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Florida's very cool and normal governor is proposing a "civilian military force" that would be under his control and not the Pentagon's.

Florida Is Trying to Get Its Own Military, God Help Us All

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new congressionally mandated report for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine paints an ugly picture of the amount of plastic waste the country produces.

The US Is Filling the Oceans With Shocking Amounts of Disgusting Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon has partnered with climate scientists to help create models that show what exactly would happen if we blocked the Sun.

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Amazon Is Quietly Researching How to Block Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA scientists are really starting to get fired up about the idea of SpaceX's Starship, a massive spacecraft with big promises.

NASA Scientists: SpaceX Starship “Revolutionary” for Exploring Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is throwing shade at some "hot mess" colliding galaxies as they become one.

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Hubble Space Telescope Calls Out “Hot Mess” Galactic Collision

By Noor Al-Sibai

A climate scientist believes that since geoengineering the earth to cool down the climate is so affordable, countries will inevitably start doing it.

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

The distinctively dank aroma of cannabis has something in common with eggs, skunk spray, and hops, researchers have discovered.

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Blaze It! Scientists Finally Discovered What Makes Weed Dank

By Noor Al-Sibai

Paleontologist and Nature editor Henry Gee argued in an opinion piece for Scientific American that humans are doomed to go exctinct eventually.

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Scientist Says That Humans Are Almost Certainly Going Extinct

By Victor Tangermann

60 people were trapped at the Tan Hill Inn with an Oasis cover band after a snowstorm dropped three feet of snow in Swaledale, England.

Extreme Snowstorm Traps 60 People in Pub with Oasis Cover Band

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, a commercial airliner has taken flight with both of its engines running entirely on sustainable jet fuel.

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Airbus Tests Jetliner Powered by “100 Percent” Renewable Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

The Arctic is getting warm, fast, and it has been for a long time.

The Arctic Ocean Has Been Warming Way Longer Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists have created synthetic organisms known as "Xenobots" that can self-replicate — a striking leap forward in synthetic biology.

Scientists Create Synthetic Organisms That Can Reproduce

This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

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This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

By Tony Ho Tran

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

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Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nuclear fusion power, which is clean and basically limitless, could be just around the corner. Advancements made in recent weeks may actually tip the scale.

Experts Say Fusion Power Is Finally Starting to Look Imminent

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dumping the water into the bay as part of the decommission is an option the Cape Cod Times reported that officials discussed with Holtec earlier this week.

Massachusetts Residents Alarmed by Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Parsons says he surveyed just under one million buildings in downtown San Francisco using space and satellite images captured by European Space Agency’s Sentinel 1 satellite and can confirm the most settlement is happening near the downtown area because of the building weight and density.

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San Francisco Is Sinking Into the Earth, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While your relatives might not believe climate change isn't a big deal, we want to give you a handy guide to help possibly convince them otherwise.

How to Talk to Your Family About Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Department of Defense is ramping up its efforts to see if the truth is really out there with a new task force dedicated to studying UFOs.

The US Military Just Created a Major New Group to Study UFOs

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to several military contractors to design a system to take out enemy hypersonic missiles.

US Military: Let’s Shoot Down Hypersonic Missiles With Smaller Hypersonic Missiles

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter.

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Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet have chosen a tiny Wyoming city to build an experimental nuclear power plant in.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Are Building an Experimental Nuclear Plant in a Tiny City

By Tony Ho Tran

A new theory posits that, actually, wormholes can remain stable enough for particles to enter it and leave through the other side.

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New Paper Claims That Yes, You Could Climb Through a Wormhole to a Distant Galaxy

By Tony Ho Tran

Michael Rowan-Robinson, astronomer at the Imperial College London, may have found evidence for the elusive Planet Nine in 1983 infrared observations.

Scientists May Have Accidentally Spotted an Extra Planet in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

US government agencies are in surprising lockstep as they condemn Russia for unexpectedly exploding one of its own satellites.

US Agencies, Military Rush to Condemn Russia Blowing Up Satellite

By Noor Al-Sibai

Massive rain, dust, and snowstorms (yes, snow too) in Aswan, Egypt have caused swarms of scorpions to wreak havoc on the city.

Killer Storms Drive Deadly Scorpion Swarms Into Home-Invading Fury

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers at Lancaster University have created a new cursed type of WiFi that transmits data wirelessly using nuclear radiation.

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Scientists Create Cursed WiFi That Transmits Using Nuclear Radiation

By Tony Ho Tran

It looks like China's "doomsday" AI weapons may be more American than critics care to admit.

US Military Horrified by Chinese Military Spending Money on Exact Same Crap They Do

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists in China say they’ve discovered a cost-effective method of creating fusion energy that could rival much more expensive counterparts.

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion

By Tony Ho Tran

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