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Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

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A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

People from the Russian town Kiselyovsk want to gain entry to Canada as environmental refugees. Coal mining operations in their town have made it unlivable.

Residents Are Trying to Flee Russian Town Where Snow Turned Black

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.

An Interstellar Object May Have Just Entered Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

An electrical engineer at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness electricity from a dark night sky to power an LED.

This Solar Panel-Like Device Can Generate Electricity in the Dark

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.

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Uh Oh: The Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Is “Getting Hungrier”

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Bad actors could covertly create weapons of mass destruction using a combination of 3D printers and artificial intelligence, experts warn.

Report: Terrorists Could 3D Print Weapons of Mass Destruction

By Kristin Houser

When storage room for Fukushima's radioactive water runs out in 2022, one government official thinks the nation will start dumping it into the ocean.

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Japan Might Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Pacific

By Kristin Houser

A new delivery drone called the Silent Arrow GD-2000 could replace military airdrops, delivering supplies by drones to battlefields at half the cost.

Gliding Delivery Drones Could Replace Military Airdrops

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet nine times Earth's mass and 111 light years away.

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Astronomers Spot Water — and Maybe Rain — on a Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are starting fires in space to learn more about fuel combustion. They hope it can make engines more efficient here on Earth.

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NASA Is Starting Fires in Space Just to Watch Them Burn

By Dan Robitzski

A Swedish scientist has suggested humans might need to turn to cannibalism to survive food shortages brought about by climate change.

Scientist Suggests New Response to Climate Change: Cannibalism

By Kristin Houser

That Chardonnay in your glass comes from wine grapes which carry a fascinating genetic quirk. Researchers at the University of California...

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Scientists Sequence Genomes of Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.

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Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to ban flavored vaping products in the state as part of a push to keep residents from falling victim to vape lung.

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Flavored Vapes

By Kristin Houser

A survey of 14 well-known comets traced them all back to the same point in space and time, suggesting that the comets of our solar system are all related.

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Scientists: Birthplace of All Comets Could Explain Life on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

China claims its Yutu-2 lunar rover has stumbled upon an unsually colored "gel-like" substance on the bottom of an impact crater on the Moon.

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China Claims Its Moon Rover Found a Colorful “Gel-Like” Substance

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors examining sufferers of the deadly vape lung sickness sweeping the U.S. have identified a rare type of cell in the patients' lungs.

Doctors Identify New Link Between “Vape Lung” Sufferers

By Kristin Houser

An MIT-funded robotic agriculture project that promised anybody the instant ability to successfully grow food is snake oil, according to Business Insider.

Report: MIT’s Much-Hyped Robotic Agriculture Project is a Sham

By Victor Tangermann

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart

By Victor Tangermann

In areas where access to abortion is limited, Google Maps sometimes directs people looking for clinics to anti-abortion facilities instead.

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Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

By Dan Robitzski

Breaking: India Has Lost Communication With Lunar Lander

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Breaking: India Has Lost Communication With Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

The Boknis Eck Observatory, an underwater research facility that monitored environmental conditions off the coast of Germany, has vanished without a trace.

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An Underwater Research Station Has Vanished Without a Trace

By Dan Robitzski

A third person has died from the vaping-related sickness sweeping the U.S., prompting health officials to urge people to put a halt to their e-cig usage.

Third Person Dies From Vaping-Related Epidemic

By Kristin Houser

On Friday afternoon, India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will attempt to land on the Moon. If it works, India will be the fourth country to ever do so.

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India Is About to Attempt a Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese man paid $35,000 to have his cat cloned, only to receive a cat that, while biologically identical to the original, doesn't look like it.

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This Guy’s $35,000 Cat Clone Looks Nothing Like the Original

By Kristin Houser

Health officials have a promising lead in their investigation of a strange vaping-related illness sweeping the United States: vitamin E acetate.

This Chemical May Be Causing Vaping-Related Deaths, Hospitalizations

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists is preparing to release a world first: video footage of an enormous black hole devouring vast clouds of gas.

Astronomers Say They’ll Soon Release First Video of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

A new attempt to explain the mysterious giant bubbles that sandwich our galaxy fell short; astronomers couldn't reconcile the data with any hypotheses.

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Scientists Baffled by Giant Bubbles Sandwiching Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Companies like Postmates that have launched fleets of delivery robots still depend on human operators to occasionally grab the wheel.

Why a Former Military Drone Pilot Now Steers Burrito Delivery Bots

By Dan Robitzski

A second person has died from an illness contracted after vaping, and the THC product they'd vaped was legal in their state.

Mysterious Vaping-Related Sickness Kills Second Person

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”

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Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”

By Victor Tangermann

An Illinois resident had died from a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, and officials still aren't certain as to its cause.

Officials Announce First Death From Vaping-Related Illness

By Kristin Houser

A massive international study debunked the long-standing myth of a so-called "gay gene." The genetic links to sexual orientation are far more complex.

Huge Study Conclusively Debunks the “Gay Gene” Myth

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.

Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with "CBS This Morning," JUUL Labs CEO Kevin Burns called the rash of respiratory illnesses related to vaping "worrisome."

JUUL CEO Tries Blaming “Worrisome” Vaping-Related Illness on THC

By Kristin Houser

In an inexplicable tweet, DARPA called all city dwellers to please find them "commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities."

DARPA Needs a Creepy Underground Lair ASAP

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists think they've detected a bizarre black hole that, at 100 times the mass of our sun, is twice the theoretical size limit.

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Spotted: A Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be Physically Possible

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with an extremely elliptical orbit that sets it apart from any other known planet.

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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is “Unlike Any Other”

By Kristin Houser

Vaping Black-Market Cannabis Oil Is Putting People Into Comas

By Kristin Houser

A team of astrophycisists came up with a way to construct a traversable wormhole that could fling objects or astronauts to another end of the universe.

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Physicists Publish Instructions For DIY Wormhole

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have created a theoretical model of Saturn that posits that the gas giant's liquid interior is viscous, flowing like honey.

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Saturn’s Interior May Actually Flow “Like Honey”

By Kristin Houser

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.

The Pentagon Wants Sentinel Satellites to Deter Space Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just activated its Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), starting off its year in Earth's orbit after launching in June.

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NASA Officially Activates Its “GPS for Deep Space”

By Victor Tangermann

The DEA will begin reviewing applications from researchers interested in growing marijuana, finally making good on a 2016 promise.

DEA Announces Plan to Expand Researchers’ Access to Marijuana

By Kristin Houser

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes Pluto is a planet — but not because he thinks the scientific definition of planethood is flawed.

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Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

By Kristin Houser

Fortnite players who downloaded what they thought was software to help them cheat instead got hit by a ransomware attack demanding crypto payments.

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New Ransomware Steals Crypto From Fortnite Players

By Dan Robitzski

President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested nuking hurricanes before they can reach the U.S., several anonymous sources told Axios.

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Report: Trump Has Repeatedly Suggested Nuking Hurricanes

By Kristin Houser

A Canadian company is building a geothermal energy project so benign, its CEO claims you could "literally put it in someone's backyard."

This Geothermal Energy System Could Be Built in a Backyard

By Kristin Houser

A Danish initiative imagines 3D printers that can walk, fly, and swim, navigating the world autonomously to repair roads, reefs, and high rises.

Designers Want to Give 3D Printers Legs, Let Them Wander the Earth

By Kristin Houser

With the Amazon Rainforest burning away and sequestered carbon being released, the global environment is rapidly approaching the point of no return.

Scientists Warn Of “Cascading System Collapse” in Amazon Rainforest

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese first that creates cloned pets says it's considering ways to use artificial intelligence to clone animals memories.

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Chinese Firm Wants to Give Cloned Pets the Original’s “Memories”

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that other exoplanets could feasibly serve as a better host for life than Earth does, if they fit certain criteria.

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Earth Might Not Be the Most Hospitable Planet out There

By Dan Robitzski

Newly-released photos on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu reveal rocks that appear similar to ancient meteorites that crash-landed on Earth.

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Rocks on a Distant Asteroid Resemble Those on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

An increasing wave of companies are launching bizarre space PR stunts, sending various products into orbit. They could fund NASA's future.

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Annoying PR Stunts Could Fund the Future of Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have build what they claim is the world's smallest engine. And it's only the size of a single calcium ion.

The World’s Smallest Engine is the Same Size as a Single Ion

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Scientists Will Use a Supercomputer to Simulate the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shared a chainmeme to his Instagram and Twitter feeds, apparently unaware that it was a hoax.

Instagram Hoax Fools Department of Energy Head Rick Perry

By Kristin Houser

Abiogenesis: 7 Scientific Theories for the Origin of Life… and One New One!

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Abiogenesis: 7 Scientific Theories for the Origin of Life… and One New One!

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.

Elon Musk: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Space Command, the military's 11th united combatant command, will launch next week, according to Mike Pence's announcement.

Officials: US Space Command Will Launch This Month

By Dan Robitzski

Retail giant Walmart is suing Tesla, claiming that the company's solar panels ignited seven of its stores' roofs, CNBC reports.

Walmart Sues Tesla, Claims Solar Panels Are Setting Fire to Stores

By Victor Tangermann

U.S. Army General Paul Funk found that the Army is woefully unprepared for informational warfare in the future, and that logistical systems are outdated.

This General Says the US Army Is Outgunned in Information Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

India's Chandrayaan 2 space probe is now orbiting around the Moon, putting it in position to attempt a landing in early September.

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India’s Space Probe Is Now Orbiting the Moon

By Dan Robitzski