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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

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.

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Scientists Say They Can Reverse Time in a Quantum System

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.

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Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth’s Core

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.

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Tens of Thousands of Animals Died for Miles Around Toxic Spill, Officials Admit

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.

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Venice Looks Pretty Alarming With Its Canals Drained

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.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

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.

The Military Spent $1.5 Million Shooting Down Those Three Unidentified Objects

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.

Wait, Did Officials Just Pretend to Drink the Tap Water in East Palestine?

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.

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Guy Trying to Dim Sun Frets That US Will Shoot Down His Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Early Mayan Civilization Was Far More Advanced Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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

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Cursed Truck Hauls 80,000 Pounds of Radioactive Waste Cross Country

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.

George Soros Comes Out in Support of Geoengineering the Climate

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.

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

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.

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

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.

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

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.

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Residents Forced to Shelter in Place After Truck Spills Toxic Cargo

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.

Experts Fear Grim Repercussions of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

By manipulating high frequency sound waves, scientists were able to create shapes ranging from a helix to a figure 8 out of particles suspended in water.

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Scientists Use “Acoustic Holograms” To Form Particles Into Complex 3D Shapes

By Frank Landymore

A bizarre coincidence in the Ohio town where the Norfolk Southern train derailment happened makes this story seem almost stranger than fiction.

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There’s a Super Bizarre Coincidence Surrounding the Ohio Train Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a press conference today, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby reiterated that we shouldn't "worry about aliens."

Military Says the UFOs They Shot Down Aren’t Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

After a series of mysterious objects were spotted and shot down, officials are still unable to rule out the possibility that the objects were alien.

US Military Not Ruling Out That Unidentified Shot Down Objects Were Alien

By Victor Tangermann

After unearthing its fossils in 2017, researchers now reveal a new species of penguin called Kumimanu fordycei that weighed over 340 pounds.

Fearsome Prehistoric Penguin Weighed as Much as an Adult Gorilla

By Frank Landymore

Watch out, Big Tech: using a generative AI like ChatGPT to power a search engine uses way more computing power than before.

Turns Out Using ChatGPT In Search Engines Would Have a Grisly Environmental Footprint

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of strange lines crossing Saturn's rings, heralding the start of the planet's "spokes season."

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Strange Lines Appear in Saturn’s Rings

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX isn't willing to have its satellite internet service used for drone strikes by the Ukrainian military and is cutting their ability to do so.

SpaceX Sabotages Ukraine’s Military Capabilities Against Russia

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A University of Delaware student "accidentally" created a small amount of a "shock-sensitive explosive chemical" in one of the university's labs.

College Student “Accidentally” Builds Explosive, Forcing Bomb Squad to Detonate It

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire climate advocate Bill Gates will do whatever it takes to save the planet — as long as it doesn't mean giving up his private jet.

Bill Pledges to Keep Flying Private Jet While Speaking Out Against Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.

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China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-discovered layer located under the Earth's crust may provide scientists with more information about tectonic plates and the formation of continents.

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Scientists Discover Molten Hell Zone Beneath Earth’s Tectonic Plates

By Noor Al-Sibai

The molecules kill some types of fungi "so efficiently that we named them after Keanu Reeves," said the lead author of the study.

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Scientists Develop Compound That Kills So Efficiently They Named It After Keanu Reeves

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.

Global Warming Is Priming Deadly Fungi to Invade Our Warm Bodies

By Frank Landymore

The Canadian province of Quebec's own spring-predicting groundhog lovingly nicknamed "Fred la marmotte" (groundhog in French) unexpectedly passed away.

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Instead of Predicting Length of Winter, Groundhog Simply Dies

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers has discovered a total of 25 different fast radio bursts, extremely powerful pulses of radio waves, that repeat in complex patterns.

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Astronomers Intrigued by 25 Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

The global warming threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius may be a foregone conclusion, according to a new study that trained an AI on climate models.

Global Warming Is Worse Than We Thought, AI Tells Scientists

By Frank Landymore

Chance Glenn, an engineering professor, is ready to commit an entire lab to inch closer towards a warp drive by making use of simple antifreeze.

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Professor Believes Door to Warp Drive May Lie With Ethylene Glycol

By Victor Tangermann

A group of NYC bird advocates are denouncing whoever bought and dyed pink a domesticated pigeon for a gender reveal before releasing it into the wild.

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Bird Advocates Horrified by Pigeon Dyed Pink For Gender Reveal Party

By Noor Al-Sibai

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.

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Startup Backed By “Jurassic World” Producer Says It Will Revive Extinct Dodo Using Complete Genome

By Frank Landymore

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.

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Influencer Fined for Eating Endangered Great White Shark

By Noor Al-Sibai