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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

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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

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