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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

"All members of this group of crabs are hairy to some extent but this one is ridiculous," said Andrew Hosie, an expert at the Western Australia Museum.

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Scientists Discover Horrifying Crab That’s Covered in “Hair”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Colorado researchers say 44 wildfire events were caused by electrocuted birds in the US between 2014 and 2018. Birds catch fire and fall to the ground.

Experts Say Birds Are Catching on Fire on Power Lines and Starting Wildfires

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NEWBrew hit the shelves in April this year and is made from recycled and treated sewage water. NEWBrew makes toilet water beer from Singapore's own NEWater.

Happy BBQ Season! There’s Beer Made From Toilet Water Now

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The cost of polysilicon, used in solar panel production, rose 5 percent in price this week. Solar panel costs could also increase because of the jump.

Oh Great, Gas AND Solar Prices Are Going Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Germany is creating a giant thermos to heat homes in the winter in order to stall climate change and secure energy independence from Russia during war.

Germany Builds Colossal “Thermos” to Heat Countless Homes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While we await the official release of the first images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, early reactions are sounding promising.

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Scientists Say New James Webb Images Are So Powerful That It Was Emotional Just Looking at Them

By Victor Tangermann

The Supreme Court has given power plants the ability to regulate their own carbon dioxide emissions, a decision that could have disastrous consequences.

Supreme Court Gives Power Plants Green Light to Pollute As Much As They Want

By Victor Tangermann

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

A massive cloud of yellow gas took the lives of at least 13 people after a crane accidentally dropped a chlorine gas tank onto a ship at a Jordanian port.

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Huge Cloud of Toxic Yellow Gas Kills 13

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to be destroyed in a supernova — only to be found still alive, burning brighter than ever before.

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Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli military technology startup Camero-Tech has unveiled a device that it claims could allow soldiers to literally "see through walls," Insider reports.

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at UC Riverside and the University of Delaware say they convinced food-bearing plants to grow in total darkness with acetate.

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Scientists Invent Way to Grow Plants in Complete Darkness

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's definitely not a bird, but it is sort of a plane — it's the non-existent but admittedly very cool Sky Cruise, a fantastical nuclear-powered sky hotel.

We’re in Awe of this Absolutely Deranged “Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.

Stranded Oil Tanker That Could Start Leaking Any Time Now, Experts Warn

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Seattle-based startup Zap Energy also says that its approach to fusion energy is far simpler and cheaper tan other approaches.

Startup Says It’s Honing in on Simple Solution for Practical Fusion Power

By Victor Tangermann

Russian President Vladimir Putin happily announced the country's so-called "Satan-2" rocket is ready for deployment this year.

Putin Brags That “Satan II” Nuclear Missile Almost Ready for Launch

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Canada has announced it is banning "harmful single-use plastics" to "keep them out of the environment," becoming the latest jurisdiction to do so.

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Canada Bans Single-Use Plastics, Including Bags and Straws

By Victor Tangermann

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.

Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other polar bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said in a new study.

Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cattle are dying by the thousands because of an intense heat wave. The The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed at least 2,000 dead cattle.

Thousands of Cattle Die From Intense Heat in US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Police in Virginia Beach arrested two men they say stole gas and re-sold it at a discount to other people using a gas hack and social media.

Police Say Dudes Hacked Gas Station Pumps to Make Prices Lower

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?

New York State May Ban Any Crypto Mining Powered by Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

Feline appreciation of catnip may go deeper than we thought. Scientists say that when cats "damage" catnip it releases iridoids that repel mosquitoes.

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Good News! Catnip Is Good for Cats’ Health, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of scientists scanning for signs of life say they've found "suspicious signals" that could point toward extraterrestrial civilizations.

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Chinese Scientists Say They May Have Detected Signal From Extraterrestrial Intelligence, But Probably Not

By Victor Tangermann

A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.

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Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver

By Victor Tangermann

Behold Fernanda, who, through genetic sequencing, has been confirmed as the only known Fernandina Giant Tortoise in the world.

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Giant Tortoise, Thought to Be Totally Extinct, Suddenly Found Chilling on Island

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Looks like the United Kingdom wants to create smart tanks, because it's using a new quantum computer to put more tech in its arsenal.

UK Military Wants to Install Quantum Computers in Tanks for Some Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.

Scientists Discover “Superworms” That Can Survive on Eating Just Styrofoam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a huge twist of irony, Norway is building the world's largest wind farm — to power offshore oil and gas fields.

Ironic! Norway is Building a Massive Wind Farm to Boost Oil Production

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you're out of Sriracha, you're out of luck because that the manufacturers of the classic hot sauce say their shortage might last through the summer.

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“Severe” Sriracha Shortage Threatens Spiceless Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microplastics have reached some of the most remote parts of Antarctica, one of the last natural strongholds against human development.

Even Antarctica Isn’t Safe From Microplastics, Researchers Confirm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have discovered another uber-powerful, repeating radio burst from space — and it's getting them one step closer to unlocking a huge mystery.

Astronomers Discover Another Mysterious, Repeating Radio Transmission From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video showing an explosion at an aluminum factory that miraculously left no one injured is cause for a lot of speculation and jokes.

