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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

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says melting sea ice in the Arctic is "opening new naval passageways and new opportunities for trade."

Tone-Deaf US Official: Melting Sea Ice Offers Trade Opportunities

By Kristin Houser

Research suggests that the edge of a tectonic plate off the coast of Portugal may be splitting in half, causing powerful underground earthquakes.

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This “Peeling” Tectonic Plate Could Cause Catastrophic Earthquakes

By Dan Robitzski

Brain scans of experienced Pokemon fans revealed a distinct region of the brain responsible for recognizing characters from the franchise.

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Scientists Identify “Pokémon Region” in Gamers’ Brains — Seriously

By Dan Robitzski

European scientists recently tested an unfathomably powerful laser. Next year, they expect to use it to develop new cancer treatments and study supernovas.

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out how to 3D print a functional "lung" made of inflatable air sacs that can oxygenate blood just like a real lung.

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

By Dan Robitzski

A massive new report by the United Nations concludes that a million species are under threat of extinction — and humans are to blame.

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United Nations: One Million Species Are Poised to Go Extinct

By Kristin Houser

Boston-based startup ClimaCell pulls data from cell phones, street cameras, connected vehicles, and drones to forecast weather conditions.

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This Startup Uses Cell Phone Signals to Forecast Weather

By Kristin Houser

Scientists are hoping a new upgrade at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could finally make fusion a reality by coating the reactor in lithium.

Scientists Have a New Idea to Make a Fusion Reactor Practical

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have identified two anti-CRISPR drugs, both of which prevent the technology from making edits when mixed with human cells.

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New Anti-CRISPR Drugs Could Prevent Creation of Killer Plagues

By Kristin Houser

Renewables produced more electricity in the U.S. than coal-fired plants in April, possibly signaling a tipping point in the transition to clean energy.

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Renewables Surpass Coal in the US for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests that the Moon formed after a Mars-sized object known as Theia slammed into a magma-covered young Earth.

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New Theory: The Moon Formed From Magma Blasted Away From Earth

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from Germany and Canada are proposing to turn old air conditioning units into devices that can turn harmful CO2 into fuel.

Retrofitted Air Conditioners Could Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

The black hole V404 Cygni was caught shooting plasma jets in rapidly changing directions — all while its gravitational pull dragged the fabric of spacetime.

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Bizarre Black Hole “Drags” Spacetime, Blasts Wobbling Plasma Jets

By Kristin Houser

Startup Prometheus is developing a machine that pulls carbon out of the atmosphere and transforms it into usable gasoline.

This Startup’s Making Tech to Convert Air Pollution Into Gasoline

By Kristin Houser

British startup Arborea will test the ability of its "BioSolar Leaf" technology to pull pollution from the air through a newly announced pilot project.

“BioSolar Leaf” Tech Will Pull Pollution from London Air

By Kristin Houser

In his new book, Oxford professor Young-hae Chi theorizes that invisible aliens are creating alien-human hybrids, perhaps as a response to climate change.

Oxford Academic: Invisible Aliens Are Breeding With Humans

By Kristin Houser

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

DARPA: This Smart Contact Lens Could Give Soldiers Superpowers

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a nanofiber yarn that allows damaged muscles and tendons to continue healing even without movement restrictions.

New “Nanofiber Yarn” Keeps Cells Alive While Injured Tissues Heal

By Kristin Houser

Japan's asteroid bomb created a crater much larger than expected, leading scientists to wonder if there's something they don't know about the asteroid.

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New Image Shows Aftermath of Japan’s Asteroid Bomb

By Kristin Houser

During a Reddit AMA, science communicator and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said he expects we'll discover the theory of everything by the year 2100.

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Michio Kaku Thinks We’ll Prove The “Theory of Everything” by 2100

By Kristin Houser

A new study tracked gun sales on the dark web. Surprisingly, only a small portion of the weapons sold were unavailable for legal purchase.

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People Are Selling Weapons on the Dark Web

By Dan Robitzski

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video of the asteroid bombing mission recently undertaken by its Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

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Japan Releases Video of Its Spacecraft Bombing an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists simulated every single one of the billion atoms found in a human gene. It may help them crack genetic disease.

Scientists Simulated Every Single Atom of a Single Gene

By Dan Robitzski

A crypto thief that security experts are calling the "blockchain bandit" made off with millions of dollars' worth of Ethereum by guessing weak passwords.

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Crypto Thief Stole $54 Million by Guessing Weak Passwords

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to develop new model organisms. But actually keeping the gene-hacked critters alive comes with new challenges.

Scientists Are Having Trouble Keeping Gene-Hacked Creatures Alive

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have figured out how a slime mold without a brain is still seemingly able to learn and transmit knowledge to other molds.

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Researchers Discover How a Brainless Slime Can Remember Things

By Kristin Houser

CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna believes the tech's most profound impact on the mainstream in the next five years will be gene-edited food.

CRISPR Co-Inventor: We’ll Be Eating Gene-Edited Food In Five Years

By Kristin Houser

By using 3D-laser scanning technology, there may still be hope for the full recovery and rebuild of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Fortunately, There Are Incredible 3D Scans of Notre Dame

By Natalie Coleman

Three scientists in Texas have been fired over allegations they'd been stealing research for China, a move some are calling racially motivated.

