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Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.

Science & Energy

The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

Theoretical physicist and science communicator Michio Kaku had some words of advice for those who find themselves kidnapped by aliens.

Science & Energy

Michio Kaku Has Advice for Next Time You Get Abducted by Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are worried over the rise of "ghost forests" along the coast of North Carolina, caused by climate change.

Desiccated “Ghost Forests,” Killed by Rising Ocean, Can Be Seen From Space

By Victor Tangermann

an Australian startup built a laser that could blast orbital debris orbiting the Earth out of the way without needing to launch any new spacecraft.

Startup Says Its Super Powerful Laser Can Blast Space Junk From Down on the Earth’s Surface

By Dan Robitzski

Oceanic life is fleeing the increasingly-hot equator for more hospitable water, and a mass extinction event is likely to follow.

Scientists: Mass Extinction Is Coming as Organisms Flee the Equator

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance rover just snapped its next incredible selfie — and this time around, it's not just of itself.

NASA’s New Mars Rover Takes Selfie With Helicopter in Background

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Missouri was just sentenced to 12 years in prison after he repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons with Bitcoin.

Science & Energy

Man Sentenced for Buying Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials say it's time to decide what to do about the Fukushima power plant's radioactive water. That likely means dumping it in the ocean.

Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Radioactive Water Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

A French company is developing the world's first hydrogen-powered cargo transport vessel that is set to make its debut some time later this year.

Science & Energy

The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Cargo Vessel Is About to Set Sail

By Victor Tangermann

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.

Nuclear Reactors Shut Down by “Jellyfish-Like Organisms”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has sent back a sweet selfie, a stunningly crisp self-image of the six-wheeled rover's "head."

NASA’s Mars Rover Just Took a Selfie and It’s Actually Beautiful

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube tinkerer Shane Wighton behind the channel Stuff Made Here built a chainsaw-wielding robotic arm that can chisel a dog shape out of bits of foam.

Check Out This Deadly Robot Arm With an Actual Chainsaw

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped a 14,000 pound model of its Orion spacecraft into a big pool to make sure that it would hold up during a splashdown.

Watch as NASA Drops a Spacecraft Into a Huge Dunk Tank

By Dan Robitzski

On March 30 SpaceX's Starship SN11 prototype blew up in a massive cloud of orange light. Now, we get to rewatch the explosion in slow motion.

Starship Exploding in the Fog Looks Amazing in Slow Motion

By Victor Tangermann

Reports of mysterious swarms of drones hovering above US Navy ships in July 2019 have top military officials puzzled.

Navy Official: Mysterious Drones Are Also Swarming Other Countries’ Ships

By Victor Tangermann

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has been permitting the Chinese government to buy ads that deny it's committing acts of genocide against its Muslim Uyghur population.

Facebook Lets Chinese Government Run Genocide-Denying Ads

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars helicopter dubbed Ingenuity is online and just snapped its first color photo over the weekend.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is Online and Just Sent Back a Photo

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

By Dan Robitzski

Neuralink cofounder Max Hodak says creating a real-world Jurassic Park is probably within reach, and that it could be cool to create novel forms of life.

Neuralink Co-Founder Says We Have the Tech to Build an Actual Jurassic Park

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers posted the leaked private information of over 533 million Facebook users online. The breach was so big it even includes Mark Zuckerberg's data.

Science & Energy

New Facebook Leak Was So Huge It Included Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's Poseidon 2M39 torpedo can sneak along the bottom of the ocean before unleashing a several-megaton explosion that causes radioactive tsunamis.

New Russian Weapon Is Designed to Unleash “Radioactive Tsunamis”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has officially survived its first night alone after being deployed by the agency's Perseverance rover.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survives First Night On Its Own

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists finally figured out what caused the gigantic spider-like formations on Mars' south pole by recreating the planet's environment in a lab.

Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Spiders” Spotted on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Four current crew members on board the ISS took SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft nicknamed Resilience for a spin early Monday morning.

Watch NASA Astronauts Take SpaceX Spacecraft for a Joyride

By Victor Tangermann

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Science & Energy

World’s Deepest Shipwreck Dive Reaches Sunken WWII US Battleship

By Tony Ho Tran

Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur With Super Hearing

Science & Energy

Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur With Super Hearing

By Tony Ho Tran

During a Reddit AMA, science communicator and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said he expects we'll discover the theory of everything by the year 2100.

Science & Energy

Famed Physicist: Soon-To-Launch Telescope Likely to Discover Alien Life

By Tony Ho Tran

Florida Declares State of Emergency Due to Potential Radioactive Material Leak

Science & Energy

Florida Declares State of Emergency Due to Potential Radioactive Material Leak

By Tony Ho Tran

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Psychology & Marketing found that users tend to perceive female robots as having more human traits than male robots.

Study: Turns Out People Are Sexist To Female Robots Too

By Tony Ho Tran

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

Science & Energy

Amazon Admits It Was Fibbing About the Pee Thing

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA recently ran a ground test for the propulsion system on their Gateway lunar orbiter. It'll allow the future space station to explore the Moon.

NASA Tests Propulsion System for Lunar Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”

Mars Lander Detects Mysterious “Marsquakes”

By Tony Ho Tran

A giant octopus attacked a 34-year-old geologist in Dunsborough, Australia on March 18 — and video of their confrontation has gone viral.

Science & Energy

Giant Octopus Attacks Australian Geologist

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA has been teasing that there are two yet-undiscovered Easter eggs on its Perseverance Rover. Anyone who wants to find them has until Easter to try.

NASA Says There Are Still Easter Eggs on Its Mars Rover That Nobody Has Discovered

By Dan Robitzski

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.

Science & Energy

Pieces of Alien Planet Buried Inside Earth Are “Millions of Times Larger Than Mount Everest”

By Dan Robitzski

CNN got an exclusive look at the interior of the supersonic 31-passenger jet that might soon be carrying the president around the world.

US Military Working on Supersonic Air Force One

By Victor Tangermann

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.

Chinese Astronauts Prepare To Assemble Space Station in Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.

Something Else Killed Three Times as Many People As COVID This Year

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.

Science & Energy

Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

By Dan Robitzski

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has snapped a pair of breathtaking pictures of a sunlit crescent Mars.

China’s Mars Probe Takes Breathtaking Picture of Crescent Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A truck carrying barrels of uranium heafluoride, a radioactive ingredient used to make nuclear power plant fuel, crashed on Wednesday morning.

Science & Energy

Truck Carrying Uranium Crashes in North Carolina, Prompting HAZMAT Response

By Dan Robitzski

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Contains Powdered Bones

By Dan Robitzski

According to the White House, the Biden administration is planning to invest in infrastructure to achieve "100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035."

Biden Wants to Achieve “100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2035”

By Victor Tangermann

According to the latest drone shots, SpaceX is making great progress on its orbital launch facilities at its site in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX Makes Progress on “Launch Tower” Meant to Catch Starship Booster

By Victor Tangermann

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

Self-Driving Vehicles

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.

Virtual Reality

Microsoft Is Selling $21.9 Billion of AR Headsets to the US Army

By Victor Tangermann

430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of ultrahot, superaccelerated air hit Earth and incinerated a huge area of Antarctica.

Science & Energy

Ancient Antarctica Was Blasted by a Giant Flamethrower From Space

By Dan Robitzski

NASA showed off a picture of a peculiar Martian rock that was zapped with its rover Perseverance's onboard laser.

NASA Shows Off Photo of Rock With Laser Holes From Mars Rover

By Victor Tangermann

Uranus is giving off X-rays, according to a new study. Now scientists need to take a closer look and figure out what's actually causing them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover X-Rays Blasting Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

In a rare turn of events, China's National Space Administration (CNSA) exchanged information with NASA about its Mars orbiter, as SpaceNews.com reports.

China Shared Information With NASA About Its Mars Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

Biden has announced his administration is intending to invest $174 billion in the domestic electric vehicle market.

Electric Vehicles

Biden Plans Huge Investment in Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is getting ready to gently lower the agency's Ingenuity helicopter onto the Martian surface below it.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Just Unfurled Its Legs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists can now filter freely-floating DNA out of the air, allowing them to track and monitor what animals are in the area.

Science & Energy

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX has shown off a new Crew Dragon spacecraft render, this time featuring a massive glass dome, allowing future passengers to get an amazing view.

SpaceX Crew Dragon Will Feature Massive Glass Dome

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto scammers are publishing apps that imitate real bitcoin wallet companies to scam crypto owners out of their savings.

Science & Energy

Man Downloads Wrong App, Losing $600,000 in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Galactic has unveiled its latest next-generation spaceship called VSS Imagine.

Virgin Galactic Unveils New Spaceship

By Victor Tangermann

A nearby spectator was able to recover a piece of SpaceX Starship debris an astonishing five miles from where it launched, according to a CNBC reporter.

Man Finds Exploded Piece of Starship Five Miles From Launch Site

By Victor Tangermann

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.

This Magazine’s Website Is 100 Percent Solar Powered

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

The US Strategic Command, an agency that oversees the nuclear arsenal, tweeted our some nonsense. Here's what happened behind the scenes.

Child Tweets Nonsense From Official US Military Account

By Dan Robitzski

German carmaker Volkswagen is really rebranding its North American division to "Voltswagen," a nod to its electrified future.

Advanced Transport

VW’s New “Voltswagen” Name Not an April Fool’s Joke

By Victor Tangermann