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

Something Almost Entirely Killed Our Ancient Ancestors, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

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Burning Man Descends Into Chaos as Attendees Told to “Shelter in Place”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Scientists Investigate Why Wild Boars Are So Radioactive

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.

Scientists Say There May Be Another Earth-Sized Planet Lurking in the Solar System

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.

Exxon Mobil Predicts Climate Efforts Will Fail

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.

Scientists Find Strange Golden Object at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

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.

Teen Activist Lectures Greenpeace to Stop Railing Against Nuclear Power

By Frank Landymore

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

The Death Toll From Climate Change Will Be Catastrophic, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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Martha Stewart Harvests Small Iceberg for Swank Cocktails

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.

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Adding Waste Coffee Grounds Makes Concrete 30 Percent Stronger

By Frank Landymore

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

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Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9 Percent of Microplastics From Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Japan Dumping Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into Ocean This Week

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.

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US Treasury Secretary Says She Didn’t Know the Mushrooms She Ate Were Psychedelic

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.

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200 Ships Are Stuck at the Panama Canal

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Scientist Predicts Brutal “Population Correction”

By Victor Tangermann

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

July Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History

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.

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Oops! Purported Room Temp Superconductor Fails to Work When Replicated by Outside Team

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.

The Kids Who Sued Montana Over Climate Change Just Won

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Puzzling Video Shows Whale With Tail Frozen Out of Water

By Victor Tangermann

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

Chinese Military Says It’s Figured Out How to Build Laser Weapons That Can Fire Indefinitely

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.

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Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Buried Under Australia

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.

White House Pledges $1.2 Billion to Suck Carbon Out of the Air

By Frank Landymore

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

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That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

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

The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy

By Victor Tangermann

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

The Anti-Straw Movement Was Dumb, Annoying, and… Actually Worked?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

large prehistoric whale small head

Scientists: Massive Ancient Whale With Silly, Tiny Head Was Real

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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Florida Man Shoots 100 Poisonous Toads

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.

Ocean Hits Highest Recorded Temperature, Still Rising

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.

MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement

By Victor Tangermann

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

It’s So Hot That Decades-Old Cactuses Are Toppling Over in Defeat

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.

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Scientists Use DNA to Construct Material Lighter and Stronger Than Steel

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.

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Freakishly Gigantic Waves Keep Battering California

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.

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Florida Sheriff Begs Public to Stop Calling About Manatee Orgies

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Claim of “Room-Temperature” Superconductor Is Tearing the Scientific World Apart

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Mattel Denies Claim That All Barbies Will Be Compostable

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.

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The Suspected Russian Spy Whale Isn’t Looking So Good

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!

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Chinese Zoo Denies Their Bear Is a Dude in a Bear Costume

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say Atlantic Current Collapse Could Lead to Extreme Cold in Europe and North America

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.

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Man Jumps Into Lake, Dies From Electrocution

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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James Cameron Supports Deep Sea Mining, Claiming It’s “Less Wrong” Than Mining on Land

By Frank Landymore

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

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Taylor Swift “Eras” Tour Registers as Magnitude 2.3 Earthquake, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Scientists Resurrect 46,000 Year Old Worms, Which Instantly Started Reproducing

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.

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Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

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.

UN Warns That We’ve Gone Beyond Global Warming and Into “Global Boiling”

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.

NASA Signs Deal for Nuclear-Powered Rocket That Will Eventually Power Mars Missions

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.

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

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.

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Florida’s Ocean Now Officially the Temperature of a Hot Tub

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.

General Brags That US Military AI Will Be Better Because of “Judeo-Christian” Values

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.

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Drivers Horrified as Writhing Toads Cover Entire Surface of Road

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.

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New Volcano Bursts Forth in Iceland

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly

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.

Russia Criticized for Storing Bombs in Nuclear Power Plant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Climate Scientists Horrified That Their Predictions Were Correct

By Victor Tangermann

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

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New Scan of Seafloor Is So Detailed, You Can See an Individual Crab

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.

There’s a Hot New Climate Change Accessory: “Facekinis” That Cover Your Entire Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Scientists Say They Can Predict Earthquakes by Analyzing Tiny Changes in GPS Data

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Oppenheimer’s Atom Bomb Apparently Spread Fallout on 46 US States

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.

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Hiker Dies in Death Valley Hours After Doing Interview With Newspaper

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.

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Florida Sharks Suspected of Eating Discarded Bales of Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Intrigued by Metal That Can Heal Itself After Damage

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.

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Authorities Warn Residents to Stay Indoors as Lioness Escapes

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Bird Uses Anti-Bird Spikes to Create Fortified Nest

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.

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Divers Discover Epic Shipwreck From World War II

By Noor Al-Sibai