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Scientists have uncovered new evidence supporting the theory that bigger chunks of Theia may have sunk into the Earth over billions of years.

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There’s Wreckage of an Alien Planet Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

More than 15,000 scientists have signed onto a paper warning that the climate may collapse by the end of this century if we don't fix it now.

15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Big pods of orcas may be teaching each other how to tear unsuspecting blue whales into massive chunks.

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Orcas May Be Teaching Each Other How to Brutalize Blue Whales

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists say they have found evidence that suggests the Earth's core has slowly been leaking helium over billions of years.

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There Appears to Be a Slow Leak in Earth’s Core, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Solar power is set to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050, surpassing even fossil fuels if current trends continue.

Study Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids

By Sharon Adarlo

A proposed New York State bill would require a background check to buy a 3D printer, in an effort to crackdown on 3D printed ghost guns.

New York Bill Would Require a Background Check for 3D Printers, Like a Gun

By Sharon Adarlo

A documentarian once dubbed "the Donald Trump of TripAdvisor" collected bottles of Amazon driver urine and resold them...on Amazon.

Madman Sells “Energy Drink” Made From Amazon Delivery Drivers’ Pee… on Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Military bases across the US could be polluting nearby water supplies with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the DoD says.

US Military Bases Appear to Be Polluting Drinking Water, Pentagon Admits

By Frank Landymore

Announcing a solid-state battery partnership, Toyota displayed the sand-like electrolyte in a glass vessel that looks like a butt plug.

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Toyota Put This Fascinating Photo in a Press Release About Electric Vehicles

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humans have always decided what happens to animals without the creatures themselves having a vote. What if that changed?

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Lawyer Suggests Giving Animals the Right to Vote

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.

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China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.

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Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest extant evidence of a wood structure, dating back almost half a million years.

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Scientists Find Structure From Before Homo Sapiens Existed

By Sharon Adarlo

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The DOD is looking for tech that will protect against "cognitive attacks" that could disable soldiers wearing virtual reality devices.

DARPA Seeks to Protect Virtual Reality Against “Cognitive Attacks”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

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Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

New evidence shows that a set of ancient footprints in New Mexico pre-date when scientists believed humans populated the Americas.

Scientists Surprised by Footprints From Before Humans Were Supposed to Be in America

By Frank Landymore

Car tires are leaching hundreds of chemicals and microplastics, including known carcinogenics, into the ocean, worrying scientists.

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Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A growing number of container ships are using sails and even kites to propel themselves across the ocean, saving fuel and cutting emissions.

They’re Putting Sails on Giant Container Ships

By Victor Tangermann

More than 150 pink river dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Brazil's Amazonas state, a "catastrophe" that is startling scientists.

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150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

By Victor Tangermann

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.

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Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

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