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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.

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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.

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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

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.

Chinese Company Launching Solar Panels to Space, Where They’ll Beam Energy Down to Earth

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.

Yoga Teachers Furious Over Lululemon’s Use of Environment-Destroying Factories

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.

Scientists Have Bad News About All These Energy Efficient LEDs

By Frank Landymore

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

China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility

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.

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Scientists Absolutely Thrilled to Find 150 Million Year Old Vomit

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.

Ether Price Falls After “Merge” to Cut Its Environmental Toll

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.

New Plan Suggests Re-Freezing Earth’s Poles by Spraying Chemicals With Huge Military Jets

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.

YouTuber Clambers Inside Chernobyl’s Nuclear Sarcophagus

By Victor Tangermann

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

Harvard Professor Defends Claim That Alien Spacecraft Cruised Through Solar System

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.

Former SpaceX Guy Aims to Launch Giant Mirrors Into Orbit to Shine on Solar Panels at Night

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.

Saudi Arabia Planning Skyscraper That’s 75 Miles Wide

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.

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Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

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.

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Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play “Pong”

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.

China Approves Three Moon Missions After Discovering Mineral That Could Be Energy Source

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.

The Biden Administration Wants to Cut Geothermal Energy Costs by 90 Percent

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.

Hundreds of Thousands of American Homes Will Be Swallowed by the Sea, Scientists Say

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.

Battle-Scarred Ukraine Nuclear Plant Cooling Systems Hanging by a Thread, Officials Say

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.

Elon Musk Slams Fusion, Says Future of Energy Is Wind and Solar

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?

Jason Momoa So Furious About Environment That He Shaved His Head

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 Horrified to Discover Its Most Expensive Jet Has a Part Made in China

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.

Last Year’s Ocean Portal to Hell Now Leaking Toxic Gas

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.

The Doomsday Glacier Is Hanging on “By Its Fingernails,” Scientists Say

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.

Don’t Panic, But the Super Wealthy Are Quietly Building Doomsday Bunkers

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.

Europe’s Energy Crisis Is So Bad It May Have to Idle CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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.

Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant

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.

The Overwhelming Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Isn’t What You Think

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 Company Under Investigation for Installing Systems That Don’t Work

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.

Man Headed to Prison for Dumping Toxic Pollution Into Ocean

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.

Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Authorities Plead: Please Stop Eating Critically Endangered Giant Tortoises

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.

The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

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.

California Installing Huge Solar Panels Over Canals to Combat Drought

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.

Bill Gates’ New Toilet Sets Your Poop on Fire

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.

Pakistani Official Says a Third of the Country Is Underwater in “Apocalyptic” Flood

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.

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Now “Inevitable” That Greenland’s Ice Cap Will Melt and Cause Major Sea-Level Rise, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann