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

Something Dreadful Thawing Out of the Permafrost, Scientists Warn

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

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

Grimes Is Working On Her Own AI That’s Also Named Grok, Just Like Elon’s AI

The plot thickens.

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

Congress Passes Legislation Demanding US Government Release UFO Archives

"We got ripped off."

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

Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm

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

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

Video Shows Tesla Fans Viciously Kicking the Cybertruck

Pure cringe.

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

Twitter Apparently Lost $1.5 Billion in Ad Revenue as Elon Musk Flailed

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

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

Scientists Create Substance Rivaling Diamonds in Hardness

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

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

Japan Tests Rocket Engine Powered by Cow Dung

This rocket runs on cow poop.

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

There May Be Small Black Holes Inside Some Stars, Scientists Say

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

Hut 8, one of the largest digital asset mining companies in North America, made a "stalking horse bid" to buy 4 natural gas power plants.
Bitcoin

A Bitcoin Miner Is Buying Four Entire Power Plants

The sheer, astonishing waste.

Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and he's saying weird stuff in public again.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator

"This time it’s different."

A Russian man managed to travel on an airplane from Europe to Los Angeles last month without a passport, visa or ticket.
Advanced Transport

Plane Passenger Says He Has No Passport, No Idea How He Got to Los Angeles From Russia

How in the world did this happen?

Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk's mommy Maye Musk has had enough of pesky regulators coming after her beautiful boy.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Mommy Steps In to Protect Her Beautiful Boy

"Have you any idea how furious I am?"

NASA's Voyager 1 probe is 46 years old and pushing middle age — and some of that aging is apparently showing.
NASA

Voyager 1 Is in Serious Trouble, NASA Says

They're trying to fix it... from billions of miles away.

The Swedish Transport Workers' Union announced today that it will stop collecting waste at Tesla workshops on Christmas Eve.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Sweden

"Even if you are one of the richest people in the world, you can’t just make your own rules."

Tesla is being forced to issue software patches for more than two million of its cars over a major problem with its Autopilot feature.
Tesla

Feds Blast Tesla for Massive Autopilot Issue in 2 Million Cars

This is pretty freaky!

Researchers have teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer that can simulate networks at the scale of the human brain.
Computers

Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain

"If you are trying to understand the brain this will be the hardware to do it on."

On Christmas Day last year, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected: the Martian magnetosphere tripled in size.
Mars

Mars’ Magnetosphere Suddenly Tripled in Size Last Christmas Day

"It was almost unbelievable."

NASA scientists are hard at work sifting through samples from an ancient asteroid, and what they've found so far has been fascinating. 
Off-World

Scientists Surprised by Samples Recovered From Ancient Asteroid

"It’s kind of like Schrödinger’s sample."

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.
Biology

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

Is this the next phase in dolphin evolution?