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

Research: Decade-Long “Megadrought” Could Roast American Southwest

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.

New Research: Global Temp Rising at Fastest Rate in 2,000 Years

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.

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Two Dead Stars Are Orbiting Each Other’s Corpses Incredibly Fast

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.

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The US Air Force Launched the Largest Uncrewed Structure in Space

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

This “Quantum Microphone” Can Listen to a Single Sound Particle

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Accidentally Created a Liquid Magnet

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 May Have Prepared This Superbug to Kill Humans

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.

Scientists: Harming the Environment Should Be a War Crime

By Dan Robitzski

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

LightSail 2 Spacecraft Officially Unfurls Massive Solar Sail

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.

Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests

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.

Physicist: Maybe We Don’t Need an Expensive New Collider

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.

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Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought

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.

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This Attempt to Simulate the Human Brain Fell Amazingly Flat

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.

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A Russian Intelligence Contractor Just Got Hacked

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Bad News: A Banana-Killing Fungus Has Likely Reached the Americas

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.

US Navy’s Energy Weapon Gets First “Kill,” Shoots Iranian Drone

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.

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The Guy Who Popularized “Tetris” Wants to Build a Lunar Spaceport

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.

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Watch a Chinese Space Station Burn up in Earth’s Atmosphere

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.

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Smart Glove Lets You Grip Virtual Objects

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.

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Scientists Made Mice Hallucinate by Shining Light Into Their Brains

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.

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The Earth’s Core Is Leaking, Baffling Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

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

Weird Gadget Uses Your Knee Motion to Charge Your Phone

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 Poised to Eradicate Over 7,000 More Species

By Dan Robitzski

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

This Startup Wants to 3D Print One Pill With All Your Prescriptions

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."

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China’s Tiangong-2 Space Station Will Fall Out of the Sky Friday

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’s “Squad X” Teams Up Soldiers With Scout Robots

By Dan Robitzski

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

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“Digital Fur Technology” Will Turn Taylor Swift Into a Cat

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.

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Facebook And Google Know All Your Kinks

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

Forget Qubits — Scientists Just Built a Quantum Gate With Qudits

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.

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Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

By Dan Robitzski

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

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NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

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.

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Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

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."

Russia: Dead Nuclear Sub Somehow Avoided “Planetary Catastrophe”

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.

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

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.

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A Thin Layer of Aerogel Could Make Martian Farming Possible

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Capture First-Ever Image of Quantum Entanglement

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.

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Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

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.

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NASA Organizes Huge Effort to Study Alien Life in Titan’s Ocean

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

Scientists Gene Edit Plants to be Better at Carbon Capture

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.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

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.

That Story About the Ancient Frozen Worms Might Be Bologna

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 Is Destroying Greenland’s Historic Viking Towns

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.

New Tool Helps Contain Molten Plasma in Fusion Reactors

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.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

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.

A Physicist and His Son Are 3D-Printing a Full-Scale Lamborghini

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.

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Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”

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.

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Impossible Foods Is Trying to Make Fake Fish Now

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.

This Sunken Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean

By Kristin Houser

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

New Device Purifies Water While Generating 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.

Amazon and Microsoft Want to Build A “War Cloud” for the 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.

Scientists Melted Ancient Ice and a Long-Dead Worm Wriggled Out

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

SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

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.

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Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

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.

Economist Calls for World Carbon Bank to Fight 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.

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Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

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

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

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.

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

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.

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Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

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.

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

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.

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

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.

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Possible Alien Radio Signals Way More Common Than Believed

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.

Here’s How You Can Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse

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 Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

By Dan Robitzski

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

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski