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

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

“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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

Regulators just gave the Fukushima nuclear plant the green light to release over a million liters of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific ocean.

Science & Energy

Japan Approves Play to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say that a little gene hacking turned adorable hamsters into vicious monstrosities. Let that be a lesson to you!

Science & Energy

Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters Into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new startup called Air Company is producing vodka by making use of carbon dioxide emissions, a futuristic new beverage.

Renewable Energy

Bless This Startup That’s Turning Horrible CO2 Emissions Into Delicious Vodka

By Victor Tangermann

Following a prolonged drought, California's water levels are at a historic low point, with the government placing unprecedented restrictions on water usage.

Science & Energy

Wealthy Horrified That Drought Could Affect Their Luxurious Pools and Koi Ponds

By Victor Tangermann

West Virginian scientists may have found a life form more than 800 million years old — and no, it's not their senator, Mitch McConnell.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Organisms Trapped in This Ancient Rock May Still Be Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

A New York elephant named Happy is getting her day in court after activists filed to establish her as a legal person in the eyes of the law.

Science & Energy

Lawyers File on Behalf of Elephant to Make Her a Legal Person

By Noor Al-Sibai

A report says scientists discovered tiny rock fragments believed to be from the day an asteroid struck Earth 66 mllion years ago and killed the dinosaurs.

Team Claims to Have Found Chunk of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope initiative have shown off the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.

Science & Energy

Scientists Release Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Two homes in North Carolina collapsed into the ocean. The most recent house was on stilts. Local park service captured video of the moment.

Watch an Entire House Suddenly Fall Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China is building a new hydroelectric dam using AI and 3D printing. No human workers will be involved, according to a new study.

China Says It’s 3D Printing a 590-Foot Hydroelectric Dam With Zero Human Labor

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lake Mead in Nevada, just oustide Las Vegas, is at record lows because of draught, revealing two bodies within day. One was found in a barrel.

Climate Change Exposing Murdered Bodies in Dried-Out Lakebed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla's Elon Musk tried to finish the ElonJet tracker Twitter account but got ratted out yesterday for a 9-minute private jet flight in California.

Environmental Champion Elon Musk Flies Private Jet 31 Miles Instead of Driving

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus discvered a "yellow brick road" that looks it leads to Atlantis. Climage change may affect future ocean studies.

Scientists Discover Something That Looks Like a Road Deep Under the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood