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Forgetting words is a common experience — but when your speech starts slowing, it could signal something worse.
Studies

This evidence is compelling, but potentially fraught.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neurobiologists researched the mysterious mechanism behind generalized fear in the brain and uncovered a method that may possibly stop it.
Neuroscience and Brain

Okay, that's intriguing.

By Sharon Adarlo

MrBeast, one of the world's most famous YouTubers, is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps.
Future Society

"For every person like me that makes it, thousands don’t."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a clip from Don Lemon's interview with Elon Musk, the mercurial CEO was upfront about the use of ketamine.
Elon Musk

"Obviously I'm not a doctor, but I would say if somebody has depression issues, they should consider talking to their doctor about ketamine."

By Victor Tangermann

A yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper suggests that metal particles from burned up satellites could be accumulating in our atmosphere.
SpaceX

"I was shocked at everything that I found and that nobody has been studying this."

By Frank Landymore

Employees at a wildlife center are wearing a fox mask to help feed a baby fox — and folks are pointing out that it looks like a fursuit.
Future Society

"Cute story but that is 100% a fursuit."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The seismic data Avi Loeb used to locate the crash site of an interstellar meteor and recover "alien" fragments from was interpreted wrongly.
Exobiology

It's, uh, not aliens.

By Frank Landymore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang earnestly wants you young students out there a lot "pain and suffering" — so you can be successful, of course.
Future Society

"I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."

By Frank Landymore

Before his untimely death, a Boeing whistleblower told his friend that if anything happened to him, "it's not suicide."
Future Society

"I know that he did not commit suicide."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla shares are down almost 32 percent since January, hitting a ten-month low — and analysts are pessimistic about the rest of the year.
Tesla

Tesla is a "growth company with no growth."

By Victor Tangermann

Barack Obama argued that we shouldn't abandon the Earth in favor of Mars after making a possibly irreparable mess of its climate.
Mars

"We were designed for this place, and it would be good if we kept this place in a way that's liveable."

By Victor Tangermann

Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati seems to be wondering, too.
OpenAI

"I'm actually not sure about that."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Montana man was trying to create giant hybrid sheep from cloned embryos but his actions violated international and federal wildlife laws.
Future Society

"This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies."

By Sharon Adarlo

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.
Robotics

"So I gave you the apple because it’s the only, uh, edible item I could provide you with from the table."

By Victor Tangermann

In a new bill, Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing for a 32-hour work week that wouldn't result in a pay markdown. 
Future Society

A four-hour workweek would give people back a whopping six years of their lives to do as they please.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In his latest racist outburst, billionaire Elon Musk joined other conservative pundits in accusing Haitian migrants of being "cannibals."
Elon Musk

"It is racist. It is dehumanizing."

By Victor Tangermann

Former president Donald Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss unflattering — and real — videos of himself as AI-generated fakes.
Artificial Intelligence

"Artificial Intelligence was used by them against me in their videos of me."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An engineer with the Deep Space Network figured out a way to decode a mysterious "new signal" coming from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Off-World

"It’s an excellent development on Voyager."

By Victor Tangermann

At this year's South by Southwest, audiences booed a clip featuring people preaching the inevitably of an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

"Read the room, people."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a not-so-subtle message to the West on Wednesday: he's got nukes and he is ready to use them.
Future Society

Is Putin serious or bluffing?

By Sharon Adarlo