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Nuclear researchers and energy startups are now melting down weapons-grade uranium from unexploded warheads to power next-generation SMRs.

America Now Disassembling Old Nuclear Warheads to Power Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core, which could be influencing its magnetic field.

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Scientists Detect Mysterious Torus-Shaped Structure in Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.

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Scientists Alarmed as Shark Tracker Suddenly Shows Up Inside Larger Creature

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Crew members on board the US Navy's combat ship USS Manchester got caught secretly bolting a Starlink terminal to the ship's weather deck.

Military Leaders in Huge Trouble After Bolting a Starlink Terminal to a Warship for Unrestricted WiFi

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Animal rights groups are confident that "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvaldimir was shot. Officials are still investigating.

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Suspected Russian Spy Whale Was Reportedly Shot Multiple Times

By Victor Tangermann

An elderly woman in Romania was using a seven-pound rock as a doorstop for decades — which turned out to be a $1 million amber nugget.

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Elderly Woman Never Realized Her Doorstop Was Worth More Than a Million Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

A large piece of the Titanic has, per new footage from a recent robotic expedition, fallen off as the more than 110-year-old ship decays.

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A Large Piece Is Missing From the Titanic, Sub Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

On Saturday, "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvaldimir was found dead — and animal activists are seemingly in disagreement about how he died.

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Suspected Russian Spy Whale Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances

By Victor Tangermann

Electric discharges underground cause gold atoms to accumulate, which eventually forms gold nuggets, the researchers suggest.

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Gold Nuggets Can Be Formed With Electricity, Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

NaNoWriMo, a nonprofit writing organization that hosts an annual novel write-a-thon, has released a strange new platform on AI.

NaNoWriMo Slammed for Saying That Opposition to AI-Generated Books Is Ableist

By Noor Al-Sibai

After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power.

Michigan Plotting to Re-Open Shuttered 1970s Nuclear Plant

By Sharon Adarlo

World’s Largest Sail-Powered Cargo Ship Has Embarked Maiden Atlantic Crossing

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World’s Largest Sail-Powered Cargo Ship Has Embarked Maiden Atlantic Crossing

By Victor Tangermann

The DNA computer can play a pared down version of chess and can potentially store data for thousands of years.

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Scientists Build Computer From DNA That Can Solve Chess Problems

By Frank Landymore

An environmentalist decided to put a GPS tracker in with her recycle to see where it ended up — and the results were absolutely shocking.

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Woman Disgusted When She Uses Tracker to See Where Her Plastic Recycling Really Ends Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

A single male bottlenosed dolphin, who may just be trying to be friendly, is believed to be behind a string of attacks on beachgoers.

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Dolphin Who Keeps Attacking Swimmers May Be Motivated by Sex, Experts Say

By Frank Landymore

The orcas are back at it again off the coast of Spain, and this time, there's a new theory about their mysterious motivations.

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Orcas Strike Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

The microscope uses electron pulses at the speed of a single attosecond to get a clear look at moving electrons.

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New Microscope So Absurdly Fast It Can See Electrons In Motion

By Frank Landymore

An infection is threatening to make extinct the entire supply of the world's most popular fruit, the humble and ubiquitous banana.

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Bananas May Go Extinct From Deadly Disease, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.

Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

By Frank Landymore

A record 15 national heat records have been shattered since January, as this year looks on track to surpass the last as the hottest ever.

The Earth Just Can’t Stop Setting Heat Records

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.

Severe Solar Storm Creates Stunning Auroras During Meteor Shower

By Frank Landymore

An altar stone that lies within the heart of Stonehenge in Southern England has turned out to be from the faraway hinterlands of Scotland.

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A “Jaw-Dropping” Study Just Revealed the True Origin of a Stonehenge Megalith

By Sharon Adarlo

A Texas agency has spanked Elon Musk's SpaceX for dumping toxic pollution into the water around its sprawling Starbase launch site in Texas.

SpaceX Violated Environmental Rules by Dumping Toxic Wastewater, Regulators Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Tiny wormholes could be punching holes through the fabric of space-time, driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

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Small Wormholes Are Boring Through the Fabric of Space-Time, Physicists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists have uncovered a bone fragment belonging to Homo floresiensis, an archaic hominin that's nicknamed a "hobbit."

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Scientists Find New Evidence of Hobbit-Like Creatures on Remote Island

By Sharon Adarlo

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.

Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann’s Mayonnaise

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, researchers have found that cats seem to experience grief when other pets they live with die.

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Research Finds That Cats Feel Grief When Their Fellow Pets Die… Even Dogs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have recovered the largest ever sample of the Earth's mantle, which may contain secrets about the processes that led to life.

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Scientists Drill Super Deep Into Weird Underwater Structures

By Frank Landymore

This week, Alaska's Mendenhall glacier has flooded its accompanying river in Juneau, doing "unprecedented" damage to the local community.

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Capital of Alaska Flooded by Melting Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

A controversial new study suggests that ancient builders used a hydraulic lift to build Egypt's oldest pyramid.

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Scientists Find Evidence of Advanced Technology Used to Build Egyptian Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

The biggest iceberg on the planet has apparently been spinning in place for months — and that's very much not what it's supposed to do.

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The World’s Biggest Iceberg Has Started Spinning

By Noor Al-Sibai

An isolated tribe in the Amazon rainforest used bows and arrows to head off loggers who were likely encroaching on their land.

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Isolated Amazonian Tribe Attacks Encroaching Loggers With Bows and Arrows

By Noor Al-Sibai

European scientists are warning in a new study that key places important to keeping global climate stable are in danger of collapsing.

Major Earth Systems on Track for Collapse, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Space tech company Honeybee Robotics has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like a streetlight for a Moon base.

DARPA Funding Plan to Build Huge Streetlight on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

This ocean dead zone is larger than average this year, NOAA said, leaving thousands of square miles of water depleted of oxygen.

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Scientists Alarmed by Enormous Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico

By Frank Landymore

Critics are concerned about plans to dim the Sun — and one of its staunchest proponents is criticizing them right back.

Scientist Defends Plan to Release Huge Amounts of Sulfur Into the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have analyzed sound recordings of apes appearing to say the word "mama," and believe they've found evidence of human-like speech.

Videos Reignite Scientific Debate Over Whether Apes Can Speak

By Frank Landymore

Lil Nas X got criticized by random people for flying in a commercial plane, but he said he's trying to emit less carbon emissions.

Lil Nas X Is Flying Commercial to Avoid the Huge Carbon Footprint of a Private Jet

By Sharon Adarlo

Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. An oil spill is still far worse.

If You’re Upset About That Broken Wind Turbine, Remember the Time BP Spilled 210 Million Gallons of Oil Into the Gulf of Mexico?

By Victor Tangermann

China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft may be doing more than just testing out its spacefaring capabilities, experts warn.

Chinese Spacecraft Has Secret Military Use, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A proposed Congressional bill would ban the commercial farming of octopuses while also prohibiting the import of farmed octopus meat.

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New Law Would Ban All Octopus Farming in America

By Sharon Adarlo

A humpback whale breached the waters off New Hampshire and body slammed a small fishing boat into capsizing.

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Humpback Whale Body Slams Boat With Passengers on Board

By Sharon Adarlo

Zookeepers now have a new issue when it comes to their gorilla charges: limiting their smartphone screen time.

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Zoos Concerned as Gorillas Become Hooked on Smartphone Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the second day in a row, the Earth shattered its record for the hottest day ever recorded.

Earth Sets Record for Hottest Day Ever Recorded, Smashes Record the Next Day

By Victor Tangermann

After a blast at Yellowstone, don't worry: officials say this isn't a sign of an impending eruption of the area's supervolcano.

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Scientists Say Huge Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone Not Sign of Impending Supervolcano Eruption

By Frank Landymore

Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.

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Scientists Say They’ve Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.

Beaches Covered in Shards and Debris as Giant Wind Turbine Shatters

By Victor Tangermann

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.

One Million Russians Lose Power When Alarm Goes Off at Nuclear Plant

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fascinating new exhibit in the form of a mysteriously green dinosaur.

Scientists Intrigued by Dinosaur With Green Bones

By Victor Tangermann

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

By Sharon Adarlo

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.

Trump’s Allies Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Weather Reports

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found a new way to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated by using the same techniques astronomers use to analyze stars.

Something Fascinating Is Wrong With the Eyes in Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.

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Uncontacted Tribe Emerges From Rainforest

By Victor Tangermann

A window on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Boston suddenly shattered due to the heat as temperatures soared to 95 degrees.

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Skyscraper Window Shatters From Heat, Rains Shards Onto Sidewalk

By Frank Landymore

The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.

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Museum Stunned When Someone Anonymously Mails in Two Ancient Artifacts

By Frank Landymore

Researchers want to dump thousands of gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean in an effort to slow climate change.

Scientists Seeking Permit to Dump Chemical Into Ocean in Experiment to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

By Frank Landymore

Tony Robbins invested $200 million into breakthrough clean energy tech. Per the Wall Street Journal, proof that it works remains elusive.

Tony Robbins May Have Been Conned by a Mad Scientist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.

AI’s Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think

By Frank Landymore

At least 28 people died from the heat wave based on reports from west coast states, with the actual figure expected to be higher.

Dozens of Americans Die in Brutal Heat Wave

By Frank Landymore

An adventurous rower, who has taken it upon himself to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a small rowing boat, was followed by over 1,000 whales.

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Man Rowing Across Ocean Suddenly Realizes He’s Surrounded by Over 1,000 Whales

By Victor Tangermann