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A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a gruesome suit.

Science & Energy

Extremely Metal “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Cloaks Itself in the Shattered Exoskeletons of Its Vanquished Foes

By Frank Landymore

US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth has been using the same phone he uses to send out war plans to also go on sports betting websites.

The Head of the Pentagon Has Been Using His Personal Phone for Sports Betting and Sharing Military Secrets

By Frank Landymore

The UK will fund a bevy of solar geoengineering experiments to explore dimming the Sun as a way of combatting climate change.

Scientists Preparing Experiments to Dim the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The Trump administration is slapping giant tariffs on solar panels — and the figures are so high, you will straight up gasp.

Trump Just Set a Tariff on Solar Panels So High That Your Eyebrows May Raise Involuntarily

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a big catch to the first ever footage of a colossal squid capturing roaming in its natural habitat.

Science & Energy

Scientists Take First Ever Video of Colossal Squid in the Wild… With One Comical Issue

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor.

China Fires Up World’s First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor

Hoping to maximize's the ocean's potential as the world's largest carbon sink, scientists in the UK are sucking carbon out of seawater.

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

A man and his brother in western Tennessee deployed a clever system to save their family home from devastating river flood.

Science & Energy

Brothers Build Clever System to Keep Their Family Home Dry While Everything Around It Floods

By Victor Tangermann

As the number of tourists in Antarctica skyrockets each year, so has their burden on the fragile polar ecosystem.

Hordes of Tourists Are Trashing Antarctica

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.

Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Trump interior secretary Doug Burgum said that the endangered species is too big and suggested that the future of conservation is in cloning.

Science & Energy

Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

By Frank Landymore

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its competition.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies

By Frank Landymore

Using elastic bands, a team of researchers have created holograms that you can physically manipulated with your hands.

Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch

By Frank Landymore

Brooke Rollins issued an "Emergency Situation Determination" affecting over 112 million acres, or 59 percent of federal land.

Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment.

New Research Finds That Dogs Are Incredibly Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sailors have reported glowing stretches of "milky seas" for centuries, but scientists are still struggling to explain what causes them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow

By Frank Landymore

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.

Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half

By Victor Tangermann

What you're witnessing is translocation, and it's saved the lives of hundreds of critically endangered black rhinos.

Science & Energy

Behold This Bonkers Photo of a 2,800-Pound Rhino Dangling Upside Down From a Helicopter

By Frank Landymore

Recent financial reporting indicates that Wall Street's big dogs are all but giving up on climate change as global temperatures soar.

This May Be the Most Terrifying Sign of Global Warming Yet

In the deserts of Africa and the Middle East, scientists have discovered tiny rock tubes that appear to have been made by something alive.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Tunnels Under Africa and the Middle East

By Noor Al-Sibai

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual detection.

DARPA Tried Using the Earth’s Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting

By Victor Tangermann

The country responsible for one of the world's most robust train networks has broken new ground on 3D-printed transit infrastructure.

Japan Deploys Entire 3D-Printed Train Station

Less than a year after defending AI, the nonprofit behind the National Novel Writing Month — better known as NaNoWriMo — is closing.

NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded a species of shark actively producing a sound. And it's not what you'd expect.

Science & Energy

It Turns Out Sharks Make Noises, and Here’s What They Sound Like

By Frank Landymore

California is activating a 70-feet wide "glory hole" — or "passive spillway," in the technical nomenclature — that spills into a huge drain.

Science & Energy

California Activates Gigantic Glory Hole

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Ancient Life Forms

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an Instagram video, second lady Usha Vance was spotted sitting in front of a shelf that featured a decidedly non-conservative book.

Usha Vance Posted a Video and People Spotted Something Absolutely Wild on a Shelf in the Background

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have developed "audible enclave" technology that creates pockets of sound that can be heard at a specifically location.

Science & Energy

Scientists Create Sound That Can Curve Through a Crowd and Reach Just One Person

By Frank Landymore

In a controversial experiment, physicists investigated whether we could harness the Earth's rotational energy to generate electricity.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Device to Generate Electricity Using the Earth’s Rotation

By Victor Tangermann

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

By Victor Tangermann

Microplastic pollution seems, as one researcher posits, to be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum.

You May Be Horrified When You Learn What Chewing Gum Is Actually Made From

By Noor Al-Sibai

At an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues.

Science & Energy

Researcher “Threatened to Kill” Colleagues Trapped in Antarctic Base

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

New research is challenging the assumption that smoking too much weed as a teenager can deep-fry your brain.

Science & Energy

If You Blazed Massive Amounts of Weed as a Youth, Scientists Have Interesting News

Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming simultaneously.

Science & Energy

The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People With Zero Contact With One Another

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Trump administration is massively rolling back environmental protection policies, accelerating an already heated race to the bottom.

Trump Changes EPA Rules to Allow Vastly More Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change

The Department of Defense has proudly announced that two active-duty US military officers will be launching to the space station.

NASA Sending Military Personnel to Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched what it's calling the "world’s first code deployable biological computer."

Science & Energy

Weird New Computer Runs AI on Captive Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Something Mysterious Swept Over Our Entire Solar System, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon has signed a deal with AI company Scale AI, dubbed "Thunderforge," to use AI agents for military planning and operations.

Pentagon Signs Deal to “Deploy AI Agents for Military Use”

By Victor Tangermann

The world's largest iceberg, roughly four times the size of New York City, has run aground after crashing into a remote island.

Science & Energy

World’s Largest Iceberg Escapes Antarctic, Crashes Into Remote Island

By Victor Tangermann

Out in wild, wild West Canada, a self-appointed "dinosaur erection specialist" is inviting visitors to come see his fancy bones.

Science & Energy

You Will Never in a Million Years Be Able to Guess What A “Dinosaur Erection Specialist” Actually Does For Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the "de-extinction" startup Colossal Biosciences studied mammoth DNA to recreate their woolly hair in lab mice.

Science & Energy

Scientists Modified Genes In Mice to Give Them Traits of Woolly Mammoths, and the Results Are Frankly Adorable

By Frank Landymore

Using drones, a team of researchers have captured the first footage of narwhals using their tusks in the wild.

Science & Energy

Behold Rare Footage of What Narwhals Actually Use Their Tusks For

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered footprints and drag marks left behind by an ancient vehicle dated to over 22,000 years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

By Frank Landymore

(DARPA is now seeking public input on its plans for massive "bio-mechanical space structures" that can be grown in orbit.

DARPA Requests Plans for “Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures”

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper is shaping discourse around an ancient victim of Mount Vesuvius whose brain had melted into glass.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

The Trump administration is now pulling funding for any research that even mentions the word "climate" in it.

Real Life Is Now “Don’t Look Up” as Trump Pulls Support for Any Research About the Climate

By Frank Landymore

Divers hanging out with a school of tiger sharks in the Bahamas had a wild run-in with one particularly curious specimen.

Science & Energy

Shark Steals Camera, Capturing Amazing Footage From Inside Its Mighty Jaws

By Victor Tangermann

As Mount Etna oozes lava, thousands of tourists are rushing towards the volcano's snow slopes, seeking thrills and glory.

Science & Energy

Officials Alarmed as Tourists Walk Straight Toward Erupting Volcano Hoping for Awesome Selfies

By Frank Landymore

Our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously predicted, scientists have found.

Glaciers Are Shrinking at an Incredible Rate

By Victor Tangermann

A British-Egyptian team of researchers has discovered what it says is the first pharaoh's tomb in over a century.

Science & Energy

Explorers Discover First Pharaoh Tomb in Over 100 Years

By Victor Tangermann

A prototype thermoelectric generator can attach directly to the tailpipe of a car, capturing its waste heat.

Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Device That Straps to Any Car’s Tailpipe, Transforming Exhaust Into Electricity

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha Centauri system.

Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a new "artificial leaf" that removes CO2 from the air and turns it into sustainable fuel.

Renewable Energy

Scientists Reveal “Artificial Leaf” That Turns Carbon Into Sustainable Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an ill-conceived round of federal layoffs, the government is scrambling to hire back hundreds of nuclear weapons experts.

Government Fires Specialists Without Realizing They Were in Charge of Nuclear Bombs, Then Panics and Tries to Rehire Them

As Donald Trump has demanded the mass firing of hundreds of workers at an agency that manages our nuclear stockpile.

Trump Enacts Mass Firings at Group That Maintains Nuclear Bombs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Down in Florida, residents have been haunted by a super-dense fog that allegedly smells like metal and is making people sick.

Science & Energy

People in Florida Say Dense, Mysterious Fog With Chemical Smell Is Making Them Sick

By Noor Al-Sibai

The NOAA recently released an audio recording, which contains the "suspected acoustic signature of the Titan submersible implosion."

Science & Energy

Government Releases Audio of Implosion of Titanic Sub

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer.

Quantum Physics

Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation

By Victor Tangermann

Everyone knows San Francisco has been captured by tech elites, but we didn't expect robots to start replacing DJs there quite this quickly.

Military Robot Deployed as Nightclub DJ

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

By Frank Landymore