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A team of Chinese researchers have discovered a mysterious barrier stopping cosmic rays from penetrating through to the center of the Milky Way.

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Scientists Surprised by Mysterious Barrier at the Core of our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, scientists say they found evidence that the quasi-Moon is an ancient fragment of the Earth’s primary Moon.

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Study: Earth Has Another Tiny Moon That Broke Off from the Big One

By Tony Ho Tran

An updated lawsuit claims that a DNA analysis of the sandwich chain Subway's putative tuna shows that the substance contains anything but.

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Lawsuit Claims That Subway “Tuna” Contains Extremely Weird DNA

By Jon Christian

Spokesmen for the US and China announced a surprise climate agreement deal at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on Wednesday.

US and China Stop Bickering, Announce Surprise Climate Agreement Deal

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers say they’ve found evidence that the expanding universe is causing black holes to grow with it.

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Uh Oh, Turns Out the Universe Might Be Making Black Holes Even Bigger

By Tony Ho Tran

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

By Noor Al-Sibai

While children in the US are taught what to eat, many of them never actually find out where the food they eat on a daily basis actually comes from.

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40 Percent of American Children Think Hot Dogs Are Vegetables

By Victor Tangermann

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was able to follow along with this year's super intense solar storm from the ISS, taking pictures of breathtaking auroras.

Space Station Astronaut Captures Incredible Photo of Solar Flare Hitting Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have been detecting far more gravitational wave events than ever before, observing 35 events in a span of just four months.

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Scientists Detect “Tsunami” of Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

A new facility in the Bay Area is producing lab-grown meat on a massive scale, capable of producing an astonishing 400,000 pounds a year.

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California Factory Producing 50,000 Lbs of Lab Grown Meat Per Year

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is bombarding the Earth with so much radiation and at such a force, it could end up interfering with power grids.

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Eruption From the Sun May Affect Power Grid, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Even the food being served at this year's COP26, an event put on by the United Nations, had its own substantial carbon footprint.

Climate Conference Menu Mocked for Absurdly High Carbon Footprint

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicists are excited about the prospect of launching the next groundbreaking space telescope to take pictures of potentially habitable worlds.

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Astronomers Are Pushing for a Massive Alien-Hunting Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is warning that climate change could start affecting the production of maize and wheat as soon as 2030.

NASA Warns That Climate Change Is About to Start Slashing Crop Yields

By Victor Tangermann

Chemicals manufacturer Honeywell International has announced that it has come up with a new way to turn low-grade plastic waste into high quality oil.

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New Technique Turns Plastic Waste Back Into Refinery-Quality Oil

By Victor Tangermann

Environmentalist and futurist James Lovelock has long believed that the Earth self-regulates just like a living organism as part of his Gaia theory.

Famed Scientist Warns That Earth May Rise Up and Kill Humanity

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers successfully tested a sample of Martian dirt by directing NASA's Curiosity rover to mix it with chemical reagents inside a cup.

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NASA Rover Detects Organic Molecules on the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

During the days leading up to Halloween, the Sun's surface was roiling with activity, blasting powerful bursts of radiation towards the Earth.

The Sun Just Blasted the Earth With an Enormous Solar Flare

By Victor Tangermann

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts.

Air Pollution May Be Lowering Sperm Counts, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Navy still has no idea what the hell its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month. Officials have yet to find out what it was.

The Navy Can’t Figure Out What Damaged Its Nuclear Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists: Uh, Earth Flipped Over On Its Side 84 Million Years Ago

By Foster Kamer

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwartzman believes that shortages in the gas and oil industry will lead to a social crisis in nations throughout the world.

Billionaire Warns That Energy Shortages Will Lead to Social Unrest

By Tony Ho Tran

The UN dropped two reports this week that send a clear message: nations simply aren’t doing enough to stop climate disaster.

United Nations Warns of “Endless Suffering” Due to Climate Disaster

By Tony Ho Tran

Using data collected by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Telescope, scientists may have found evidence for the existence of an exoplanet 28 million light-years away.

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Scientists Claim to Discover First Planet in Galaxy Beyond Milky Way

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

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Astronomers Discover Youngest Planet Ever Observed

By Tony Ho Tran

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

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By Jon Christian

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

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Shipping Containers of “Spontaneous Combustibles” Fall Overboard

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.

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Man Takes Selfie Right as Volcano Explodes Behind Him

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.

Researchers Discover Massive Hole in the Arctic’s “Last Ice”

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.

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Physicist Says China’s New Telescope May Be Able to Spot Alien Probes

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.

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Here’s What Uranus Scientists Think About Your Disgusting Jokes

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

Huge Machine Cleans Up Vast Load of Ocean Plastic

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.

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Scientists Admit That Yeah, Nuking an Asteroid Might Actually Work

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.

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Governor Calls Journalist a “Hacker” for Looking at HTML

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.

Candidate Suggests Lowering Sea Levels by Taking “All the Boats Out of the Water”

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.

Scientists Create Creature That Doesn’t Need to Breathe

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Woman Almost Smashed by Meteorite That Crashed Through Ceiling and Landed on Her Bed

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.

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NASA’s Scandal-Plagued James Webb Telescope Arrives at Launch Site

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.

Experts Shocked by Military Robodog With Sniper Rifle Attachment

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.

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Meteor May Have Caused Huge Explosion Over New Hampshire, Scientists Say

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.

LSD and Shrooms Linked to Lower Heart Disease and Diabetes Risk

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.

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Shocking Images Show Rising Sea Levels Swallowing Cities

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."

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Prince of England Brags That His Aston Martin Runs on Excess Wine and Cheese

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.

Residents Heard an Earth-Shattering Explosion and Experts Have No Idea What It Was

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.

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Scientists Genetically Modify Plants to Grow Meat Protein

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.

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Deep Sea Creature Surprises Researchers Exploring Shipwreck

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.

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Scientists Baffled by Radio Waves Coming From Our Own Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

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

The Country of Lebanon’s Entire Electric Grid Just Collapsed

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.

Lockheed Delivers Laser Weapon for Mounting to Military Gunship

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.

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Justin Bieber Thinks Deepfake of Tom Cruise Is Real, Challenges It to Fight

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.

Rejoice! China Is Powering Ballistic Missile Silos With Environmentally-Friendly Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Scientists: Hell Planet Where It Rains Molten Iron Is Actually Worse Than We Thought

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.

US Nuclear Sub Damaged in Collision With “Unknown Object”

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.

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Scientists Find That “Class Clowns” Are Actually the Smartest People in Class

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.

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Bitcoin Miners Open Secret Power Plant, Get Busted

By Victor Tangermann

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

Astrophysicist Warns That Humanity Will Boil Like a Frog in a Pot

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.

Operators Let Oil Pipeline Gush Into Ocean for Hours Without Shutting It Off

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.

Scientists Create Material Made Entirely Out of Electrons

By Dan Robitzski

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

California Declares State of Emergency, Opens Criminal Investigation Over Horrific Oil Spill

By Dan Robitzski

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

New Facility Creates Jet Fuel Out of Water

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.

Huge Oil Spill Strikes Off Coast of California

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.

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NASA Refuses to Rename Giant Homophobic Telescope

By Dan Robitzski