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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

If you're looking for someone to blame the worsening degradation of the climate upon, look no further than these 57 companies.

Scientists Discover the Villains Destroying the Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

When a small earthquake struck, a patient named Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy.

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Earthquake Strikes While Man Is Midway Through Vasectomy

By Sharon Adarlo

For the first time in centuries, two separate regional "broods" of cicadas are set to arise and invade parts of the United States.

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One Trillion Bugs With Bulging Eyes Set to Invade a Third of the United States, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are experimenting with a device built atop a decommissioned aircraft carrier that would dim the Sun by salting the clouds.

Using Decommissioned Aircraft Carrier, Scientists Test Sun-Dimming Device

By Noor Al-Sibai

A small earthquake has hit the East Coast, striking a highly populated area in central New Jersey, less than 60 miles from New York City.

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Earthquake Rattles New York City, Eastern United States

By Victor Tangermann

A massive ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week.

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Huge Pendulum in Skyscraper Protected It When Epic Earthquake Struck

By Victor Tangermann

People who want to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 may be blocked by cloudy skies if weather forecasts for America are accurate.

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Eclipse Tourists Devastated as Forecast Shows Cloudy Skies

By Sharon Adarlo

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.

Korean “Artificial Sun” Reactor Sets Record at 100 Million Degrees

By Victor Tangermann

If you want to climb Mount Everest, you gotta take your shit back with you and you can no longer leave it on the mountain.

Rich People Hiking Mount Everest Now Forced to Bring Their Poop Back With Them

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and it will alter how we measure time in the future.

So Much Polar Ice Is Melting That It’s Slowing Down the Earth’s Rotation

By Sharon Adarlo

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

By Sharon Adarlo

A pod of sperm whales used "defensive defecation" to successfully deter a vicious swarm of orcas off the coast of Western Australia.

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Footage Shows Whales Fighting Off Orcas Using Explosive Diarrhea

By Frank Landymore

Two beluga whales have died at Niagara Falls tourist attraction Marineland this month, raising the total number of whale deaths to 17.

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Marineland Under Investigation Amid 17 Beluga Deaths

By Victor Tangermann

After his tragic death, veterinarians have found underlying illnesses in the body of New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.

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Scientists Find Grim Diseases During Autopsy of NYC’s Flaco the Owl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air.

Trees “Coughing” as They Fail to Capture Excess CO2

By Victor Tangermann

As the space race heats up, the US is growing increasingly concerned about China, its chief adversary, using the Moon to launch attacks.

US Military Commander Worries China Could Launch Attack From Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia has accused the US of using commercial satellite operators for its intelligence efforts — and is threatening to take military action.

Russia Warns of Potential Military Strike on SpaceX Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that playing happy coral reef sounds through underwater speakers could allow sad coral reefs to come back to life.

Coral Reefs Coaxed Back to Life by Playing Happy Reef Sounds on Underwater Speakers

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.

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New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were able to restore a coral reef in Indonesia in just four years by using specially made steel frames covered with sand.

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Steel Frame Brings Completely Dead Coral Reef Back to Life

By Sharon Adarlo