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"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones capable of confusing and overwhelming enemy air defenses" could fight alongside fighter jets in the British army.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Australian government is gearing up to plant a billion new trees, as part of a vast campaign aimed to meet the climate targets.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

An ambitious new analysis found that there's space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees — a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

This self-sustaining livable yacht has everything you'd need to live off the grid if climate change rendered the land uninhabitable.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Hung-Chun Chang, the scientist who created five monkey clones of a gene-edited animal, defends his research in an interview with New Scientist.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Chinese scientists recently announced plans to build and launch a solar power plant that would float in outer space and beam electricity down.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

An interactive maps show how climate change will make 540 North American cities feel like completely different locations by 2080.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.
Physics

By Jon Christian

A new design for artificial leaves could make it possible to finally bring the technology out of the lab and into the "real world."
Renewable Energy

By Kristin Houser

Los Angeles Axes Plan For Billions of Dollars In Fossil Fuel Investments
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change has melted the ice traditionally inhabited by polar bears, forcing the animals to invade a small Russian settlement in search of food.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from the First Light Fusion group in Oxford are planning to demonstrate fusion by mid-2019 and the creation of fusion energy by 2024.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The first-of-its-kind fabric which cools or insulates based on its environment.
Environment

By Jacob Banas

Quantum circuits could make use of transmon devices to speed up processes and allow for more precise control.
Energy

By Jacob Banas

A Sumatran tiger, like Melati, seen prowling near water and shrubs.
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

A steak on a grill, many animals may meet a similar fate leading to their extinction
Environment

By Jacob Banas

A newly released image taken by Hubble provides a stunning view of the massive storm currently covering the north pole of Uranus.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

An electric motorcycle called Nera looks like something from a video game — a design made possible by the fact that it's almost 100 percent 3D printed.
3D Printing

By Jon Christian

Researchers at Purdue University say a new chemical technique technique turns waste plastic back into useful polymers — or even clean fuel.
Chemistry

By Jon Christian

According to a prominent think tank's new report, the Chinese military is adopting artificial intelligence tech as quickly as it can.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

This “Molecular Coffee” is Brewed Entirely Without Beans
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

New research that grew new mouse toes took an important step towards the ability to regenerate mammalian limbs after amputation.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Yesterday, the left wing of the U.S. Democratic party unveiled a broad-spectrum plan to fight climate change called the "Green New Deal."
Energy

By Jon Christian

Researchers have proven that we can use CRISPR to create gene drives for mice, opening up a wealth of new possibilities for the technology.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The resolution for the Green New Deal was posted online. It includes ambitious plans to clean up the U.S. economy by 2030, but lacks specific proposals.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Stanford University is currently investigating three scientists who either knew about or were involved in He Jiankui's infamous CRISPR baby research.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers taught honeybees math skills, revealing that the animals' tiny brains are more capable than we previously thought.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

An international team of neuroscientists just found four distinction patterns of brain activity that they say are responsible for consciousness.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Self-Propelling Pills Could Mean The End of Needle Vaccines
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

A Navy research facility just put out a call for contractors who can totally incinerate 4,000 pounds of hard drives from a laser research program.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Using only their thoughts, humans were able to control the movements of rat cyborgs created by a team of Chinese researchers.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers suggest we pay attention to the oceans' color to track marine ecosystem changes caused by climate change.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

Laser scientists say a machine learning breakthrough has smashed the standing record for a fusion power yield using machine learning.
Energy

By Jon Christian

New Tech That Sucks Carbon From Chimneys Has “Tremendous Potential”
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of California found a way to 3D print objects out of a special resin using light from a projector.
3D Printing

By Victor Tangermann

Actually, “It’s Colder than Mars” Could be True Year-Round
Science & Energy

By Sarah Marquart

A new underwater tent provides scuba divers with a portable, air-filled resting area while they decompress or conduct research.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Strange new observations from distant quasars suggest that dark energy could be getting stronger as the universe gets older.
Energy

By Jon Christian

The EU is considering a microplastics ban that would prevent 40,000 tons of the tiny particles from entering the environment every year.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The pandemics of obesity, starvation, and climate change are inextricably linked as a Global Syndemic, according to a new report.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

By scanning the brains of people while they tripped on LSD, researchers think they've figure out how the drug causes its effects.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The new rectenna developed by MIT engineers is the first that's flexible enough for wearables while still generating practical amounts of electricity.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

To prevent high-energy plasma from breaking down fusion experiments, Princeton physicists built a railgun to disperse the plasma's built-up energy.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have developed a new tool which offers an unprecident look, like this image, of the internal structures of human capillaries
Science & Energy

By Jacob Banas

An array of solar panels, which could be improved by nanomaterials, stands in a field.
Solar Power

By Jacob Banas

A team from MIT found a way to use a laser to transmit audio across a room — without anyone between the person and source of the laser hearing it.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists successfully drilled a hole, more than a mile in length, that went all the way through Antarctica's ice.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

A team of Chinese scientists just unveiled five cloned monkeys produced from the cells of a monkey whose genes they edited with CRISPR-Cas9.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new service called Loop delivers brand-name goods in reusable packaging, and then picks up the packaging to refill or recycle it.
Pollution

By Kristin Houser

According to CDP, an organization that grades corporations on their environmental impact, Apple expects to become more valuable as climate change worsens.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New research shines a light on the importance of soil moisture in plants' ability to trap CO2 — and extreme weather events could hinder that ability.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that supermassive black holes formed in halos of dark matter that serve as "gravitational glue" for galaxies.
Physics

By Jon Christian

The human mutation rate has slowed down significantly over the past million years or so, according to new research, raising new questions.
Evolution

By Jon Christian

The Lyons family were the victims of a cruel prank by hackers, who gained access to their smart home and used it to terrorize the family
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

New research lends concrete evidence to something that many suspected was true: climate change is increasing global conflict and migration.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The results of a new global warming survey reveal Americans increased belief in the phenomenon — as well as their concerns about its impact.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

Coral Vita is working to build a coral farm on land, which it claims allows it to grow coral at up to 50 times the rate of underwater farms.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A government official in China said on Monday that the country was planning new punishments for local officials who don't meet air pollution goals. Chinese pollution
Pollution

By Jon Christian

The ongoing government shutdown is causing dire effects on biological research, as furloughed scientists struggle to keep their research subjects alive.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

According to the Pentagon's Missile Defense Review, the military is interested in equipping the F-35 fighter jet with anti-ICBM weaponry.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk claims CERN is interested in having the Boring Company help it build the Future Circular Collider, a massive particle accelerator.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A group of 45 economic experts believes the U.S. should create a carbon tax and give the revenue to Americans via a yearly rebate.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Experimental nuclear fusion reactors tend to leak out high-energy particles. New computer simulations may help scientists prevent that loss of energy.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski