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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.
3D Printing

By Sharon Adarlo

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Frank Landymore

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

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.
Science & Energy

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 Change

By Frank Landymore

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

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

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.
Climate Change

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.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

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

By Frank Landymore

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

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.
Energy

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Frank Landymore

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

By Victor Tangermann

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists have finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Antimatter particles may be a lot more predictable than science fiction makes it out to be, responding to gravity just like regular matter.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The world's land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant desert supercontinent.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Hitler beetle," Anophthalmus hitleri, is close to extinction as neo-Nazis keep snatching specimens up as collectors' items.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Got a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Consider: donating it to Harvard Medical School in exchange for naming rights.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists believe rare pink diamonds were formed when an ancient supercontinent broke up 1.3 billion years ago.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New satellite imagery has revealed that Antarctic sea ice reached yet another record-low in mid-September.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to a NOAA scientist about finding that mysterious golden "orb," the "weird stuff" in the deep sea, and the role of exploration.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists found that solar geoengineering alone would have a limited impact on delaying the melting of ice in Antarctica.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An area known as Thacker Pass on the Nevada-Oregon border is home to clay that contain tens of millions of tons of lithium.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

During a recent mission mapping a habitat off the coast of Alaska, a submersible came across a golden egg. Experts can only guess what it is.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In what may be a resurgence of an old wasteful fishing method, people in fishing towns are launching dynamite into the water to catch fish.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red. 
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted to thwarting a Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet near the Crimean coast by cutting off Starlink internet.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

51-year-old Reza Baluchi was arrested last week while attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean via rigged-out hamster wheel.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A fierce debate has erupted over whether it's time to rename A. hitleri, an unfortunate Slovenian beetle named to honor Adolf Hitler.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The indigenous residents of a tiny island off the coast of Panama are being forced to flee as rising waters threaten to engulf their homes.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that the US military is about to launch something big from the Space Force base in Cape Canaveral.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genomic research suggests that less than 1,300 human ancestors survived this unknown catastrophe for some 117,000 years.
Evolution

By Frank Landymore

Burning Man festivalgoers have been told to "shelter in place" amid massive rainstorms that led to unsafe mud conditions.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Research suggests wild boars in Germany have become contaminated with radioactive fallout that dates back to the Cold War.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, one of the more prominent architects of our planet's doom, says that humanity is likely to miss 2050 climate goals.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you had "scientists discover spooky golden orb at the site of an ancient underwater volcano" on your 2023 bingo card, boy, are you in luck.
Biology

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have estimated that approximately 1 billion people will die this century from various disasters driven by global warming.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

While on an Arctic cruise, Martha Stewart and company harvested a "small iceberg" to make cocktails with. Hi, climate dystopia!
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Processed coffee grounds could also help cut down the environmental impact of extracting sand by partially replacing it in concrete mixtures.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a new technique that filters out microplastics from drinking water — and its ingredients are all plant-based.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate psychedelic mushrooms on a recent trip to China, but did not know they had hallucinogenic properties.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A massive flotilla of ships is currently stuck in the world's worst traffic jam at the Panama Canal — and it might not end for weeks.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sustaining much more than eight billion is not only unsustainable, it could lead to an imminent "population correction."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a joint report from NASA and NOAA scientists, July may have just been the hottest month in recorded history.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest nail in the coffin of the purported room temp superconductor is a failed replication test conducted by Czech researchers.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In an unprecedented ruling, a state judge has sided with a group of youth climate activists who sued the state of Montana over fossil fuels.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai