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

The Chinese Military Is Weaponizing Facebook’s Open Source AI

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.

Boeing’s Military Space Plane Just Slammed on the Brakes in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

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

Bizarre Device Sucks CO2 From Atmosphere and Turns It Back Into Fuel

By Frank Landymore

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

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Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

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

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Scientist Accidentally Discovers Ancient Mayan City While Browsing Web

By Victor Tangermann

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

Mount Fuji Snowless For Longest Time In 130 Years

By Frank Landymore

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

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A Staggering Number of Workers Have Reportedly Died While Building Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Congratulations, Buffoons! We Did More Global Warming Last Year Than in Any Other Year in Human History

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.

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

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

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

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.

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Explosive Russian Sewage Leak Spurts as High as High-Rise Buildings

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.

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America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Obscure Fungus Shows Signs of Rudimentary Intelligence

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.

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Archaeologists Discover Lost City in Amazon Rainforest

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.

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Footage Shows Orca Blasting SeaWorld Visitors With Liquid Feces

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

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

Chinese Hackers Use Quantum Computer to Break Military Grade Encryption

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.

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Rodents May Have a “Jedi” Trick to Supercharge Their Sense of Smell

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Scientists Peeked Underneath the Seafloor and Discovered Something “Totally Unexpected”

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.

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

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.

Plants and Forests Absorbed Almost No Carbon Last Year, Shocking Climate Scientists

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.

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Scientists Baffled by Gooey Blobs That Keep Washing Up on a Beach

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.

Pentagon Officials Stumped by Mysterious Drones Haunting Military Base for Weeks

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.

A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over 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.

Wildlife Populations Have Shrunk a Shocking Amount in Just 50 Years, Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

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

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The Creepy Sounds the Earth Made When Its Magnetic Field Flipped Will Haunt Your Dreams

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.

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Researchers Create Real-Life “Spider-Man” Web-Slinging Tech

By Frank Landymore

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

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Meteorologists Are Getting Death Threats From Insane Hurricane Conspiracy Theorists

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.

Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert

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.

Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

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

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Terrifying Video Shows Plane Plowing Through Hurricane Milton, Hitting Extreme Turbulence

By Victor Tangermann

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

Make No Mistake: Climate Change Turned Hurricane Milton Into a “Monster”

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.

Scientists Just Took the Earth’s “Vital Signs.” They Hated What They Saw.

By Frank Landymore

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

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These Mighty Morphin’ Jellyfish Have a Mind-Blowing Survival Trick Up Their Sleeves

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.

Hurricane Milton Is so Insanely Powerful, It’s Literally Just a Giant Red Smudge on Meteorological Maps

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 Is Drying Up All the World’s Rivers at an Alarming Rate

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.

Scientists Cracked Open a 2-Billion-Year-Old Stone and Discovered Something Entirely Unexpected

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Researchers Force Grumpy Cats to Wear Adorable Wittle Wool Hats — for Science

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.

Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From 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.

A Colossal Solar Flare Just Triggered a Radio Blackout on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After their habitats were destroyed, tens of thousands of parrots have descended on a town in Argentina, terrorizing residents.

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Parrots Orchestrate Brutal Revenge on Small Town After Deforestation Drove Them Out of Their Homes

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.

Quantum Physics

Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel

By Frank Landymore

A Montana rancher is now facing time in prison for using cloned embryos to create enormous, hybrid sheep that he sold to hunters and breeders.

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Man Gets Prison Sentence for Cloning Giant Sheep

By Frank Landymore

There are "dozens" of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan — and scientists are stumped as to why they're there.

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Scientists Stumped by “Dozens” of Gigantic Holes at the Bottom of a Lake

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."

Confused Trump Issues Garbled Warning About “Nuclear Warming”

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump has a bizarre plan to solve California's water shortage — by shipping it down from Canada via "very large faucet."

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Trump Suggests “Very Large Faucet” to Solve California Water Shortage

By Noor Al-Sibai

China experienced a major military setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched.

China Embarrassed When Brand-New Secret Nuclear Submarine Instantly Sinks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Silicon Valley tech bros are being paid to ride along California's coast in a Winnebago releasing balloons of sulfur dioxide.

Tech Bros Releasing Climate-Hacking Chemicals From “Stealth” RV

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.

Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

By Frank Landymore

A man in the Netherlands made around $34 while charging his electric car this summer due to negative renewable energy prices.

Man Discovers Trick to Make Power Company Pay Him for Using Electricity

By Victor Tangermann

An amateur astronomer has spotted and taken images of a secretive Pentagon spacecraft whose purpose is unknown.

Man Spots Secret US Military Spacecraft With Amateur Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's some actual social science behind everyone online wanting to eat Moo Deng the pygmy water hippo in Thailand.

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Why Do So Many People Want to Eat Moo Deng?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

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Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.

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Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

By Frank Landymore

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

As pokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that the RFK Jr. is indeed the of a probe.

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Trump’s Top Pick for Health Secretary Being Investigating for Mutilating Dead Animal

By Noor Al-Sibai

A tiny and adorable pygmy hippo called Moo Deng has been melting hearts across social media. We must protect her at all costs.

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We’re Willing to Die for This Baby Hippo Called Moo Deng

By Victor Tangermann

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

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Cleanup Group Says It’s on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann

The mega-tsunami created seismic vibrations in the Earth that were felt globally for over a week straight.

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Scientists Intrigued by Detection of 650-Foot Mega-Tsunami

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate.

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have observed land surrounding a "unique" volcano in Tanzania bulging, a possible sign of an impending eruption.

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Giant Volcano Is Bulging, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann