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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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These Dancing Bugs Are Straight Out of a Miyazaki Film

By Frank Landymore

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened

By Frank Landymore

An ant photographed under a microscope by wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas has gone viral on social media for its evil appearance.

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This Extreme Closeup of an Ant Is Giving Us Actual Nightmares

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers claim to have created a biodegradable and renewable alternative to both glass and plastic in the form of "transparent wood."

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Scientists Say New “Transparent Wood” Could Replace Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that the universe is expanding at an entirely different rate than previously thought, a groundbreaking discovery.

Most Precise Measurements of the Universe Suggest That Something Is Very Wrong

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study conducted by scientists from Trinity College Dublin could suggest that quantum processes are involved in the functions of our brains.

Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers

By Frank Landymore

The Guardian reports that the BBC has already secretly prepared scripts to read on air in the event of energy shortages causing blackouts or empty gas reserves — a telling sign that between the war in Ukraine, growing energy uncertainty, and a fast-approaching winter, UK authorities are bracing for the absolute worst.

UK Authorities Anticipate Energy Blackouts This Winter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hurricane Ian has rendered Florida's once beautiful blue-green waters into a horrible brown sludge that "looks like root beer" and smells like "dead fish."

Hurricane Ian Turned Florida’s Water So Vile That It “Looks Like Root Beer”

By Frank Landymore

An elementary school in St. Louis had a rude awakening when scientists discovered grounds had "unacceptable" levels of radioactive contamination.

Radioactive Waste From Manhattan Project Found at Elementary School

By Frank Landymore

The White House has launched a five year research plan to investigate the possibility of reflecting sunlight to reduce warming and fight climate change.

White House Researching Combating Climate Change By Spraying Particles Into the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

The US military finally tested Microsoft's expensive HoloLens smart goggles for combat, and it's probably safe to say that the goggles failed.

Microsoft’s AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered the brightest energy burst ever detected in space — and Astronomy Twitter is abuzz over the electrifying finding.

Scientists Spot Brightest Energy Burst Ever Detected in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A shocking new video shows two climate activists throwing a can of soup at Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" painting at London's National Gallery.

Climate Activists Throw Soup at Famous Van Gogh Painting

By Victor Tangermann

A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

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A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Germany has once again fired up its coal plants. But Greta Thunberg thinks the country should just use its already in place nuclear power plants instead.

Greta Thunberg Thinks Germany Shutting Down Its Nuclear Plants Is a Bad Idea

By Frank Landymore

Dumpy, an Australian white frog, went viral this week for being delightfully enormous. But sadly, while we still absolutely stan, Dumpy isn't that big.

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Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ATP, the universal energy molecule, couldn't rise to the top alone. It needed both water and another phosphorylating molecule, called AcP, to do it.

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why ATP Powers All Life on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers from Purdue University claim to have discovered the basic "chemistry behind the origin of life" on Earth — in droplets of water.

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Scientists Claim to Have Discovered the “Secret Ingredient for Building Life”

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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Brutal Video Simulates When Earth Hit Another Planet Many Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast

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 Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police

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.

Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails

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.

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Scientists Say All Land on Earth Is Smashing Together Into a New Supercontinent

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

Something Cool Is Happening to the Frogs at Chernobyl

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

US Military Criticized for Dumping Sewage Into Hawaiian Ocean

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

Scientists Find Evidence of “Ocean” Hundreds of Miles Below Earth’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann

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

Gender Reveal Party Under Investigation for Polluting Entire River

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.

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We Must Respect This Florida Man Ripping a Bong During an Actual Hurricane

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.

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Entire Islands Severed From Florida by Hurricane Ian

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.

Man 3D Prints 110 Guns, Sells Them to Buyback Program for $21,000

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.

Experts Say Leaking Russian Pipeline Likely Huge Environmental Disaster

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

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Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors

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.

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Russia’s Main Pipelines Leak Natural Gas Into Sea After Apparent Explosions

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.

Carbon Dioxide Seems to Be Making Trees Grow Faster, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Former Particle Physicist Absolutely Annihilates the Field of Particle 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.

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Scientists Sent a Robot Into the Ferocious Hurricane Fiona

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.

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Experts Have Bad News for That Tiny Island That Appeared the Other Day

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?

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A New Island Just Appeared in the Pacific Ocean

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.

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Giving Baby Mice This Drug Makes Them Live 10 Percent Longer

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.

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Bizarre “Blue Goo” Organism at Bottom of Ocean Stumps Scientists

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.

US Military Annoyed When Facebook and Twitter Removed Its PSYOP Bots

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.

Scientists Have Grim News for Southern Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré