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After three years of testing in the field, scientists in China claim that they've identified a way to engineer transgenic rice that needs less fertilizer.

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Scientists Gene Hack Rice to Need Way Less Fertilizer and Boost Yields

By Frank Landymore

Heat wave Zoe was so bad that Seville, Spain decided to create its own naming and rating system for heat waves and gave it the highest score.

Hooray! Heat Waves Are Now Bad Enough to Get Names

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Taylor Swift and her private jet are the world's worst celeb CO2 emission offenders according to a new report, which the internet freaked out about.

Taylor Swift Didn’t Rack Up Wasteful Private Jet Miles Alone, Team Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Germany may need to expand the life of a nuclear power plant as Russia invades Ukraine and destabilizes power supplies in Europe.

German Government Says It May Keep Nuclear Plant Open After All

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has thrown some weight behind an air conditioning startup Blue Frontier to help stop climate change.

Bill Gates Invests in Exciting Air Conditioning Startup

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A viral Twitter video claims to illustrate how motor proteins move. It's fun, but incorrect — and what those molecules actually do is way cooler.

The Real Story Behind That Viral Clip of a Protein With a Confident Strut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.

Experts Warn UK Government Not to Bury Nuclear Waste Under Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The only Gorgosaurus skeleton that's ever been made available for private ownership sold at auction for more than $6 million yesterday.

Paleontologists Furious as Dinosaur Skeleton Sells at Private Auction

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Western US is in the worst drought in 1,200 years. Lawns suck up previous water resources, but not every resident is on board with cutbacks.

An Evil Force Is Sucking the Life Out of California: Lawns

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Visual effects artist Cinnamontographer has taken on the task of forever enshrining the now discontinued Choco Taco in the form of a high-fidelity 3D scan.

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National Hero Makes Perfect 3D Scan of a Choco Taco Before They Disappear Forever

By Victor Tangermann

A Twitter user said three of his Samsung phones popped open and appear to have battery problems caused by heat and climate change.

Tech Reviewer Says Heatwave Causing Samsung Batteries to Burst Out of Phones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens living in the southwestern Japanese city of Yamaguchi have found themselves besieged by violent gangs of macaque monkeys.

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Japanese City Terrorized By Furious Baby-Snatching Monkeys

By Frank Landymore

NOAA Ocean Exploration scientists came across a series of organized sublinear holes on the Mid-Atlantic ocean floor, and it's unclear who or what made them.

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Scientists Puzzled by Strange Row of Holes on Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.

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Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

By Frank Landymore

A "black widow" pulsar is devouring its neighboring star, and in the process has become the densest neutron star ever recorded.

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Pulsar Devours Neighbor, Becomes Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

Several NGOs have co-signed a letter to Telsa and Elon Musk, begging the founder to avoid investing in Indonesia's nickel mining industry.

Environmental Groups Horrified by New Tesla Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent analysis shows that Tesla's electric cybertruck is incredibly aerodynamic — its drag is above average for other pickup trucks on the market.

New Analysis Finds That Blocky Cybertruck Has Enviable Wind Resistance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Quantum physicists have effectively opened a portal to a new time dimension while creating a new topological phase of quantum matter.

Physicists Create New Phase of Matter With “Extra” Time Dimension

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Follow-up experiments attempting to recreate a landmark laser fusion breakthrough are falling far short of expectations, Nature reports.

Oops! Fusion Facility Keeps Failing to Recreate Last Year’s “Breakthrough” Record

By Victor Tangermann

Upon arriving at harbors in Norway, this Freya the Walrus has chosen chaos: in her endless pursuit of sunny naps, she's has been sinking tiny Nordic boats.

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Chaotic Walrus Keeps Climbing on Small Boats and Sinking Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A windmill in Texas caught on fire after getting strucking by lightning. Footage showed a spiral of smoke before the structure collapsed.

Wind Turbine Catches on Fire, Creates Spiral-Shaped Smoke Pattern

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists in Switzerland say they've figured out how to make jet fuel from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight using a solar tower.

New System Creates Jet Fuel From Water, CO2 and Sunlight

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Several conspiracy theories involving the Mandela effect and portal opening have gone viral, and CERN scientists are trying to counter the misinformation.

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CERN Scientists Annoyed That People Think They’re Ripping a Hole in Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's pretty difficult to justify opting for a 17-minute trip on a private jet over a 45-minute car ride — but that's exactly what Kylie Jenner just did.

Kardashian Slammed for 17-Minute Private Jet Flight to Beat Traffic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.

Mars Satellite Captures Breathtaking View of Deepest Canyon in Entire Solar System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Land Life, a company that offers carbon offsets to polluting industries through planting trees, has accidentally started a massive forest fire in Spain.

Company Providing Carbon Offsets Accidentally Sets Large Forest Fire

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup containing DNA may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

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Investigators Analyze DNA Sample to Make Arrest in 1975 Murder

By Frank Landymore

Researchers were able to hack into fruit fly brains and successfully command specific movements, with just a click of a wireless remote control.

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Scientists Hijack Fruit Fly Brains to Remote Control Their Wings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK — which has announced a "red warning" for extreme heat — weapped London's 135-year-old Hammersmith Bridge silver foil to keep it from cracking.

London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate-change-driven heat waves spell disaster for the UK as the country buckles under its hottest night and day ever, back to back.

UK Has Hottest Night in Recorded History, Then Hottest Day in Recorded History

By Frank Landymore

The Boulder City Fire Department is responding to an emergency call at the Hoover Dam, a hydroelectric dam and major tourist attraction.

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Something Just Exploded at the Hoover Dam

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, one of the famed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US as part of a summer storm system.

Blessed Weather Pattern Looks Exactly Like a Ninja Turtle

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Europe is being gripped by a devastating heat wave, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes — and killing over a thousand more.

Over a Thousand Die in European “Heat Apocalypse”

By Victor Tangermann

Living Carbon has gone back to carbon capture's literal roots, but with a twist: they've created genetically-modified, fast-growing trees.

Startup Says It’s Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welcome to hell. A (checks notes) zombie fungus is infecting female flies and (checks notes) seducing male flies into mating with their undead corpses.

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Horrid Fungus Lures Flies Into Having Sex With Zombified Corpses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking new video shows a massive tidal wave sweep over the top of a two-story condo in Keauhou, Hawaii, amid a "historic" ocean surf.

Shocking Video Shows Massive Tidal Wave Crash Over a 2-Story Condo

By Victor Tangermann

Things are getting steamy in England — quite literally, in the case of one Royal Air Force base where it got so hot, the runway actually melted.

UK Shuts Down Air Force Base When It Got So Hot the Runway Melted

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ship passed through a "milky sea" deep-water bioluminescence event in 2019. A new study about bioluminescence details the glowing ocean and biology.

Sailors Say the Ocean Around Their Ship Started to Glow

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amid heatwaves, drought, and floods, UN Secretary General António Guterres told state ministers that "no nation is immune" from the climate change crisis.

Head of UN Says Humanity Is Facing “Collective Suicide”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

English officials say thousands of peoeple could die in this week's heatwave. Temperatures could hit 104 degrees and caused a emergency heat red alert.

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A suit filed against Mars Inc, on Thursday claims the company doesn't inform customers that Skittles contains titanium dioxide, which could be toxic.

Please No! Lawsuit Claims Toxic Ingredient in Delicious Skittles

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Experts are worried that Texas' state's power plants won't be able to keep up with energy demands as temperatures soar and plants run full steam.

Experts Concerned Texas Power Plants Will Start to Die Amid Heat Wave

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Coal-powered plants are being repurposed in the US to store and produce solar and battery power for more renewable power sources.

Companies Are Turning Coal Plants Into Solar Farms

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A solar panel can leak heavy metals and cause pollution, but consumer solar demand may mean they get tossed aside less often.

California Complains Its Junkyards Are Filling With Toxic Solar Panels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While a Texas weatherman was warning that the ongoing heat wave might cause widespread blackouts, the news studio's power suddenly went out.

Studio Power Goes Out While Weatherman Warns About Rolling Blackouts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online.

Japan May Need Nine Nuclear Reactors Turned On to Get Through Winter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astronomers have identified a mysterious new fast radio burst (FRB) that beats at regular intervals much like a heart.

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MIT Scientists Discover Deep Space Signal, Pulsing Like Heartbeat

By Victor Tangermann

Lake Taupo is the largest in New Zealand. Studying 42 years worth of data, scientists now believe the supervolcano beneath its surface is once again active.

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Active Supervolcano Is Causing Ground Above It To Shift, Study Finds

By Frank Landymore

Protestors gathered at a major bank in China on Sunday, looking to reclaim government-frozen personal funds — only to face brutality by security forces.

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Earth’s Population Is About to Hit 8 Billion

By Victor Tangermann

A group of ten tourists miraculously survived a massive avalanche while exploring Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains — and one of them got it on video.

Terrifying Video Shows Cameraperson Get Buried by Giant Avalanche

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A UK-based TikTok claims to have collected more than 1.4 million frog eggs, which have since hatched into tadpoles living in his backyard pool — and conservation biologists are horrified by the potential consequences of the trend could going viral, The Guardian reports.

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Experts Alarmed by Teen Breeding Millions of Frogs for “Frog Army”

By Victor Tangermann

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

By Frank Landymore

After running nearly 3,000 simulations, scientists found that a minor change in Neptune's orbit caused by a passing star could disrupt our system's orbits.

Scientists Predict That The Solar System Could Collapse If a Star Flew Too Close

By Frank Landymore

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

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Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Before yesterday's powerful derecho storm, the sky in Sioux Falls, South Dakota turned an eery shade of Powerade-colored neon green.

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Weird Storm Turns Sky Green

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Florida is facing yet another invasion of the giant African snail, which can grow up to eight inches long and pose a serious health risk to humans.

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Florida Officials Alarmed by Invasion of Giant Snails That Can Cause Meningitis

By Victor Tangermann

Just as news circulated that the LHC was firing up for the first time in 3 years, its scientists have already announced the discovery of three new particles

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Large Hadron Collider Discovers Strange New Particles

By Frank Landymore

Two new high capacity battery prototypes are pushing the frontiers of energy storage — and in a beachy twist, one is based on sand and the other on water.

Unrelated Teams Install “Sand Battery” and “Water Battery”

By Frank Landymore

While we're not expecting to see it hitting store shelves soon, Tesla has shown off a solar range extending trailer during an exposition in Germany.

Tesla Unveils Trailer With Pop-Out Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

A single snake found its way into the Tohoku Electric Power station in Japan and caused an outage that lasted an hour for 10,000 homes on Wednesday.

Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Giant bacteria, Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica, have been found in Guadeloupe. They have organelles, DNA and measure one centimeter long.

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Scientists Discover Bacterium So Large You Can Hold It in Your Hand

By Lonnie Lee Hood