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DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.
Off-World

A nuclear rocket could take flight by as soon as 2025.

By Dan Robitzski

First, Musk claimed the title "Technoking of Tesla." Now, the billionaire has added the phrase "Imperator of Mars" to his Twitter bio.
Mars

Whatever that means.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

The metal may play a role in forming the neuron-killing plaques associated with Alzheimer's.

By Dan Robitzski

Marine scientist David Valentine has made a shocking discovery 3,000 below the ocean's surface just ten miles off the coast of Los Angeles: barrels of DDT.
Science & Energy

They were dumped there in the 1940s.

By Victor Tangermann

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.
Climate Change

Well, when you say it like that…

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.
Robotics

The Russian Army is going ahead, despite "shortcomings" identified during tests in Syria.

By Victor Tangermann

Bandits in Mexico stole industrial radiographic equipment, including a highly radioactive container of dangerous isotopes.
Science & Energy

Direct contact could "prove fatal."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink recently showcased a macaque playing "Pong" with its mind. Researchers in the field are unimpressed.
Neuroscience and Brain

"The performance is very rudimentary."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in Sydney have identified a new gene in zebrafish that could allow human hearts to repair themselves following a heart attack.
Gene Editing

"It kicks in when needed and turns off when the heart is fully healed."

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities arrested a Michigan man after he claimed to have a bomb parked in a trailer outside of a nuclear power plant in Ohio.
Science & Energy

Well, that could have been much worse.

By Tony Ho Tran

The White House has reiterated its support for NASA's Artemis program, with the goal of returning the first human astronauts to the surface of the Moon.
Moon

This is amazing — and overdue.

By Tony Ho Tran

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.
Science & Energy

It might have come from a rocket burn-up in March.

By Tony Ho Tran

Footage leaked to a documentary filmmaker named Jeremy Corbell shows unidentified flying objects swarming above a US Navy warship.
Robots and Machines

The video is authentic, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed.

By Jon Christian

NASA released a stunning new photo of Mars on Thursday depicting a series of bright-blue dunes near the Red Planet’s polar cap.
Mars

You've never seen Mars like this before.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.
Mars

The flight has been rescheduled to occur no earlier than April 14.

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel
Science & Energy

The bags were in a lump “as big as a large suitcase.”

By Tony Ho Tran

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.
Science & Energy

He wanted to “kill about 70% of the internet.”

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers recently discovered that the Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than they previously anticipated — triggering concerns for sea level rise.
Science & Energy

Warm waters put the glacier at risk of completely collapsing.

By Tony Ho Tran

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.
Physics

This might mean unifying physics is impossible.

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA just funded a project that wants to explore the clouds of Venus with a swarm of kite-like spacecraft that glide through the atmosphere.
Science & Energy

The LEAVES will gently float through the clouds of Venus and report what they find.

By Dan Robitzski