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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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Meet Hippocamp, “The Moon That Shouldn’t Be There”

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.

Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists Found a “River of Stars” Flowing Through the Milky Way

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.

Lab-Grown Meat Could Be Worse for the 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.

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Scientists Just Discovered 300,000 New Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

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

The British Military Is Working on Anti-Aircraft Drone Swarms

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.

Australia Is Planting a Billion Trees to Fight 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.

Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions

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.

Ride out Climate Change in This $5.5 Million Self-Sustaining Yacht

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.

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Scientist Defends Controversial Cloning of Gene-Edited Monkeys

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.

China Is Building a Solar Power Station in Space

By Dan Robitzski

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

Terrifying App Shows How Climate Change Will Transform 540 Cities

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.

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of 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."

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New Artificial Leaf Design Could Absorb Far More CO2

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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.

Polar Bears Are Terrorizing a Russian Town Due to 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.

This Startup Wants Its Fusion Reactor to Actually Produce Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

New Fabric Automatically Cools or Insulates Depending on Its Environment

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

Quantum State Control Process Could Speed Up Computers and Energy Transfers

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

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Death of a Tigress: A Bad First Date and the Important Role of Zoos

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

We May Be Eating Most Megafauna To Extinction

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

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See the Bizarre Storm Blanketing Uranus Right Now

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.

This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From “TRON”

By Jon Christian

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

New Chemistry Technique Turns Waste Plastic Into Clean Fuel

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.

China Thinks AI Could Make Its Military As Powerful as America’s

By Dan Robitzski

This “Molecular Coffee” is Brewed Entirely Without Beans

This “Molecular Coffee” is Brewed Entirely Without Beans

By Victor Tangermann

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

A New Cocktail of Proteins Makes Mice Regenerate Toes Like Lizards

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."

Here’s What AOC’s Friends and Enemies Are Saying About the “Green New Deal”

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.

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Gene-Hacking Breakthrough Could Nix Mammals’ Ability to Reproduce

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.

“Green New Deal” Calls for a Zero-Emission America by 2030

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.

Stanford Probes Faculty Who Knew About Gene-Hacked Chinese Babies

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Honeybees Are Smart Enough to Learn Basic Math

By Kristin Houser

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

Scientists Claim to Find “Neurological Signature” of Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

Self-Propelling Pills Could Mean The End of Needle Vaccines

Self-Propelling Pills Could Mean The End of Needle Vaccines

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.

The Navy Is Incinerating Hard Drives About Laser Weapon Research

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Chinese Scientists Built a Brain Interface to Control Cyborg Rats

By Kristin Houser

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

Global Warming Is Changing the Oceans’ Color

By Kristin Houser

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

Laser Scientists Just Tripled Their Fusion Power Yield

By Jon Christian

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

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

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.

Watch a Super-Fast 3D Printer Scientists Call the “Replicator”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Sarah Marquart

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

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Air-Filled Tent Lets Scuba Divers Camp Out Underwater

By Dan Robitzski

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

Bizarre New Data Suggests That Dark Energy Is Getting Stronger

By Jon Christian