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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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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