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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

As the planet heats up, climate change has melted the snow off of Mt. Everest, revealing the remains of long-dead climbers.

Climate Change Is Thawing out the Corpses on Mt. Everest

By Dan Robitzski

Hungary is planning on building a fully carbon-neutral town from the ground up in the northwest of the country to boost fruit and vegetable production.

Renewable Energy

Hungary is Building a $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Town From Scratch

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists created a sonic black hole in the lab and then took its temperature — and the measurement seems to confirm a prediction made by Stephen Hawking.

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Scientists Just Took the Temperature of a Lab-Made Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state scientists claim to have developed a network of meter-long radar systems capable of spotting and tracking stealth aircraft.

China Says New Tech Can Detect Stealth Jets Including F-22, F-35

By Dan Robitzski

The Navy will outfit a destroyer with the HELIOS laser weapon system for the first time in 2021, and hopes to upgrade the technology from there.

The US Military Is Officially Rolling out Its HELIOS Laser Weapon

By Dan Robitzski

An anaconda gave birth via parthenogenesis, where it produced offspring without mating. Now, scientists confirm that the offspring are genetic replicas.

The Science Behind an Anaconda’s “Virgin Birth”

By Dan Robitzski

Pet cloning results in animals with shorter life spans and many more health problems than non-cloned animals, according to one animal ecology professor.

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Pet Cloning Is Getting Cheaper — but It’s Still Horrifying

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that a cascade of supernovae could have been instrumental in human evolution by creating an environment where bipedal animals thrive.

Bizarre Theory: Supernovas Kickstarted Human Evolution

By Dan Robitzski

The Earth's oceans are gradually leaking into the interior of the Earth — though nowhere near fast enough to cancel out climate change.

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New Research: The Oceans Are Slowly Leaking Into the Earth

By Jon Christian

By studying the plasma in the Sun's atmosphere, we could learn how to control it here on Earth and finally make fusion energy a reality.

Studying the Sun’s Atmosphere Could Make Fusion Power a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.

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Asteroid Flying by Earth Is so Big It Has Its Own Moon

By Kristin Houser

Scientists discover a superconductor that works at temperatures nearly 50 Celsius degrees (84.6 Fahrenheit degrees) hotter than the previous record high.

Scientists Set New Temperature Record for Superconductivity

By Kristin Houser

Using a highly sensitive algorithm, German astronomers have discovered 18 new exoplanets, including one that "could offer conditions friendly to life."

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Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”

By Kristin Houser

23andMe and other DNA ancestry companies can revise people's results as they gather more data and update their database about genetic information.

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23andMe Is Updating Ancestry Results Without Telling Users

By Dan Robitzski

Next year, NASA will launch a small spacecraft that will carry yeast cells into orbit around the Sun. Scientists hope to study how radiation affects DNA.

NASA Is About to Send the First Living Organisms Into Solar Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA has officially funded a program to come up with a brain-machine interface headset that could allow soldiers to control drones with their minds.

DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists from Stanford University are arguing that we should be converting methane into more carbon dioxide to help with climate change.

Scientists’ Startling Idea to Fight Climate Change: More CO2

By Victor Tangermann

In order to prevent devastating hypersonic missile strikes, military contractor Raytheon is working towards a powerful laser capable of shooting them down.

Raytheon Says Laser Weapon Will Blast Nuclear Missiles From Sky

By Dan Robitzski

Putin: Russian Military Has “Science Fiction” Laser Weapons

Putin: Russian Military Has “Science Fiction” Laser Weapons

By Jon Christian

Researcher from the University of Queensland figured out how to stamp an image of the "Mona Lisa" onto gaseous quantum matter.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Create Quantum-Scale “Mona Lisa,” Just for Funsies

By Kristin Houser

Science writer Philip Ball donated some arm flesh to a lab that grew a miniature brain out of his cells. It made him question how we define humanity.

A Lab Grew a “Mini Brain” From This Guy’s Cells. Then Things Got Weird.

By Dan Robitzski

Radioactive waste may be leaking from a concrete-covered "coffin" in the Marshall Islands and into the Pacific Ocean, warns the UN's secretary general.

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UN: A “Radioactive Coffin” May Be Leaking Into the Ocean

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Military Is Buying a $130 Million Laser Weapon

The U.S. Military Is Buying a $130 Million Laser Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

A tiny 11 pound solar sail spacecraft is finally launching into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket this summer.

SpaceX is About to Launch a Solar Sail Inspired by Carl Sagan

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has created CRISPR snails with shells that coil counterclockwise — a trait that is extremely rare in nature.

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Scientists Used CRISPR to Make Mirror-Image Snails

By Kristin Houser

When Victor Vescovo broke the record for deepest ocean dive, he noticed what he believes was a plastic bag and some candy wrappers in the deep sea.

Diver Reaches Record Ocean Depth — and Finds a Plastic Bag

By Kristin Houser

A new truck built for the Chinese military is capable of launching up to 12 drones, sort of like a smart, precision artillery strike.

Chinese Military Truck Launches Killer Drones Like Artillery

By Dan Robitzski

A research center at Cambridge University will explore how to fight climate change with geoengineering solutions like re-freezing the North and South Pole.

Cambridge Researchers Want to Re-Freeze the Earth’s Poles

By Dan Robitzski

A group of scientists want to declare the greater expanses of the solar system as official "space wilderness" to protect celestial bodies from space mining.

Scientists: We Need to Protect the Solar System from Space Mining

By Victor Tangermann

More than 180 nations, not including the United States, have agreed to new rules controlling the movement of plastic waste globally.

United States Refuses to Join Plastic Waste Pact

By Kristin Houser

A new video demonstrates how a nonprofit plans to build a 3D-printed neighborhood for low-income families in Latin American this summer.

Watch a 3D-Printed Neighborhood Spring up From Nothing

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say they've devised a carbon capture system that captures atmospheric carbon in water — and uses the reaction to generate electricity.

New Carbon Capture System Generates Electricity by Sucking up CO2

By Jon Christian

A mounting body of evidence suggests that spacetime is created by the properties of quantum physics, not unlike a hologram projection.

Quantum Physics

Our Reality Could Be a “Hologram” Created by Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

A team from Berkeley has found a way to make recycled plastic far more useful by breaking the bonds between chemicals in the material.

This New Plastic Can Be Recycled Repeatedly

By Kristin Houser