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President Joe Biden wants to impose strict emissions regulations on automakers to ensure EVs make up the majority of new car sales by 2030.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

We knew crypto mining uses tons of energy — but new investigations have revealed that the situation is actually worse than we thought. 
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten Roulette, no computer required — and all he says it took was a little practice. Easy!
Physics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The core-mantle boundary is dotted with Everest-dwarfing "mountains" made of ocean floors that were dragged to the interior over millions of years.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Recovered human hairs provide the first direct evidence that prehistoric Europeans were fond of consuming psychoactive rugs like scopolamine.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A project that touted so-called "liquid trees" from two years ago has recently been ruthlessly mocked online. Do they deserve the hate?
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

The US Military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is hoping to deploy deepfakes in disinformation campaigns as part of its psy-op efforts.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report re-evaluating the long-feared "population bomb" has found that the number of people on Earth isn't going to explode, but rather decrease.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An amazing video recorded by Thoams Farley shows a couple of skiers watching as a giant avalanche thunders through a snowy mountain valley.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever seen lightning shoot upwards from a building to catch another lightning bolt mid-air? Well, if you haven't, you're in luck.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Avi Loeb has good evidence that a meteorite that crashed to Earth was interstellar. He thinks it might even be alien — which is why he's looking for it.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

What should've been a career high discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean might be nothing but shoddy science and a prankster's plastic.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

After weeks of nearly-non-stop rain, a freaking tornado was filmed as it ripped through Los Angeles County, damaging people and property in its wake.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in a river n Australia that millions of fish have turned up on its shores — but don't worry, everything's fine.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's not over just yet, but we're almost there, the United Nations' IPCC watchdog group has said in its latest anxiety-inspiring report.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have concluded that the Therizinosaurus was a much gentler giant than previously thought — despite its three-foot claws on each hand.
Evolution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are reeling from the discovery of "plastic rocks" on a remote island off the coast of a volcanic Brazilian island.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the world's most respected physicists has proposed a devilishly simple bargain: that we're living in a multiverse, and he'd bet his dog on it.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.
Physics

By Frank Landymore

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.
Quantum Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ConocoPhillips Willow oil project in Alaska will produce some 600 million barrels of oil in 30 years, potentially undoing Biden's climate pledges.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A German environmentalist group has just filed "criminal charges" against Tesla, accusing the company of "suspected water pollution."
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

Even pollinators that live in remote areas are disappearing in massive numbers — another troubling sign that our bees and butterflies are in bad shape.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Physicists accomplished the feat using lasers as optical traps, though they had quantum computing in mind more so than a national pastime.
Physics

By Frank Landymore

Australian scientists have discovered a new bacterial enzyme that can turn air — yes, seriously — into working electricity.
Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers claim to have created a superconducting material at both room temperature and feasible levels of pressure.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent Reddit AMA, Keanu Reeves was asked about what he thought about the pesticide that was recently named after him.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

All is not well in the county that's home to some of Jack Daniel's barrel houses amid a fungus infestation caused by the whiskey itself. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over the weekend, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to Twitter to share — seemingly in earnest — a photo of a mythological Mayan elf.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast. 
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The key to making both lab grown meat and plant based meats work may lie in combining them to more practically make a convincing and delicious alternative.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time for a given quantum system.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet's inner core, a 400-mile solid metallic ball that acts in a strange way.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of government reassurances, things are starting to look scary in East Palestine, Ohio, where a new tally puts the fish death toll at over 43,000.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

An unusually dry winter is causing Venice's world-famous canals to dry up, as seen in alarming new images — a growing climate crisis rearing its head.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The government is now admitting that it spend millions of taxpayer dollars getting three "UFOs" out of the sky that were almost definitely just balloons.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

EPA chief Michael Regan was supposed to assure residents that the tap water was safe by drinking it, but the gesture has only incurred further scrutiny.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

From hobbyists in Northern Illinois to the guys at Make Sunsets who want to dim the sun, it appears that balloon dudes across the US are living in fear. 
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The discovery of over a hundred miles of Mayan "superhighways" challenges previous understandings of the organization of Preclassic Mayans.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A truck containing literally 40 tons of government-sponsored nuclear waste recently made its way from Tennessee to California. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Billionaire philanthropist (and unfortunate right-wing target) George Soros has come out in support of geoengineering, an experimental Sun-dimming tech.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.
Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Officials are ordering Tuscon residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

While it offers an intriguing potential fix for climate change, some experts say geoengineering is more risk than it's worth.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai