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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

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.

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Florida Man Returns Missing NASA Moon Rock he Bought at Garage Sale

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.

The Icy “Glue” Holding Antarctica Together Is Starting To Fail

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.

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NASA Puzzled by Five Fireballs Over America in One Night

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 Successfully Launched an “Air-Breathing” Hypersonic Missile

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.

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New AR Glasses Are for Streaming Video and Ignoring the Real World

By Dan Robitzski

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

Corporations Are Sending Huge Mining Machines to the Bottom of the Ocean

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.

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Changing, NASA Says

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.

Festival Goers Did So Many Drugs That Their Pee Harmed Local Fish

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.

Watch a Huge Dust Storm Swallow an Entire City

By Dan Robitzski

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

If You’re Under 40 You’re Gonna See Some Horrible Stuff, Scientists Say

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.

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Video Shows Church Collapsing After Being Hit by Lava

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."

The Climate Projection for 500 Years From Now Is Unbelievably Bad

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.

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Nazis Exposed After Their Web Host Gets Hacked

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.

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Bitcoin Mining Company Buys Entire Coal Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

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

New Tech Cooks and 3D Prints Chicken Simultaneously

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.

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Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Manage to Study Weather on Planet in Different Solar System

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.

Member Nations Alarmed by Bleak Future During “Dire” UN Meeting

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.

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Wall Street Glitch Showed Bitcoin Crashing to $5,400

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.

Harvard Study: Melting Polar Ice Is Physically Warping the Planet

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.

NASA, DARPA, MIT Scientists Met to Discuss “Anti-Gravity” Tech

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.

Scientists Alarmed by Telltale Sign of Global Mass Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Cyberattack on Farming Group Could Lead to Food Shortages

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.

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Volcano Flings Lava Nearly a Mile High, Swallows Houses Whole

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.

Thrusters on New NASA Spacecraft Are Solar Powered

By Victor Tangermann

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

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63 Endangered Penguins Die After Being Attacked by Enraged Bees

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service announced that the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica.

There’s a Hole in the Ozone Layer Bigger Than Antarctica, Scientists Sigh

By Tony Ho Tran

Massive wildfires in California are forcing firefighters to wrap massive trees in fire-resistant blankets, including the world's largest tree by volume.

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Firefighters Wrap World’s Largest Tree in Foil to Protect From Raging Fire

By Victor Tangermann

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This Totally Immersive ‘Virtual Intimacy System’ Blurs VR Sex and Reality

By Futurism Creative

A team of students from Eindhoven in the Netherlands have created an awesome-looking mobile home that depends entirely on solar energy.

This Solar-Powered RV Looks Absolutely Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

Both Threads' mushroom leather material, Mylo, could revolutionize the fake leather market — and it's ready to go mainstream.

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Startup’s Mushroom Leather Ready for Commercial Production

By Victor Tangermann

Harold "Sonny" White, a big name in warp drive research, left NASA in late 2019 to work on the Warp Drive with a private firm. He took everything with him.

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Warp Drive Scientist Took All His Equipment With Him When He Left NASA

By Victor Tangermann

An Israeli company has unveiled a remote-controlled, semi-autonomous robot that can be outfitted with two machine guns, cameras, and sensors.

Israel Shows Off Massive Military Robot With a Huge Machine Gun

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Says Its Tech Can Kill Hurricanes Before They Get Strong

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Startup Says Its Tech Can Kill Hurricanes Before They Get Strong

By Tony Ho Tran

An international team of atmospheric scientists wants to create whiter clouds that reflect more sunlight to cool down the Earth.

Scientists Reveal Plan to Cool the World Through Geoengineering

By Tony Ho Tran

227 environmental and land rights activists were murdered throughout the world in 2020, according to the report from Global Witness.

A Huge Number of Environmental Activists Are Getting Murdered

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have created the largest computer simulation of the Universe, and have made the data available for anyone to download for free

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Scientists Create 3,000 TB Simulation of the Universe You Can Download

By Tony Ho Tran

A biotech startup helmed by provocative Harvard geneticist George Church has secured $15 million in funding to bring back woolly mammoths.

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George Church Has Raised $15M to Bring an Elephant-Mammoth Hybrid to Life. Could It Actually Work?

By Simon Spichak

An experimental form of male birth control involves using magnets to heat up nanoparticles inside the testes to prevent sperm formation.

Scientists Debut Magnet Powerful Enough to Lift an Aircraft Carrier

By Tony Ho Tran

Snakes equipped with GPS trackers and dosimeters are monitoring radioactivity levels near the Fukushima nuclear disaster site.

Scientists Monitoring Radioactive Snakes Near Fukushima Meltdown Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an incredible look at Kleopatra, also known as the "dog bone asteroid," which is spinning so fast it might rip itself apart.

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Rapidly Spinning “Dog Bone” Asteroid Near Mars Could Break Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

The world's largest carbon capture facility, which can scrub 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year, just went online.

Scientists Fire Up World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Machine

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally announced a launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited orbital observatory meant to replace the aging Hubble.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finally Has a Launch Date

By Dan Robitzski

MIT engineers managed to create an intensely powerful magnetic field in a very compact space, which they say is a huge step toward nuclear fusion energy.

MIT Announces “Major Advance” in Fusion Power

By Dan Robitzski

California-based startup JetPack Aviation is selling two of its jetpack units for $400,000 a piece to an "undisclosed military customer in South-East Asia."

A Startup Is Selling Jetpacks to an “Undisclosed Military Customer”

By Victor Tangermann

Officials from a local Swiss skiing resort are now trying to slow the melting by throwing giant fleece blankets over the glacier

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Switzerland Covers Glacier With Giant Blankets to Keep It From Melting

By Victor Tangermann

Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio signal coming from close to the center of the galaxy.

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Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Radio Wave Source Inside Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The UN scientist who helped pen the dire report on climate change said that the impact of man made climate change is already being felt in ways unimagined.

UN Scientist Warns That Climate Destruction Is Entering “Uncharted Territory”

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists might have discovered a rare and (frankly) unsettling cosmic event: a black hole eating a star from the inside out and causing a supernova.

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Parasite Black Hole Eats Gigantic Star from Inside Out

By Tony Ho Tran

A new molecule-sized "camera" helps scientists watch individual chemical reactions in real-time, and they say it could lead to better solar panels.

Scientists Build Molecule-Sized “Camera” To Watch Chemical Reactions in Real-Time

By Dan Robitzski