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Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.

Satellite Beams Solar Power Down to Earth Using Microwave Transmitter

By Frank Landymore

By using X-rays, scientists can more precisely detect and measure atoms in ways that other imaging techniques can't on their own.

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Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom

By Frank Landymore

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.

Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor

By Sharon Adarlo

A beluga whale, suspected of being a "Russian Spy," was seen far from home and experts say he may be looking for friends or a mate.

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Reappears, Possibly Lonely and Wanting Love

By Sharon Adarlo

King Charles III is a committed environmentalist — so much so that he's reportedly sacrificing his servants' body temps for his cause. Brave!

King Charles Fights Climate Change by Freezing His Servants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People were shocked when the waters of Venice's Grand Canal became neon green. Investigation revealed it was due to a non-toxic chemical.

Chemical Turns Waters of Venice Canal a Fluorescent Green

By Sharon Adarlo

Ferocious feral chickens with "supercharged survival skills" have gotten out of control in Hawaii, The Atlantic reports.

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Hawaii Menaced by Furious Wild Chickens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rest in peace! A Dutch startup has created a $1,000 mushroom coffin that will biodegrade in less than two months.

Get Buried in a $1,000 Organic, Biodegradable Mushroom Coffin

By Sharon Adarlo

Electricity in the air can be harnessed — and the simple conductor film used to harvest this energy can be made from almost anything.

Scientists Harvest Electricity From “Thin Air” Using Strange Material

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers found that lab-grown meat's environmental impact may actually be "orders of magnitude" higher than retail beef.

New Study Is Extremely Embarrassing for Lab-Grown Meat

By Victor Tangermann

The Florida Senate has passed a bill that would allow new roads to be paved with a radioactive mining byproduct.

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In Bid to Become a Comical Hellscape, Florida Considers Roads Paved With Radioactive Byproduct

By Noor Al-Sibai

Known as some of the animal kingdom's most complex social creatures, elephants in captivity appear to enjoy their interactions with humans.

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Elephants Love Hanging Out With People, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe that killer orca whales in the waters off of Europe's Iberian Peninsula are teaching each other how to sink sailboats.

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Experts Say Killer Whales Are Teaching Each Other to Attack Boats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA plans to use a device that "can vigorously spin occupants like laundry churning in a washing machine" to train astronauts.

NASA Brags About Plan to Torment Astronauts With Brutal Military Machine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news for New York: the Big Apple appears to be sinking a little bit each year under the weight of its iconic skyscrapers.

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NYC Appears to Be Sinking Because Its Skyscrapers Are So Heavy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new 3D scan of the Titanic shows the tragic scene at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in unprecedented detail.

Amazing 3D Scan Shows the Titanic If All the Water Was Drained Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Startup Rhea Space Activity has announced that it's planning to launch a mission to breathe new life into NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Military Funding “Resurrection” Mission for Derelict NASA Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of breaking a world record, a Florida man who's been under the Keys for nearly two-and-a-half months is refusing to resurface.

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Florida Man Has Been Living Underwater for Two and Half Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is increasing water temperatures off East Africa and this has led to increased pirate attacks in the region.

Climate Change Linked to Increased Pirate Attacks

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During what would have otherwise been a normal Chicago River kayaking trip, a local spotted something incredible — a giant snapping turtle.

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Internet Stunned by Colossal “Chonkasaurus” Turtle Spotted in River

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered a new type of tool-using insect, nicknamed the "assassin bug" for a creative — and deadly — hunting technique.

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Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A water recycling firm teamed up with a Northern Californian brewery to create the Epic OneWater Brew, a beer made from recycled greywater.

Yum! Environmentally Friendly Beer Made From Used Shower Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are horrified as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month.

Scientists Horrified as Sea Surface Temperatures Spike Off the Charts

By Victor Tangermann

You can't make up Canada — especially when it comes to this phallic iceberg captured by a man from a hilariously-named town.

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Internet Amused by Iceberg With a Very Interesting Shape

By Noor Al-Sibai

Like a moth to a lamp, humans have long thought we knew why bugs are so attracted to lights — but new research suggests we may have been dim.

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Scientists Suggest New Reason Dumb Bugs Smash Into Lights

By Noor Al-Sibai

Santorini is known as one of the most beautiful islands in the world — and the volcano that created it is far from dead, scientists warn.

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Scientists Issue Friendly Reminder That Beloved Tourist Island Is a Live Volcano

By Noor Al-Sibai

There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat

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There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat

By Victor Tangermann

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

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Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge gravity battery facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, China, CNET reports.

Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy

By Victor Tangermann

PSA for anyone planning a trip to Florida: massive, smelly globs of seaweed and algae calle Sargassum are currently headed toward the state's shores.

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Huge Blobs Headed Toward Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation.

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Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Trash Life, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Per leaked messages, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is "all for climate change." He also asked a former tabloid EIC to influence German elections. Cool.

In Leaked Messages, CEO Says He Supports Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers has proposed a radical and potentially affordable solution that could solve the entire climate crisis in one fell swoop.

We Could Solve 100% of Climate Change With a Modest Surcharge on Gasoline, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

As the European Space Agency was setting up to launch a rocket in French Guiana, an adorable little creature could be seen enjoying some rays of sunshine.

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Strange Creature Appears at Historic Rocket Launch

By Victor Tangermann

The story of how classified military documents ended up on a Minecraft Discord server is blowing our puny minds — and feels fit for the silver screen.

Classified Military Secrets Leaked on Minecraft Discord Server

By Noor Al-Sibai

Planet Earth viewed from Space. Planet Earth Maps Courtesy of NASA: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144875/earth-at-night-black-marble-2012-color-maps-v2.

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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Where Earth’s Water Came From

By Victor Tangermann

It may be more likely than ever that the next mega-earthquake is going to happen in the PNW — and a hole in the bottom of the sea may provide clues.

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Scientists Discover Leak in the Bottom of the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.

NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of Physics

By Frank Landymore

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

Biden to Propose Extreme Car Pollution Limits to Drive Up EV Sales

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.

Mining Crypto Is Even Worse for the Environment Than We Thought

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

A Math and Physics Savant Reportedly Figured Out How to Beat Roulette

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.

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The Earth’s Core Is Wrapped in the Floor of an Ancient Ocean, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

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Scientists Discover That Ancient Humans Were Tripping Balls in a Cave

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?

These Fake Liquid Trees Are Enraging the Internet

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.

US Military Caught Figuring Out How to Use Deepfakes for Psy-Op Campaigns

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.

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Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

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Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

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.

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Plants Cry. Here’s What They Sound Like.

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.

There Will Be Fewer People Alive in 2100 Than Now, Experts Predict

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.

Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say

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.

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Amazing Video Shows Avalanche Coming Straight Toward Cameraperson

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.

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Video Captures Lightning Shooting Up From Buildings Into Sky

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.

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Harvard Physicist Preparing Expedition to Recover Possible Alien Artifact

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.

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Scientists May Have Gotten Duped Into Thinking Collectible Figurine Was Ultra-Rare Shark

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.

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Bizarrely, Los Angeles County Just Got Hit By a Tornado

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.

Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River

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.

Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble

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 Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

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.

Brutal-Looking “Edward Scissorhands on Speed” Dinosaur Was Just Showing Off, Scientists Conclude

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.

Alarmed Scientists Discover “Terrifying” Rocks Made of Plastic Trash on Remote Island

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.

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Famed Astronomer Willing to Bet His Dog’s Life That We’re Living in a Multiverse

By Noor Al-Sibai