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Fans of YouTube star PewDiePie have taken to ransomware attacks in order to try and drive up PewDiePie's subscriber count.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is working to develop a ground force of killer robots. For now, the tank-like bots need help from humans, but that may change as AI improves.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

China just closed the bidding period for contractors looking to build the country's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, set to be the largest in the world.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A Call to Action on the First Day of Spring to Help Our Planet
Climate Change

By Dan Lambe, president of the Arbor Day Foundation

Chinese officials have cloned a top-performing police dog, state media announced, with the goal of stamping out genetically identical dog cops.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Toyota is manufacturing a small amount of hydrogen fuel-powered cars in Japan. Right now they cost a prohibitive $50,000 but may cheapen with scale.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Military is Buying a Brutal-Looking Powered Exoskeleton
Military

By Victor Tangermann

In the past, purifying water before splitting it into hydrogen was too costly. Now, there's a way to save money and use saltwater instead.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that some humans possess the ability to detect Earth's magnetism. We don't know why or how, but scientists think it's vestigial.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Russian media confirmed yesterday that the Russian Navy is developing a "new non-lethal light-based optical interference system" that could blind enemies.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin CEO Richard Branson proposes to charge every company in the world a "Clean Energy Dividned" that will be used to invest in clean energy.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers says it's found 83 new supermassive black holes at extreme end of the visible universe.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

During the unveiling of Tesla's highly anticipated Model Y, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would focus on its Solar Roof and Powerwall in 2019.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Facing stricter restrictions on their gene-editing research from the FDA, some scientists are packing up their labs and leaving the U.S.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

China will need to build eight new nuclear reactors annually to reach the global average for nuclear energy generation by 2030, according to an official.
Nuclear Fusion

By Kristin Houser

A new "acoustic metamaterial" that blocks sound by reflecting waves back to their source could make the future a far quieter place.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

DARPA is developing technology that could finally lead to secure voting machines. It plans to have experts from professors to hackers kick the tires.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to "climate-proof" Lower Manhattan by building the area out into the East River.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Every picture of the solar system shows Venus as our closest neighbor. Sure, it comes closer to Earth than any planet, but on average Mercury is closer.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A University of Cambridge spin-out company claims it has found a way to produce graphene at commercial scale and will release a device soon.
Graphene

By Kristin Houser

Russian physicists, armed with a quantum computer, managed to send a single electron back in time, resetting the computer to its state from a moment earlier
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have coaxed biological reactions from the cells of a preserved wooly mammoth, putting us one step closer to cloning the extinct species.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.
Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers predict winter won't exist in Australia by 2050. Instead, Australians will experience three seasons: autumn, spring, and "new summer."
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Nissan Wants to Beam 3D Anime Versions of People Into Its Cars
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that dimming sunlight through geoengineering, if done moderately, could lessen the effects of climate change with few side effects.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A quantum radio chip allows researchers to tune in to the smallest radio frequencies
Physics

By Jacob Banas

Neuroscientists Can Predict Decisions 11 Seconds Before We Make Them
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

Fire Resistant Homes could help prevent extreme weather damage from climate change
Climate Change

By Jacob Banas

A genetically modified salmon swims next to a normal salmon of the same age.
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

New malware is targeting safety systems at industrial plants around the world — the same systems, ominously, that protect nuclear power stations.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

To address the world's plastic problem, startup Loliware has created seaweed straws that can be composted or allowed to biodegrade in the ocean.
Pollution

By Kristin Houser

NASA Is About to Test a Giant Solar Drone That Broadcasts 5G
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese official claims the nation is poised to wrap up construction on the HL-2M tokamak, a new "artificial sun," this year.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.
Physics

By Jon Christian

U.S. defense contractor Raytheon just signed a $63.3 million contract with DARPA to develop a "tactical boost glide" (TBG) hypersonic weapons program.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Amid a wave of controversy, the Army is now attempting to convince the public that its ATLAS program won't lead to the creation of autonomous killer robots.
Military

By Kristin Houser

According to a new poll, more than a third of young people agree that couples should consider climate change before deciding to have children.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Lousiana State University (LSU) have developed biodegradable Mardi Gras beads produced from algae that could reduce festival waste.
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

Weapons makers ranging from Boeing to Lockheed Martin are working on new anti-drone technologies — everything from laser cannons to heat-seeking missiles.
Military

By Jon Christian

By analyzing thousands of models of the distant solar system's evolution, astronomers think they've unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding Planet Nine.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

European military tech contractor Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a laser turret capable of taking down drones and mortar fire late last year.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

When the Green New Deal was published, many criticized its deliberate exclusion of nuclear energy. Nuclear fusion doesn't exist yet, but may someday help.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Army proposed shipping small nuclear reactors around the world to power military outposts. Experts suggest that may not be the wisest strategy.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

By pumping unfiltered coal dust into the atmosphere, a processing plant in the Russian town of Kiselyovsk has caused black snow to fall on the region.
Pollution

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army just put out a call for experts to help it develop autonomous targeting systems for ground combat vehicles like tanks.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the brain can learn while asleep after all, but only during a particular point in a particular kind of brain wave.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted in an Instagram Live video that young people might wonder if it's OK to have children in the face of climate change.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis shows that there's only a one-in-a-million chance that climate change could have been caused by anything other than humanity.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. cities are burning the recyclables that they used to ship to China, and the emissions could be wreaking havoc on Americans' health.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

New research explains the role of cloud cover in climate change. If we keep burning fossil fuels, the clouds will go away and climate change will worsen.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A Navy researcher thinks he's created a room-temperature superconductor, and if he has, the device could radically change the world of energy.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Certain electric vehicle advocates are excited about so-called "refillable batteries": lithium ion cells which can be refilled with charged electrolyte.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

Famed investor Warren Buffett warned in his annual letter of a "megacatastrophe," which he said will cause unprecedented havoc.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

The senators and representatives who oppose the Green New Deal have accepted several times more fossil fuel money than its supporters.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The University of Cambridge has launched a new center focused on finding ways to use AI to address problems with the environment.
Environment

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have finally figured out why Hippocamp, a tiny moon orbiting Neptune, is able to exist despite its close proximity to a much-larger moon.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new gene therapy tested on mice can treat a specific kind of congenital deafness by repairing a faulty inner-ear protein.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

New research has uncovered a stellar stream comprising 4,000 stars flowing through the Milky Way remarkably close to the Earth.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The benefits of lab-grown meat will depend on scientists' ability to produce it sustainably, and right now, we don't know if that's even possible.
Environment

By Kristin Houser

Using the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), astronomers have added another 300,000 galaxies to our map of the universe.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser