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New climate research suggests the Antarctic sea is experiencing rapid disruptions that could represent a global climate "tipping point."
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are offering a gross hypothesis about how those Walmart frozen shrimp bags were contaminated with radioactive materials.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth — and when it's heated, it acts even weirder.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for the worse.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Parts of Alaska's state capital, Juneau, were flooded this week, caused by a nearby melting glacier, according to The Guardian. 
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

The executive order drastically deregulates key areas of the commercial spaceflight industry, in a major with for companies like SpaceX.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

Terrifying rabbits with spiny black tentacles on their faces have been spotted in Colorado. They look hellish, but they're not dangerous.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, a huge swarm of jellyfish forced the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in France to take four of its six reactors offline.
Nuclear Fusion

By Joe Wilkins

Over a year after a deadly listeria outbreak shut down a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia, the infamous facility is set to reopen.
Science & Energy

By Joe Wilkins

A trapper near San Francisco made a colorful discovery after a wild boar's muscles had been stained with rat poison.
Science & Energy

By Joe Wilkins

The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark says the animals will be "gently euthanized" before being served as dinner to its captive predators.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, believed by Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body, may be even stranger than we previously thought.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater had burst through Greenland's ice sheet.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Google has used its Android smartphones to detect earthquakes for years — and now, the company is admitting to a massive misstep.
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

A leading source of the ubiquitous microplastics infesting the planet and our bodies is so obvious that it will make you furious.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Levels of the chemical byproduct TFA have multiplied rapidly over the past few years, as researchers scramble to catch up.
Environment

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular night club, back in the Cretaceous era.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.
Biology

By Frank Landymore

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Marathon Fusion says that fusion energy reactors could also be used to turn mercury isotopes into gold.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of massive wildfires in Canada's Manitoba province, people thousands of miles away are being warned to stay indoors.
Pollution

By Noor Al-Sibai

Solar power has become the fastest growing source of energy throughout the globe, with one gigawatt of capacity installed every 15 hours.
Solar Power

By Joe Wilkins

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underneath a natural science museum's parking lot.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in years as a result of the Earth spinning faster.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new documentary and track showcase the tragic sounds of a dying, "crying" glacier in the Swiss Alps as it rapidly shrinks.
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video making the rounds on social media shows beachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous, tsunami-like cloud rolling in.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a whole continent.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

In large swaths of these United States, people are already dying from this summer's brutal and dangerous heat wave.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at China's top military R&D academy just showed off a mosquito-sized nanobot measuring just 1.3 cm in size.
Military

By Joe Wilkins

More than 3,000 New Yorkers were without power for a second day in a row in parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A heatwave is blanketing vast swaths of America, sending temperatures skyrocketing to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

French government scientists have discovered something shocking about the microplastic content in glass and plastic bottles.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Relay 2 satellite had been dormant since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a very powerful burst of energy.
Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI models that are bigger in size compared to smaller models are estimated to use more energy, emit more carbon, and are more accurate.
Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

There's a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure has gone viral.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctica's ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why. 
Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is making everything about modern life worse — including the quality of the dairy that makes our cheese.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in China believe their injection can give "dead" lithium-ion batteries a second shot of life.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Nanoscientists say they've created the "world's smallest violion" — but there's a huge caveat to this claim.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Using mushrooms, scientists have created a living, plastic-like compound that uses unique fungal properties to mold into almost any form.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the past two decades, vast swathes of the oceans have been darkening as sunlight penetrates at shallower depths than it once did.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

Researchers find current figures of the world's population could be off by anywhere from hundreds of millions to several billion people.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A terrifying video shows dozens of tourists fleeing a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Carbon removal could help us stave off climate disaster. But if that's to happen, it's already billions of tons behind schedule.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Researchers used gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red fluorescent silk.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The unholy lightning collision unleashed a rarely witnessed blast of the most energetic radiation seen on Earth.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

Late on Saturday, a self-described "pro-mortalist" detonated a car bomb outside of an IVF clinic east of Los Angeles.
Science & Energy

By Joe Wilkins

China just surpassed a new green energy milestone, crushing the west in the process.
Energy

By Joe Wilkins

A new theoretical proposal suggests scrapping nearly everything we think we know about gravity in order to understand the universe.
Physics

By Joe Wilkins