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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

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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.

Science & Energy

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