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That viral review of a body butter that seems to attract wolf spiders has garnered headlines being debunked -- but not everyone's convinced.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have exposed the previously untracked expanse of human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery and AI.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Local authorities in Iceland are telling people to stop visiting the volcanic eruption because the terrain is challenging and dangerous. 
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Legislators in California are slated to approve new measures to create filtration systems that turns wastewater into drinking water.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Following tens of thousands of earthquakes rocking southwest Iceland, a massive volcano erupted early Tuesday morning local time.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Many companies have recently rushed to invest billions into carbon removal technologies in order to mitigate emissions.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.
Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has developed a substance so hard and tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, the hardest material on Earth.
Physics

By Sharon Adarlo

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.
Biology

By Noor Al-Sibai

An online directory that directed people to locations where they could drop off plastic bags and film to be recycled has been shut down.
Fossil Fuels

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan has officially inaugurated the world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor called JT-60SA just north of Tokyo.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there was "no science" behind the necessity of phasing out fossil fuels.
Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

The pound-for-pound greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is getting stronger as more of it is released into the atmosphere, a new study found.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Two young orcas tried to save an approximately 35-year-old orca nicknamed Hunchy, who struggled to stay afloat.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons
Biology

By Frank Landymore

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.
Geothermal

By Frank Landymore

At more than triple the size of New York City, the world's largest current iceberg is on the move — and scientists don't know why.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to cutting carbon emissions, but it has plans to push developing countries to use its oil and gas exports.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Avocado bloody.
Environment

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Though we banned ozone depleting chemicals four decades ago, new research finds that the hole long thought to be healing may be anything but.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A new study from Oxfam says the richest 1 percent of the world had the same carbon footprint in 2019 as the poorest 66 percent in the world.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is sending over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat hosted at a luxury resort in the Utah mountains.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer developed an interactive website with a 3D view of Earth and the option to see what the planet looked like in the distant past.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite appearances, the amount of recent eruptions we're seeing from volcanoes is not unusual. We're just finally paying attention.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

A powerful gamma ray burst was so powerful, it took a chunk out of the Earth's upper atmosphere last year.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. 
Renewable Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.
Biology

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.
Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An orca pod has once again attacked and sank a boat off the Strait of Gibraltar, adding to the growing list of similar incidents.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

Controversial new research led by renowned climate scientist James Hansen found that global warming is accelerating.
Global Warming

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have uncovered new evidence supporting the theory that bigger chunks of Theia may have sunk into the Earth over billions of years.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

More than 15,000 scientists have signed onto a paper warning that the climate may collapse by the end of this century if we don't fix it now.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Big pods of orcas may be teaching each other how to tear unsuspecting blue whales into massive chunks.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists say they have found evidence that suggests the Earth's core has slowly been leaking helium over billions of years.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Solar power is set to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050, surpassing even fossil fuels if current trends continue.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo