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Australian nature enthusiast Brodie Moss was astonished to find the massive tail fin of a humpback whale sticking straight out of the ocean.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese military claims it has developed technology that would allow for "infinite" lasers that don't go haywire.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that there's a massive asteroid crater hidden beneath Australia, dwarfing even the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

The US Department of Energy will invest $1.2 billion to build two direct air capture facilities that will remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Fossil Fuels

By Sharon Adarlo

A Florida man named Joshua Hughes has taken Florida's worsening problem with invasive cane toads into his own hands.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At nearly 70 degrees, the ocean has hit its highest recorded temperature in history — and scientists say it's only likely to continue to rise.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MIT researchers have figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The record shattering high temperatures has proven to be too much for even seasoned desert-dwelling saguaro cactuses.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have created a glass that uses DNA as its skeleton that far outclasses steel in strength and weight — at the nano-scale, at least.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Waves off of California's Pacific coast have been getting demonstrably bigger, even in the winter — and they keep hurting coastal communities.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Florida sheriff's office is apparently fed up with folks calling them about groups of manatees having group sex in public.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claimed they had created an above-room-temperature superconductor that can operate at ambient pressures. Chaos ensued.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A convincing hoax tricked numerous media publications into reporting that Barbie-maker Mattel was to go plastic-free by 2030.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A friendly beluga whale who has been suspected of being a Russian spy is looking downright skinny in a recent photo compared to a 2019 image.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are warning that crucial ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could collapse as soon as 2025.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A 24-year-old man jumped off a dock for a swim, got electrocuted and died in a bizarre incident at Lake Lanier in Georgia.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

James Cameron, a seasoned underwater explorer, admits that his views make him an "outlier" among fellow conservationists.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

According to a seismologist, Taylor Swift's Seattle Eras Tour stop caused, on both nights, 2.3 magnitude earthquakes.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have successfully reanimated the bodies of 46,000-year-old microscopic roundworms they found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

According to a May study, ancient rock samples show that the widely-accepted theory explaining Earth's Avalon explosion might be all wrong.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With this July on track to be the hottest month ever, the UN is warning that we've moved past global warming as the planet begins to boil.
Global Warming

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The coast of Florida is being hit hard by heat waves, with one buoy registering 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of a hot tub.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A US general is getting heat after saying that any AI employed by our military will be better because of our "Judeo-Christian" values. 
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mile-and-a-half wide swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny toads reportedly overtook a stretch of road in Utah last week.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new volcano in Iceland has erupted into existence and scientists think it heralds the start of increased volcanic activity in the region.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

While recycling campaigns help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are saying that it's masked the growing waste crisis.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the second month running, the UN's security watchdog found anti-personnel mines inside Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate change experts are watching, horrified that their predictions from many years ago are turning into an overwhelming reality.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have created a stunningly detailed map of the seafloor of the Monterey Canyon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Meet the "facekini," a ski mask of sorts made from UV-resistant fabrics and designed to cover a wearer's entire head and face.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have found that tiny changes in GPS signals could allow us to predict large earthquakes roughly two hours early.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

With the release of "Oppenheimer," a new study looks back at the devastating destruction wrought by the atom bomb.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 71-year-old hiker died in Death Valley, California just hours after giving an interview to the Los Angeles Times about his voyage.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are investigating if sharks are getting high off of bales of cocaine that are landing in the waters off of the coast of Florida.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at Texas A&M University were stunned when a piece of metal appeared to heal itself before their eyes.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Residents of a Berlin suburb are being told to stay indoors over reports of a "loose, dangerous animal" — possibly an escaped lioness.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A crafty Eurasian magpie stuck together some 1,500 anti-bird spikes to build a fortified, two-foot-wide nest.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

While on the hunt for a different shipwreck, a group of divers happened upon some wreckage that seems to be from a lost fleet of warships.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

On a recent trip to Beijing, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen feasted on Chinese wild mushrooms that are known to be hallucinogenic.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

An incredible fossil depicts a mammal locked in battle with a dinosaur — a scene so unique, they did extra legwork to make sure it was real.
Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old Australian sailor from Sydney, and his dog Bella survived for two months while being adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A dolphin recently attacked a man swimming off a beach in Japan, biting his hands and breaking his ribs in a shocking case of aggression.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Helicopter Pilot Leapt Into Ocean to Escape Furious Volcano
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Luxury cruise ship passengers were exposed to a grizzly sight after docking at the Faroe Islands capital: the slaughtering of pilot whales.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A study that tracked the ocean surface over two decades found that it's slowly getting greener, likely due to climate change.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A notorious female sea otter has garnered a reputation for harassing surfers in Santa Cruz, California — and even jacking their surfboards.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Thousands of abandoned telephone cables across the US are leaching lead into soil and water, a report from The Wall Street Journal reveals.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A grim NOAA report reveals that Antarctic sea ice levels have reached a record wintertime low — and a drastic year-over-year decrease.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study offers new evidence that Anomalocaris canadensis, an ancient ocean predator, was too weak to hunt and crush trilobites.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During the first six months of President Lula's time in office, the area of deforested land in the Amazon has dropped by 33 percent.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests that melting Arctic glaciers are releasing ancient stores of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's nothing the internet loves more than cat videos — but what about videos filmed from a cat's perspective?
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UN has given Japan the green light to dump into the Pacific Ocean its treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

This year's July 4 was the hottest day since records began, according to climate data. The previous record was July 3.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

By using neural radiance fields, a team of researchers have developed a technique to render a 3D scene of what's reflected in your eye.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists suggest another planet could be lurking in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy objects stretching beyond the Kuiper Belt.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann