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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

NYC's Third Avenue Bridge was got stuck turning as temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.

It’s So Hot That an Entire New York City Bridge That Opens for Boats Got Jammed

By Frank Landymore

Nothing spells dystopia quite like using the Whataburger app to track damage from a hurricane — but in Texas, they make do.

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After Deadly Hurricane, Texans Using Whataburger App to Track Power Outages

By Noor Al-Sibai

Flowers bloomed early in the Atacama Desert in Chile after early rains and warmer temperatures brought to life dormant seeds and bulbs.

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Flowers Erupt in Hostile Desert

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is supercharging Atlantic ocean temperatures, making Hurricane Beryl particularly fierce and deadly.

Deadly Hurricane Beryl Supercharged by Climate Change, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.

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Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

By Victor Tangermann

In a controversial new study, scientists are claiming that trees in Los Angeles are contributing to the city's air pollution.

Trees Blamed for Air Pollution

By Noor Al-Sibai

An almost perfectly round, 100-foot sinkhole opened up in an Illinois park this week, a terrifying incident that was caught on camera.

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Alarming Video Shows Sinkhole Devouring Sports Field

By Victor Tangermann

To fend off climate change, some propose removing CO2 from the ocean so that it can store even more of the greenhouse gas.

Startups Working on Using the Ocean as Huge Waste Dump for CO2 to Save Earth From Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

In an effort to make them useless to poachers, researchers are implanting radioactive isotopes into the horns of rhinos in South Africa.

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Scientists Implant Radioactive Material Into Horn of Living Rhinoceros to Poison Anyone Who Consumes It

By Victor Tangermann

As a growing body of evidence shows, the particles in all that air pollution have actually helped cool the planet.

Grim Irony: Curbing Air Pollution Is Warming the Earth Faster

By Frank Landymore

This year's hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia has been deadly with more than 1,300 Muslims dying this month, due to extreme hot weather.

More Than 1,300 Muslim Pilgrims Die From Extreme Heat

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers are warning that geoengineering efforts to help cool temperatures in California could trigger heatwaves in Europe.

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Oops! Geoengineering Trick to Cool Brutal Heat Could Spike Temperature Elsewhere, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists have created a chip that can fit into smartphone and "see" through barriers using electromagnetic waves.

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Scientists Invent Smartphone Chip That Peers Through Barriers With Electromagnetic Waves

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have long observed animals having gay sex — but those observations have rarely made their way into academic papers.

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Scientists Accused of Ignoring Gay Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese electronics corporation TDK says its new solid state batteries will replace the coin sized batteries found in wearable electronics.

Apple Battery Supplier Working on New Battery Material With 100 Times the Energy Density of Current Tech

By Frank Landymore

Energy prices in France turned negative following a surge in renewable output last week, causing a number of nuclear reactors to shut down.

Electricity Prices in France Just Turned Negative Because of Renewables

By Victor Tangermann

A new report from the International Energy Agency is bullish about the impact of renewables, which will contribute to a drop in oil demand.

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Oil Companies in Trouble as Renewables Suddenly Mean They’re Producing Way Too Much Oil

By Frank Landymore

A potent carcinogen called ethylene oxide is polluting the air in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" at much higher levels than the EPA estimated.

The EPA Grossly Underestimated How Many Carcinogens are Polluting This Louisiana Region’s Air, Study Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

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The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.

Fans of Donald Trump, Who Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax, Hospitalized by Heat at Trump Rallies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a potential solution to a growing energy storage problem.

New Concrete That Stores Electricity Could Turn Whole Homes Into Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

A PhD student in India has proposed a "new model" of the universe that includes an "anti-universe" that flows backward in time.

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Our World May Be Connected to an Anti-Universe, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

A video making its rounds in China unmasks a hidden pipe feeding what is claimed to be the country's tallest, uninterrupted waterfall.

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Hiker Alarmed to Find Pipe Feeding China’s Tallest Waterfall

By Victor Tangermann

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