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A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.

Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

By Jon Christian

The U.S. Navy says that it's going to outfit a destroyer with a laser system made by military contractor Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. Military is Mounting a Giant Laser Cannon on a Destroyer

By Jon Christian

The World Health Organization called for a public registry for all human gene-editing research to prevent any more debacles like that caused by He Jiankui

United Nations Calls for Registry of Human Gene-Editing Projects

By Dan Robitzski

China is following Russia's lead and constructing nuclear power plants on top of floating barges so it can bring cheap energy to distant islands.

China Is Building up to 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found they achieved high pressure plasma — enough to achieve fusion power — at an old fusion reactor in San Diego called DIII-D.

Scientists Just Got Amazing Results From an Old Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

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

Science & Energy

New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers

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.

Russia Is Planning A “Ground Force” of Armed Military Robots

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.

China Is Building a 33,000 Ton Nuclear Icebreaker

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production”

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.

Toyota is Selling a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car for $50,000

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

New Technique Turns Seawater Into Hydrogen Fuel

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.

“Provocative” Research: Some People Can Sense Magnetic Fields

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.

Russian Military Confirms New Weapon Causes “Hallucinatory Symptoms”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.

Richard Branson: Every Company Should Pay a Fee to Invest in Clean 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

Astronomers Just Found 83 Giant Black Holes at Universe’s Edge

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.

Elon Musk: 2019 Will Be “the Year of the Solar Roof”

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.

Scientists Are Fleeing America’s Rules About Gene-Editing Animals

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.

China Needs to Build Eight Nuclear Plants Annually to Meet Goals

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

Scientists Create Material That Blocks Sound, but Not Air or Light

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 Is Building an Open Source Voting Machine

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.

Mayor Announces $10 Billion Plan to Save NYC From Rising Seas

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.

Mercury Is Every Planet in the Solar System’s Closest Neighbor

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.

First Graphene-Based Device Is A “Few Months” Away, Says Startup

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

Russian Scientists Used a Quantum Computer to Turn Back Time

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

Scientists Just Came Closer Than Ever to Cloning a Woolly Mammoth

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

Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective

By Dan Robitzski

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

By 2050, Winter Will No Longer Exist in Australia, Say Researchers

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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.

New Research: Dimming the Sun Wouldn’t be That Bad

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.

Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravity

By Dan Robitzski

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

Researchers Tune in to Smallest Radio Frequency in Quantum Mechanics

Neuroscientists Can Predict Decisions 11 Seconds Before We Make Them

Science & Energy

Neuroscientists Can Predict Decisions 11 Seconds Before We Make Them

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

New Fire-Resistant Homes the Next Line of Defense From Wildfires

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

Science & Energy

FDA Allows Genetically Modified Salmon Imports in the US

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

Science & Energy

Bizarre Malware Is Disabling Safety Systems at Industrial Plants

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.

Seaweed Straw “Looks, Feels, and Acts Like Plastic,” Says Startup

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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

China: New “Artificial Sun” Will Be Completed This Year

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.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

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.

US Military to Develop Hypersonic “Tactical Boost Glide” Weapon

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.

US Military: Our “Lethality Automated System” Definitely Isn’t a Killer Robot

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 Has Young People Questioning Having Kids

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

Scientists Invent Biodegradable Mardi Gras Beads

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

Military Contractors Are Churning out New Anti-Drone Weapons

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

Astronomers Predict Planet Nine Has 5x the Earth’s Mass

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.

European Military Contractor Tests New Laser Weapon

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.

The Problem With AOC’s Green New Deal: It Ignores Fusion Power

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.

Experts Are Horrified by the Military’s Portable Nuclear Reactor

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.

Horrifying “Black Snow” Blankets Russian Towns

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.

The Military Wants to Build Deadly AI-Controlled Tanks

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

It Turns Out You Can Learn Things While You’re Asleep

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.

AOC: Facing Down Climate Change, Should We “Still Have Children?”

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.

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

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.

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused 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

US Cities Have Nowhere to Send Recyclables, so They’re Burning Them

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 Is Eliminating Clouds. Without Them, Earth Burns

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.

US Military Files Patent for Room-Temperature Superconductor

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

Bold New Idea: Recharge Electric Cars by Filling Them at the Pump

By Jon Christian

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

Warren Buffett Warns of Upcoming “Megacatastrophe”

By Jon Christian

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

Senators Opposing Green New Deal Are Drowning in Fossil Fuel Cash

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.

Cambridge: AI Might Help Us Avoid “Environmental Catastrophe”

By Kristin Houser