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

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Tragic Footage Shows Orcas Trying to Save Their Dying Companion

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

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

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The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From 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.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

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.

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The Word’s Largest Iceberg Is on the Move

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.

Saudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil

By Sharon Adarlo

Avocado bloody.

Millennials’ Avocado Habit Is Killing Mexico’s Forests

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Puzzled by High Energy Signal Coming From Seemingly Empty Space

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

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.

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Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

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.

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The Hole in the Ozone Layer Is Getting Bigger Again, Scientists Say

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.

Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of 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.

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Oil Spill Pours Into the Gulf of Mexico

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.

AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah

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.

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Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House

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.

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did 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

Wave of Volcanoes Erupting Around the World is Totally Normal, Experts Assure

By Frank Landymore

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

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

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A Supernova Blew Out Part of Earth’s Atmosphere, Scientists Say

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

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

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.

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

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.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

Science & Energy

Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

By Frank Landymore

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

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Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

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.

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

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.

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

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 UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

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

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

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

Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Another Yacht

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.

Humans Are Spiking the Level of Poisonous Mercury in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

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

Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

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

There’s Wreckage of an Alien Planet Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say

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.

15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Orcas May Be Teaching Each Other How to Brutalize Blue Whales

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

There Appears to Be a Slow Leak in Earth’s Core, Scientists Say

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.

Study Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids

By Sharon Adarlo

A proposed New York State bill would require a background check to buy a 3D printer, in an effort to crackdown on 3D printed ghost guns.

New York Bill Would Require a Background Check for 3D Printers, Like a Gun

By Sharon Adarlo

A documentarian once dubbed "the Donald Trump of TripAdvisor" collected bottles of Amazon driver urine and resold them...on Amazon.

Madman Sells “Energy Drink” Made From Amazon Delivery Drivers’ Pee… on Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Military bases across the US could be polluting nearby water supplies with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the DoD says.

US Military Bases Appear to Be Polluting Drinking Water, Pentagon Admits

By Frank Landymore

Announcing a solid-state battery partnership, Toyota displayed the sand-like electrolyte in a glass vessel that looks like a butt plug.

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Toyota Put This Fascinating Photo in a Press Release About Electric Vehicles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humans have always decided what happens to animals without the creatures themselves having a vote. What if that changed?

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Lawyer Suggests Giving Animals the Right to Vote

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.

Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.

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Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest extant evidence of a wood structure, dating back almost half a million years.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Structure From Before Homo Sapiens Existed

By Sharon Adarlo

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

Science & Energy

Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

New evidence shows that a set of ancient footprints in New Mexico pre-date when scientists believed humans populated the Americas.

Scientists Surprised by Footprints From Before Humans Were Supposed to Be in America

By Frank Landymore

Car tires are leaching hundreds of chemicals and microplastics, including known carcinogenics, into the ocean, worrying scientists.

Science & Energy

Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A growing number of container ships are using sails and even kites to propel themselves across the ocean, saving fuel and cutting emissions.

They’re Putting Sails on Giant Container Ships

By Victor Tangermann

More than 150 pink river dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Brazil's Amazonas state, a "catastrophe" that is startling scientists.

Science & Energy

150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

By Victor Tangermann

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Clouds

By Victor Tangermann