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The Stanley lead drama continues apace, and now, disgruntled buyers are taking the company to court for allegedly misleading them.

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Lawsuits Piling Up Against Stanley Cups Due to Lead Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Philippines claimed that Chinese fishermen are intentionally using cyanide to destroy the Scarborough Shoal, a tropical atoll.

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China Accused of Pumping Cyanide Into Ocean to Kill Life

By Sharon Adarlo

A massive jet stream formed over the mid-Atlantic region this past weekend, pushing eastbound planes faster than the speed of sound.

Mighty Wind Propels Commercial Jets Faster Than Speed of Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.

Please Don’t Store Nuclear Waste in Our Precious Oil Field, Says Fossil Fuel Industry

By Jon Christian

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

CNN reports that Russia is working on a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to generate a huge energy wave that would knock out satellites.

Russian Nuclear Spacecraft Would Reportedly Attack With Massive Energy Wave

By Jon Christian

Large parts of the Amazon are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn.

Amazon Rainforest Set for Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

Bill Nye the Science Guy is sounding off about a new report about Greenland's ice sheet melting and the "big, big problems" it creates.

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Bill Nye Issues Warning for the World

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are testing out drastic, large-scale geoengineering methods that were once considered taboo in order to fight climate change.

Scientists Desperately Studying How to Hack Climate

By Sharon Adarlo

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.

Scientists Say the Atlantic Current Appears to Be on the Verge of Collapse

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure it was made by Stone Age humans.

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Ancient Underwater Megastructure Not Created Naturally, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.

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Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Last night's event was the first Super Bowl to be entirely powered by renewable energy, an impressive feat for a 65,000-person stadium.

Renewable Energy

The Entire Super Bowl Was Powered by Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have set a new fusion energy world record, producing 69 megajoules at the Joint European Torus in the UK.

Fusion Reactor Produces Record Amount of Energy in Final Experiment

By Victor Tangermann

A widely-circulating video shows a worker inside a backhoe in Iceland spreading dirt to stop quickly approaching lava from destroying a road.

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Watch Workers Desperately Try to Stop Oncoming Lava

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists on board an exploration vessel off the coast of South America have discovered four massive, underwater mountains.

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Scientists Baffled After Finding 4 Gigantic Mountains Lurking Under the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

These gross little eggs belong to invertebrates known as flatworms, and were found at a record depth of around 20,000 feet.

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Jet Black Eggs Recovered From Deep Ocean

By Frank Landymore

The magnetic anomaly was discovered as part of researchers' extensive mapping of Lake Rotorua in New Zealand.

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Scientists Find Magnetic Anomaly in Lake Over Dormant Volcano

By Frank Landymore

Scientists confirmed that researchers at the National Ignition Facility really broke even with their laser-based fusion reactor back in 2022.

Fusion Facility Generates Twice the Power Put Into It

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.

In Tests, GPT-4 Strangely Itchy to Launch Nuclear War

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists want to send a swarm of small umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways from reaching the Earth's surface.

Scientists Working on Plan to Cool Earth by Blocking Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Talk about a glow up. Bioluminescent houseplants are now a thing, and they're gonna put those old Chia Pets to shame.

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You Can Now Buy Gene-Hacked Houseplants That Glow in the Dark

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new PBS documentary captured the last moments rare Madagascan chameleon bursting into a vibrant display of color as she died.

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Chameleon Bursts Into Pulsating Color Just Before Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Stanley mug-making company has been forced to respond after a TikToker found lead in her viral bottle.

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Stanley Admits Its TikTok-Famous Mugs Are Made With Lead After All

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fossil has led to the discovery of a new dinosaur species nicknamed the "pharaoh's dawn chicken from hell."

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Researcher Buys Dinosaur Fossil Online, Discovers Terrifying Monster

By Frank Landymore

Researchers gene-hacked a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as Kevlar.

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Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The vast network of ancient earthworks in the Amazon, including roads, canals, and cities, are believed to be over 2,000 years old.

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Scientists Find Ruins of Ancient Cities in Amazon Jungle

By Frank Landymore

If you give a rat a camera, it will, apparently, take selfies — even if it doesn't get a treat as a reward.

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Amateur Scientist Teaches Rats to Take Selfies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands.

Video Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges

By Victor Tangermann

The former head of the Pentagon's UFO office has admitted that a lot of sightings are likely of this Earth — and top secret.

Pentagon’s Ex-Alien Hunter Admits a Lot of UFO Sightings Are Secret Military Crafts

By Noor Al-Sibai

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.

Tesla Owner Builds Solar Array That Folds Out of Model Y Roof

By Victor Tangermann

After removing mentions the "military and warfare" from its usage policies page, OpenAI has spoken out about working with the military.

OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon

By Victor Tangermann

A23a, the world's largest iceberg, is falling apart as it slowly drifts away from Antarctica towards relatively warmers waters.

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Huge Iceberg Falling Apart as It Drifts Away From Antarctica

By Sharon Adarlo

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

By Victor Tangermann

These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Search and rescue teams are frantically searching for man, who has reportedly fallen into a crack in the Earth in Iceland.

Science & Energy

Man Missing After Falling Into Crack in the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers fell off a ship.

Millions of Plastic Pellets Wash Up on Shore

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists may have figured out how a massive "superstructure" of igneous rock lurking below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was formed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Explain “Superstructures” on Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at a scarily rapid pace, a new satellite imagery study shows.

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Experts Say Popular Body Lotion Not Attracting Horny Spiders

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.

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited 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

New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”

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.

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Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

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.

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

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

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

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

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

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

Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption

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

Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

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

Science & Energy

California Working on System to Turn Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

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

Science & Energy

Massive Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Spews Lava Hundreds of Feet Into the Air

By Victor Tangermann

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

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

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.

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of 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.

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

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

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

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.

Scientists Create Substance Rivaling Diamonds in Hardness

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.

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

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.

Government Program to Recycle Plastic Bags Canceled After “Abysmal Failure”

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Japan Finishes World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

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.

Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil Fuels Are Fine

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.

Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore