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Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."
Physics

By Jon Christian

A container ship encountered rough seas in Canadian waters on Friday, dropping several containers of "spontaneous combustibles."
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

A Japanese man might have gotten the selfie of a lifetime when he allegedly snapped a picture of himself as a volcano was erupting behind him. 
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

A giant hole has been discovered in an area of the Arctic known as the "Last Ice" — heating up concerns about the impacts of climate change in the region.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

A new radio telescope in China might be able to detect a massive swarm of self-replicating alien robots before it attacks Earth. 
Science & Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Uranus has a name that lends itself to butt jokes. But it's also immensely important to scientists, who have mixed feelings on the juvenile humor.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientist Says the Solar System Is Surrounded by a Huge Magnetic Tunnel
Solar Power

By Tony Ho Tran

A Dutch inventor has helped create a device, dubbed "Jenny," that has collected nearly 20,000lbs of plastic from the Pacific Ocean.  
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

New research suggests that nuking an asteroid is actually a good plan for saving the planet, even if it's just months before impact.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Missouri Governor Mike Parson is furiously trying to prosecute a journalist who exposed and reported a serious cybersecurity flaw in a government website.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Political candidate Scott Pio suggested on Twitter that sea levels may lower if we simply took all the boats out of the water.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists injected photosynthetic algae into a tadpole that supplied the animal's brain with so much oxygen it could live without breathing.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Ruth Hamilton was woken up by a meteorite smashing through her roof, landing inches from where she was sleeping moments prior.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, where it will undergo final touchups before launching in December.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say installing a gun on a robodog marks an inflection point in the development of killer robots — and maybe the tech shouldn't be allowed at all.
Military

By Jon Christian

Scientists still aren't positive what caused the earthquake-like tremors across New Hampshire, but the new best guess is a meteor exploding overhead.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have found that having taken psychedelics at any point in people's life seems to be correlated with a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

Shocking new visualizations by the non-profit Climate Central shows just how much populated land would be lost to rising sea levels.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Prince Charles, the heir of the British throne, told the BBC that his Aston Martin runs on "surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese proces."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

What seemed to be an earthquake shook New Hampshire on Sunday, but experts say there's no evidence of a quake and they have no idea what really happened.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers in Iceland are growing growing over 100,000 barley plants for a very unusual goal: growing lab-grown meat, the BBC reports.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Last year, a remotely-controlled deep sea vessel got surprised by a massive sea creature while exploring a shipwreck in the Red Sea at almost 2,800 feet.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected a bizarre, randomly-shifting radio wave coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and they have no idea what's causing it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Lebanon’s entire electric grid collapsed on Saturday when the country’s two main power stations ran out of fuel. 
Energy

By Tony Ho Tran

Lockheed Martin delivered a laser weapon called the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) to the Air Force, meant to be mounted to a gunship.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Justin Bieber seemed to think the deepfake "deeptomcruise" was real, complimenting a guitar video as if it were the real actor playing.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

China seems to be powering a massive array of intercontinental ballistic missile silos with a huge new wind farm, so at least it's environmentally friendly.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

The exoplanet where it rains molten iron every day has a calcium-rich atmosphere, meaning its even hotter than scientists thought.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to the US Navy, a nuclear submarine sustained damage and several injuries after hitting an "unknown object" in the South China Sea.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Research suggests that the funniest kids are also the smartest, based on how well middle schoolers could come up with captions for cartoons.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A Bitcoin mining operation in Canada tried to tap a nearby unused natural gas well for power — and got busted after neighbors started complaining of noise.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Prominent astrophysicist Martin Rees criticizes global leadership for ignoring climate change, comparing them to frogs boiling in a pot.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The operators of the oil pipeline that spilled 144,000 gallons of crude oil off the coast of California waited for three hours before shutting it down.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to create — and get a clear image of — a Wigner crystal, which is a lattice structure made entirely of electrons.
Physics

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and launched criminal investigations into the cause of a horrific oil spill.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The German government just unveiled a facility that synthesizes jet fuel out of nothing but water and atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Energy

By Dan Robitzski

About 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of a pipeline near Orange County, California, causing damage to the environment that could last for months.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has decided to keep the name for the James Webb Space Telescope as -is despite criticism over the former Administrator's homophobic past.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A man from Florida just returned a Moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission. It vanished without a trace until he bought it at a garage sale.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The icy "glue" that holds Antarctica's ice shelf together and fills in any cracks is melting away, leaving the entire shelf in a dire situation.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Meteor Watch made sightings of at least five fireballs soaring through the sky over the US last Friday night at 32,000 mph.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA and the Air Force successfully flight tested a hypersonic missile that "breathes" the air around it to propel itself faster.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

The augmented reality company Nreal just announced a new set of AR glasses that don't have a single outward-facing camera.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Mining companies are planning to scrape up the materials necessary to build electric car batteries from the bottom of the ocean.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that the average wind speeds of Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm are starting to steadily increase over time.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

People peed so many party drugs into a local river at the 2019 Glastonbury music festival that the water became dangerous for local, protected eels.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

A massive dust storm struck Brazil on Sunday, with massive plumes of dirt appearing to engulf entire cities that were enduring a long-term drought.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Alarming new research suggests that each generation will face a more climate change-ravaged planet than the one before it.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A shocking video shows the moment a church collapses in a cloud of dark ashes on the Spanish island of La Palma.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists that developed climate projects for the year 2,500 is warning of an earth so different it's "alien to humans."
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

After the web host Epik, popular among the far-right, was hacked, Nazis and other far-right extremists are being unmasked by researchers and activists.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A Pennsylvania-based holding company called Stronghold Digital Mining bought a coal waste power plant over the summer to power 1,800 mining computers.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a machine that simultaneously 3D prints and laser-cooks chicken, hinting at a new way to rapidly procure meals.
3D Printing

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of college professors are finding that their Gen Z students don't understand the concepts of directories filled with folders and files.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an unprecedented look at the exoplanet WASP-127b and made new discoveries about its atmosphere and weather.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The tone at the first in-person United Nations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was pretty "dire," the Associated Press reports.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A glitch on the prominent crypto data platform Pyth showed Bitcoin prices plummet down to just over $5,400 on Monday, but the drop never happened.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

As ice melts, the Earth's crust expands upward and outward in deformations that can span hundreds of miles and last thousands of years.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A number of NASA, Air Force, DARPA, and MIT scientists are regularly meeting on Zoom to discuss "anti-gravity" science and technologies.
DARPA

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified alarming parallels between the conditions that led to a horrific mass extinction event and the impacts of modern-day climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers launched a ransomware attack on a major farming services company, and the subsequent standoff could cause food shortages.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The island of La Palma's long-dormant volcano Cumbre Vieja erupted in a powerful explosion that's still threatening local communities.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is building a spacecraft designed to travel about 1.5 billion miles through our solar system relying on solar electric propulsion alone.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Bees killed 63 endangered South African penguins last week in what a conservationist is calling a "dramatic" loss for the species.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski