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Two beluga whales have died at Niagara Falls tourist attraction Marineland this month, raising the total number of whale deaths to 17.

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Marineland Under Investigation Amid 17 Beluga Deaths

By Victor Tangermann

After his tragic death, veterinarians have found underlying illnesses in the body of New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.

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Scientists Find Grim Diseases During Autopsy of NYC’s Flaco the Owl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air.

Trees “Coughing” as They Fail to Capture Excess CO2

By Victor Tangermann

As the space race heats up, the US is growing increasingly concerned about China, its chief adversary, using the Moon to launch attacks.

US Military Commander Worries China Could Launch Attack From Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia has accused the US of using commercial satellite operators for its intelligence efforts — and is threatening to take military action.

Russia Warns of Potential Military Strike on SpaceX Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that playing happy coral reef sounds through underwater speakers could allow sad coral reefs to come back to life.

Coral Reefs Coaxed Back to Life by Playing Happy Reef Sounds on Underwater Speakers

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.

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New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were able to restore a coral reef in Indonesia in just four years by using specially made steel frames covered with sand.

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Steel Frame Brings Completely Dead Coral Reef Back to Life

By Sharon Adarlo

In England, researchers have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.

Scientists Discover Bizarre and Ancient Fossilized Forest

By Sharon Adarlo

A community in Massachusetts spent half a million dollars on a sand dune to protect their lavish, coastal homes. It was swept away in 3 days.

$500,000 Sand Dune to Protect Vacation Homes Washes Away in Three Days

By Victor Tangermann

Amazing Discovery as Man Finds Huge Bone Sticking Out of Ground

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Amazing Discovery as Man Finds Huge Bone Sticking Out of Ground

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have created an RNA-replicating molecule in the lab — and brought the world one step close to creating artificial life.

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Scientists Just Got Closer to Creating Artificial Life in the Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has scientific bones to pick with Dune's sand-thumping and worm movements.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

University College London geophysical and climate hazards professor Bill McGuire argues we should be absolutely terrified of climate change.

Scientist Terrified by How the Climate Is Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

The report features six studies that thoroughly examined MIT's superconducting magnets design used in its breakthrough fusion test.

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

By Frank Landymore

To save the "doomsday" glacier, geoengineers propose surrounding it with giant underwater curtains to divert warm water away.

Scientists Propose Desperate Plan to Insulate Entire Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

The accused, 58-year-old Michael Hart of San Diego, is alleged to have illegally imported powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons.

Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases

By Frank Landymore

A very clueless retired military officer is charged with giving secret Ukraine intel to a woman he met on a dating site.

Clueless Air Force Official Spills Military Secrets to Random Woman on Dating Site

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have devised a novel way to extract gold from electronic waste, a sustainable method that is based on a food industry byproduct.

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New Technique to Extract Gold From Old Electronics Could Make a Fortune, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

While giant "star dunes" have been observed all over the world, their age and origin have remained something of a mystery.

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Scientists Intrigued by Moving Sand Dune With Star-Like “Arms”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Terra satellite has captured a stunning image of "fallstreak holes" or "hole-punch clouds," scientifically known as cavum clouds.

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Satellite Spots Circular Holes in Clouds Over Florida

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are worried that rising global temperatures could cause disposed nuclear waste, which dates back to the Cold War, to resurface.

Climate Change on Track to Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste, Officials Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that an oceanic slab has completely flipped upside down underneath Spain as it was being pushed beneath its neighbor.

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The Earth’s Crust Flipped Upside Down in This Spot, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet.

Government Scientists Propose Plan to Dry Out the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

As last year's record-breaking ocean temperatures cease to slow down, warming waters around the globe continue to alarm scientists.

Scientists Alarmed by Spike in Ocean Temperatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD, but can store 1.6 petabits of data.

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Scientists Create DVD-Shaped Disc That Can Hold More Movies Than You Could See in Your Entire Life

By Victor Tangermann

Gene-edited pigs, which are immune to a porcine disease and meant for meat consumption, are nearing federal approval.

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Company Seeking Approval to Sell Meat From Gene-Hacked Pigs

By Sharon Adarlo

Barrels dumped off the coast of Los Angeles once thought to contain dangerous pesticides could actually be harboring radioactive waste.

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Experts Alarmed by Barrels of Radioactive Waste Off the Coast of LA

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found microplastics in layers of sediment that date back as early as the first half of the 18th Century.

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Microplastics Found in Sediment Layers Untouched by Modern Humans

By Sharon Adarlo

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