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A retired gas-fired power plant was converted into a Bitcoin-mining facility in upstate New York — and its heating up a nearby lake considerably.

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Neighbors Accuse Bitcoin Mining Facility of Warming Up Entire Lake

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found an entire population of free-floating exoplanets toward the center of our galaxy by spotting tiny microlensing events at nearby stars.

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Scientists Spot Earth-Like Planets Floating Around Without Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A 11-year-old boy from Belgium just graduated from the University of Antwerp with a bachelor's degree in physics — and with the highest distinction.

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality

By Victor Tangermann

The BBC released then promptly edited a climate change for kids that listed a bunch of "positive impacts" that it would have on the UK and the world.

BBC Mocked For Teaching Kids Climate Change Will Have Nice Upsides

By Dan Robitzski

90 percent of Lytton, British Columbia, a small village of approximately 250, burned to the ground after recording Canada's highest ever temperature ever.

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Town Sets All-Time Heat Record, Then Burns to the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

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A Fully Solar-Powered Car May Be Hitting the Road by 2019

By Chelsea Gohd

A huge chunk of the United States is primed for a horrific wildfire. Backyard fireworks displays are definitely not worth the risk.

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We Are Literally Begging You Idiots To Skip The Fireworks This Year

By Dan Robitzski

A prominent lobbyist for ExxonMobil admitted that the company actively fights climate science and climate change legislation in secret.

In Secret Recording, ExxonMobil Lobbyist Brags About Only Pretending to Care About Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The military announced plans to performance test a new anti-aging pill that it developed to keep soldiers healthy and operating at peak performance.

The US Military Will Test an Anti-Aging Pill Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

NASA chief Bill Nelson instructed agency scientists to start studying UFOs, but they can't do that unless the military releases its raw data.

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Astrobiologist Demands Pentagon Release Raw UFO Data

By Dan Robitzski

As the heatwave continues, hundreds of heat-related deaths have been reported in Canada and some US states, presenting a dire warning for climate change.

The Climate Change-Linked Heatwave Has Now Killed Hundreds of People

By Dan Robitzski

The evacuated area around post-meltdown Fukushima in Japan is being overrun by "relatively" radioactive boar-pig hybrids.

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Fukushima Now Home to Radioactive Boar-Pig Hybrids

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered an entire lake in East Antarctica has completely disappeared into the ocean — and it could be the result of climate change.

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A Lake in Antarctica Has Suddenly Disappeared

By Tony Ho Tran

A comet that flew past Earth in late 2018 was releasing a shockingly high amount of alcohol in its wake, according to a new study.

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Comet Sails Past Earth, Leaving Trail of Alcohol in Its Wake

By Dan Robitzski

As the record-shattering heatwave continues, officials report dozens of sudden, heat-related deaths in Canada and the northwestern United States/

Horrific Heatwave Kills Dozens

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.

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Scientists Turn Galaxy Cluster Into Giant Magnifying Lens To Study Even Farther Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The tragic collapse of a Miami condo building that killed at least a dozen people seems to have been caused, at least in part, by worsening climate change.

Deadly Condo Collapse Linked to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the government doesn't know what's behind the recent UAP sightings, but he does believe aliens are out there.

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The Head of NASA Says He Believes in Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization

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Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization

By Jon Christian

The heat wave is shattering temperature records in Canada and the northwest United States, where temperatures are typically 40 degrees lower in late June.

This Heat Wave Is Smashing All-Time Records in the US and Canada

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have uncovered dozens more subterranean lakes near Mars' south pole, but some of their locations defy explanation.

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NASA Research Identifies Dozens of Underground Lakes on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

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Highly-Classified British Military Documents Found at Bus Stop

By Tony Ho Tran

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.

Military Report Says Space Force Must Prepare for Moon Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.

Physicist: The Universe Has Likely Been Expanding “Eternally”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that an ancient skull belonged to a new species in the Homo genus that's even closer related to us than Neanderthals.

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Scientists Say Ancient Skull Belonged to “Dragon Man” Related to Modern Humans

By Dan Robitzski

A tech startup says it's gene-hacked trees to asborb and sequester more climate change-inducing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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A Startup Is Working on Gene Hacked Trees to Gobble Up Tons of Climate-Destroying Carbon Dioxide

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli biotech company Future Meat has opened what it claims to be the "world's first industrial cultured meat facility."

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The World’s First Lab Grown Meat Factory Just Opened Up

By Victor Tangermann

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.

We’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

By Dan Robitzski

An ancient comet impact may have helped jumpstart human civilization, according to a study linking the collision to cultural and societal shifts.

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Study: A Comet Hitting Earth May Have Helped Spark Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

A professor who specializes in oil drilling and engineering claimed that he disproved Einstein, just to face mockery online.

Professor Mocked for Claiming to Have Disproved Einstein

By Dan Robitzski

A leaked UN climate report reveals that humanity and ecosystems around the world are on the absolute brink of destruction.

Leaked UN Climate Report: The Apocalypse Is Almost Here

By Dan Robitzski

Cobalt mining is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as miners are kept in poverty and live around mines that poison the environment.

Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape

By Dan Robitzski

Coating the platters of a high-density hard drive with graphene instead of a carbon-based overcoat results in ten times the storage capacity.

Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data

By Dan Robitzski

According to a team of researchers, the existence of an extra dimension in space-time could explain the existence of dark mater

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Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is having some serious issues with procuring parts for its Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines.

The Navy Says Its Nuclear Submarines Are Beat Up Pieces of Crap

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper warns that increasingly acidic oceans will lead to a collapse of the global food web within the next few decades.

Researchers Claim Collapsing Ocean Ecosystem Will Devastate Humanity Within 25 Years

By Dan Robitzski

A massive clump of galaxies 3.3 billion light-years across seems to defy the cosmological principle and our understanding of the universe.

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Giant Arc of Galaxies Is Way Too Big to Exist, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

The Israeli military just tested a plane equipped with a new laser weapon that's capable of burning through drones in midair.

Watch Israel’s Military Shoot Down Drones With a Laser

By Dan Robitzski

After Subway was sued for allegedly lying about its tuna sandwiches, a NYT reporter decided to buy some of the meat and test its DNA.

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DNA Test Fails to Find Any Tuna in Subway Tuna Sandwiches

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, a team of geologists found that our planet goes through a cycle of severe geological events — almost like clockwork.

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The Earth Suffers a Regular Cycle of Horrific Catastrophes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.

Sun Heat on Earth Doubled In 15 Years, You Dumb Melting Morons

By Dan Robitzski

Two NASA astronauts conducted an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday morning to install new solar panels on the International Space Station.

Watch Astronauts Venture Outside the Space Station to Install Solar Panels

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists unraveled a mystery of planetary formation by discovering that chaotic perturbations help trigger protoplanetary disks to clumb together.

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Study: An Extra Pinch of Chaos, and BAM, New Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that a mysterious dip in the brightness of Betelgeuse was not the sign of an imminent supernova, but evidence of the creation of stardust.

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Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Dimmed Mysteriously, and Now We Know Why

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers are shipping the world's most powerful magnet to the construction site of the world's largest experimental fusion reactor called ITER.

World’s Strongest Magnet Could Help Make Fusion Energy a Reality

By Victor Tangermann

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

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After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

By Dan Robitzski

According to a shocking new report by the Associated Press, north of 1,900 firearms were lost by or stolen from the US military between 2010 and 2019.

US Military Admits That It Lost 34 Rocket Launchers

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists modeled how long it would take for an advanced alien race to colonize an entire Milky Way-like galaxy, assuming it would want to.

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Here’s How Quickly Aliens Could Conquer the Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.

Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now

By Dan Robitzski

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

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The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

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Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

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Scientists Discover Giant Arc of Galaxies That Could “Overturn Cosmology”

By Tony Ho Tran

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This Futuristic Robot Arm Is a 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, and Much More

Scientists were puzzled to discover an "exceptionally rare" star, located toward the center of our own galaxy, that appears to be blinking on and off.

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Scientists Puzzled by Star That Appears to Be Blinking on and Off

By Jon Christian

A farmer in Wales built his own Bitcoin mine, which he powers by burning the methane emitted from his cows' decomposing turds.

A Farmer Is Using Cow Turds to a Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Dan Robitzski

Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.

Congressman Asks If Changing the Moon’s Orbit Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Archeologists in Israel made an incredibly rare discovery in the ancient industrial zone of Yavneh, a central Israeli city: a 1,000 year old chicken egg.

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Archeologists Discover 1000-Year-Old Egg, Accidentally Break It

By Victor Tangermann

New research found over 500 new fast radio bursts, giving scientists much more to work with as they figure out what's causing them.

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Scientists Found Hundreds of New Mysterious Signals From Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found and woke up a microscopic creature that froze and went dormant in Siberian permafrost about 24,000 years ago.

Scientists Resurrect Creature That’s Been Frozen for 24,000 Years

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found organic molecules inside of planetary nebulae, challenging astronomers' assumptions about what could and couldn't survive.

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Astronomers Find Organic Compounds Inside Multiple Dying Stars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is investigating an unprecedented "Rosetta Stone" explosion on the Sun to determine what causes different types of solar eruptions.

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NASA Is Investigating a Bizarre Explosion on the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

Anthony Weiner is strongly considering capitalizing on his own sex scandals by selling old tweets or search warrants as NFTs.

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Anthony Weiner May Sell Infamous Nude Tweet as an NFT

By Dan Robitzski

In a new clinical trial, psilocybin seemed to perform just as well as a treatment for major depressive disorder as a conventional SSRI.

New Study: Psychedelic Mushrooms Are as Effective as Antidepressants

By Dan Robitzski

China is pushing back against all the criticism over the uncontrolled reentry and landing of its Long March 5B rocket on Saturday

China’s Military Is Apparently Also Tracking UFOs

By Tony Ho Tran