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The American West's "megadrought" has made the region the driest it's been in more than a millennium.

The American West’s “Megadrought” Is The Worst It’s Been in 1,200 Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter.

NASA Spots High Energy X-Rays Coming from Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

A robot travelled to the most-damaged Fukushima reactor and photographed mounds of melted fuel that sank following the tsunami that destroyed the facility.

Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive Sludge

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Aa team of researchers from the University of Reading in the UK found that it's possible to encourage rain by supercharging clouds with electricity.

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Scientists Propose Electrocuting Clouds to Make it Rain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Threats of Russian invasion have led the Ukrainian military to a bizarre training location — the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Great, Ukraine is Doing Military Combat Drills in Chernobyl Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A camera mounted inside the JET fusion reactor recorded an amazing video of glowing plasma swirling during this week's record experiment.

Amazing Video Shows Inside Fusion Reactor During Record Breaking Test

By Victor Tangermann

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it.

Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists at the UK-based JET lab have smashed a fusion energy record for the first time in 25 years, producing 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds.

Fusion Scientists Say They Just Made a Major Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

The village of Fairbourne in Gwynedd, in North Wales, is going to be below sea level by 2054, but that isn't soaring housing and vacation rental prices.

House Prices Surge in Neighborhood Predicted to Be Swallowed by the Sea

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A robot bartender named Cecilia is Miami's hottest new mixologist.

AI Bartender Slams Out 120 Drinks Per Hour While Cracking Stupid Jokes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of chemical engineers at MIT have created a new material that they claim to be stronger than steel — but still as light as plastic.

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MIT Creates Material Stronger Than Steel But as Light as Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

A bunch of animals are going extinct, but don't worry, you can buy NFTs of them!

Environmentalists Sell NFTs of Endangered Animals, Because We’re Condemned to Suffer

By Noor Al-Sibai

An oil production and storage ship exploded off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday morning. The condition of the ten crew members on board is still unclear.

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Huge Oil Tanker Explodes Off Coast of Africa

By Victor Tangermann

Climate researchers are warning extreme heat present in the Earth's oceans passed the point of return turn — eight years ago.

Environmental Catastrophe Passed “Point of No Return” Eight Years Ago, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

How does one hold the Winter Olympics when "winter" as we knew it is changing for the worse?

The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They’re Being Ruined by Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.

Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Indonesia's government is leaving and moving the country’s capital of Jakarta to the island of Borneo due to sinking, pollution and congestion.

Indonesia Is Switching Capital Cities Because the Old One Is Sinking Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet — for the second time.

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NASA Spacecraft Flies Through Tail of Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious celestial object that is releasing massive bursts of energy at astonishingly regular 18 minute intervals.

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Scientists Puzzled by “Spooky” Object Sending Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of astronomers was able to get a panoramic view of almost 1,000 of mysterious filaments at the center of the Milky Way.

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Scientists Puzzled by Weird “Strands” at the Center of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The three monkeys were recaptured on Saturday evening before being euthanized. The CDC didn't clarify why they were put down.

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Scientists Recapture Escaped Lab Monkeys and Kill Them for Some Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

As the Russian military are gathering forces near the Ukrainian border, a hacktivist group claims they hacked a Belarusian railway system.

Hackers Trying to Prevent War by Disrupting Railway Used by Russian Military

By Tony Ho Tran

China claims to have built the "world's largest quadruped bionic robot," a gigantic "mechanical yak" that can carry over 350 pounds at a shambling 6.2 mph.

China Builds Giant Walking Military Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner created mechanical trees to soak up carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.

Scientists Propose Creating Mechanical Trees to Suck Up Evil Carbon Dioxide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

At least one monkey destined for a laboratory was still on the loose in Pennsylvania on Saturday morning after it escaped from a wrecked truck.

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Lab Monkeys Escape After Traffic Accident in Pennsylvania

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new interview with researcher David Holland reveals just how quickly the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier" is melting.

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The “Doomsday Glacier” Is Irreversibly Melting, Researchers Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.

Metaverse “Rave” Shows People Standing Perfectly Still With Zero Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.

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A Mass Extinction Has Already Started, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, the force of the explosion was more than 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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Tonga Eruption Was 500 Times Stronger Than an Atomic Bomb

By Victor Tangermann

Think your town is bad? At least you don't have such a bad crow problem that officials are planning to use lasers to get rid of them.

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Silicon Valley City to Use Cheapo Lasers to Fight Invasion of Furious Crows

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of more than 60 scientists and policy experts have signed an open letter calling on governments to ban solar geoengineering.

Scientists Say It Should Be Illegal to Fight Climate Change by Blocking Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study found that chemical pollution driven by plastics has gotten so bad that it might upend global ecosystems that support humanity.

Chemical Pollution Has Crossed a “Planetary Boundary” That Threatens Humanity, Study Says

By Tony Ho Tran

According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than we originally anticipated.

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The Earth’s Core Is Cooling Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After fifty years of continuous burning, Turkmenistan officials are finally trying to close up a 230-feet wide fiery sinkhole in the Karakum Desert.

Authorities Attempting to Close Fiery “Gates of Hell”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tsunami waves that hit Tonga's Pacific island nation shores following an underwater volcano eruption— and if you want, you can watch in real time.

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Hey Kids, Wanna See Satellite Footage of a Volcano Violently Erupting?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twenty elephants have died during the last eight years from eating plastic trash in the Pallakkadu village, with two more found dead this weekend.

Congratulations, Earth: Hungry Elephants Are Devouring Trash and Dying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One tour company owner in Lapland, the northernmost region in Finland, went viral after posting her reindeer-powered sled to avoid high gas prices.

Gas Prices So High in Finland One Woman Gets Around With Reindeer

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A recent investigation found damning evidence that famed physicist Erwin Schrödinger was a pedophile — and even groomed and impregnated a 17-year-old girl.

Quantum Physics

Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Department of Defense has helped develop technology that allows a single person to control 130 drones for military operations.

New Military Tech Lets One Person Fly Swarm of 130 Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

Not everybody was impressed by KFC's latest plant-based chicken offerings.

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KFC’s Fake Chicken Isn’t Quite as Disgusting as Everybody’s Saying

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China are developing an "artificial Moon: facility that can simulate the gravity of the lunar surface with the help of magnets.

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China Building “Artificial Moon” Facility That Simulates Low Gravity With Magnets

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a recent study, the globe's oceans experienced another record year in 2021 — "the hottest ever recorded by humans."

The Oceans Are Now Hotter Than at Any Point in Recorded History, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered a planet shaped like a rugby ball due to the enormous tidal forces of its host star.

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Scientists Just Discovered a Planet That’s Not a Sphere

By Tony Ho Tran

Here's a brain teaser for you: scientists are suggesting spacetime may be made out of individual "spacetime pixels" instead of being smooth and continuous.

Scientists Say the Universe Itself May Be “Pixelated”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA researcher Ann Marie Cody spoke to Vice about how exactly the agency and the SETI Institute is trying to find alien megastructures.

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NASA Scientist Describes Hunt for Alien Megastructures

By Tony Ho Tran

EV Solar Kits is aiming to make electric vehicles run on renewable energy instead of electricity created by fossil fuel power plants by using solar panels.

Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.

Fire Reported at Crumbling Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.

Guy Testing Life-Extending Gene Therapy on Himself Admits That Environmental Catastrophe May Pose Problem

By Lonnie Lee Hood

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.

Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In Europe, tens of thousands of empty planes are being flown due to an air traffic rule — while needlessly polluting the skies.

In Disgusting Waste, Airlines Are Flying Thousands of Completely Empty Jetliners

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak fusion reactor was able to sustain a plasma temperature of 120-million-degrees Celsius for 1,056 seconds.

China’s “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor Just Smashed Its Old Record

By Tony Ho Tran

The country of France passed a law in December that will require car companies to tell people not to drive in its commercials.

France Passes Law Requiring Car Ads to Tell People Not to Drive a Car

By Tony Ho Tran

A new "genome-edited" tomato variety is being sold to Japanese customers as a way to chill out and is a first made with CRISPR technology.

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Company Claims Gene-Edited Tomato Contains Neurotransmitter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

KFC has brought its plant-based chicken nuggets to restaurants nationwide, the latest in meat alternative products changing the face of the industry.

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KFC Will Now Start Selling Fake Chicken Nationwide

By Victor Tangermann

A meteor exploded over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day — causing a boom the equivalent of 30 tons of TNT.

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Pittsburgh Shaken by Exploding Meteor

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of Israeli scientists have allowed a goldfish to navigate dry land — or, at least, remotely control a fish tank on wheels.

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Scientists Build Robot Fish Tank That Lets Goldfish Drive Around on Land

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre invention dubbed "Taste the TV" (TTTV) allows you to taste whatever you're watching through a special hygienic film that covers a flat TV screen.

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Scientist Invents Screen That Creates Flavors When You Lick It

By Victor Tangermann

A box full of untraceable cash sat collecting dust in the unused office a New York City physics professor for months — and its contents were shocking.

Physics Dept Gets Random Box Full of $180K in Untraceable $50s and $100s

By Noor Al-Sibai