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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

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

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Scientists Map Sunken Eighth Continent

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.

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Scientists Disappointed to Find That Antimatter Falls When You Drop It

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say Earth Will Become a Barren Wasteland

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Beetle Named After Hitler Being Driven to Extinction by Neo-Nazis Collecting It

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.

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Harvard Says That for $1 Billion, You Can Rename Its Medical School

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Pink Diamonds Emerged When a Supercontinent Broke Up, Scientists Say

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.

NASA’s Solar Probe Survived Flying Right Through Massive Sun Explosion

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Antarctic Sea Ice Shrinks to “Mind-Blowing” Low

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.

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We Checked in With the Scientists Who Discovered That Mysterious “Orb” Thing Two Miles Underwater

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

It’s Too Late for Geoengineering Alone to Save Antarctica, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

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.

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Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest

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.

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Scientists Recovered That Golden “Orb” From the Bottom of the Ocean and It Looks Different Now

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.

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People Are “Fishing” by Just Throwing Dynamite in the Water

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.

The Environmental Warriors at Burning Man Left a Disgusting Mess Behind

By Victor Tangermann

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

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

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.

Elon Musk Admits to Sabotaging Ukraine’s 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.

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Florida Man Arrested for Trying to Cross Ocean in “Hamster Wheel”… Again

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.

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Scientists Debate Whether to Rename Bug Named After Adolf Hitler

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.

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Residents Flee Island as It Sinks Into the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

The US Military Is Planning to Secretly Launch Something From Cape Canaveral

By Noor Al-Sibai

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