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For the first time, scientists created a liquid magnet. But they're still figuring out how the magnet, created by accident, works.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that C. auris evolved the ability to infect and kill humans thanks to climate change, specifically rising global temperatures.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Quantum Darwinism, a mind-bending theory that pulls from biology to reconcile quantum mechanics and classical physics, holds up in three sets of tests.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists should be expected to better justify all of the billions of dollars their experiments cost.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at the University of California found that there could be way more ice water on the surface of the Moon than we initially thought.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Human Brain Project, which ten years ago promised to model an entire human brain, failed to deliver. Scientists suspect it was doomed from the start.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of hackers stole 7.5 terabytes of information from a company working for Russian intelligence, revealing a number of troubling projects.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Authorities in Colombia have quarantined four plantations after noticing symptoms of the banana disease TR4 amongst the crops.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.
Energy

By Kristin Houser

Henk Rogers wants to build a lunar spaceport so that all the billionaires building shiny new rockets actually have someplace to land.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese space station Tiangong-2 incinerated as planned during its scheduled decommissioning on Friday. Now there's video footage of the event.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new smart glove makes VR more immersive by making the virtual objects people touch feel as though they're really there.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they were able to make mice hallucinate by stimulating just 20 of their brain neurons, raising new questions about the human brain.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Research suggests that the Earth's core and mantle have been swapping tungsten and hafnium for the last 2.5 billion years.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new lightweight knee brace generates electricity as people walk around, potentially charging medical devices or wearables.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A major conservation organization just added over 7,000 more species to its endangered "Red List." The next stop on the list is extinction.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Pharma startup Multiply Labs wants to 3D print customized pills that combine all necessary prescriptions at exact doses.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

China is about to decommission its Tiangong-2 space station by rocketing it toward a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean dubbed the "spacecraft cemetery."
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

The upcoming "Cats" movie will use something called "digital fur technology" to turn stars like Taylor Swift into giant cats.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have built a quantum gate incorporating qudits as opposed to qubits — and it could help usher in the era of quantum computing.
Quantum Physics

By Kristin Houser

The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a Russian nuclear sub caught fire, killing 14. Now, a Russian Navy official says that the deceased crew averted a "planetary catastrophe."
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

It may be possible to terraform Mars by blanketing future space farms with a thin layer of aerogel that blocks radiation and heats the ground.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to capture photographic evidence that two photons were linked by quantum entanglement.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded project will be trying to find out if life could ever exist in Titan's ocean — and if it does, how to look for it.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Carbon capture will be key to addressing climate change, and now, scientists have found a gene that could make plants better at capturing and storing CO2.
Renewable Energy

By Kristin Houser

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

News recently broke about worms that had allegedly been frozen in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years. It turns out they're probably a lot younger.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Sterling Backus is 3D printing a full-scale Lamborghini Aventador-inspired supercar in his own backyard with the help of his son.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods, the fake meat company behind the plant-based Impossible Burger, is now working on a recipe for plant-based fish meat.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.
Nuclear Fusion

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a two-in-one device that purifies salty or contaminated water while simultaneously producing solar power.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Amazon and Microsoft are bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract for a wartime cloud computing system, but lawsuits over favoritism slowed the process.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who were melting permafrost ice to look for ancient microbes were surprised to see a pile of 41,000 year-old worms wake up and wiggle around.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

We need to create a World Carbon Bank to incentivize developing nations to go green, according to Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have detected over ten radio bursts from distant galaxies in the last week. The sudden frequency could help us figure out what's causing them.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

A town in southern France called Villevieille just hit the country's hottest ever recorded temperature of 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.
Quantum Physics

By Kristin Houser

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann