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The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.
Astrophysics

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

In the astronomer's words, it "shouldn't be there."

By Frank Landymore

CBS' 83rd Golden Globes award show showed a live ticker of Polymarket predictions for various awards. Viewers were appalled.
Blockchain

Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets

A "new low for this humiliating awards show."

By Victor Tangermann

The buzzy toy of the season crashed and burned over the holidays, as use increased "more than 100x" on Christmas day.
Devices

Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It

"We're continuing to see very positive signs of recovery, but we're still working through some lingering issues. "

By Joe Wilkins

Plastic surgeons are using fat harvested from dead people to inject into patients who want body contouring work done.
Future Society

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

A scenario that not even Mary Shelley of Frankenstein could have imagined up in her day.

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists found that those on the political right are much more likely to rely on anecdotes over statistical evidence.
Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

"Indeed, people's political beliefs influence how they look for information (often without them realizing it)."

By Joe Wilkins

Bettors are in a rage after the prediction market platform, Polymarket, refused to honor bets related to the US invasion of Venezuela.
Finance

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

"They think there will be no punishment for all this fraud."

By Joe Wilkins

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.
Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier.

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.
xAI

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

Executives told investors they still have enough money to "continue spending aggressively."

By Joe Wilkins

The Pentagon sent a Toronto-based sex toy shop letters inside two returned items sent back from a US naval base in Bahrain.
Future Society

Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel

"The call was coming from inside the house."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed "Cloud-9."
Dark Matter

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

"This cloud is a window into the dark universe."

By Victor Tangermann

In the face of a chaotic morale environment at NASA, new administrator Jared Isaacman is willing to try to deploy some unusual perks.
NASA

Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff

Talk about tone-deaf.

By Victor Tangermann

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
Ethics

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

The sheer irony.

By Joe Wilkins

A seismic shift is taking place as artist visas to the US are increasingly being given to OnlyFans influencers.
Future Society

Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have

The system is broken.

By Joe Wilkins

China has unveiled a powerful "hypergravity machine" that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth's gravity.
Robots and Machines

China Builds Wild Gravity Machine

It's so powerful, it can compress space and time.

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer has called for complete government censorship of social media.
Cybersecurity

Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech

"We need to control the platforms, all the social platforms."

By Joe Wilkins

A video that's gone viral on social media shows a miniature deer fiercely standing its ground and charging at a far more massive rhino.
Biology

Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros

"Someone probably forgot to look in the mirror this morning."

By Victor Tangermann

Patients who stopped taking GLP-1 weight-loss medications regained weight four times as fast as those using alternative methods.
Treatments

People Who Go Off GLP-1s Are Experiencing a Sudden and Terrible Hunger

A new study found that patients returned to their original weight in just 1.7 years.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese company Linyi Yunchuan recently deployed a massive airborne wind turbine, which dominated the skyline over Sichuan Province.
Renewable Energy

Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China

Absolutely massive.

By Joe Wilkins

A "major disruption in the illicit fentanyl trade, possibly tied to Chinese government actions," may have caused a drop in overdose deaths.
Treatments

Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why

Incredible.

By Victor Tangermann

Five families have agreed to settle lawsuits with Google, after several high-profile teen suicides were linked to its AI chatbots.
Ethics

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

Is it the ending of a dark chapter, or just the beginning of a long tragedy?

By Joe Wilkins