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Scientists at NASA have turned the radio signals picked up by the Parker Solar Probe in Venus' ionosphere into sound.

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Scientists Turn Radio Signal From Venus Into Audio You Can Listen to

By Victor Tangermann

Futurism reported on Oxitec, a biotech company releasing millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida. It turns out that Bill Gates helped.

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Bill Gates Funded the Company Releasing Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers are trying to figure out what's behind the largest source of matter and energy in the universe: dark energy.

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Scientists Say New Experiment Will Determine “Fate of the Universe”

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent opinion piece for NBC News, MIT graduate and entrepreneur Rizwan Virk argues studying UFOs could potentially redefine "all of science."

MIT Researcher Says UFO Research Could Lead to New Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

The Parker Solar Probe broke two of its own records, for being fastest human-made object and taking the closest apporach to the Sun.

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A NASA Spacecraft Just “Touched” the Outer Layer of the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

As glaciers melt, drastic river piracy — or the rivers that rely on glaciers diverting off course — will likely continue to follow.

Rivers Around the World Are Disappearing

By Dan Robitzski

Avi Loeb says stars ejected by supermassive black holes travel so fast they essentially time travel, and they may make for great alien tourist destinations.

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Specific Stars Are Effectively Time Traveling

By Dan Robitzski

Former Senator Harry Reid says that he was led to believe Lockheed Martin had stockpiled pieces of a crashed UFO, but he never got to see it for himself.

Former Senator Says Military Wouldn’t Let Him See UFO Wreckage

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A 330-ton fatberg has clogged the sewers in Birmingham, England. Officials say it's going to take several weeks to completely clear the blockage.

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330-Ton Disgusting Blob of Garbage, Fat Clogs City’s Sewers

By Tony Ho Tran

The United States announced that it supports Japan's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.

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Dumping Radioactive Water Into Sea Won’t Solve Japan’s Issues

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers observed glaciers using NASA satellite datasets and discovered that glacial melt has doubled between 2000 and 2019.

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World’s Glaciers Melting Way, Way Faster Than We Thought

By Tony Ho Tran

According to the Washington State Department of Ecology, a radioactive chemical storage tank is leaking massive amounts of nuclear waste into the ground.

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An Underground Tank Is Leaking Massive Amounts of Radioactive Waste

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army Reserach Laboratory is working on a new kind of versatile robot that moves around with biological muscles instead of wheels and motors.

The Military Is Working on Robots With Biological Muscles

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii has become the first US state in history to declare a climate emergency, The Hill reports.

Hawaii Declares Climate Emergency Due to Rising Sea

By Victor Tangermann

A biotech company called Oxitec plans to release 500 million gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys -- and residents are furious.

Residents Furious at Release of 500 Million Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

Michio Kaku believes physicists are on their way to unraveling a theory of everything, and that doing so will make us "grand masters."

Michio Kaku: Figuring Out Secrets of Physics Will Make us “Grand Masters”

By Dan Robitzski

CNN is reporting that several federal agencies are investigating at least two possible "directed energy attack" incidents on US soil.

Feds Investigating “Directed Energy” Attack Near White House

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers in Japan have managed to successfully establish cell lines in a coral, meaning that they were able to culture cells of a coral.

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Scientists Grow Coral in Lab, in Glimmer of Hope for Dying Reefs

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that orbital debris, to say nothing of still-operational satellite constellations, is impeding astronomers' work.

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Space Junk Is Literally Making the Sky Brighter, Astronomer Say

By Dan Robitzski

According to The Warzone, swarms of drones sent by foreign adversaries could be behind the many recent UFO sightings made by the military.

This Theory Could Explain Many Military UFO Sightings

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers on Reddit are sharing some not-so-kind thoughts about Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after a student asked for their honest opinions.

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The Engineering Subreddit Is Tearing Elon Musk Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo says the government could release all of its findings on UFOs as soon as this June.

Former Military Intelligence Official Says Government Preparing for Huge UFO Reveal

By Dan Robitzski

Police say the blast from gender reveal explosion was so powerful that it cracked the foundations of nearby homes and could be heard in a neighboring state.

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Gender Reveal Explosion Was So Strong It Cracked Home Foundations

By Jon Christian

Spanish police raided a warehouse, full of white supremacist literature and guerilla warfare manuals, where someone was 3D printing guns and bombs.

Police Raided Factory Churning Out Black Market 3D Printed Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Planting trees in places where they belong is great for the planet, but trying to solve climate change through trees alone isn't enough and could backfire.

Covering the Planet in Forests Still Wouldn’t Stop Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Underwater volcanic eruptions release enormous amounts of energy, enough to power the entire US according to scientists.

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Study: Underwater Volcanoes Could Power the Entire US

By Victor Tangermann

Climate change, especially through the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice and increased water usage, is making the Earth rapidly tilt over.

Climate Change Is Literally Changing the Tilt of the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

People are deciding to not have kids to reduce their impact on the environment and struggle to justify bringing children into a climate-ravaged world.

Women Are Choosing Not to Have Children Because of Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered "The Unicorn," which is what they're calling an extremely tiny black hole closer to the Earth than any other black hole we know about.

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Astronomers Discover Closest-Ever Black Hole to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Fallout from post-World War II nuclear bomb tests is still popping up in honey today, though at low concentrations that are still safe to eat.

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Fallout From Nuclear Bomb Tests Is Showing Up in This Popular Food

By Dan Robitzski

The US Strategic Command, the miliary agency that manages the nuclear stockpile, just hinted about the prospect of nuclear war on Twitter.

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The Agency In Charge of the Nukes Just Tweeted Something Alarming

By Dan Robitzski

The United States announced that it supports Japan's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.

United States Supports Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Tech companies have devleoped tools that allow them to retroactvely insert product placement into existing movies, TV shows, and music videos.

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A Startup Is Using CGI to Insert Product Placements Into Old TV and Movies

By Dan Robitzski

Three rhino poachers had a run-in with wild elephants in South Africa's Kruger National Park. One of them ended up being trampled to death.

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Elephants Trample Suspected Poacher to Death

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.

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MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Stars that are forming near each other actually compete for limited resources like cosmic gasses, according to a bizarre new discovery.

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Astronomers Surprised to Find That Stars Compete With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

A dire new report shows that only about three percent of the land on Earth remains intact and untouched by human-caused destruction.

Study: Humanity Has Ravaged All But 3 Percent of The Land on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

After Japan announced it's going ahead with the plan to dump Fukushima's contaminated water into the ocean, a Chinese official issued a personal challenge.

Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping It Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.

US Spies Warn That China Is Building Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.

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SETI Research Director Warns of “Malevolent” Alien Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

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Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that smoking weed can significantly impair people's vision but that only a small percentage of people acknowledge that fact while high.

Weed Absolutely Wrecks Your Vision, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists have created chimera embryos that are made up of both human and monkey cells, as NPR reports.

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For First Time Ever, Scientists Create Part-Human, Part-Monkey Embryos

By Victor Tangermann

Female Indian jumping ants vying for a seat on a vacant throne actually shrink their own brains to become queenlike mating "gamergate" ants.

This Type of Ant Can Shrink and Regrow Its Brain

By Dan Robitzski

The National Weather Service station in Cape Cod has been abandoned and is scheduled for demolition because it's about to fall into the sea.

Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s Falling Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials say it's time to decide what to do about the Fukushima power plant's radioactive water. That likely means dumping it in the ocean.

Japan Says Sorry, But It Has to Dump This Radioactive Water Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's Poseidon 2M39 torpedo can sneak along the bottom of the ocean before unleashing a several-megaton explosion that causes radioactive tsunamis.

New Russian Weapon Is Designed to Unleash “Radioactive Tsunamis”

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois have found new evidence suggesting that a subatomic particle called a muon is not following the known laws of physics.

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Fifth Force of Nature

By Victor Tangermann

During a Reddit AMA, science communicator and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku said he expects we'll discover the theory of everything by the year 2100.

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Famed Physicist: Soon-To-Launch Telescope Likely to Discover Alien Life

By Tony Ho Tran

MIT scientists converted the structure and construction of spider webs into odd music which they hope could lead to a form of human-spider communications.

MIT Researchers Release Music Made by Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

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Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.

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The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Marine scientist David Valentine has made a shocking discovery 3,000 below the ocean's surface just ten miles off the coast of Los Angeles: barrels of DDT.

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“Countless” Barrels of Toxic Waste Found in Ocean Near Los Angeles

By Victor Tangermann

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.

Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

By Victor Tangermann

Bandits in Mexico stole industrial radiographic equipment, including a highly radioactive container of dangerous isotopes.

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Armed Criminals Steal Truck Full of Deadly Radioactive Materials

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities arrested a Michigan man after he claimed to have a bomb parked in a trailer outside of a nuclear power plant in Ohio.

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Man Claimed to Have Car Bomb at Nuclear Power Plant

By Tony Ho Tran

A SpaceX Falcon 9's second stage lit up the skies like a spectacular fireworks display around 4am local time over the Seattle area during reentry.

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SpaceX Isn’t Sure If This Object Came From One of Its Rockets

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

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Researchers Find 2,000 Plastic Bags Inside Camel

By Tony Ho Tran

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.

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FBI Arrests Man for Plotting to Bomb Data Center, Cause Huge Internet Outage

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers recently discovered that the Doomsday Glacier is melting faster than they previously anticipated — triggering concerns for sea level rise.

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Scientists Discover “Doomsday Glacier” More Unstable Than Ever

By Tony Ho Tran