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Tesla Solar is now giving homeowners in six states the option of renting its solar panels for as little as $50 per month, with a $1,500 uninstall fee.

You Can Now Rent Tesla Solar Panels for Crazy Cheap

By Kristin Houser

NASA has announced it's completing the final designs and planning for constructing and testing a spacecraft that will visit Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

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NASA is Sending a Probe to Jupiter’s Icy Moon to Look for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found out that a potentially-habitable exoplanet can't support an atmosphere, ruling it and similar worlds out in the search for alien life.

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Astronomers Just Drastically Narrowed the Search for Alien Life

By Dan Robitzski

A new experiment looking for dark energy came back with nothing, helping scientists narrow down future searches for the mysterious force.

Experiment to Detect Dark Energy Turns Up Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they spotted the supernova of the largest star to ever detonate, giving them a glimpse into the universe's past.

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This Is the Most Brutal Supernova in Recorded History

By Dan Robitzski

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."

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Those Obviously-Fake Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Still Tweeting

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

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Jupiter May Have Absorbed a Smaller Planet

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Comcast Is Gouging People Who Watch Too Much Netflix

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.

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Astronomers Detect Eight New Potential Alien Signals

By Kristin Houser

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

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Future Bioweapons Could Kill People With Specific DNA

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Rain Clouds Are Dropping Microplastic on the Rocky Mountains

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.

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Assault Rifles Won’t Solve Your Feral Hog Problem, Say Scientists

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.

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Bernie Sanders Tells Joe Rogan He’d Declassify Aliens as President

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 Is Officially a TikTok Meme

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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A Neutron Star “Glitched” — and Scientists Noticed Something Amazing

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.

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Hackers Are Roasting a Terrible Sponsored Talk at Black Hat

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Found a Way to Create Millions of Virtual Universes

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.

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The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Just Did Something Wild

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.

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Radioactive Dust From an Ancient Supernova Is Buried in Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

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

See How Ice-Making Submarines Could Help Refreeze the Arctic

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.

In Three Years, Fukushima Could Overflow With Radioactive Water

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.

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Something Enormous Just Smashed Into Jupiter

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.

Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic

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.

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A Russian Rocket Exploded, Causing a Radiation Spike

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.

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Hipster Asteroids Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon Before It Was Cool

By Dan Robitzski

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Scientists Brewed Vodka With Grain From Chernobyl

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Wild Concept: Build Trash-Sucking Skyscrapers on Ocean Oil Rigs

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.

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New Research: There May Have Been Dark Matter Before Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Discover an Entire Population of Ancient Galaxies

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.

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Scientists Just Found a Dead Star Lodged Inside Another Star

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 Sail” Spacecraft Climbs Two Miles of Orbit Using Sun 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.

CDC Shuts Down Military Germ Lab Due to Safety Concerns

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.

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Researchers Create First-Ever “2D Gold,” Just Two Atoms Thick

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

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Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

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.

A Half-Degree Temperature Rise Will Kill 30,000 in China Per Year

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.

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Mars-Journey Levels of Radiation Seriously Damaged Mouse Brains

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.

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“City Killer” Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth Almost Undetected

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Hackers Are Cracking Online Banking Sites to Steal Your Cash

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.

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Crashed Moon Lander Splattered Live Organisms Onto Lunar Surface

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."

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Astronomer: We Can Use Earth’s Atmosphere as a Massive Telescope

By Kristin Houser

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

US Army Doubles Down on Directed Energy Weapons

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.

Researchers 3D Print Functional Components of Human Heart

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.

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Scientists Are Reportedly Growing Human-Monkey Embryos in China

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.

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Finally, Porn Is on the Blockchain

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.

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

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.

Yang’s Climate Plan: “Start Moving Our People to Higher Ground”

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.

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Scientists Just Found a Hellish Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

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.

This Strange Solar-Powered Drone Could Save You in a Disaster

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.

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Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Eugenics, Cryogenics

By Dan Robitzski

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

Astronomers Want to Use Bacteria to Mine Space Rocks

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."

The Military Secretly Built An “Artificial Brain” Called Sentient

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.

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Satellite Spots “First Nearby Super-Earth” That Could Harbor Life

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.

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Ancient Meteor Strike Deluged Mars With Planet-Scale Tsunami

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.

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Nearby Star System Looks to Be Ideal “Lab” for Exoplanet Studies

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.

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Startup’s Tech Vaporizes Trash From Overflowing Landfills

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.

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Study: Icy Planets Could Be Warm Enough to Harbor Life

By Victor Tangermann

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

Did Russia Cover Up a Radiation Leak 100x Worse Than Fukushima?

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.

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New Research: Every Transistor Has a “Unique Quantum Fingerprint”

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.

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These Bizarre Objects May Have “Seeded” Supermassive Black Holes

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.

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Princeton Unveils Plasma-Powered Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Unraveled Why Some Tiny Galaxies Have Huge Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski