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Congress has reportedly rejected the Army's request for $400 million to fund the purchase of more Microsoft AR Hololens goggles.

Congress Rejects Funding the Military’s Microsoft AR Goggles Because They Made Soldiers Sick

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at The University of Cambridge have reportedly built a solar powered machine that transforms CO2 and plastics into sustainable fuel and more.

Solar Powered Machine Turns CO2 and Waste Plastic Into Valuable Fuel

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An environmental startup called Make Sunsets has started injecting sulfur dioxide particles into the stratosphere in an effort to cool the planet.

Startup Says It’s Started Releasing Chemical Into Atmosphere to Dim Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has its eyes set on banning new gas stove products in the wake a of new study that links it to childhood asthma.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Considering a Ban on Gas Stoves

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that hidden vegetation in NYC seems to absorb a lion's share of its carbon emissions via photosynthesis.

Renewable Energy

NYC’s Greenery Eats Up All the CO2 From Its Cars, Trucks and Buses “And Then Some”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Paper and wood product manufacturer Stora Enso has commissioend engineers to build anodes for batteries using lignin from wood pulp.

Science & Energy

Engineers Experimenting With Batteries Made Using Wood Waste

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at Caltech are about to test their Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which could help determine the future of space-based solar power.

Caltech Launches Solar Array to Test Beaming Energy Down to Earth

By Frank Landymore

On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of researchers have come up with a new theory that could allow for objects to go faster than the speed of light.

Traveling Faster Than Light Would Mean Experiencing Multiple Timelines Simultaneously

By Victor Tangermann

Experts argue in a number of letters published by The Guardian that the recent fusion power breakthrough is too little too late.

Gloomy Physicists Say Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Is Too Late to Save Us

By Victor Tangermann

The Flat Earthers have struck again — and this time, they're pondering why cities don't plummet into space when they're on the planet's "bottom."

Science & Energy

Flat Earthers Puzzled by Why People Don’t Fall Off “Bottom” of Globe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following a "major breakthrough" in the field of fusion energy, the US Department of Energy is investing in the development of a pilot fusion plant.

Scientists Now Plotting First Fusion Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory claim to have generated more energy with a fusion reaction than was needed to start it.

Physicists Say New Breakthrough Proves Fusion Power Is Possible

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the government-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California claim to have made a breakthrough in the field of fusion energy.

Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to one prudent local in Wyoming, we now to get to behold a rare and extremely picturesque Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud.

Science & Energy

Please Take a Moment and Enjoy This Beautifully Peaceful Cloud Formation

By Frank Landymore

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

The war between Floridians and invasive iguanas continues. Unfortunately for some Floridians, one iguana laid its life on the power line this week.

Science & Energy

Saboteur Iguana Causes Mass Power Outage, Then Dies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Satellite images obtained by MIT Technology Review show Saudi Arabia's astonishing progress in building its 100-miles-long megacity called the "Line."

Science & Energy

Satellite Images Show Progress on 100-Mile Long Skyscraper in Saudi Arabia

By Victor Tangermann

A scientific voyage aboard a CSIRO research vessel has yielded an untold treasure trove of shark teeth, and a species of living shark yet to be named.

Science & Energy

Scientists Stumble Upon Huge Graveyard of Sharks, Deep Under Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Environment officials in the UK were stunned after an entire river turned snow white in the south of England, the BBC reports.

Residents Alarmed When Entire River Turns White

By Victor Tangermann

Let it be known that among all the different fields of science, it was astronomers who managed to turn a record-breaking telescope into a ska joke.

Science & Energy

Brilliant Scientists Decide to Name the World’s Largest Telescope “SKA”

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has revealed a new project called "Starshield," a satellite project that is "designed for government use," according to the company's website.

SpaceX Unveils Military Satellite Called Starshield

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that standard goose harassment tactics are horribly ineffective at shooing — and keeping — away geese.

Science & Energy

Furious Geese Are Defeating Humans, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Airbus has announced it is strapping an experimental hydrogen fuel cell engine to a modified A380 superjumbo jet for an upcoming test.

Science & Energy

Airbus to Strap Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engine to Massive Superjumbo Jet

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper on a quantum computer simulating a wormhole was picked up by major new outlets, who seemingly jumped to some conclusions in their headlines.

Those Headlines About Scientists Building a Wormhole Are Total Nonsense, People

By Victor Tangermann

LED streetlights that replaced their sodium-vapor predecessors are turning blue and purple. And the problem may all stem from one company.

Science & Energy

Defective LED Streetlights Are Turning the Night Purple

By Frank Landymore

Fiji's Vanua Levu is being absolutely overrun by vines, including an invasive species introduced by US troops during WW2, The Guardian reports.

Science & Energy

Entire Island Strangled by Choking Vines

By Victor Tangermann

The world's largest active volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984 — and Hawaiian authorities are warning Big Island residents to remain vigilant.

Science & Energy

The World’s Largest Volcano Is Erupting for the First Time in Nearly 40 Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

The idea of "solar geoengineering," or shooting particles into the stratosphere to reduce the warming of the Sun, is no longer science fiction.

Scientists Increasingly Calling to Dim the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

China's in hot water after being accused of sabotaging a Philippine mission to retrieve Chinese rocket debris from that country's disputed waters.

Chinese Military Forcefully Seizes Debris That Philippines Recovered After It Fell From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A theoretical physicist has not only figured out a way to test out the theory that we live in a simulation — and is crowdfunding the experiment.

A Scientist Is Crowdfunding an Experiment to Check if We Live in a Simulation

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bill Gates took to LinkedIn over the weekend to celebrate one of the nicher holiday: World Toilet Day. And trust us, he's really in the spirit.

Science & Energy

Bill Gates Reflects on Drinking Product of Fecal Sludge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers discovered that a meteorite contained water just like Earth's, bolstering the theory that our planet got water from other meteorites like it.

Science & Energy

Evidence Grows That Soggy Meteorites Gave Earth Its Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Researchers in Austria are making biodegradable computer chip substrates out of the mushroom skin. The results are promising.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Circuit Boards Based on Mushrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The James Webb Space Telescope just released an image of a star being born, and it gives Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper a run for their money.

Science & Energy

NASA Drops Stunning New James Webb Image of a Star Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai

Italian startup Energy Dome has designed an ingenious battery that uses CO2 to store energy, and it only needs non-exotic materials like steel and water.

Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States

By Frank Landymore

The meal kit subscription service HelloFresh has been accused of using monkey labor in Thailand to source its coconut milk.

Science & Energy

Meal Kit Giant Accused of Using Monkey Labor to Source Coconut Milk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thanks to a rare and very trippy optical illusion called the "Brocken spectre," the sensation of being followed may not be just in your head after all.

Science & Energy

Chilling Optical Illusion Creates Ghostly Figure Hiding in the Fog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Physicists suggest wormholes, hypothetical tunnels linking one part of the universe to another, might be disguised as black holes.

Science & Energy

Objects We Thought Were Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Humans have known about climate change for decades. So why are we choosing to destroy our planet — and with it, ourselves?

Professors Warn of “Horrifying” Self-Destruction of Human Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to reporting by Elektrek, Tesla's solar division is pulling out its solar roof program across the country, with solar employees getting laid off.

Tesla Reportedly Canceling Solar Roof Installations Across the Country

By Frank Landymore

In an unprecedented experiment, two teams of scientists have replicated a material that was, until recently, not produced anywhere on Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Reproduce Fascinating, Powerful Material Found in Meteorite

By Noor Al-Sibai

Welcome to "Nemo's Garden," a beautiful underwater garden off of Italy's Northwestern coast. The underwater greenhouses are called "biospheres."

Science & Energy

Divers Growing Veggies in Underwater Greenhouses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.

Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

By Frank Landymore

A dazzling array of fabulously strange deep sea creatures were just discovered off of Australia's Western Coast — some new, some just very rare.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bizarre New Deep Sea Creatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered a dead magnetar star that appears to have a frozen, crusty outer shell — and no atmosphere, to boot.

Science & Energy

Scientists Startled by Dead Star That Appears to Have a Solid Exterior

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers strapped cameras to tiger sharks and discovered a massive underwater forest of seagrass stretching 35,000 square miles across the seabed.

Scientists Strap Cameras to Sharks and Discover Huge Underwater Forest

By Victor Tangermann

As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have begun with a "Big Bounce" — and not a Big Bang.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Cats, ever the mischievous and frisky pets, may be harboring a lot more human DNA than once thought, possibly tampering crime scenes, a new study says.

Science & Energy

Cats May Be Tampering With Crime Scenes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers are puzzled by the strange behavior of a crooked cluster of stars, which appears to be following an alternative theory of gravity.

There’s Something Strange About How These Stars Are Moving, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The UN's upcoming COP27 climate conference in Egypt is basically a "greenwashing" waste of time, according to Greta Thunberg, who says she won't be going.

Greta Thunberg Says UN Climate Conference Is a Scam and She’s Not Attending

By Frank Landymore

Researchers From China Genetically Engineer Monkeys to Exhibit Autistic-Like Behavior

Science & Energy

Researchers From China Genetically Engineer Monkeys to Exhibit Autistic-Like Behavior

By June Javelosa

A bold new theory proposes that a "Conan the Bacterium" microorganism could survive under Mars' barren surface for hundreds of millions of years.

Science & Energy

Researchers Say “Conan the Bacterium” Could Be Hidden Beneath Mars’ Surface

By Noor Al-Sibai

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.

Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Your eyes do not deceive you. These dancing, fuzzy bugs are real, and, yes, they're shaking their rear ends in unison to keep you way.

Science & Energy

These Dancing Bugs Are Straight Out of a Miyazaki Film

By Frank Landymore

Science & Energy

NASA Crowdsourcing Investigation of Otherworldly “Sprites” in Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dozens of France's nuclear reactors remain offline following a series of troubling outages believed to be caused by stress-induced pipe corrosion.

France Discovers Ominous Cracks in Dozens of Nuclear Reactors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.

Science & Energy

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

By Frank Landymore

Every cat person has suspected that their cats are ignoring them — and now, researchers seem to have proven that they're right.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Cats Simply Do Not Give a Crap

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have discovered a neutron star that is far lighter than previously thought possible, undermining our understanding of the evolution of stars.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Puzzled by Extremely Peculiar Object in Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a scathing new Greenpeace USA report, only five percent of plastic waste generated by US households — a shockingly low number.

A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the Landfill

By Victor Tangermann