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Modern climate change will likely take place over a shorter period of time than previous extinction events, leaving species with far less time to adapt.

Scientists Warn of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused by Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New images show just how drastic the Great Salt Lake's decline has been — and where the resulting clouds of dangerous dust could fall.

Shocking New Images Show Major US Lake Drop To Lowest Recorded Water Levels

By Frank Landymore

ESA is prepping to send a spacecraft to Venus — a feat which will require state-of-the-art methods to get through the planet's grueling atmosphere.

ESA Unveils Plan to Send Spacecraft Through Venus’ “Hot, Thick” Atmosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just days after reports of an alleged SpaceX rocket debris crash, another piece of space junk — this time from China — crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Wild Video Shows Chinese Space Junk Light Up the Night Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Heat wave Zoe was so bad that Seville, Spain decided to create its own naming and rating system for heat waves and gave it the highest score.

Hooray! Heat Waves Are Now Bad Enough to Get Names

By Lonnie Lee Hood

GM Cruise is losing $5 million every day, and a total of about $5 billion since 2018. Cruise has had multiple safety issues and accidents.

Advanced Transport

GM’s Robotaxis Are Losing a Fortune

By Lonnie Lee Hood

International scientists disocvered a tertiary, or triple, star system with a third star orbiting a binary of two stars. The stars are massive in size.

Scientists Discover Unique Triple Star System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Taylor Swift and her private jet are the world's worst celeb CO2 emission offenders according to a new report, which the internet freaked out about.

Taylor Swift Didn’t Rack Up Wasteful Private Jet Miles Alone, Team Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Security firm Dr. Web said 28 malware apps were downloaded from the Google Play Store almost 10 million times. Apple accused Android of big malware issues.

Android Malware May Have Charged Millions of Customers Without Permission

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is doing lunar terrain tests as NASA prepares it for a Moon mission.

NASA Tests Rover Prototype After Announcing Launch Delay

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has thrown some weight behind an air conditioning startup Blue Frontier to help stop climate change.

Bill Gates Invests in Exciting Air Conditioning Startup

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.

Experts Warn UK Government Not to Bury Nuclear Waste Under Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The only Gorgosaurus skeleton that's ever been made available for private ownership sold at auction for more than $6 million yesterday.

Paleontologists Furious as Dinosaur Skeleton Sells at Private Auction

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Western US is in the worst drought in 1,200 years. Lawns suck up previous water resources, but not every resident is on board with cutbacks.

An Evil Force Is Sucking the Life Out of California: Lawns

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A sheep farmer in New South Wales, Australia, made a highly unusual discovery: a massive piece of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, according to experts.

SpaceX Debris Allegedly Smashes Into Sheep Farm

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent TikTok video, European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti recalled the very specific smell she encountered once boarding the space station.

Astronaut Complains of Pervasive Odor on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A motorcyclist in Utah was killed over the weekend after a Tesla driver crashed into him from the back — while the car's Autopilot system was turned on.

Tesla on Autopilot Kills Motorcyclist

By Victor Tangermann

A Twitter user said three of his Samsung phones popped open and appear to have battery problems caused by heat and climate change.

Tech Reviewer Says Heatwave Causing Samsung Batteries to Burst Out of Phones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Visual effects artist Cinnamontographer has taken on the task of forever enshrining the now discontinued Choco Taco in the form of a high-fidelity 3D scan.

Science & Energy

National Hero Makes Perfect 3D Scan of a Choco Taco Before They Disappear Forever

By Victor Tangermann

The Duffer brothers — the directors of Netflix hit "Stranger Things" — retroactive edit their show. Will this become a streaming-wide trend?

Netflix Is Letting Directors Retroactively Edit Shows Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Science & Energy

Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious red ocean glow pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was caused by commercial saury fishing vessel lights.

Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a cringey video shared by Facebook parent company Meta's VR department on Twitter, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands look very strange.

New Metaverse Vid Makes Zuckerberg’s Hands Look Super Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens living in the southwestern Japanese city of Yamaguchi have found themselves besieged by violent gangs of macaque monkeys.

Science & Energy

Japanese City Terrorized By Furious Baby-Snatching Monkeys

By Frank Landymore

On Wednesday, NASA announced that it plans to send two more Ingenuity-class helicopters to Mars to assist in its mission to bring Martian samples to Earth.

Advanced Transport

NASA Says It’s Sending Two More Ingenuity-Class Helicopters to Mars

By Frank Landymore

NOAA Ocean Exploration scientists came across a series of organized sublinear holes on the Mid-Atlantic ocean floor, and it's unclear who or what made them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Strange Row of Holes on Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.

Science & Energy

Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

By Frank Landymore

With the help of Danish space design company SAGA Space Architects, students at a Swiss boarding school designed a futuristic three-story space habitat.

This Futuristic Space Condo Is Designed to Squish Into SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A "black widow" pulsar is devouring its neighboring star, and in the process has become the densest neutron star ever recorded.

Science & Energy

Pulsar Devours Neighbor, Becomes Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

Several NGOs have co-signed a letter to Telsa and Elon Musk, begging the founder to avoid investing in Indonesia's nickel mining industry.

Environmental Groups Horrified by New Tesla Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent analysis shows that Tesla's electric cybertruck is incredibly aerodynamic — its drag is above average for other pickup trucks on the market.

New Analysis Finds That Blocky Cybertruck Has Enviable Wind Resistance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive piece of Chinese space junk is slowly making its descent back down to Earth — and nobody is entirely sure where it will fall.

Chinese Rocket Officially Plummeting Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Quantum physicists have effectively opened a portal to a new time dimension while creating a new topological phase of quantum matter.

Physicists Create New Phase of Matter With “Extra” Time Dimension

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

China has added a new science laboratory module dubbed Wentian to its growing space station this week, an impressive feat.

China Attaches New Section Onto Its Brand New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Residents of Indiana and surrounding states saw a massive fireball meteor hurtle through the atmosphere in the earliest hours on Saturday morning.

Videos Show Meteor So Bright It Lit the Entire Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A firm is organizing a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, accusing them of inflating the worth of digital assets BAYC NFTs and native token ApeCoin.

Bored Apes Creators Facing Class Action Lawsuit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

By Frank Landymore

On the list of terrible things to wake to wake your pregnant wife up with, the news that you've lost $100,000 in crypto is right up there.

Man Wakes Pregnant Wife to Tell Her He Lost $100,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has taken an incredible image of Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, from just 3,160 miles away.

China Takes Incredible Close Up Shot of Mars’ Moon Phobos

By Victor Tangermann

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy's finger in a tournament that ended Thursday in Russia. Officials say the bot was confused.

Russian Chess Robot Breaks Child’s Finger During Tournament

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is planning "The Mirror Line." The skyscraper would be the world's largest structure and house millions.

Saudi Arabia Planning Skyscraper That’s 75 Miles Wide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A windmill in Texas caught on fire after getting strucking by lightning. Footage showed a spiral of smoke before the structure collapsed.

Wind Turbine Catches on Fire, Creates Spiral-Shaped Smoke Pattern

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a damning report published yesterday, Reuters confirmed that carmaker Hyundai has been using child labor near its flagship factory in Montgomery, AL.

Hyundai Busted Using Child Labor in Alabama

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One Reddit user captured video of an exceptional Tesla Semi that features a bucking horse mural on its side. Semis have been delayed for years.

Tesla Semi Spotted With Huge Mysterious Mural on Its Side

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists in Switzerland say they've figured out how to make jet fuel from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight using a solar tower.

New System Creates Jet Fuel From Water, CO2 and Sunlight

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at Hongtuo Joint Laboratory in Wuhan, China, have invented a somewhat mysterious laser pen that lets users write in mid-air.

Chinese Scientists Show Off Laser That Can Write Words in Mid-Air

By Lonnie Lee Hood

This weekend, China plans to launch a powerful Long March 5B rocket — and it's likely that parts of junk from the rocket will crash land back onto Earth.

China Is Sending More Space Junk Hurtling Down to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An object that looks like a bundle of string that showed up in images taken by NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover earlier this month has suddenly disappeared.

Noodle-Like Object on Mars Has Disappeared, According to NASA Photos

By Victor Tangermann

Several conspiracy theories involving the Mandela effect and portal opening have gone viral, and CERN scientists are trying to counter the misinformation.

Science & Energy

CERN Scientists Annoyed That People Think They’re Ripping a Hole in Reality

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.

Mars Satellite Captures Breathtaking View of Deepest Canyon in Entire Solar System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Land Life, a company that offers carbon offsets to polluting industries through planting trees, has accidentally started a massive forest fire in Spain.

Company Providing Carbon Offsets Accidentally Sets Large Forest Fire

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian urged the United States to stop militarizing space. The US is spending billions on the Space Force.

China Accuses United States of Militarizing Outer Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

YouTubers at Out of Spec Reviews claim that an enthusiast's Tesla Model X has only lost 10 percnet of its battery capacity after 200,000 miles.

Tesla Drives 200,000 Miles, Only Loses Ten Percent of Battery Capacity

By Frank Landymore

Twitter video of a four-legged robot dog with a gun strapped to its back went viral this week. Video shows the robot dog firing multiple rounds with recoil.

Hacker Mounts Submachine Gun on Robodog, Shoots Live Ammo

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a puzzling attempt to parody the practice of purchasing expensive ENS names, an NFT collector had a "joke" title flipped back to him — for over $150k.

NFT Guy Accidentally Spends $150K on Stupid Joke He Tried to Make

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In light of a Florida family's space-loving young son's unexpected death, they're trying to raise the funds to rest his ashes on the Moon.

Parents Crowdfund to Send 11-Year-Old Son’s Ashes to the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup containing DNA may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Science & Energy

Investigators Analyze DNA Sample to Make Arrest in 1975 Murder

By Frank Landymore