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Research Institute Fires Scientists for Selling Secrets to China

By Kristin Houser

A recent report shows that amateur Russian hackers infiltrated the finance offices of several U.S. embassies around the world.

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Rogue Russian Hackers Are Attacking US Embassies

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists developed a device that allows heat to flow from cold to hot objects, apparently contrary to the second law of thermodynamics.

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Scientists: New Device Appears to Defy the Laws of Thermodynamics

A new biomaterial exhibits metabolism-like behaviors. It appears in some ways to act like a living thing, blurring the line between biology and machinery.

Scientists Create Material With “Artificial Metabolism”

By Dan Robitzski

China has announced what local media is calling the "world's first armed amphibious drone boat."

China’s Military Built an Autonomous Amphibious Landing Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

The governor of Puerto Rico just signed a bill that will quickly move the island away from non-renewable energy sources within the next few decades.

Puerto Rico Will Stop Burning Coal Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

Almost every active nuclear reactor in the U.S. is unprepared for flooding and storm surge caused by climate change; industry groups chose not to act.

Climate Change Could Cause Fukushima-Style Meltdowns in the US

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally detect helium hydride, a combination of helium and hydrogen, thought to be the first molecule to form in the universe.

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Astronomers Finally Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have a new plan to try and spot dark matter by searching for particular particles once the Large Hadron Collider's upgrades are complete.

When the Large Hadron Collider Turns on, It May Trap Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A team from Yale created a system that let them breathe new life into pig brains that had been removed from the animals' skulls.

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Yale Scientists Kept Decapitated Pigs’ Brains Alive for 36 Hours

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have discovered that one subregion of the Milky Way is far more efficient at star formation than the others — and they don't know why.

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Scientists Find Mysterious Star-Forming Factory In Milky Way

By Kristin Houser

A 1.5-meter device called a Z-pinch generated nuclear fusion, but not for long enough to be useful. Still, it shows that small-scale fusion is possible.

Scientists Generated Nuclear Fusion With a Tabletop Device

By Dan Robitzski

Siberian scientists conducted an autopsy of a 42,000-year-old foal of an extinct horse, and found that it's so well-preserved they may be able to clone it.

Scientists Plan to Clone Extinct Horse Using 42,000-Year-Old Blood

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists want to achieve fusion power generation by the year 2040, according to Reuters.

Chinese Scientists Aim to Generate Fusion Power by 2040

By Victor Tangermann

Inspired by "Frozen," scientists built an apparatus that detects subatomic particles when they collide with supercooled water. It may help spot dark matter.

Disney’s “Frozen” Inspired New Attempt to Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A Harvard physicist has proven that wormhole travel is possible, but rather than being a shortcut, it'd be a longer path between two points in space.

Quantum Physics

Harvard Physicist: Wormhole Travel Is Possible, but It’s Not Fast

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have created 3D printed "cardiac patches" and a small heart that includes vessels, collagen, and biological molecules.

Researchers Create First Ever 3D-Printed Heart Using Human Tissue

By Victor Tangermann

A language professor created the black hole's name, Pōwehi, by combining two words from an 18th-century Hawaiian chant called the Kumulipo.

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The M87 Black Hole Now Has an Epic Name

By Kristin Houser

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

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Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

By Kristin Houser

In a virtual recreation of the infamous Milgram Shock Experiment, participants were just as reluctant to continue, even though no one was hurt.

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People Are Horrified When They Have to Torture a Virtual Person

By Dan Robitzski

A team from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shared an image that puts the first black hole photo into stunning context.

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The First Black Hole Photo Is Even More Amazing When You Zoom Out

By Kristin Houser

Katie Bouman, a 29-year-old computer scientist, led the development of the algorithm that made the first black hole image possible.

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We Wouldn’t Have the First Black Hole Image Without Katie Bouman

By Kristin Houser

The black hole that scientists imaged is a stellar giant. It would take millions of Earths lined up side-by-side to span its length.

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Here’s How Big the M87 Black Hole Is Compared to the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

A new technique for nuclear fusion can generate plasma without requiring as much space-consuming equipment within a reactor.

Scientists Find a New Way to Kickstart Stable Fusion Reactions

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have released the first image of a black hole, and it looks like they expected based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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The World’s First Black Hole Image Vindicates Einstein’s Theory

By Kristin Houser

The emissions produced by streaming music far exceed the environmental cost of listening to music via physical mediums, according to a new study.

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Here’s How Streaming Music Is Killing the Planet

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military recently invited some members of the press to test a prototype of IVAS, its advanced night-vision goggles with augmented reality features.

The Military is Developing Augmented Reality Night Vision Goggles

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists used CRISPR to gene-edit lizards, uncovering techniques that could lead to new medical treatments for humans.

Scientists Gene-Hacked Lizards to Make Them Albino

By Dan Robitzski

The bombing isn't an act of space vandalism. The goal is to blow a 10-meter crater in asteroid in order to see what it looks like on the inside.

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Japan Lobs Bomb to Blow Hole in Asteroid… For Science

By Jon Christian

Astronomers have discovered a planetary fragment orbiting a white dwarf, and it could yield new insights into the future of our own solar system.

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Astronomers Discover Fragment of Planet Orbiting Its Dead Star

By Kristin Houser