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The link between smoking cigarettes and mental illness is well-established, but a new study complicates the matter.
Studies

Smoking Cigarettes Appears to Cause Mental Illness, Scientists Say, But With a Catch

"The numbers speak for themselves. Smoking does cause mental illness."

In spite of flagrantly breaking state law, Elon Musk won't be fined by local police for his live-streamed self-driving stunt.
Elon Musk

Cops Say They Won’t Ticket Elon Musk for Driving While on the Phone

He's totally going to get away with this, isn't he?

An impatient gamer criticized the graphics of what they expected to be in-game screenshots from "Starfield." They were real images from Mars.
Mars

Guy Complains Images From Video Game Look Bad, But They’re Real NASA Photos of Mars

"That's why we haven't colonized Mars yet, it's got terrible graphics."

The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that its Pragyaan lunar lander has discovered sulfur near the lunar south pole.
Moon

Hellish! Indian Rover Detects Sulfur at Moon’s South Pole

It's the "first-ever in-situ measurements" near the lunar south pole.

A group of Aussie neurosurgeons got the surprise of their lives when they discovered a live worm inside their patient's cranium. 
Brain

Doctors Stunned to Find a Live Worm Inside a Patient’s Brain

Nope, nope, nope.

Workers overseas are being tasked with labeling images, allowing AI algorithms to make sense of the world. They're also being exploited.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Dirty Secret: Poor People in the Developing World Are Doing Most of the Work

Ouch.

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

"The Worthington Christian [[WINNING_TEAM_MASCOT]] defeated the Westerville North [[LOSING_TEAM_MASCOT]] 2-1 in an Ohio boys soccer game on Saturday."

Researchers have come up with a tiny, micrometer-thin battery that can store energy from human tears to power smart contact lenses.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Devise Way to Power Smart Contact Lens With Human Tears

Cry to top up battery.

India's small, six-wheeled lunar rover recently encountered an obstacle on the Moon's surface in the form of a ten-foot crater.
Moon

India Prevents Moon Rover From Falling Into Hole

Watch out, Pragyaan!

Elon Musk most certainly has his fanboys — but it appears that the adherents of one first-person-shooter roleplaying game are not among them. 
Elon Musk

Huge Crowd of Gamers Boos Elon Musk for Ruining Twitter

"Like getting wedgies [from] the anime club."

Avi Loeb, Harvard's premiere alien hunter, has become the first person to ever analyze an object from outside of our Solar System.
Off-World

Alien Hunting Scientist Says He Found Something Extremely Interesting at the Bottom of the Ocean

They found something.

OpenAI has officially launched a new business-friendly version of its popular AI chatbot called ChatGPT Enterprise.
OpenAI

OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT

OpenAI is going enterprise.

A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.
Artificial Intelligence

Are We Ready For This Site’s Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?

"AI porn will create a new category of adult performer."

During a livestream, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had to intervene while his Tesla on Full Self-Driving tried to run a red light.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Shows Off FSD, Forced to Intervene When It Tries to Drive Through Red Light

"Ohhh, intervention!"

Processed coffee grounds could also help cut down the environmental impact of extracting sand by partially replacing it in concrete mixtures.
Science & Energy

Adding Waste Coffee Grounds Makes Concrete 30 Percent Stronger

Concrete, too, could use a morning fix.

An entire crowd of people lined up and even started holding up traffic earlier this week — to gaze at Saturn through a telescope.
Off-World

Man Sets Up Telescope in NYC, Attracts Huge Crowd Letting People Peer Into It

"When people look through a telescope, they’re all the same."

The device not only converts brain signals into text, but transforms it into full-blown speech embodied in a digtal look-a-like.
Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Patient to Communicate Through Digital Avatar

"Our goal is to restore a full, embodied way of communicating."

Debris from the rocket's obliterated launchpad was blasted up to half a mile from the launchpad, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Advanced Transport

SpaceX’s Botched Starship Launch Left Wildlife Officials Stunned

"The explosion was so extensive it sent concrete chunks flying into the surf."

A fascinating new video released by the Indian space agency show the country's lunar lander rolling down to the surface.
Off-World

Amazing Footage Shows Indian Rover Ramping Down to the Lunar Surface

Watch little Pragyaan go!

Advances in technology have allowed two teams of researchers to wade through its enormous amounts of junk DNA.
Gene Editing

The Male Y Chromosome Has Finally Been Completely Sequenced

It's got a lot of junk.