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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

During a recent interview, Robert Kennedy Jr. appeared bafflingly uninformed about the HHS programs that are being shut down.
Developments

RFK Jr. Surprised to Learn He’d Cut a Grant For Youth Diabetes Research

"No I'm not familiar with those cuts."

By Victor Tangermann

A report found that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chats into the open web — and what they contain can be disturbing.
Artificial Intelligence

Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web

Is yours in here?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.
Neuroscience and Brain

Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

"Could there be a filament of memory that persists through this biological transformation?"

By Frank Landymore

Despite being backed by death-fearing billionaires, the Trump administration seeks to deport a brilliant anti-aging researcher.
Health & Medicine

ICE Just Jailed One of America’s Top Young Age-Reversing Scientists

Isn't it ironic.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sailors have reported glowing stretches of "milky seas" for centuries, but scientists are still struggling to explain what causes them.
Science & Energy

Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow

Mysteries of the deep.

By Frank Landymore