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The holiday season means presents galore  — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.
Gene Editing

"What happens if you discover things you didn't know previously?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.
Climate Change

"If no one had ever said, 'Plant a trillion trees,' I think we'd have been in a lot better space."

By Frank Landymore

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

This is eerie.

By Frank Landymore

The FCC just rejected SpaceX's appeal to reinstate an $886 million grant to bring high-speed broadband to rural areas. SpaceX is furious.
SpaceX

The company is "deeply disappointed and perplexed."

By Victor Tangermann

AI has, for seemingly the first time, solved a famously difficult math problem — and folks, this discovery is huge if true.
Artificial Intelligence

"To be very honest with you, we have hypotheses, but we don’t know exactly why this works."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.
Off-World

"The planetary surfaces are just way too small."

By Victor Tangermann

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.
Off-World

This latest detection is a real head scratcher.

By Victor Tangermann

The streaming platform Twitch has done an about-face just two days after changing its policies to allow "artistic nudity."
Future Society

Seriously, these guys need to get a life.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has gathered information about drug use at SpaceX — and has apparently been sitting on it for more than four years.
NASA

Elon may have accidentally revealed some of the information, though.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are building a top-secret $100 million mansion in Hawaii, which includes a massive bunker.
Future Society

"It's fight club. We don’t talk about fight club."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.
Future Society

Kxxzzthhhhh...

By Victor Tangermann

After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, researchers discovered that half of them struck accumulations of methane gas.
Future Society

"The drillers heard a bubbling sound coming from the well, so we decided to have a look..."

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is teaming up with Curio to bring an AI-powered toy to market called Grok, the same name as her ex Elon Musk's AI.
Artificial Intelligence

The plot thickens.

By Victor Tangermann

Congress has passed legislation that demands the National Archives release its records about UFOs — but not right away, of course.
Future Society

"We got ripped off."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by an ex-patient of non-consensually inseminating her with his own sperm.
Gene Editing

"To say I was shocked when I figured this out would be an extreme understatement."

By Noor Al-Sibai

YouTuber and automotive journalist Mat Watson and his buddies tried to damage Tesla's Cybertruck by kicking it. They didn't come far.
Tesla

Pure cringe.

By Victor Tangermann

The site formerly known as Twitter continues to lose ad revenue hand over fist under Elon Musk's ownership.
Elon Musk

"We are not Twitter any longer and not measuring ourselves by old Twitter metrics."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has developed a substance so hard and tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, the hardest material on Earth.
Physics

They say it could be an ultra-tough coating for spacecraft.

By Sharon Adarlo

Japanese engineers have successfully test-fired a space rocket engine, which runs on — not even joking — locally-sourced cow poop.
Space

This rocket runs on cow poop.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new paper, astrophysicist Earl Bellinger wondered if black holes could be trapped inside stars, a theory inspired by "Black Hole Sun."
Black Holes

The theory was inspired by Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun."

By Victor Tangermann