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The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.
Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

The resurrected organism is thousands of years old.

By Frank Landymore

Google has one weird trick to hoard its artificial intelligence talent from poachers — paying them to not work at all.
Google

Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition

It's not quite as cushy as it sounds.

By Noor Al-Sibai

New investigative reporting has uncovered a tech giant in the middle of a cruel AI-powered border dystopia.
Future Society

Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System

From the guys who brough you targeted ads.

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.
Studies

MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find

The results can, on rare occasion, be deadly.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister.
Developments

Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb

"The whole thing is astonishing and incredibly moving."

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers aren't buying it.
Artificial Intelligence

Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News

If you build it, they're not necessarily going to come.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance.
Artificial Intelligence

Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court

"I don't appreciate being misled."

By Victor Tangermann

Trump interior secretary Doug Burgum said that the endangered species is too big and suggested that the future of conservation is in cloning.
Science & Energy

Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

"The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave."

By Frank Landymore

As cosmetic procedures surge in popularity, lip fillers have never been more ubiquitous — but men, apparently, are not impressed.
Studies

Scientists Study Who Actually Likes Lip Filler

Fascinating.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A stressed spouse revealed something quite dirty about their husband's telescope usage in their big old apartment in the sky.
Off-World

Spouse Alarmed by What “Stargazing” Husband Is Really Doing With Telescope

"I called him a pervert and left the room."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers made a fascinating discovery at the heart of our galaxy: "strange filaments" driving a cycle of gas emissions and replenishment.
Off-World

Scientists Detect “Strange Filaments” at the Heart of Our Galaxy

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us."

By Victor Tangermann

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its competition.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies

This is one tree you do not want to mess with.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera.
Developments

Bottles of “Holy Water” Contaminated With Cholera Send European Tourists to the ICU

Definitely not the "unparalleled spiritual experience" they bargained for.

By Victor Tangermann

Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and even earlier death.
Brain

Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers

You booze, you lose.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using elastic bands, a team of researchers have created holograms that you can physically manipulated with your hands.
Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch

Uber cool.

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.
Google

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

"We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever."

By Joe Wilkins

Sam Altman's grand vision of democratizing artificial intelligence seems, per a new study, to extend to spammers.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Pollute the Internet at Unprecedented Scale

OpenAI has a dirty secret.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Brooke Rollins issued an "Emergency Situation Determination" affecting over 112 million acres, or 59 percent of federal land.
Environment

Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Who speaks for the trees?

By Joe Wilkins

Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment.
Pollution

New Research Finds That Dogs Are Incredibly Horrible

Wretched beasts!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers revisited thousands of medical cannabis patients and followed their progress for another year, with intriguing results.
Developments

Scientists Gathered Follow-Up Data on Medical Cannabis Patients and the Results Are Pretty Striking

Far out.

By Frank Landymore