More from Noor Al-Sibai (Page 42)

Things are getting steamy in England — quite literally, in the case of one Royal Air Force base where it got so hot, the runway actually melted.

UK Shuts Down Air Force Base When It Got So Hot the Runway Melted

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope has charmed starwatchers the world round, but there was a time NASA was worried it wouldn't make it.

James Webb Space Telescope

Glitch Made NASA Scientists Think the James Webb Might Be Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

All those videos of cops having so-called "seizures" after touching small amounts of fentanyl-laced drugs may be more psychological than anything else.

Cops Keep Having Impossible Fentanyl “Seizures” on Camera For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

After somehow losing a human skeleton in transit, FedEx used perhaps the milquetoast possible way to apologize for the loss.

FedEx Apologies for Losing Human Skeleton Shipped Via Its Service

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin bros are so not OK that some of them have begun believing that the cryptocurrency was sent down by the Christian God himself.

Religious Zealots Think Bitcoin Was Created by God

By Noor Al-Sibai

NYC residents were treated to a public service announcement (PSA) about how to survive nuclear fallout earlier this week.

NYC Issues PSA on How to Survive Nuclear Attack

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the James Webb Space Telescope in the news over the release of its incredible images, it's been easy to forget that it was named for a known homophobe.

People Are Furious at Space Telescope’s Homophobic Name Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope secretly released an infrared photo of Jupiter during its historic drop of images yesterday.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Just Quietly Released a Picture of Jupiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Binance crypto exchange could be in trouble with the American government over allegedly serving Iranians in spite of terrorism sanctions on the country.

Crypto Exchange That Invested in Forbes Accused of Violating Terrorism Sanctions

By Noor Al-Sibai

A developer used his speech at a gaming conference to trash talk NFTs, and was met with a huge round of applause from the audience.

Speaker at Crypto-Funded Convention Trashes NFTs, Gets Loud Applause

By Noor Al-Sibai

This fictitious horror story about the James Webb Space Telescope should give us pause about looking into the final fronteir.

James Webb Space Telescope

This Horror Story About the Webb Telescope Will Chill Your Bones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Floating Abortion Clinic Proposed in Gulf of Mexico to Circumvent Bans

Floating Abortion Clinic Proposed in Gulf of Mexico to Circumvent Bans

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's Mars dreams may have to temper with a harsh reality put forth by equally-frustrating nerd Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Some Serious Beef With Elon Musk’s Mars Plans

By Noor Al-Sibai

One cryptocurrency company is literally applying the logic of layaway to non-fungible tokens now, because apparently, the crypto community can sink lower.

Horrifying Loan Scheme Allows People to Buy NFTs in Installments

By Noor Al-Sibai

The federal government is looking into a self-driving taxi company after its second reported collision with another vehicle.

Advanced Transport

Feds Reportedly Investigating Driverless Taxis After They Wreak Havoc in San Francisco

By Noor Al-Sibai

A purported miracle cure for hangovers is not only dubiously researched, but its results seem to take all the fun out of drinking alcohol.

Health & Medicine

“Anti-Hangover” Pill Could Take All The Fun Out of Drinking — If It Actually Works

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has given us a first glimpse into the awe-inspiring power of the images it will produce.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Shows Off Mesmerizing First Images From James Webb Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

YouTube is once again screwing up its content moderation after designating a horror video as "for kids" and not allowing the creator to change the rating.

YouTube Marked Horror Video as “For Kids,” Wouldn’t Let Creator Reverse It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Millionaires are just like the rest of us — when they need help repairing their Cold War-era radar units to detect UFOs, they turn to Reddit.

Millionaire Refurbishing Cold War Radar Unit to Hunt UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla employee said the company mishandling his firing when it recently let him while he was on vacation — and he's not the only one.

Ex-Tesla Employee Says He Was Fired by Phone Call, While on Vacation

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're worried about NASA's plan to bring Mars rocks back to Earth to study them, you probably don't need to be, scientists say.

Mars Rock Samples Probably Won’t Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Plague, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is reportedly developing a biometric-enhanced AI device that can test how loyal one is to the ruling party — and yes, we should be afraid.

Artificial Intelligence

China Says It’s Developing an AI to Detect Party Loyalty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they have found the largest-ever alcohol molecule in space — though it's not the kind that can get you drunk.

Scientists Discover Giant Alcohol Molecule Near The Center of Our Galaxy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A call for a major Tesla recall has once again been issued after a massive glitch in its crash response system was discovered in Germany.

Glitch in 59,000 Teslas Fails to Call 911 When You Crash

By Noor Al-Sibai

There was a time during the first Obama administration that people in the US government believed we could get to the moon without the help of billionaires.

How NASA Got Price Gouged on the SLS, According to Its Former Second-in-Command

By Noor Al-Sibai

A shocking new study has found that spending months in space can result in the equivalent of two decades worth of bone loss for astronauts.

Disturbing Discovery Finds That Space Does Something Bad to Astronauts’ Bones

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US continues to fall behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic missiles after a second test of the high-tech weapon failed.

US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails For A Second Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is reportedly recovering from a bout of pancreatitis that may have been triggered by a recent colonoscopy.

Experts Say Travis Barker Colonoscopy Rumor Likely False

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

Artificial Intelligence

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

By Noor Al-Sibai

For an industry so obsessed with peer review, it appears that academic journals are very reticent to retract or even warn readers about fraudulent articles.

Ignorant Scientists Keep Citing Papers That Were Retracted for Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

A vegan subscription service has a lot of explaining to do after a number of people reported intense stomach issues and even organ failure.

Vegan Snack Linked to Organ Failure

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new tell-all memoir, a former second-in-command at NASA has aired a ton of the agency's dirty laundry — including about the man who now helms it.

Former NASA Official Says Many at Agency Deeply Oppose SpaceX

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is obviously a boys club, but according to a former high-ranking official, the agency is much more misogynist than we ever could have thought.

Former NASA Second-in-Command Says She Was Called Vile Sexist Slurs at Agency

By Noor Al-Sibai

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.

Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's daughter has filed to change her name and gender identity marker because she doesn't want to be associated with her famous father.

Elon Musk’s Daughter Comes Out as Trans, Cuts Ties With Father

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.

Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?

New York State May Ban Any Crypto Mining Powered by Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like the DALL-E Mini image generator really can conjure up anything — including hilarious and bizarre depictions of drug use.

Artificial Intelligence

That Viral DALL-E AI Is Great at Generating Images of Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

COVID-19 comes for us all — even for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has publicly announced that he's contracted the novel coronavirus.

Dr. Fauci Catches COVID for the First Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

A British astronaut teased the idea that UFOs are not alien visitors to Earth but could instead be human time-travelers coming back from the future.

Astronaut Speculates That UFOs Are Time Travelers From the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid an industry collapse and a class-action investor defrauding lawsuit, the Binance crypto exchange is looking for 2,000 new employees.

Many Crypto Startups Are Firing People Right Now, But This One Is Hiring 2,000 New Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin bros are really, really not OK, as evidenced by the latest sad cope from a financial planner who likely just lost his clients a ton of money.

Financial Planner Desperately Explains to Clients Why the Bitcoin Crash Is Good, Actually

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.

Crypto Exchanges Lay Off Thousands, Months After Uber-Expensive Super Bowl Ads

By Noor Al-Sibai

Science is finally backing up what stoners have long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy to boot.

Health & Medicine

Smoking Weed Makes You Nicer and Less Greedy, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Putting out a Tesla fire once is one thing. Putting out a Tesla fire that kept reigniting three weeks after it was taken to the junkyard is another.

Firefighters Struggle as Junkyard Tesla Bursts Into Flames Weeks After Crash

By Noor Al-Sibai

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has had to pause Bitcoin withdrawals as the currency drops precipitously for the second time in 2022.

As Bitcoin Crashes, Binance Halts Withdrawals

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're out of Sriracha, you're out of luck because that the manufacturers of the classic hot sauce say their shortage might last through the summer.

Science & Energy

“Severe” Sriracha Shortage Threatens Spiceless Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered another uber-powerful, repeating radio burst from space — and it's getting them one step closer to unlocking a huge mystery.

Astronomers Discover Another Mysterious, Repeating Radio Transmission From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is being sued by the parents of a young man who died during a fire caused by a 3D printer sold by the retailer.

Lawsuit Claims That 3D Printer Caught Fire and Killed a Man

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Department of Transportation is now looking so deeply into Tesla Autopilot crashes that it's probing almost every car the company has sold in the US.

Tesla Now At Risk of Massive Recall Over Autopilot Crashes

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has created a map of the Moon's surface more detailed, and at a greater scale, than any single map that came before it.

China Publishes the Most Detailed Map of the Moon Ever Made

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthony Hopkins appears to be getting into crypto and NFTs – but there may be a deeper reason the actor has taken on his cringiest role yet.

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Anthony Hopkins Is Suddenly Shilling NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

After firing scores of employees over Zoom, the CEO of Better.com is in legal hot water for allegedly defrauding investors.

The CEO Who Fired 900 People Over Zoom Is in Big Legal Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video showing an explosion at an aluminum factory that miraculously left no one injured is cause for a lot of speculation and jokes.

Science & Energy

Watch a Factory Descend Into a Vision of Hell Within One Minute

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nobody can figure out whether or not Seth Green still owns the intellectual property from his stolen Bored Ape — but the courts may soon figure it out.

Lawyers Ponder Whether Stealing an NFT Should Give You Legal Rights to It

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Indiana woman allegedly told someone that she used an Apple AirTag to stalk a man and kill him because he was cheating on her.

Woman Arrested for Murdering Boyfriend After Tracking Him With Apple AirTag

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX's imminent cargo launch has been delayed until at least the end of June because, well, the Dragon spacecraft may be leaking fuel.

NASA Alarmed by SpaceX Spacecraft Seemingly Leaking Fuel

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neuroscientists are positing that issues with the brain's own waste removal system may be the root cause of Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

“Poisonous Flowers” in Brain May Cause Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new "edible QR code" can determine whether or not you're drinking counterfeit liquor — but it looks a whole lot like a hit of acid.

This Edible QR Tag Looks like a Big Ol’ Hit of Acid

By Noor Al-Sibai

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