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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

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

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US Treasury Secretary Reportedly Ate Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

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.

Amazing Fossil Froze Dinosaur in Death Match With Prehistoric Monster

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.

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Australian and His Dog Survive Two Months Adrift in Derelict Vessel

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.

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Dolphin Attacks Man, Biting Him and Breaking His Bones

By Sharon Adarlo

Helicopter Pilot Leapt Into Ocean to Escape Furious Volcano

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Helicopter Pilot Leapt Into Ocean to Escape Furious Volcano

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.

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A Cruise Ship Pulled Up for a Beautiful View. Then Blood Started Turning the Water Red

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 Is Getting So Bad That the Ocean Is Changing Color

By Frank Landymore

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

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Mischievous Sea Otter Keeps Stealing Surfboards

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.

Old Phone Cables Appear to Be Contaminating US Soil and Water With Lead

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.

Antarctic Ice Reaches “Record-Smashing Low,” Alarming Scientists

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.

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That “Weird Shrimp From Canada” Less Swole Than We Thought, Scientists Say

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.

Good News! Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Has Significantly Dropped in Just 6 Months

By Frank Landymore

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

Oh Good, Melting Glaciers Are Releasing Ancient Methane Into the Atmosphere

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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A Guy Strapped a Camera to His Cat and It’s the Best Thing We’ve Ever Seen

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.

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UN Approves Japan’s Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

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.

This July 4 Was the Earth’s Hottest Day on Record

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.

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Scientists Reconstruct What You’re Looking at by Enhancing Reflection in Your Eye

By Frank Landymore

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

Our Solar System May Be Hiding an Extra Planet, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Below the Indian Ocean, there's a giant "gravity hole" over one million square miles in size. Scientists may have figured out why it exists.

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Scientists Intrigued by “Gravity Hole” at Bottom of Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

For over 100 years, scientists have been puzzling over a blood-red liquid seeping out of a glacier in Antarctica. Until now.

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Scientists Intrigued by Glacier Bleeding Red Fluid

By Victor Tangermann

Devastating wildfires in Canada have continued to burn, and its smoke is already hitting the United States for a second wave this year.

Canada Is Hotboxing the United States Again

By Frank Landymore

A part of the summit of a mountain in the Alps has collapsed, the likely result of permafrost thawing, dramatic footage shows.

Climate Change Blamed for Collapse of Mountain

By Victor Tangermann

As much as 80 percent of the Himalayas' glaciers could vanish by the year 2100 if global temperatures rise by four degrees Celsius.

Climate Change Could Cause Himalayan Glaciers to Shrink By a Shocking Amount

By Sharon Adarlo

The Hunga volcano's eruption blasted through seawater, creating the perfect conditions for the most intense lightning storm ever observed.

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Violent Volcano Eruption Triggers an Ungodly Number of Lightning Flashes

By Frank Landymore

Over less than 20 years, humans extracted so much groundwater that it changed the tilt of the entire planet.

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We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

An unexpected herd of 40 goats wandered through a Texas development, munching on lawns and landscaping as they went.

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Watch 40 Ravenous Goats Terrorize an Unsuspecting Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An orca repeatedly slammed into a yacht sailing in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland earlier this week.

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Relentless Orca Repeatedly Rams Yacht

By Frank Landymore

Upside Foods and Good Meats received a grant of inspection from the USDA, allowing their lab grown meat products to be sold to consumers.

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First Lab Grown Meat Products Approved for Sale in US

By Frank Landymore

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

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Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

By Sharon Adarlo

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

By Frank Landymore

A yacht captain whose vessels have twice been attacked by the same pod of orcas has some interesting ideas about these killer whales.

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Captain Attacked Twice by Orcas Says They’re Developing Better Anti-Boat Strategies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have confirmed through genetic testing that an 18-year-old female crocodile impregnated herself without a male mate.

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Jesus Crocodile Conceived With No Father

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The gigantic "Chonkasaurus" snapping turtle, which captured hearts online, has once again been spotted on the Chicago River.

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Hallelujah! The Mighty “Chonkasaurus” Turtle Has Been Spotted Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are saying that a certain ingredient found in Monster Energy drinks could be a potent anti-aging longevity supplement.

Astonishing! Ingredient in Monster Energy May Actually Be Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Our primate predecessors may have enjoyed masturbation for millions of years before we ever entered the picture.

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Scientists Ponder When Our Ancestors First Started Cranking the Hog

By Frank Landymore

Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

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Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

By Frank Landymore

Smoke from especially dire wildfires in Canada has swept across the East Coast, leaving an ugly and hazardous haze over cities like New York.

A Huge Cloud of Smoke Is Casting a Ghoulish Gloom Over New York City

By Frank Landymore

It appears that one of our ancestral species had burial rituals that included the carving of symbols hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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Pre-Human Species Carved Symbols More Than 200,000 Years Ago

By Noor Al-Sibai

There are staggeringly tall mountains inside the Earth that rival Mount Everest. Scientists are puzzling over their origin.

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Gigantic Mountains Inside Earth Mystify Scientists

By Sharon Adarlo

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore