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A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Thrilled at Important Step Toward Practical Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.

Last Night’s Hurricane Devastation Shows That Climate Change Is Here

By Dan Robitzski

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.

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Astronomers Discover Extremely Strange Deep Space Object

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists determined that a high percentage of stars consume what could have been habitable exoplanets, and they figured out how to tell if it happened.

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Ravenous Stars Keep Devouring Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

For many climate scientists, the great ferocity of hurricane Ida came to no surprise as the world is starting to really feel the results of climate change.

Today’s Killer Hurricane Is Linked to Climate Change, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Energy Vault, a Switzerland- and California-based company, has secured $100 million in series C funding for their bold vision.

Startup Raises $100 Million to Store Energy in Giant Hanging Bricks

By Tony Ho Tran

A huge "blob" of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has been made worse by climate change and led to a ten-year drought in Chile.

Scientist Warns of Megadroughts That Could Collapse Entire Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Federal scientists are tracking down and investigating nuclear cubes that Nazi scientists hoped to turn into bombs to test out new forensic techniques.

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Scientists Searching for Lost Nuclear Nazi Cubes

By Dan Robitzski

Zoom fatigue, or feeling exhausted from having your camera on at work, is a real phenomenon that should be taken seriously, according to new research.

Watch Lunatics Fire 3D Printed Assault Rifles and Handguns

By Victor Tangermann

A new class of potentially habitable exoplanets called Hycean worlds considerably broaden scientists' options in the search for alien life.

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Scientists: Life May Thrive on Ocean Worlds Far Larger Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists watching octopuses interact with each other found that they "throw" shells and dirt at each other, including a female rejecting an amorous male.

Scientists: Octopuses Love to Fling Objects at Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed has made nearly $400,000 after programming and selling a series of NFTs of pixelated doodles called "Weird Whales."

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12-Year-Old Earns $400,000 Selling NFTs to Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to print lab-grown steak that greatly resembles products made from Wagyu cattle.

Japanese Scientists 3D Print Lab-Grown Wagyu Steak

By Victor Tangermann

In order to keep Fukushima's radioactive water from impacting the fishing industry, the nuclear power plant's operators plan to dig an undersea tunnel.

Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists stumbled upon a giant, surprisingly healthy mass of coral that's survived in the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds of years.

Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral

By Dan Robitzski

Manatees are dying off en masse as a result of worsening pollution and ecosystem collapse off the coast of Florida that took away their food supply.

Manatees Are Starving en Masse as Florida’s Ecosystem Crumbles

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic iceberg almost crashed into and destroyed a major ice shelf in Antarctica, according to satellite imagery of the close call.

Watch a Floating, 500 Square Mile Iceberg Nearly Crash Into Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers has discovered the fastest-orbiting asteroid in the solar system. It gets even closer to the Sun than Mercury.

Scientists Just Discovered the Fastest Asteroid in the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Army researchers found a way to genetically alter disease-spreading mosquitoes to be infertile, hopefully presenting a tool to limit disease transmission.

The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists created a sunlight-reflecting "metafabric" to keep people cool without air conditioning in the face of climate change.

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Scientists Develop “Metafabric” To Help us Survive Extreme Heat

By Dan Robitzski

NASA released a stunning image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope depicting a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years away from Earth.

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Hubble Takes Breathtaking Image of “Furnace” Galaxy

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have captured the most detailed images of deep space yet using a network of more than 70,000 radio telescopes.

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Astronomers Capture Most High-Resolution Images of Deep Space Yet

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in Nature revealed that heat eminating from the Erath's upper mantle is speeding up the Doomsday Glacier's ice melt.

“Doomsday Glacier” Melting Even Faster Due to Earth’s Core

By Tony Ho Tran

Wildfires are raging across the entire globe right now, producing unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases, visible scars left behind by climate change.

2021 Wildfires Spewed Record Breaking Amount of C02

By Victor Tangermann

Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange

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Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange

By Dan Robitzski

A huge rain storm, the first in recorded history to hit Greenland's ice sheet, caused a record-breaking ice melt last week.

Red Alert: It Rained in Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time in Recorded History

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.

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Magic Tricks Can Fool Birds, Say Scientists With Nothing Better To Do

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis of the environmental impact of the 1987 ban on CFCs found that it bought us crucial time to stave off the worst of climate change.

Study: A 1987 Chemical Ban Saved the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

The Army announced plans to develop and launch a series of high-altitude devices that can spy on and jam enemy communications.

The Army Plans To Build Balloons That Can Jam Communications From Above

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have genetically engineered daddy long legs to create a version with short legs, an effort to study how arachnids' genomes evolve over time.

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Scientists Create Horrifically Mutated Spider-Like Creatures

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is developing an uncrewed aircraft that can remain airborne for 90 days at a time thanks to massive solar panels on each of its wings.

The US Navy Is Working on a Solar-Powered Plane Can Fly for 90 Days Straight

By Victor Tangermann

A study warns Atlantic currents may soon stop, plunging parts of the world into freezing temperatures, essentially the plot of "The Day After Tomorrow."

Uh, Uh… The Plot to “The Day After Tomorrow” May Actually Be Happening

By Victor Tangermann

Using a gigantic laser, scientists heated up a peppercorn-sized sample of two hydrogen isotopes to well past the temperature of the Sun's core.

Scientists Are On the Edge of a Fusion Power Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Scientists tried to build a better map of the Milky Way galaxy just to discover a sharp break in one of its spiral arms.

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Milky Way Has Broken Arm That Never Healed, Astronomers Say

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent Venture Capitalist Admits That the “Climate Is F’d”

Prominent Venture Capitalist Admits That the “Climate Is F’d”

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, Space.com reports.

Space Junk Reportedly Smashed a Chinese Military Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur told Insider about the unfortunate experience of being stationed on board the ISS while wildfires are raging across the world.

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Astronauts Alarmed by Huge Fires on Surface of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Friday that July 2021 was “Earth’s hottest month in 142 years.”

July Was Officially the Hottest Month in Recorded History

By Tony Ho Tran

As climate change progresses, hypoxic or "dead" zones of dangerously-low oxygen off the coastline will become bigger and more common.

The Ocean Is Losing Oxygen. This Scientist Says More “Dead Zones” Will Soon Follow.

By Dan Robitzski

The 11th commander of the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) revealed that he crushed "a couple of Monster [energy drinks] this morning."

Admiral in Charge of Nukes Brags About Crushing Tons of Monster Energy Drinks

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Caltech have created a fluid-like chain mail that can go rigid on command, kind of like a science fiction armor.

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Caltech Invents Smart Chain Mail That Can Stiffen on Command Like Sci-Fi Armor

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suspect that there could be past or present microbial life beneath the surface of Mars that survives thanks to radioactivity.

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NASA Scientists Suggest Nuclear-Powered Life Under Mars Surface

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just sent brainless bits of slime mold to the ISS to study how the single-celled organism's behavior is affected by microgravity.

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Europe Just Launched Brainless Blobs of Slime Mold to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are warning that global warming is driving the "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation" (AMOC) to the brink of collapse.

Scientists Warn Gulf Stream May Collapse, Freezing North America

By Victor Tangermann

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Quantum Physics

Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers examined 40 hermit crabs off the coast of England and found that they may be "sexually excited" by oleamide, a plastic additive, in the water.

No, Plastic Pollution Isn’t Driving Crabs Into a Sexual Frenzy

By Victor Tangermann

A new glass called AM-III is so hard it can scratch the surface of diamonds and could be used in new ultra-sturdy solar panels.

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Scientists Create Glass That’s as Strong as a Diamond

By Dan Robitzski

As wildfires blaze through the drought-stricken American west, government agencies at all levels can't attract enough recruits to batle them.

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There Are So Many Wildfires That the US Can’t Find Enough Firefighters

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered fossils of a fearsome new pterosaur species that strongly resembles a dragon from European mythology.

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Scientists Discover Dinosaur Fossil That Seems Suspiciously Like a Dragon

By Dan Robitzski

Is blockchain tech alive? No, but scientists argue it may as well be if we adjusted our definition of what represents life.

Scientists Say Blockchains “Fit Some Definitions of Life”

By Dan Robitzski

On Sunday afternoon, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Florida coast. The Navy said it was conducting an "experimental explosion."

The US Military Just Set Off Another 3.9 Magnitude Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

A comprehensive UN report warns that we have delayed climate action for too long to prevent climate devastation, but we can keep it from getting worse.

UN Says It’s “Code Red for Humanity” in Alarming Climate Change Report

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of scientists argue that once upon a time, the Gale crater on Mars was a mere series of ponds, according to Curiosity data.

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Scientists Say NASA’s Mars Rover Is on the Site of Ancient Ponds, Not a Huge Lake

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

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Astronomers Find “Dancing Ghosts” Haunting Space Near Black Holes

By Tony Ho Tran

Corcoran, Califronia has sunk "the equivalent of a two-story house" over the past century due to massive irrigation efforts and drought.

California Town Sinking Into Ground Due to Corporations Pumping Groundwater

By Tony Ho Tran

Doom Suns can turn the sky into vibrant shades of crimson and burnt orange. Here's what they look like — and what exactly causes it.

Does the Sun Look Scary? It Might Be the Dreaded “Doom Sun”

By Tony Ho Tran

Hollywood celebrities are discussing their personal hygiene habits, arguing that maybe we are bathing and showering too much. They might have a point.

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Jake Gyllenhaal Is Right: We’re Showering Way Too Much

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists discovered a massive gas filament in the Milky Way, and they can't tell whether or not it's part of the galaxy or its own entity.

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Scientists Discover Huge, Never-Before-Spotted “Structure” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a source of greenhouse gas emissions in the melting permafrost of Siberia, an alarming development for the global climate.

Scientists Warn of Methane “Time Bomb” in Siberia

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that using a plastic water bottle causes 1,400 times more damage to the environment than does a glass of tap water.

Bottled Water Is 1,400 Times Worse for the Environment Than Tap Water

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon naturally churns rocks from deep within its mantle back to the surface, and NASA wants to grab some for analysis.

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NASA Scientists Want to Obtain “Fragments” From Deep Inside Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a tiny new exoplanet in a nearby solar system that they suspect has large oceans and the conditions to sustain life.

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Scientists Say Ocean Planet in Nearby Star System Could Support Life

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to new restrictions on the energy usage of personal electronics, powerful Alienware gaming computers are now banned in California.

New Gaming PC Consumes so Much Power That It’s Banned in California

By Dan Robitzski