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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

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