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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

Mining giant Rio Tinto misplaced a "highly radioactive" object along a Western Australian highway, several outlets report. If it helps, they're "sorry."

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Miners Say “Sorry” for Losing Highly Radioactive Object Along Highway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have successfully turned an abandoned oil and gas well into a geothermal energy storage system, "a win-win situation."

Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well Into Giant Geothermal Battery

By Victor Tangermann

New amphibian fossils just dropped, and this one, the "funky worm," is named for a really strange 1970s funk song beloved by its discoverers.

Scientists Name “Funky Worm” Amphibian After a Weird 70s Funk Song

By Noor Al-Sibai

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

By Frank Landymore

The rest of dinosaur's body was intact, too, including the armor, spikes, limbs, and its stomach contents. Looking it in the eye might unnerve you.

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Scientists Found a Dinosaur’s Face, Complete With Its Skin

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have built a real-life tractor beam that can pull actual objects using nothing but light.But it has one big drawback: it's absolutely tiny.

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Scientists Build Working Tractor Beam, Although It’s Comically Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

There's a new iceberg in town, freshly minted off of Antarctica's 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf. And at 600-square-miles, it's something to behold.

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Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City Breaks Off Antarctica

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After trying and failing for over a year, NASA scientists have suspended further deployment attempts of the Lucy spacecraft's solar array.

NASA Says Lucy Spacecraft Will Forge Ahead With Busted Solar Array

By Frank Landymore

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer.

Scientists Say We’re Closer to Nuclear Armageddon Than Any Other Point in History

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new study, the Earth's inner core appears to have stopped spinning, and is changing its direction every 60 to 70 years or so.

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Earth’s Core Appears to Have Stopped Spinning, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

By Victor Tangermann

A cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" has been crowned as the world's largest known toad. But sadly, our hefty heroine's story has already come to an untimely end.

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Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore