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A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.

Study Finds That Cardiac Arrest Frequently Occurs After Consuming Energy Drink

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some scientific experts have been proposing refreezing the Arctic region via a series of drastic geoengineering projects.

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

By Sharon Adarlo

New data from NOAA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in May.

Carbon Pollution in Atmosphere Hits All Time Record

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In one California town, local officials have shut down the United States' first so-called "cloud-brightening" geoengineering experiment.

City Shuts Down Geoengineering Experiment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse, according to a new study: extreme heat, acidification, and deoxygenation.

You Might Cry When You Read This Study About What’s Happening to the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Lab-grown diamonds are taking the jewelry industry by storm — and those invested in the natural-grown kind are none too pleased.

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The Diamond Industry Is Withering as Beautiful Lab-Grown Diamonds Drive Down Prices

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An expert warns that over ten thousand people could die as the result of a single heat wave, sending hundreds of thousands to the hospital.

Experts Fear Horrifying Heat Waves That Could Kill Tens of Thousands of People at Once

By Frank Landymore

The supply of renewable energy is soaring across Europe and parts of the US, causing prices to go negative. Investors are becoming wary.

Capitalists Alarmed as Renewables Keep Making Electricity Temporarily Free

By Victor Tangermann

The architects behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are teaming up with a startup to turn future skyscrapers into massive, gravity-powered batteries.

Designer of Burj Khalifa Now Working on Turning Skyscrapers Into Gravity-Powered Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

A dinosaur hunter is set to rake in millions of dollars after his find of a 150-million-year-old stegosaurus goes to auction.

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Dinosaur Hunter Expected to Make Millions After Finding “Virtually Complete” Stegosaurus

By Sharon Adarlo

An international team of botanists just discovered the largest genome ever sequenced — in an itty-bitty Pacific fern.

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Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Plant With the Largest Genome Ever Sequenced

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Global warming is thawing permafrost in Alaska and turning remote rivers from pristine glacier blue to rusty bright orange.

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Scientists Alarmed as Rivers in Alaska Turn Bright Orange

By Sharon Adarlo

The sulfur emissions had helped cool the planet before they were significantly curtailed in 2020, the study found.

Major Cuts in Shipping Pollution Actually Made Climate Change Worse, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

In Iceland, a gigantic volcanic eruption has warranted terrifying videos alongside evacuations of nearby towns and tourist attractions.

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Angry Volcano in Iceland Just Threw Up an Apocalyptic 150-Foot Tidal Wave of Molten Lava

By Noor Al-Sibai

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

By Sharon Adarlo

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.

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Ingenious Trick Cuts Cargo Ship Carbon Emissions by 17 Percent

By Frank Landymore

A New Zealand man did a belly flop into the ocean and tried to "body slam" an adult male orca swimming next to a boat, earning him a fine.

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You’ll Never Guess What Happened After This Guy Tried to “Body Slam” a Killer Whale

By Sharon Adarlo

Ongoing Mexican heatwaves have killed at least 83 howler monkeys in Tabasco, where the primates were already threatened by habitat loss.

Mexico Getting So Hot That Monkeys Are Falling Dead From Trees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Thwaites or "doomsday" glacier is in even more danger than once believed, says a new study, because warm water reaching its underbelly.

Warm Water Rushing Under “Doomsday Glacier,” Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has discovered two underground structures located below a cemetery on the west side of the Great Pyramid.

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Scientists Detect “Anomaly” Underground Near Great Pyramid

By Frank Landymore

Palantir's recent AI and defense expo sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.

Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An environmental group has slapped Tesla with a lawsuit this week for spewing pollution and violating the Clean Air Act.

Tesla Factory Accused of Spewing Illegal Amounts of Air Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

The research explores how the reintroduction of bison into an ecosystem helped boost the overall amount of carbon sucked up by plants.

A Single Herd of Bison Can Help Capture CO2 From Over 40,000 Cars, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

A powerful Australian mining magnate has been trying to get an unflattering portrait of her removed from a museum.

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Billionaire Mining Magnate Not Happy With Her Portrait Hanging in Museum

By Jon Christian

The Iberian orcas are back at it again, this time straight-up sinking a yacht near the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Yacht as Oil Tanker Called for Rescue

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists trying to find out why fish are spinning and dying in Florida may have discovered the culprit: poisonous algae.

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Scientists Ponder Why Fish Are Spinning Themselves to Death

By Sharon Adarlo

The climate experiment explored a technique called marine cloud brightening, in which aerosols are used to help clouds reflect more sunlight.

City Officials Halt Experiment to Hack Earth’s Climate, Citing Health Concerns

By Frank Landymore

Tractors and other farm equipment broke down in the middle of planting season due to an extreme solar storm over the weekend.

Solar Storm So Powerful It Shut Down Farm Equipment Across the US and Canada

By Victor Tangermann

A cruise ship came to port on Saturday with a surprising and stinky stowaway: a dead, rotting whale was found on its bow.

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Cruise Ship Alarmed to Discover a 50,000-Pound Dead Whale Stuck to the Front of It, Seemingly After Getting Run Down and Dying

By Sharon Adarlo

A new carbon capture facility that claims to be the biggest in the world, began sucking the carbon from the air in Iceland.

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World’s Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is blasting the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles, resulting in auroras that will be visible across the US.

Massive Solar Storm to Trigger Northern Lights Across North America

By Victor Tangermann

Blobs left behind from a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object may have led to plate tectonics and eventually earthquakes.

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Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has discovered the deepest blue hole or underwater cave on Earth, so deep that we have yet to reach its bottom.

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Scientists Say Underwater Cave So Deep They Can’t Find the Bottom

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.

NASA Prepares to Unfurl Large Solar Sail From Spacecraft in Orbit

By Sharon Adarlo

In one Thai town, monkeys have become a fiery political issue — and the monkeys themselves are fighting back with a vengeance.

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Furious Monkeys Tear Down Anti-Monkey Posters

By Noor Al-Sibai

A particularly head-strong alligator had a hell of a time climbing a fence, as seen in a video making its rounds on Reddit.

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You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Seen This Alligator Clumsily Try to Climb Over a Fence

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in the United Kingdom discovered a porous material that has the potential capacity to store large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Scientists Say New Material Can Suck Carbon Out of Atmosphere Faster Than Trees

By Sharon Adarlo

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the weather as climate change makes it worse.

Scientist Slams Politicians For Banning Geoengineering Experiments

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bottlenose dolphin ended up dead and riddled with bullets on a beach in Louisiana, prompting a $20,000 bounty for the shooter.

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Dead Dolphin Found Riddled With Bullets

By Sharon Adarlo

Athens' blue skies and famous landmarks like the Acropolis were bathed in an ominous red, yellow and orange glow, all due to a dust storm.

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Sky in Athens Turns Red

By Sharon Adarlo

A dentist was in for a huge shock when he looked down at his parents' new tile floor and saw what appeared to be the fossil of a human jaw.

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Dentist Alarmed to Spot Human Jawbone in Parents’ Tile Floor

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.

California Now Has So Much Solar Power That Electricity Prices Are Going Negative During the Day

By Frank Landymore

NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities, fueling the rivalry between the two.

Head of NASA Says China Is Hiding Military Experiments in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lava tube, Umm Jirsan, contained human and animal remains, as well as stone tools dating back to at least 7,000 years ago.

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Ancient Humans Lived Inside a Lava Tube, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there.

Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists say that our increase use of plastic will dump untold tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.

Plastic Is Starting to Generate a Staggering Proportion of Earth’s Carbon Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study discovered that nearly half of China's major cities are caving into the Earth, adding to a growing global issue of subsidence.

Chinese Cities Are Sinking Into the Earth, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dark matter may in fact be made up of light-barrier breaking particles called tachyons, the researchers posit.

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Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

By Frank Landymore

An elderly elephant named Viola was found ambling through Butte, Montana on Tuesday after escaping a traveling circus.

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Elephant Escapes Circus, Thunders Through Montana City

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report about a craft that appeared to defy both aerial and aquatic physics is, apparently, making a splash among the ex-military set.

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Former Naval Officer Raises Alarm About “World-Changing” Underwater UFO Captured on Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute claims to have had a "conversation" with a humpback whale in Alaska.

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SETI Institute Claims They’ve Successfully Communicated With a Whale

By Victor Tangermann

Last month's deadly bridge collision in Baltimore has, apparently, gotten the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Report: Baltimore Bridge Collapse Now Has the FBI’s Attention

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate Change Now Linked To Rise In Strokes

Climate Change Now Linked To Rise In Strokes

By Frank Landymore

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of a sleek underground drone called Manta Ray that closely resembles its oceanic namesake.

Northrop Grumman Shows Off Terrifying Military Drone Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

United Nations' head climate expert says the human race has got two years tops to tamp down the worse effects from global warming.

The UN’s Climate Chief Says We Have Just Two Years to Save the Planet

By Sharon Adarlo

The use of aerosols to make clouds reflect more sunlight could be significantly more effective than once believed.

Scientists Find That “Cloud Engineering” Could Help Stave Off Climate Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Global surface temperatures have soared once again, making March the tenth consecutive hottest month on record.

Global Temperatures Have Set Records Every Month for the Past Ten Months

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.

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Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

By Victor Tangermann

The programmable so-called "metafluid" is made of rubber-like spheres that allow it to radically alter its properties.

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Harvard Develops “Intelligent” Liquid That Can Be Programmed

By Frank Landymore

The solar eclipse triggered a number of strange behaviors among animals, who were seemingly confused by the Sun setting far earlier.

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Animals Reacted Strangely During the Eclipse

By Victor Tangermann

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.

The Solar Eclipse Looks Absolutely Wild From Space

By Victor Tangermann

There are plenty of livestreams on the internet where you can watch the total solar eclipse unfold today. Here are the links.

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Here’s How to Live Stream the Eclipse Right From Your Computer

By Victor Tangermann