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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

Scientists have figured out where the Earth's water came from billions of years ago when our planet formed.

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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

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.

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy 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.

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Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

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.

Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project

By Frank Landymore

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

Environmentalist Group Files “Criminal Charges” Against Tesla, Accusing It of “Water Pollution”

By Victor Tangermann

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

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

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.

Bad News: Bees Are Dying At a Shocking Rate

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.

Scientists Play Tiniest Game of Baseball By Throwing and Catching Individual Atoms

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity

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.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

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.

If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

By Frank Landymore

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

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Researchers Say They’ve Created Superconductors At Room Temperature

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.

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Keanu Reeves Responds to Deadly Compound Named After Him

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

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Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

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.

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Scientists Discover That Toilet Paper Contains Toxic “Forever” Chemicals

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.

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

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.

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MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

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.

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Residents Blame Horrid Black Fungus on Whiskey Facility

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.

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President of Mexico Posts Photo of What He Claims Is a Mythological Creature

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.

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight 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.

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

By Victor Tangermann

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

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

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.

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Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

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.

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Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

By Frank Landymore