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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

Make Sunsets had barely got two of its sulfur dioxide releasing balloons in the air before the Mexican government banned the experiments outright.

Mexico Bans Startup From Future Solar Geoengineering Experiments

By Frank Landymore

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is releasing a mysterious and seriously haunting howl. But there's a simple explanation.

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The Golden Gate Bridge Is Emitting a Horrible Howling Sound

By Victor Tangermann

Turns out, all you need is a million dollar laser that can shoot high energy pulses at an absurdly fast rate, and you can maybe divert lightning.

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Scientists Test System for Controlling Where Lightning Strikes Hit Using Lasers

By Frank Landymore

There's no surviving the fireball of a nuclear bomb, but beyond that, there are certain spots indoors where you can try avoid the destructive shockwave.

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New Study Shows Where You Should Hide to Survive a Nuclear Attack

By Frank Landymore

Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Winchcombe meteorite was kept pristine and avoided earthly contamination, making the discovery of amino acids inside all the more compelling.

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Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life in Meteor That Smashed Into Family’s Driveway

By Frank Landymore

In a damning new paper, researchers have found that scientists employed by Exxon were shockingly accurate in their predictions of global warming.

Exxon Scientists Knew About Global Warming for Decades While Company Denied It

By Victor Tangermann

Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, new research suggests.

Dolphins Are Screaming Because of Underwater Drilling Noise, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jimmy "Mr. Beast" Donaldson, the youth-beloved YouTuber, thinks that we'll live for a few hundred years. At the very least, a could 130 or so.

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Mr. Beast Hopeful That Science Will Let Him Live Several Hundred Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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