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A novel new technique has allowed scientists to see what's lurking miles beneath Antarctica's ice like never before.

Scientists Uncover Secret Landscape Hiding Miles Below Antarctica’s Ice

By Frank Landymore

A man who goes by the username "biz_dave" says he successfully trained crows to attack MAGA hats by hiding treats underneath them.

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

By Victor Tangermann

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

By Frank Landymore

An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.

Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis by Oxfam found that the top one percent have already used up their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026.

The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

By Sharon Adarlo

A video that's gone viral on social media shows a miniature deer fiercely standing its ground and charging at a far more massive rhino.

Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese company Linyi Yunchuan recently deployed a massive airborne wind turbine, which dominated the skyline over Sichuan Province.

Renewable Energy

Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

By Victor Tangermann

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.

Quantum Physics

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered that feeding mice with microplastics increases plaque buildup in the arteries of male mice.

Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes

By Sharon Adarlo

What happens when you down an ice-cold brew containing liquid nitrogen? One Moscow man is finding out the hard way.

Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach

A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists from across the globe is now heading straight to the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica.

Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

A recent study paints a concerning picture of the potential collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, otherwise known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.

Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power

By Victor Tangermann

The MIT fusion professor's suspected murderer, Claudio Neves Valent,e was found dead in a storage unit. Plenty of questions remain.

Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre

By Victor Tangermann

A Home Depot location in Los Angeles has installed three sound cannon devices in its parking lots, prompting outcry from migrant activists.

Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers

Some of Alaska's scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange color.

Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska

By Sharon Adarlo

A German energy company is building two enormous heat pumps that draw water from the Rhine to provide an appreciable 40,000 homes with heat.

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

By Victor Tangermann

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

By Sharon Adarlo

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda

By Victor Tangermann

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