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There's nothing the internet loves more than cat videos — but what about videos filmed from a cat's perspective?

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A Guy Strapped a Camera to His Cat and It’s the Best Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UN has given Japan the green light to dump into the Pacific Ocean its treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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UN Approves Japan’s Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

This year's July 4 was the hottest day since records began, according to climate data. The previous record was July 3.

This July 4 Was the Earth’s Hottest Day on Record

By Sharon Adarlo

By using neural radiance fields, a team of researchers have developed a technique to render a 3D scene of what's reflected in your eye.

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Scientists Reconstruct What You’re Looking at by Enhancing Reflection in Your Eye

By Frank Landymore

Scientists suggest another planet could be lurking in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy objects stretching beyond the Kuiper Belt.

Our Solar System May Be Hiding an Extra Planet, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Below the Indian Ocean, there's a giant "gravity hole" over one million square miles in size. Scientists may have figured out why it exists.

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Scientists Intrigued by “Gravity Hole” at Bottom of Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

For over 100 years, scientists have been puzzling over a blood-red liquid seeping out of a glacier in Antarctica. Until now.

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Scientists Intrigued by Glacier Bleeding Red Fluid

By Victor Tangermann

Devastating wildfires in Canada have continued to burn, and its smoke is already hitting the United States for a second wave this year.

Canada Is Hotboxing the United States Again

By Frank Landymore

A part of the summit of a mountain in the Alps has collapsed, the likely result of permafrost thawing, dramatic footage shows.

Climate Change Blamed for Collapse of Mountain

By Victor Tangermann

As much as 80 percent of the Himalayas' glaciers could vanish by the year 2100 if global temperatures rise by four degrees Celsius.

Climate Change Could Cause Himalayan Glaciers to Shrink By a Shocking Amount

By Sharon Adarlo

The Hunga volcano's eruption blasted through seawater, creating the perfect conditions for the most intense lightning storm ever observed.

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Violent Volcano Eruption Triggers an Ungodly Number of Lightning Flashes

By Frank Landymore

Over less than 20 years, humans extracted so much groundwater that it changed the tilt of the entire planet.

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We Pumped So Much Water Out of the Ground That We Tilted the Earth, Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

An unexpected herd of 40 goats wandered through a Texas development, munching on lawns and landscaping as they went.

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Watch 40 Ravenous Goats Terrorize an Unsuspecting Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An orca repeatedly slammed into a yacht sailing in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland earlier this week.

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Relentless Orca Repeatedly Rams Yacht

By Frank Landymore

Upside Foods and Good Meats received a grant of inspection from the USDA, allowing their lab grown meat products to be sold to consumers.

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First Lab Grown Meat Products Approved for Sale in US

By Frank Landymore

Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

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Netflix Camera Boat Attacked by Swarm of Furious Sharks

By Sharon Adarlo

Rising global temperatures and pollution levels might have one particularly unexpected side effect: dog bites.

Harvard Researchers Find Dogs Bite People More on Hot Days

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

Orcas Are Apparently Attacking Boats Almost Every Day Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

By Frank Landymore

A yacht captain whose vessels have twice been attacked by the same pod of orcas has some interesting ideas about these killer whales.

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Captain Attacked Twice by Orcas Says They’re Developing Better Anti-Boat Strategies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have confirmed through genetic testing that an 18-year-old female crocodile impregnated herself without a male mate.

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Jesus Crocodile Conceived With No Father

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The gigantic "Chonkasaurus" snapping turtle, which captured hearts online, has once again been spotted on the Chicago River.

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Hallelujah! The Mighty “Chonkasaurus” Turtle Has Been Spotted Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are saying that a certain ingredient found in Monster Energy drinks could be a potent anti-aging longevity supplement.

Astonishing! Ingredient in Monster Energy May Actually Be Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Our primate predecessors may have enjoyed masturbation for millions of years before we ever entered the picture.

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Scientists Ponder When Our Ancestors First Started Cranking the Hog

By Frank Landymore

Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

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Furious Orcas Throw Around Yacht “Like a Ragdoll”

By Frank Landymore

Smoke from especially dire wildfires in Canada has swept across the East Coast, leaving an ugly and hazardous haze over cities like New York.

A Huge Cloud of Smoke Is Casting a Ghoulish Gloom Over New York City

By Frank Landymore

It appears that one of our ancestral species had burial rituals that included the carving of symbols hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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Pre-Human Species Carved Symbols More Than 200,000 Years Ago

By Noor Al-Sibai

There are staggeringly tall mountains inside the Earth that rival Mount Everest. Scientists are puzzling over their origin.

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Gigantic Mountains Inside Earth Mystify Scientists

By Sharon Adarlo

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

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