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Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

By Victor Tangermann

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

By Victor Tangermann

A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

A Fox Business host railed against a humble little tree farm that's standing in the way of more AI data center construction.

Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

By Frank Landymore

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

Renewable Energy

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their island habitat.

Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species

By Sharon Adarlo

Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.

Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists discovered an undersea wall that measures almost 400 feet in length, the biggest underwater construction ever found in France.

Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure

By Victor Tangermann

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Parting Stones is reshaping the way we cremate our dead relatives, turning them into a luscious pile of clattering stones.

Science & Energy

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into

Palantir's X account shared a new tweet that embedded a controversial video of its CEO Alex Karp, using a very particular choice of words.

Wait, Did Palantir Just Make a Joke About Its CEO Doing Cocaine?

By Victor Tangermann

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a drone strike.

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

By Sharon Adarlo

Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the surface of the ice.

This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild

By Victor Tangermann

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

A Campbell Soup executive made explosive comments during a rant, saying he didn't want to eat "bioengineered meat" and 3D-printed chicken.

In Leaked Audio, Campbell’s Soup Exec Rants About “Bioengineered” Meat That “Came From a 3D Printer”

By Victor Tangermann

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

British military tested out a powerful laser that can take down high-speed drones which have become widely available in the battlefield.

British Military Attacks Drones With Huge Laser

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures

By Sharon Adarlo

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

A researcher uncovered evidence that 171 SpaceX Starlink satellites used by the US government were broadcasting in the "wrong direction."

SpaceX Has Wildly Screwed Up Its Military Satellites, Researcher Finds

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

A diver discovered the heinous piece of vandalism on a magnificent colony of plate coral, and not for the first time.

Officials Outraged by Coral Reef Vandalized With Underwater Graffiti

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Say They’ve Proven Whether We’re Living in a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann

Residents in three Australian states will be receiving at least three hours of free solar power a day, even if they don't own solar panels.

Australia Now Has So Much Solar Power That It’s Giving Electricity Out for Free

By Victor Tangermann

Jensen Huang just admitted the People's Republic is outmaneuvering the "cynical" US on electrical costs and regulation.

Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race

Elon Musk's brilliant plan for saving us from climate change involves a little help from a swarm of friendly AI satellites.

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

By Frank Landymore

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg didn't seem pleased after Billie Eillish encouraged billionaires to give their money away.

Science & Energy

Mark Zuckerberg Visibly Upset When Billie Eilish Calls Out Greed of Billionaires

A woman in her 60s is angry that her Virginia home is surrounded by data centers, which are noisy and belch out pollution.

Woman Aghast as 14 Data Centers Move Next Door, Emits Terrible Stench

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers studying stray dogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, spotted at least three dogs that had turned blue. They may know why.

Stray Dogs in Chernobyl Zone Turn Mildly Blue

By Victor Tangermann

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

By Frank Landymore

A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases

By Victor Tangermann

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

By Victor Tangermann

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Los Angeles-based startup Apex wants to launch "space-based interceptors" that can destroy missiles from orbit for the Space Force.

Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto Earth."

Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth

By Frank Landymore

Geoengineering startup Stardust Solutions says it has raised $60 million to lay the groundwork for tech that could be used to dim the Sun.

Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese firm has just unveiled the world's first underwater data center, cooled by the ocean and powered by wind.

Chinese Company Launches Wind-Powered Data Center at the Bottom of the Sea

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little "cavity water."

Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor, Drinks a Little “Cavity Water”

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

Some of SpaceX's classified military satellites are emitting a "mysterious signal" that could be violating international standards.

SpaceX’s Classified Military Satellites Emitting “Mysterious Signal”

By Victor Tangermann

Space armor is described as a series of lightweight tiles which protect craft and astronauts against "all untrackable debris."

Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new data shows.

Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly

By Victor Tangermann

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.

We’re Only Slightly Exaggerating When We Say This Footage of a Fusion Experiment Will Melt Your Face Off

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

By Victor Tangermann

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

Halloween came early this year for a man in the UK who landed in hot water after trying to collect "every element on the periodic table."

Police Arrest Mad Scientist

Using an $800 consumer satellite dish, researchers were able to pick up text messages, industrial data, military chatter, and more.

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

Science & Energy

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

Scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that successfully reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice.

Nanoparticle Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Canada's fisheries minister has stepped in to deny the transfer of 30 white whales to a suitable facility in China.

Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Science & Energy

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.

Science & Energy

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims

By Victor Tangermann

British conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.

Jane Goodall Recorded a Message About Elon Musk Before Her Death

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that microplastics are inhibiting the ability of yours bones to properly grow and regenerate.

Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Your Bones

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers in the US are spiking nearby customers electricity bills and bringing other unexpected costs.

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills