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A fearless Canadian has thrown himself on top of a polar bear to protect his wife in the country's far north.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says he'll stop drinking if he gets confirmed by the Senate.
Military

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station could have harmful environmental effects when it reenters the atmosphere and burns up.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Weather-changing projects are taking place all over the world — and the United States is building a system to detect them all.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Orcas have once again been observed swimming around with dead salmon on their snout as "hats" — and why they do this remains a mystery.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

In an apparent attempt to dispel hurricane misinformation, a member of Congress asked the head of FEMA outright if she controls the weather.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.
Quantum Physics

By Frank Landymore

While attending the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, a reporter decided to engage in the local custom of bathing his entire body in oil.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A US Defense Department contractor has developed an AI-powered autonomous robotic machine gun system, which can target small drones.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser can cast a shadow — a surprisingly counterintuitive finding.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered amber deep below the surface of the Antarctic, evidence of a temperature rainforest 90 million years ago.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Former military officials have once again claimed that the United States possesses recovered alien technology. 
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, moved to a different position in its orbit.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Officials are still struggling to recapture monkeys that escaped a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, last week.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Microplastics have once again been detected somewhere jarring as scientists reveal that these tiny plastic bits may be changing the weather. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's military is working on an experimental weapon system that converges multiple streams of microwaves into a powerful energy beam.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists disagree when the Thwaites or Doomsday Glacier will fully melt, but they are starting to weigh up large scale interventions.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

A secret recording obtained by the BBC shows the organizer of this year's COP29 climate change conference trying to strike a fossil fuel deal.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that a cloned black-footed ferret just produced the first-ever offspring in the country.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

On Wednesday, over forty monkeys escaped from a facility in South Carolina, with none of them being captured so far.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back environmental protection, while boosting fossil fuels. Meanwhile, 48 out of 50 states face droughts.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook owner Meta's open source Llama model is being used by the Chinese military. Meta appears to be OK with that.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The US military's top secret X-37B space plane, which has been orbiting the Earth since December 2023, has slammed on the brakes.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called SpiralWave has created a device that uses plasma pulls to turn atmospheric CO2 into green methanol.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Archeologists uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana in the jungles of southern Mexico while examining LiDAR maps.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in recorded history, Mount Fuji has gone the entire month of October without seeing any snow.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

As Saudi Arabia pushes ever forward with its futuristic NEOM project, the endeavor's staggering death toll has been revealed.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.
Global Warming

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Things in Russia seem pretty crappy after a massive fountain of brown liquid was recorded spewing out of a sewage main in Moscow. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine, enough of the alkali metal for hundreds of thousands of EV batteries.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Resaerchers found that a specific fungus can recognize shapes, and communicate information about their surroundings throughout their network.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using advanced technology to survey it. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The captive orca held at SeaWorld San Antonio let out a huge cloud of feces — and then, moments later, made a huge splash.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Chinese researchers say they've cracked military-grade encryption — with the help of a D-Wave quantum computer.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A specialist in the biology of sound has made an incredible observation about the "Jedi" smell-powers of mice and rats. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

When scientists looked underneath the seafloor, they found a stunning alien landscape — and found way more life than expected. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a breaking point.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Up in Newfoundland, scientists and locals are perplexed by the sudden appearance of bizarre blobs that keep washing up on the beach.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

US military officials were disconcerted by a strange parade of unidentifiable drones seen flying over an Air Force base late last year.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about climate change.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new analysis released by the World Wildlife Fund paints an extremely alarming picture of the decimation of wildlife populations.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Tens of thousands of years ago, Earth's magnetic field flipped — and scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The web-slinging device can shoot out fibers that almost immediately solidify, which can stick to objects that it can then pick up.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Meteorologists are getting death threats from conspiracy nuts, who believe they're covering up government weather control. Obviously.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parts of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco experienced a surprise deluge of heavy rains last month, leaving behind lake-filled oases.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If there's a fifth force of physics to round out the Standard Model, asteroids may be our best bet of discovering its underlying particle.
Physics

By Frank Landymore

Footage shows an NOAA plane plowing through the center of Hurricane Milton, and experiencing extreme turbulences.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As Hurricane Milton batters Florida, it's becoming increasingly clear that climate change is making monsters out of extreme storms. 
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

25 out of 35 of the planet's "vital signs" are at the worst levels ever recorded, according to an annual climate change report.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered, by accident, that warty comb jellyfish can fuse together when injured to form a single animal.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Satellite imagery shows the might of powerful Hurricane Milton, which is due to make landfall in Florida's western coast this afternoon.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The world's rivers are drying up at rates faster than ever before thanks to climate change — and last year was the world on record. 
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ancient rock — or rather, the living microbes inside of it — could offer an unprecedented glimpse into early life on Earth.
Biology

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Veterinary researchers have devised a solution to head off feline resistance to brain scans: hiding the electrodes underneath crocheted hats.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the simulations, aliens keep dying from climate change because of the heat produced by energy demands, even if they rely on renewables.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré