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A new NASA simulation shows the ghostly ultraviolet flashes of Mars's "nightglow," represented by greenish hues in the Martian night sky.
Science & Energy

New NASA Animation Shows Mars’ Creepy Greenish “Nightglow”

This strange glow in the Martian night sky is "as bright in the ultraviolet as Earth’s northern lights."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers showed that electrical stimulation through simple ear pieces improved adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones.
Brain

Zapping the Brain Improved Language Learning Abilities by 13%

Learning new languages could become a lot easier in the future.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is finally taking stock and getting rid of the various racist nicknames the space agency has granted objects in space over the years.
Science & Energy

NASA Says It Will Stop Using Racist Names for Space Objects

"Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive."

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that the long wait times for coronavirus test results render the whole thing useless. Or, in his words, the tests are "garbage."
Viruses

Bill Gates Called Most US Coronavirus Tests “Garbage”

"The majority of all U.S. tests are completely garbage, wasted."

By Dan Robitzski

A small UK-based DNA-testing company called DnaNudge has come up with a toaster-sized machine that can detect COVID-19 in just 90 minutes.
Prosthetics and Devices

Machine Detects COVID-19 in 90 Minutes

Health officials are already ordering thousands.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have found new evidence suggesting there's a neutron star lurking in the center of the supernova 1987A that's only 33 years old.
Space

Astronomers May Have Found a Star That’s Just 33 Years Old

This star is a 90s kid. Really.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists treated the Moon like a giant mirror to study the Earth's atmosphere, a trick they say could help search for inhabited worlds.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Using The Moon as a Giant Mirror to Search For Aliens

They're looking at a reflection of the Earth — to see what a habitable planet would look like from far away.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who identified a link between naturally-present lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates suggest lacing communities' water supply.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Propose Adding Psychoactive Drug to our Water Supplies

They say it could prevent suicides.

By Dan Robitzski

Genetics research is full of errors because Microsoft Excel reformats some gene names into calendar dates. To fix it, scientists just renamed the genes.
Science & Energy

Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel

According to one study, 20 percent of genetics papers contained an Excel-related error.

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent tweet on Wednesday, president Donald Trump claimed that "NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again." The space community wasn't happy.
NASA

Former Astronaut Blasts Trump For Lying About NASA

"Great leaders take blame and pass along credit."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the key to settling Mars or the Moon is hiding underground in lava tubes. Now we know the caverns are actually big enough.
Off-World

Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base

Natural caverns could help keep interplanetary settlers safe.

By Dan Robitzski

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
Data Privacy

A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

Ancestry — and its trove of genetic data — just changed hands.

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
NASA

NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes

It almost looks... biological?

By Victor Tangermann

Advocacy groups accuse Democrats Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi of enabling mass surveillance and underminnig attempts to strengthen privacy.
Future Society

Democrats Accused of Letting Cops Access Americans’ Browsing Histories

Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders allegedly derailed privacy negotiations.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists made a version of the game "Go" that's played at the quantum scale with entangled photons rather than black-and-white stones.
Physics

Scientists Played a Game of Go at the Quantum Scale

The black and white stones were replaced by entangled photons.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."
Science & Energy

Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

Because, as we all know, planets orbiting stars are called "slanets."

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have observed an unusual young exoplanet some 150 light-years from Earth that's far more dense for its size and age than thought possible.
Science & Energy

Like Your First Quarantine Sourdough Attempt, This Exoplanet Is “Surprisingly Dense”

This planet just makes no sense.

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by SpaceX shows off the company's impressive first full-scale Starship hop in glorious HD. We even got an inside view.
Starship

Watch SpaceX’s Epic Starship Test Flight From Inside the Giant Rocket

Now in high definition — and from the inside.

By Victor Tangermann

23andMe released a massive study that traced and revealed new apsects of the transatlantic slave trade through genetic ancestry reports.
Studies

23andMe Releases Devastating Analysis of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Researchers are exploring a brutal period of history — using genetic code.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just unveiled the winners of its "Exploring Hell" contest, in which it asked for designs for a rover that could survive a trip to Venus.
NASA

NASA Venus Rover Designed For “Exploring Hell”

The winning design looks like something out of "BattleBots."

By Dan Robitzski