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SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).

Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

By Victor Tangermann

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

By Kristin Houser

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.

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New Laser Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing takes the RoboBee to the next level by sporting solar cells and an extra pair of wings for more stable flight.

This Minuscule Robotic Bee Only Uses Solar Energy to Fly

By Victor Tangermann

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.

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Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

By Dan Robitzski

Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new theory as to what may be causing marsquakes.

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New Theory: Marsquakes Could be Caused by Frozen Groundwater

By Victor Tangermann

Sydney became the first major Australian city to declare a state of emergency to prevent the worst effects of climate change on Monday.

Sydney Is in a State of Emergency to Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.

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Someone Hacked Global Telecom Companies. Experts Blame China.

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.

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Mars Had a Chance to Grow Life 4.4 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

By Kristin Houser

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.

Startup Unveils World’s First Long-Range “Solar Car”

By Kristin Houser

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The Tibet Air Shower Array has detected extremely high-energy photons from the Crab Nebula, which is some 6,500 light-years away from Earth.

Crab Nebula Has Hit Earth with Highest-Energy Light Ever Recorded

By Kristin Houser

Ocean waves are slamming plastic pollution against an island's coastline, causing a potentially dangerous plastic crust to form on the rocks.

Why Is a Strange Plastic Crust Spreading on This Island’s Coast?

By Kristin Houser

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

By Dan Robitzski

Dozens of newly-uncovered climate studies that were buried by Trump's USDA reveal how major foods like rice are becoming less nutritious.

Trump Admin. Hid Climate Reports Warning of New Dangers

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.

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New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's defense minister recently announced that the country has begun combat tests for both lasers and hypersonic weaponry.

Russian Military Actively Testing Lasers, Hypersonic Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

As the technology becomes cheaper and more common, surgeons may find themselves routinely practicing for an operation with 3D-printed organs.

Prepping for Surgery With 3D-Printed Organs May Become Commonplace

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers hijacked critical computer networks in Riviera Beach, Florida. Without another option, the city paid a $600,000 ransom in Bitcoin.

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Florida City Pays Hackers $600,000 to Restore Hijacked Network

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study.

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Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life

By Kristin Houser

A British student was just convicted today by London police of manufacturing a firearm using a 3D printer, according to Agence France-Presse.

UK Student Convicted for 3D Printing Gun

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered a glue that's both strong and reversible — so of course they used it to suspend an engineering student from the ceiling.

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Snail-Inspired Glue Can Paste You to the Ceiling, Then Let You Go

By Kristin Houser

The first expedition for Boaty McBoatface has taught researchers something new about how climate change in Antarctic waters affects the rest of the world.

Boaty McBoatface Makes Major Discovery on Maiden Voyage

By Kristin Houser

Earlier this month, researchers from Australia's Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration published research containing a dire warning: prevent and reverse climate change or face the end of human civilization as we know it.

Doomsday Report Author: Earth’s Leaders Have Failed

By Dan Robitzski

The inward migration of a recently formed exoplanet is causing never-before-seen structures to form in its host star's protoplanetary disk.

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A Baby Exoplanet Is Creating Strange Dust Rings Around Its Star

By Kristin Houser

DARPA wants contractors to develop an "air-breathing" hypersonic weapon. Now Raytheon is ready to test a missile that can travel 5x faster than sound.

New Missile Lobs Nukes 5x Faster Than Sound

By Dan Robitzski

Through the IAU100 NameExoWorlds competition, every country on Earth has the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.

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Here’s Your Chance to Name an Exoplanet and Its Star

By Kristin Houser

As global temperatures rise, the Arctic is melting away, releasing more greenhouse gases and revealing previously-frozen nuclear waste and diseases.

The Melting Arctic Is Releasing Poison, Disease and Nuclear Waste

By Dan Robitzski

Security experts detect trillions of attempted hacks every day, many of which target political systems and elections using cheap, readily-available tools.

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Hackers Are Threatening Elections Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

During a closed-doors audience at the Vatican, the Pope told oil executives that we need to find an energy solution that doesn't sacrifice the environment.

Pope to Oil Execs: “Energy Use Must Not Destroy Civilization”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe a past galactic collision with Antlia 2 is to blame for large ripples in the Milky Way's outer hydrogen gas disc.

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We Live in the Wreckage of an Epic Galactic Collision, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

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After a Year Away from Earth, Scott Kelly’s “Space Genes” Set Him Apart From His Twin

Researchers discover that leopard geckos can regenerate parts of their brain, potentially opening up a new area of research in treating the human brain.

