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Thanks to a perfect storm of AI and crony capitalism, the country's power system is rapidly crumbling as costs balloon into the stratosphere.

Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

Travis Kelce just gave Taylor Swift an absolutely huge diamond engagement ring, and it's hard to parse whether it's natural or from a lab.

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Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. They went to have a look.

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

By Victor Tangermann

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

The continents are drying so rapidly that they're now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting ice sheets do.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth’s Continents Are Drying Out

By Frank Landymore

New climate research suggests the Antarctic sea is experiencing rapid disruptions that could represent a global climate "tipping point."

The Climate Is Officially Getting So Bad That It’s Unrecoverable

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are offering a gross hypothesis about how those Walmart frozen shrimp bags were contaminated with radioactive materials.

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How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Become Contaminated With Radioactive Material?

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.

Scientists Find Evidence That You’re a Hypocrite Who’s Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth — and when it's heated, it acts even weirder.

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Scientists Baffled by “Alien Mineral” That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for the worse.

Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a “Tipping Point”

By Sharon Adarlo

Parts of Alaska's state capital, Juneau, were flooded this week, caused by a nearby melting glacier, according to The Guardian.

Melting Glacier in Alaska Floods State Capital

By Sharon Adarlo

The executive order drastically deregulates key areas of the commercial spaceflight industry, in a major with for companies like SpaceX.

Trump Rips Up Environmental Rules Protecting Wildlife From Destructive Rocket Launches

By Frank Landymore

Terrifying rabbits with spiny black tentacles on their faces have been spotted in Colorado. They look hellish, but they're not dangerous.

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Rabbits With Horrifying Tentacles Growing Out of Their Faces Spotted in Colorado

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, a huge swarm of jellyfish forced the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station in France to take four of its six reactors offline.

Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down by Furious Jellyfish

Over a year after a deadly listeria outbreak shut down a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia, the infamous facility is set to reopen.

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Dark Rumors Swirl as Boar’s Head Plans to Reopen Notoriously Disgusting Meat Processing Plant

A trapper near San Francisco made a colorful discovery after a wild boar's muscles had been stained with rat poison.

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Hunter Alarmed to Cut Into Feral Hogs and Discover Blue Meat

The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark says the animals will be "gently euthanized" before being served as dinner to its captive predators.

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Zoo Requests Unwanted Pets to Feed to Hungry Carnivores

By Frank Landymore

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.

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Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, believed by Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body, may be even stranger than we previously thought.

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New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater had burst through Greenland's ice sheet.

Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland’s Ice Sheet

By Victor Tangermann

Google has used its Android smartphones to detect earthquakes for years — and now, the company is admitting to a massive misstep.

Google Has Quietly Been Detecting Earthquakes by Sensing Rumbling in Android Phones For Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

A leading source of the ubiquitous microplastics infesting the planet and our bodies is so obvious that it will make you furious.

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One of the Biggest Sources of Microplastics Will Make You Mad as Hell

By Frank Landymore

Levels of the chemical byproduct TFA have multiplied rapidly over the past few years, as researchers scramble to catch up.

Almost All Rain Drops Contain the Same Weird Chemical

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales.

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

By Victor Tangermann

Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.

Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

By Victor Tangermann

An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular night club, back in the Cretaceous era.

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Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates

By Sharon Adarlo

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

By Frank Landymore

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Marathon Fusion says that fusion energy reactors could also be used to turn mercury isotopes into gold.

Fusion Startup Says It’s Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of massive wildfires in Canada's Manitoba province, people thousands of miles away are being warned to stay indoors.

Millions Of Americans Are Being Advised Not To Go Outside

By Noor Al-Sibai

Solar power has become the fastest growing source of energy throughout the globe, with one gigawatt of capacity installed every 15 hours.

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underneath a natural science museum's parking lot.

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A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

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Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

By Victor Tangermann

July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in years as a result of the Earth spinning faster.

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The Earth’s Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today

By Victor Tangermann

A new documentary and track showcase the tragic sounds of a dying, "crying" glacier in the Swiss Alps as it rapidly shrinks.

The Sounds of a Dying Glacier Might Make You Cry

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video making the rounds on social media shows beachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous, tsunami-like cloud rolling in.

Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a whole continent.

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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.

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Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur

By Sharon Adarlo

In large swaths of these United States, people are already dying from this summer's brutal and dangerous heat wave.

People Are Already Dropping Dead as Extreme Heat Scorches the US

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at China's top military R&D academy just showed off a mosquito-sized nanobot measuring just 1.3 cm in size.

Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

More than 3,000 New Yorkers were without power for a second day in a row in parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

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New York City’s Power Is Going Down Amid Brutal Heatwave

By Sharon Adarlo

A heatwave is blanketing vast swaths of America, sending temperatures skyrocketing to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Extreme Heat Is Killing Unfathomable Numbers of People Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo

French government scientists have discovered something shocking about the microplastic content in glass and plastic bottles.

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You’ll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Relay 2 satellite had been dormant since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a very powerful burst of energy.

Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI models that are bigger in size compared to smaller models are estimated to use more energy, emit more carbon, and are more accurate.

Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

By Sharon Adarlo

New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.

Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

By Frank Landymore

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.

Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create “Artificial Total Solar Eclipse”

By Victor Tangermann

There's a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure has gone viral.

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Sailor Snaps Photo of Black Iceberg With Dark Veins

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctica's ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why.

Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is making everything about modern life worse — including the quality of the dairy that makes our cheese.

Climate Change Is Ruining Cheese, Scientists and Farmers Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.

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Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in China believe their injection can give "dead" lithium-ion batteries a second shot of life.

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Scientists Say They’ve Created an Injection That Makes Aging Batteries Charge Like They’re Young Again

By Frank Landymore

Nanoscientists say they've created the "world's smallest violion" — but there's a huge caveat to this claim.

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There’s a Huge Problem With Nanoscientists’ “World’s Smallest Violin”

By Frank Landymore

Using mushrooms, scientists have created a living, plastic-like compound that uses unique fungal properties to mold into almost any form.

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Scientists Create Living Plastic Alternative

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the past two decades, vast swathes of the oceans have been darkening as sunlight penetrates at shallower depths than it once did.

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Researchers find current figures of the world's population could be off by anywhere from hundreds of millions to several billion people.

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There May Be Several More Billion Humans on Earth Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

A terrifying video shows dozens of tourists fleeing a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily.

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Terrifying Footage Shows Tourists Fleeing Epic Volcanic Eruption

By Victor Tangermann

Carbon removal could help us stave off climate disaster. But if that's to happen, it's already billions of tons behind schedule.

The Carbon Removal Industry Is Already Lagging Behind Where It Needs to Be

By Frank Landymore

Researchers used gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red fluorescent silk.

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Scientists Gene-Hack Spider to Produce Bright-Red Silk

By Victor Tangermann

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.

Heartbreaking Video Shows Fish Fleeing Huge Nets

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

By Victor Tangermann