Christian

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

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

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.

Labradoodle Creator Says Dog Breed Is Insane, Diseased

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.

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China Opens Up Ginormous Alien-Hunting Telescope

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.

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Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

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

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

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.

What to Expect From the FDA’s Criminal Investigation into Vaping

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.

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Six Galaxies Just Suddenly Ignited Into Voracious Quasars

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.

US Military Threatened to Bomb “Millennials” Storming Area 51

By Kristin Houser

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

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NASA’s Mars Lander Detects Mysterious Magnetic Pulses

By Victor Tangermann

To Our Readers: Why Futurism Isn’t Publishing Today

To Our Readers: Why Futurism Isn’t Publishing Today

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.

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Here Are New Pics of That Weird Substance China Found on the Moon

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.

Australia Is Running out of Drinking Water

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astrophysicists Warn That Entire Galaxies “Are Being Killed”

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work

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.

Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

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.

Experts: Fukushima Water Is Too Dangerous to Dump Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Just Spotted the Most Massive Neutron Star Ever

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.

The U.S. Says China is Stealing Military Spacecraft Technology

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.

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A Derelict Space Habitat May Crash Into an Old Russian Satellite

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.

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A Giant Volcano on One of Jupiter’s Moons Is About to Erupt

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.

The Air Force Is Inviting Hackers to Breach a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

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New Lasers May Be Powerful Enough to Drill a Hole in Reality

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.

Toyota Wants to Slather Solar Panels All Over Its Prius Hybrid

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.

Some CBD Tainted With Substance That Causes Death, Comas, Insanity

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.

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Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularly

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.

Here’s a Pic of That Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

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.

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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps

By Dan Robitzski