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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

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

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The EU Is Considering a Major Microplastics Ban

By Kristin Houser

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

Experts: To Fight Climate Change, Tackle Obesity and Starvation

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.

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Scientists Might Have Finally Figured out How LSD Works

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.

MIT Says a New Gadget Could Use Wi-Fi to Power Your Smartphone

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.

New Railgun-Like Device Stabilizes Fusion Reactions

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Doctors Can Now Get a Detailed Look Inside Your Capillaries

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

Self-Assembling Nanomaterials Could Improve Solar Panels

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.

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MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

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.

Scientists Just Drilled All the Way Through Antarctica’s Ice

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.

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Chinese Scientists Cloned Gene-Edited Monkeys With Horrifying Results

By Kristin Houser

New Service Delivers Name-Brand Goods Then Returns for the Packaging

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.

Apple Expects to Benefit From 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.

Extreme Weather Is Preventing Plants From Processing Carbon

By Kristin Houser

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

New Theory: Vast, Ancient Black Holes Formed Because of Dark Matter

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.

Human Mutation Is Slowing Down

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

Hackers Hijacked a Family’s Smart Home, Spammed Nuclear Missile Alerts

By Jon Christian

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

New Research: Climate Change Causes Migration and Conflict

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.

More Americans Believe in Global Warming Than Ever Before

By Kristin Houser

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

Here’s Why NASA Wants to 3D Print Human Hearts in Space

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.

This Startup Is Growing Coral on Land and Transplanting It Into Damaged Reefs

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

China Plans “Punishment” for Officials Who Miss Pollution Goals

By Jon Christian