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Researchers estimated that thousands died in six countries during the first COVID-19 wave due to the use of hydroxychloroquine.
Studies

Patients were basically guinea pigs.

By Sharon Adarlo

The spacecraft Peregrine will be the first American lunar lander built by a private space company if it lands on the Moon successfully.
Moon

There's money to be made on the Moon.

By Sharon Adarlo

The investigation comes after the FDA received reports linking these side effects to semaglutide drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic.
Developments

These weight loss drugs could come with some nasty complications.

By Frank Landymore

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.
Energy

"It's the first journey to the center of the Earth."

By Frank Landymore

"For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this goose a little sillier," robotics company CEO Garrett Scott McCurrach tweeted.
OpenAI

"I've reached the limit of how silly I can make the goose using the tools available."

By Victor Tangermann

Videos show what appears to be a pair of Chinese rocket boosters crashing in inhabited areas in the country's Sichuan province.
Off-World

That explosion...

By Victor Tangermann

A Consumer Reports investigation has found a plastic ingredient known as phthalate at worrying high levels in supermarket and fast food items.
Food

Even Wendy's!?

By Frank Landymore

YouTube account Out of Specs rented a Cybertruck and took it for an extended spin, concluding that it could only cover 254 highway miles.
Advanced Transport

It's not looking great.

By Victor Tangermann

A forthcoming Elvis hologram tour is the latest in a string of holographic AI resurrections that fail to deal with their subjects' darkness.
Treatments

How do these splashy experiences square with their subjects' problematic pasts?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists from Texas have developed a method to control gene expression by switching them on and off via molecular means.
Developments

Imagine curing diseases by the flick of a switch.

By Sharon Adarlo

Stephen Hawking has once again been posthumously implicated in the scandal surrounding the dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Future Society

This is not a good look.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have exposed the previously untracked expanse of human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery and AI.
Science & Energy

We're only beginning to uncover the truth.

By Victor Tangermann

In just under a year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will attempt to "basically almost landing" on the Sun, coming within just 3.8 million miles.
NASA

"This will be a monumental achievement for all humanity. This is equivalent to the Moon landing of 1969."

By Victor Tangermann

People who stopped using Ozempic and Wegovy have reported one unfortunate, if not life-threatening, side effect: regaining the weight back.
RX and Medicine

"I was so hungry."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction.
Artificial Intelligence

Is that... is that a lot?

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made to investors, to be completely fake. 
Cryptocurrency

How do you just invent an entire CEO?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bryan Johnson, the youth-obsessed tech mogul who is spending millions to turn back the clock on his body, has picked a fight with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

"The difference between Elon and me: I’ll nourish you and drink your blood; he’ll fire you and leave you to die."

By Victor Tangermann

Alaska officials confirmed last month that a polar bear died from bird flu aka the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
Future Society

"This is the first polar bear case reported, for anywhere."

By Sharon Adarlo

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.
Science & Energy

Would you eat it?

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated article about a murder that never happened in New Jersey has police and local news outlets in a tizzy.
Artificial Intelligence

"Nothing even similar to this story occurred on or around Christmas, or even in recent memory for the area they described."

By Noor Al-Sibai