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Amid his quest to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget, Elon Musk has set his sights on the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The explosion of a Starship rocket during its seventh orbital flight test may have released literal tons of harmful pollutants into the air.

Elon Musk’s Massive Rocket Explosion May Have Caused Significant Atmospheric Pollution

By Frank Landymore

New images seem to show a laser-fired nuclear fusion facility may be under development in southwestern China.

Satellite Images Show China Building What Appears to Be a Huge Fusion Facility

The cost-cutter in chief is missing the biggest and most obvious government waste of all: the US armed forces.

If Elon Musk Had Any Real Guts, He Would Go After the Gigantic Budget of the US Military

Wired reports that a young DOGE engineer was granted IT access to NOAA, the critical weather and climate agency that tracks hurricanes.

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Young DOGE Engineer Now Has Access to The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Which Warns Americans When Hurricanes are Forming

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A single mysterious benefactor is shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to help humans learn how to become an aquatic species.

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Mysterious Ultra-Wealthy Figure Building Deepwater Settlement for Human Habitation

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports, it will devastate the nuclear energy market.

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former DEA officer is going away for a long time after admitting to swapping bricks of seized cocaine with 3D-printed decoys.

Florida Cop Headed to Prison for 3D Printing Fake Drugs and Switching Them With Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent moves within the federal government have scrubbed all mention of climate change on critical agency websites.

Trump Admin Orders Deletion of Information About Climate Change From Government Websites

Tech companies aren't the only ones reeling from DeepSeek's stock route on Monday, as energy companies start to feel the heat.

Energy Companies Stocks Plummet as DeepSeek Shows AI Doesn’t Need Entire Coal Plants to Cheat on Homework

A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

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Scientists Find Signs of Life Deep Inside the Earth

Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti accidentally discovered a "remote adhesive" that acts like Spider-Man style web shooters.

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Scientist Testing Spider-Man-Style Web Shooters He Accidentally Made in Lab

By Victor Tangermann

After analyzing "super-continent" structures deep inside the Earth, scientists believe they could be up to billions of years old.

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Scientists Listening to Signals From Huge, Mysterious Objects Inside the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

By Victor Tangermann

In an executive order geared towards denying transgender rights, President Donald Trump seems to have made a huge mistake about biology.

Trump Appears to Have Accidentally Declared That Every Person in America Is Now Female

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Pentagon is bullish on its recent AI advances that apparently help the military kill people faster than ever before.

Pentagon Official Boasts That AI Is Helping The Military Kill People Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company is trying to turn the idea of an at least partially solar-powered Cybertruck into a reality with a solar panel wrap.

New Cybertruck Wrap Adds Solar Panels All Over It

By Victor Tangermann

Hundreds of miles north of a scorched LA, a lithium-ion battery plant has caught fire — and it wasn't the first time it's had issues.

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World’s Largest Lithium Ion Plant Catches Fire in California

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Angelenos look to rebuild and recoup in the wake of the region's devastating wildfires, landlords are taking advantage of their misery.

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Greedy Landlords Are Massively Price-Gouging Rents After LA Wildfires

By Noor Al-Sibai

Khloe Kardashian has come under fire after criticizing Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass for cutting the city's fire department's budget.

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Kardashians Slammed for Using Way More Than Their Fair Share of Water, Then Griping About City’s Fire Response

By Victor Tangermann

The home of real estate mogul Keith Wasserman, who was mocked for calling for "private firefighters," burned down to the ground.

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CEO’s House Burns Down After He Pled for Private Firefighters

By Victor Tangermann

Why aren't firefighters just scooping up water from the nearby Pacific Ocean instead of relying on dwindling freshwater supplies?

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Why Doesn’t LA Just Put the Fires Out Using Ocean Water?

By Victor Tangermann

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its epic eruption.

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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Turned the Sun Blue

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.

Scientists Recover 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Two Miles Deep in Antarctica

By Frank Landymore

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two "Punk" and "Emo" fossils are challenging scientists' understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead.

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Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.

Scan Detects Evidence of “Lost World” Under Pacific Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.

While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

President-elect Donald Trump has found the real culprit behind Los Angeles' massive and devastating wildfires: the Delta smelt fish.

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Trump Blames California Wildfires on “Worthless Fish”

By Noor Al-Sibai

As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast.

There’s a Major Problem With the Nuclear War Bunkers The Rich Are Buying

By Noor Al-Sibai

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" nuclear fusion power plant

Company Announces Construction of “Grid-Scale” Fusion Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Flat Earthers visited Antarctica for the first time and discovered, to their surprise, that our planet is actually round.

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Flat Earthers Befuddled as They Visit Antarctica and Earth Appears to Be Round

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found that not just older adults are succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change.

Mexico Is Getting So Hot That Even Young People Are Dropping Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back

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Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of scientists have called for an immediate halt on creating "mirror life" organisms, which defy biology as we know it.

Scientists Horrified by “Mirror Life” That Could Wipe Out Biology As We Know It

By Frank Landymore

Government scientists are calling on the European Union to ban massive space mirrors and other forms of solar geoengineering.

Scientists Call for Ban on Hacking the Earth’s Climate With Chemicals or Giant Mirrors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dancing with joy now that Donald Trump has promised him that he will no longer have to abide by environmental rules.

Elon Musk Gloats as Trump Announces Billionaires Will Be Exempt From Normal Environmental Rules

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and it apparently has a space nuke on it.

US Military Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Weapon Platform in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has hopped into bed with Anduril, the killer drone company founded by Oculus' Palmer Luckey that cut its teeth in Ukraine.

OpenAI Strikes Deal With Military Contractor to Provide AI for Attack Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Man Attacks Polar Bear With Bare Hands to Defend Wife

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.

Trump’s Drunkard Nominee Promises to Stop Drinking… If He Gets to Run the Military

By Frank Landymore

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

Experts Worried That Destroying the Space Station Will Damage the Earth’s 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.

United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate

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.

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Scientists Baffled by Orcas Wearing Dead Salmon as Hats

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.

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Congressman Asks FEMA Head If She’s Controlling Weather, Sending Hurricanes to Trump Voters’ Homes

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

Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

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.

COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

US Military Tests AI-Powered Machine Gun

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Find Evidence of an Ancient Rainforest in Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

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

Former Military Officials Tell Congress America Has Secretly Recovered Alien Technology

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.

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan

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 Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

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.

Scientists Puzzled by Military Satellite That Appears to Have Been Moved to a Distant Location

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Monkeys Evade Capture After Escape From Research Facility, Attempt to Contact Monkeys Still Trapped Inside

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Microplastics Are Infesting Clouds, Affecting Weather

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.

China Working on Energy Weapon That Converges Multiple Beams

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Consider Drastic Action as Doomsday Glacier Threatens to Flood Entire Islands and Coasts

By Frank Landymore

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

Astronomers Discover “Interstellar Tunnel” In Our Solar Neighborhood

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.

Secret Video Shows Top Climate Change Conference Official Promising to Facilitate Fossil Fuel Deals

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.

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Cloned Endangered Ferret Gives Birth to Healthy Offspring

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Police Warn Residents to Lock Down Houses as Dozens of Monkeys Escape Research Facility

By Frank Landymore

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

As Trump Prepares to Slash Environmental Protections, 48 of the 50 States Are Facing Droughts

By Victor Tangermann