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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

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

People Are Selling Weapons on the Dark Web

By Dan Robitzski