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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.

Quantum Physics

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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."

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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."

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

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