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With the help of state-of-the-art supercomputers, we're getting a whole lot closer to unraveling the mystery behind the formation of the Moon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms can quickly break down polyethylene (PE), plastic that used in plastic bags.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

On London's Waterloo bridge, a climate activist was filmed giving an interview while quite literally being toted away by police officers during a protest.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new crude oil supertanker launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping company (CMES) is making use of four large sails to reduce its fuel consumption.
Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

Over the next 300 million years, scientists predict all the Earth's continents will come together to form the next supercontinent: Amasia.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Evolution seems to have sped up near Chernobyl, where a small type of tree frog has changed substantially since the 1986 nuclear meltdown.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US military keeps dumping sewage into Hawaii's Pearl Harbor thanks to its poorly-maintained wastewater sanitation systems.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have discovered that the Earth's interior is absolutely teeming with water, something scientists have been suspecting for years.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Gender reveal parties have become notorious for their occasionally disastrous consequences. Polluting an entire river? Well, it's up there.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

You simply can't make up Florida, as evidenced by a viral video of a bonafide Florida Man taking a bong rip as Hurricane Ian wreaks havoc behind him. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hurricane Ian destroyed the causeways that connect Sanibel Island, along with several other barrier islands off the Florida Coast, to the mainland.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One man claims he was able to exploit a gun buyback program by 3D printing more than 100 guns and selling them to his state's attorney general's office.
3D Printing

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea are going to be bad, and climate experts say the methane released pipelines from Russia may be sabotage.
Environment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two years after publishing, the journal Nature has retracted what was believed to be a major superconductivity breakthrough.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines have sprung some leaks, causing concern they may have been sabotaged as an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid concerns about rising emissions, scientists have discovered something weird — that trees appear to be growing faster as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, the state of the field of particle physics is misguided and wasteful.
Physics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A storm tech startup sent one of its robots into the devastating Hurricane Fiona and captured unbelievable video of its huge waves and winds.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

This isn't the first time that the Pacific Ocean has birthed a new island — and according to the experts, they tend to be a bit of a flight risk.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

From the bubbling hot eruption of an underwater volcano, a new island emerges in the southwest pacific. But how long will it survive?
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Per a new study, administering the drug rapamycin to mice everyday for the first 45 days of their lives % extends life expectancy by an average 10 percent.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As part of the ongoing "Voyage to the Ridge 2022" expedition, scientists exploring the ocean floor have stumbled across an unidentified "blue goo" organism.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon is reportedly to conduct an audit of the US military's social media PSYOP practices, following the removal of several fake bot accounts.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts are warning that if climate change continues to go unchecked, most of Florida's southern coast will be underwater, Miami included, by 2060.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leading Chinese solar power company is sending its panels to space in an effort to establish 24/7 energy harnessing to send back to Earth.
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lululemon yoga company manufactures much of its expensive workout wear in coal-powered factories — and its stans are super ticked off about it. 
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

The widespread adoption of colder, bluer LEDs may not be worth the energy it saves if it causes so much disruption to the environment and our own lives.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

China claims it will build the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactors within the next six years, a highly ambitious timeline.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ethereum blockchain has finally completed its long-awaited "Merge," switching from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake system.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are proposing to unleash huge amounts of microscopic aerosol particles over the Earth's North and South Poles to slow down the melting ice caps.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

In October 2021, months before Russia's invasion, a YouTuber got an exclusive look inside the New Safe Confinement site at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has long believed that 'Oumuamua, a mysterious object that visited our solar system, was an alien spacecraft.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Ben Nowack, a 26-year-old inventor, wants to send satellites with mirrors mounted to their backs into space to allow us to generate solar energy at night.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is planning "The Mirror Line." The skyscraper would be the world's largest structure and house millions.
Energy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of.
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source. 
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Department of Energy said it's making geothermal energy a priority, hoping to cut its cost by 90 percent before 2035.
Geothermal

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new analysis has determined that by current emissions, roughly 4.4 million acres of land and 650,000 individual properties will be underwater by 2050.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The situation at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia power plant — the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at the war's front lines — is bad. Really bad.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't convinced of the long-term prospects of fusion energy, the concept of fusing atoms together to generate green electricity.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

Actor Jason Mamoa has taken to Instagram to ferociously protest single-use plastics by shaving his hair off. Is that effective activism?
Environment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pentagon has halted F-35 fighter jet deliveries after discovering that a component of the jet's engine is actually made in China.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last year, oil and gas pipeline Ku-Maloob-Zaap in the Gulf of Mexico said a gas leak set the ocean on fire. Now, it's leaking methane gas by the ton.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The arctic glacier that many believe could predict "doomsday" could start collapsing faster than expected — and if that happens, we're all screwed.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff described the kind of bunkers the super wealthy are building as they prepare for an apocalypse of some kind.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The energy crisis in Europe has gotten so bad that CERN is considering idling the Large Hadron Collider to save energy amid potential rationing.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.
Nuclear Fusion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Pollution

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A solar company under investigation for violating consumer protections filed suit againt a company it blames for failure. Meanwhile, the climate changes.
Solar Power

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A chief engineer and national from Russia was sentenced to a year and one day in jail for purposefully dumping waste water with oil off the US coast.
Pollution

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ecuadorian government is begging people to stop poaching the Galapagos islands' famed giant tortoises and eating them.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nearly 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi don't have clean drinking water. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration for Jackson.
Environment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

California is spending $20 million on a pilot project that will involve 8,500 feet of solar panels covering sections of canals.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Samsung worked with Bill Gates to invent a new kind of toilet that recycles and cleans waste and is better for the environment.
Environment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Pakistan's climate change minister says one-third of the country is underwater following summer flooding. At least 1,100 died in the Pakistan flood.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists are warning that it's now "inevitable" that Greenland's ice cap will melt, leading to a major rise in sea levels, The Guardian reports.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Drought-stricken California soil has, over the course of several years, been slowly releasing a meningitis-causing fungus into the air.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK's Environmental Agency announced that Britons may soon be drinking sewage water to counter the region's worsening environmental circumstances.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twelve homes in a resettlement community for climate change survivors opened their doors to new owners this week in New Isle, Louisiana.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A scientist is attempting to build a framework for understanding "plant neurobiology," with the hope of answering the question: are plants conscious?
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As water levels dip dangerously low, dry river and lake beds reveal long-forgotten and hidden objects the rest of the world was never meant to see.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood