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An army of clearly-fake "Amazon FC Ambassador" accounts once more flooded Twitter to brag about a job that offers great perks like "using a real bathroom."
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that Jupiter may have collided with and absorbed a giant protoplanet when the solar system was forming some 4.5 billion years ago.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Comcast customers are finding it harder and harder to stay within their data caps as streaming technology and quality improves.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have reported finding eight new repeating fast radio bursts, potential alien signals, brining the total number of known repeaters up to 10.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A report from Cambridge University warns of the risk of unregulated bioweapons that could target specific races by their DNA.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Atlantic: It’s Possible Dinosaurs Had a Whole Civilization
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

The day after the feral hogs meme was born, these researchers published a study about the very real problem the animals pose for farmers.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

During an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Bernie Sanders promised he'd tell the public about alien life if he was elected president.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

#globalwarning videos on Tik Tok show people slowly melting in the heat as global climate change gets worse and worse around them.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Nye: Green Energy Will Make You “Filthy $@!% Rich”
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists observed a neutron star "glitching" and rapidly accelerating. A look under the hood could finally explain why it happens.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A cybersecurity company called Crown Sterling gave a bizarre, buzzword-filled talk at the cybersecurity conference Black Hat and got roasted to oblivion.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Using a supercomputer, scientists simulated 8 million virtual universes — and discovered something new about galactic evolution in the process.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* flare up growing 75 times brighter than usual.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Radioactive dust from an ancient supernova was just found buried in Antarctica, helping scientists better understand what's outside our solar system.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

To address melting Arctic ice, a team of Indonesia designers proposes building and deploying submarines that could simply make more ice.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Jupiter got hit by something so big on Wednesday that a photographer was able to capture the impact using a telescope in his backyard.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Russia's massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian rocket engine exploded during a military test on Thurday, killing two people and causing a slight radiation spike in a nearby town.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

While the recent tardigrade spill on the Moon is bad news, it may not be the first time the resilient little creatures made their way to the lunar surface.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientsts brewed a single bottle of vodka using grains they planted in Chernobyl's radioactive Exclusion Zone. It's as safe to drink as any other brand.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Architectural designer Honglin Li wants to build a floating skyscraper in the ocean to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered 39 massive ancient galaxies — and they could inform our understanding of everything from black holes to dark matter.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers just found the remains of a dead star, one of the oldest in the universe, buried inside of another still-living red giant.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 has officially raised its orbit by just shy of two miles using its solar sail.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The CDC has ordered a military germ lab to "cease and desist" all research involving high-level disease-causing materials after a failed safetly inspection.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Scientists from the University of Leeds have created 2D gold — and they think it could improve everything from electronics to water purification systems.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that cosmic radiation is even more dangerous than we thought. Mice exposed to Mars-journey levels developed dementia-like symptoms.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A massive space rock called Asteroid 2019 OK just flew right past Earth reaching a distance of only 73,000 kilometers away from our planet's surface.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Financial aggregation services are giving hackers everything they need to access and empty wealthy targets' bank accounts.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed onto the surface of the Moon on April 11 spilling thousands of dehydrated "water bears" or tardigrades.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Columbia University's David Kipping thinks we could transform Earth's atmosphere into a planet-sized telescope he'd dubbed the "terrascope."
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

With new contracts awarded to weapons developers, the Army is pushing for new laser weapons capable of destroying drones and vehicles.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers just 3D printed functional components of the human heart using a specialized printer that's capable of printing suspended hydrogels.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are growing the first human-monkey hybrid embryos in a Chinese laboratory, according to a new story in Spanish newspaper El País.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new crypto platform called SpankPay wants to become the go-to payment service for porn and adult entertainment, circumventing more hostile financiers.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Andrew Yang says it's too late to stop some of the effects of climate change, and we should all migrate uphill to avoid floods.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have found that a distant exoplanet is so drawn by the gravitational pull from its host star, it's being deformed into the shape of a football.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

MOZI 2, a solar-powered drone with a wingspan of 15 meters, just successfully completed its maiden flight, according to Chinese media reports.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Jailed sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly met with prominent scientists for years to discuss his interest in eugenics and other fringe sciences.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from Cornell University claim they've found the first potentially habitable "super-earth," an Earth-like planet outside the Solar System.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New evidence suggests that Mars may have had a liquid ocean on its surface, and that meteor impacts caused a planet-sized tsunamis.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers believe a newly discovered trio of exoplanets just 73 light-years from Earth could serve as the ideal "lab" for future exoplanet research.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Startup Sierra Energy has found a way to vaporize trash, turning it into gases that can be used to create everything from fuel to fertilizer.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests that extraterrestrial life might be possible after all on distant icy planets that conventionally are thought to be too cold.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The massive radiation leak that plumed over Eastern Europe in 2017 was just definitively traced back to a Russian nuclear facility.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found out that tiny flaws in circuitry that disrupt the flow of electricity can act as a digital fingerprint for electronic devices.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the Big Bang — theoretical objects called "dark stars" — could have seeded supermassive black holes.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists just built a new plasma-powered thruster that could vastly improve the capabilities of a small satellite conducting research in space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Some galaxies called blue nuggets are unusually tiny but house gargantuan black holes. Astronomers finally think they know why.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found evidence that decade-long "megadroughts" devastated native societies in the Southwest. And another megadrought is on the way.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, global warming in the 20th century happened more quickly and pervasively than at any other time in the past 2,000 years.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A pair of orbiting white dwarfs are challenging what astronomers thought they new about the binary systems — and more insights are on the horizon.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The Air Force successfully launched the largest satellite into space yet. It will spend the next year learning about dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Stanford researchers have developed a "quantum microphone" that is so sensitive, it can measure individual particles of sound, otherwise known as "phonons."
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann