The Fermi Bubbles (purple) straddle the galactic center, measuring roughly 25,000 light-years long from end to end. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) Astr…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed a bitcoin conference on Saturday, asserting that the U.S. must lead in the cryptocurrency se…
Dark matter could provide supermassive black holes the brakes they need to bring them crashing together at the end of a long, spiraling journey towar…
The rise of Bitcoin in 2009 opened the door to a new era of digital currencies. While cryptocurrencies have attracted a wider audience, a recent stu…
Researchers have made significant progress in developing a new type of qubit , the building block of quantum computers. This breakthrough involves t…
Scientists have revealed the preferential areas in rooms where people can avoid the risk of exposure to supersonic shock waves from a nuclear explosi…
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and lik…
A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom. The sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep, accordin…
An alarming report from the US Department of Agriculture predicts that by 2070, the nation's forests will release substantially more carbon than …