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Geckos Can Regenerate Parts of Their Brain, Which Could Help Us Heal Our Own

By Kristin Houser

A Defense News investigation has revealed many problems with the military's in-development F-35 fighter jet that had previously gone unreported.

US Military’s Trillion-Dollar F-35 Fighter Jet Is Almost Unflyable

By Kristin Houser

Experts argue that geoengineering, the umbrella term for hacking the planet to mitigate climate change, could lead to global conflict.

How Geoengineering Could Lead to World War III

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher has discovered a new phase known as the "cold quasar" that could upend our understanding of galaxies' lifecycle.

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“Cold Quasar” Discovery Sheds Light on Galactic Death

By Kristin Houser

A new report finds that the U.S. military is the single largest producer of greenhouse gasses in the world, emitting more carbon than several countries.

The War on Terror is Murdering the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Science posters don't always work as intended, and that's because they suck — but a student in Michigan has a plan to change that.

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Science Posters Suck. So Let’s Reinvent Them.

By Kristin Houser

New research found grapes used in modern winemaking related closely 28 archaeological grape seeds dating to the Iron Age, Roman era and medieval period.

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Wine Grapes Haven’t Changed Much Genetically Since Ancient Rome

According to the Department of Energy, geothermal energy could become a major player in the future of American electricity generation.

Energy Dept: Geothermal Power Has “Enormous Untapped Potential”

By Dan Robitzski

The USDA has found gentically modified wheat growing in a field in Washington state — and it's not the first time the GMO plant has cropped up unexpectedly.

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GMO Wheat Escapes Lab, Grows in the Wild

By Kristin Houser

The Canadian government has announced it will ban single-use plastics by 2021. It will examine scientific evidence first to come up with a list of items.

Canada Announces Ban on Single-Use Plastics

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental study is exploiting so-called "jumping genes" that selfishly copy and paste themselves throughout the genome to improve CRISPR.

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Experimental CRISPR Study Exploits “Selfish” Genes

By Kristin Houser

Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a new law that prohibits internet companies from selling user data without those people's explicit permission.

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Maine Bans Internet Companies From Secretly Selling User Data

By Dan Robitzski

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers has produced the most detailed black hole simulations ever — and then used them to solve a 40+ year mystery.

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Scientists Produce Most Precise Black Hole Simulations Ever

By Kristin Houser

New models show that scientists could use lasers and powerful magnets to manipulate superconducting materials or build quantum circuits.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Can Enhance Electronics by Shooting Them With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

By Victor Tangermann

A new study examined heavy internet users and found both structural and physical changes to their brains. Their memories and attention spans both suffered.

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Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory

By Dan Robitzski

There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it's a perfect mirror image. And it could explain dark matter.

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Bizarre Theory: “Mirror-Image Universe” Could Explain Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI

By Victor Tangermann

Not only are quantum jumps predictable, they can also be reversed, according to a new Yale study that could benefit quantum computing research.

Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head

By Kristin Houser

A distressing Australian climate change analysis has some pretty bad news: human civilization is set out to collapse by 2050 if we ignore climate change.

New Research: Human Civilization Will Likely Collapse By 2050

By Victor Tangermann

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

By Dan Robitzski

Two scientists have invented a device that can create its own source of electricity from an extremely abundant and renewable source: falling snow.

New Device Generates Electricity From Falling Snow

By Victor Tangermann

$Chinese researchers say that replacing water with atmosphere-polluting carbon dioxide could make fracking more eco-friendly.$

Fracking With CO2 Instead of Water Is Greener, Say Researchers

By Kristin Houser

The universe is speckled with voids that are totally empty, except for the dark energy that's pushing galaxies apart. That's where scientists should look.

Dark Energy Could Be Hiding In The “Cosmic Void” Between Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

A Brooklyn wholesaler has been charged with selling the U.S. military gear made in China that could have endangered troops' lives.

Scammed: US Military Spent $20M on Fake Gear Made in China

By Kristin Houser

Australian pilots recently had to land after Chinese boats reportedly aimed lasers at them. Now China is denying responsibility for the incident.

Australia: Chinese Lasers Forced Military Pilots to Land

By Dan Robitzski

As of Monday, a kilogram is now defined by the relationship between energy and mass as opposed to a metal cylinder in France.

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Scientists Just Redefined the Kilogram

By Kristin Houser