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Watch a Factory Descend Into a Vision of Hell Within One Minute

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is causing Utah's Great Salt Lake to continue to shrink, paving the way for an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

Experts Warn of Toxic Arsenic Clouds as Great Salt Lake Dries Up

By Victor Tangermann

In a new piece for Big Think, Hartsfield argues that massive particle accelerators simply aren't worth the colossal amounts of money and effort.

Physicist Begs Colleagues Not to Build Another Large Hadron Collider

By Victor Tangermann

Tonka the chimpanzee starred in "Buddy" and "George of the Jungle" — and is at the center of a legal battle in which his owner allegedly faked his death.

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Chimpanzee Star of “Buddy” Found Alive After His Owner Allegedly Faked His Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Chinese gamer has posted classified military information on the forum of a tank video game to get developers to change the stats of the game's tanks.

Chinese Military Secrets Leaked on Video Game Forum

By Victor Tangermann

Good news, everyone! Climate change is now CANCELED thanks to an ingenious plot to put trees on the blockchain, because that's how the environment works.

The Environment Is Saved! We’re Putting Trees on the Blockchain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A heavy machinery maker in Japan called IHI Corp has successfully tested a prototype of a massive turbine that can generate electricity from ocean currents.

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Japan Tested a Giant Turbine That Generates Electricity Using Deep Ocean Currents

By Victor Tangermann

A California court has ruled that bees technically count as fish in a conservation effort that could actually end up helping the buzzy boys.

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Court Rules That Legally, Bees Can Be Classified as Fish

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists at the regenerative medicine company 3DBio Therapeutics have successfully implanted a 3D printed ear made from the patient's own cells.

Doctors Transplant Ear That Was 3D Printed With Patient’s Own Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with an ingenious new solution to tackle our renewable energy storage woes — which would turn skyscrapers into massive batteries.

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Scientists Propose Turning Skyscrapers Into Massive Gravity Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

Australian scientists got a fascinating surprise whenthey discovered what appears to be the world's largest organism, living under the ocean.

Scientists Discover World’s Largest Organism, Chilling Out Under Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Department of Defense is working to develop a full, portable 3D printing lab that can fit inside a shipping container.

The US Military Is Getting 3D Printing “Factories” Inside Shipping Containers

By Dan Robitzski

According to several new studies published today in the journal Nature, space rock Ceres holds massive reservoirs of sea water underneath its surface.

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Study: Dwarf Planet Ceres is an Ocean World

By Victor Tangermann

The archipelago nation of Seychelles says industrialized and Western nations aren't following through on climate change and climate aid promises.

Archipelagic Nation Sick of Other Countries Breaking Climate Change Promises

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A few wind farms in Scotland were asked to reduce output by 25 megawatts because turbines produced more power than the UK's electric grid could handle.

The UK Is Producing Too Much Wind Power, Actually

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two robotic buoys will relay location info on North Atlantic right whales back to shore so mariners and the public can help save the endangered species.

Marine Scientists Deploy Whale-Monitoring Robots to Save Endangered Species

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to grow "wood-like plant material" in a lab, without ever having to resort to chopping down a tree.

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MIT Says We Could Build a House With Lab-Grown Wood

By Victor Tangermann

The first electric Ford F-150 Lightning was delivered to a retail customer today in the automaker's home state of Michigan. Ford CEO Jim Farley celebrated.

Deliveries of All-Electric Ford F-150 Lightning Officially Begin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers have created the first-ever detailed map of the mysterious layer of rocks forming the boundary between the Earth's core and the mantle.

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Scientists Intrigued by Area Inside Earth That Slows Earthquakes “to a Crawl”

By Victor Tangermann

Good Meat announced it'll build ten 250,000-liter bioreactors that it claims could make 30 million pounds of lab grown, no kill meat in the US.

Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Thousands of Tesla workers in Shanghai, China, are reportedly being isolated in an old military camp to make sure they aren't infected with COVID-19.

Tesla Storing Thousands of Employees at an “Old Military Camp” in China

By Victor Tangermann

An ex-oil consultant had harsh words for her former employer after leaving the company over its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.

Fossil Fuel Consultant Quits In Disgust, Tired of Destroying Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of researchers suggest a "fifth force" could be arranging smaller galaxies into disk shapes, while still considering the existence of dark matter.

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Scientists Say Space Is Filled With Invisible Walls

By Victor Tangermann

Explorerers in China found a massive sinkhole that has an entire ancient forest inside. It could hold species previously not discovered.

Scientists Discover Ancient Forest at Bottom of Gigantic Sinkhole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.

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Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests civilizations could advance so much they could eventually be able to change the laws of physics.

NASA Sponsored Researcher Suggests It Might Be Possible to Change the Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new study zeroes in on a possible — and potentially habitable — star system candidate that may have been the origin of the "Wow! signal," one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy that has puzzled scientists ever since its detection in 1977.

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Weird Signal Appears to Have Come From Habitable Star System

By Victor Tangermann

Just like your average EDM fan, scallops can, as it turns out, be captured more easily when you turn on the pretty lights for them.

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Much Like Hipsters, Scallops Can Be Lured to Their Death by Disco Lights

By Noor Al-Sibai