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In light of extreme heat waves, hospitals are packing overheated patients in body bags with a bucket of ice. Others show up comatose.
Developments

"They’re coming in essentially unresponsive and they’re cooked."

Residents of a Berlin suburb are being told to stay indoors over reports of a "loose, dangerous animal" — possibly an escaped lioness.
Science & Energy

"Around midnight we received a notification that we couldn’t believe."

Google is secretly demoing an artificial intelligence tool that can produce news stories and showing it off to major newspapers.
Google

"Goodness gracious."

Current observations suggest we could see a solar maximum as early as 2024, not 2025, defying our predictions.
Off-World

Could the Sun be peaking early?

While looking into artificial intelligence "behavior," researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI's GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber. 
OpenAI

"It’s important to know whether updates to the model...actually hurt its capability."

Federal officials are investigating a car crash suspected of involving Tesla's Autopilot that killed a teenager and a baby.
Tesla

"In the blink of an eye, our lives have been forever shattered..."

James Cameron has some choice words about artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry and the world at large.
Artificial Intelligence

"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen."

A crafty Eurasian magpie stuck together some 1,500 anti-bird spikes to build a fortified, two-foot-wide nest.
Science & Energy

"It sounds like a joke."

While on the hunt for a different shipwreck, a group of divers happened upon some wreckage that seems to be from a lost fleet of warships.
Science & Energy

What a find!

A new reality TV show is challenging an unlikely group of celebrities to survive on a simulated Mars habitat —and it looks unhinged.
Mars

"I'm just trying not to fall off this rover."

In a bonkers interview, a friend of the late OceanGate CEO made outlandish statements that seemed to accuse him of gross negligence.
Advanced Transport

"He definitely knew it was going to end like this."

Tesla has finally showed off the first Cybertruck to roll off the assembly line -- but it's fit and finish are looking rough.
Tesla

What's going on at Tesla?

A "19-year-old virtual girl from Helsinki, Finland," who has amassed tens of thousands of followers on Instagram, is looking for work
Artificial Intelligence

"I'm an AI creation."

Earlier this week, reports emerged of a woman in France who was reportedly struck by a meteorite. Experts have their doubts.
Off-World

"The pictures CLEARLY show this is NOT a meteorite!"

On a recent trip to Beijing, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen feasted on Chinese wild mushrooms that are known to be hallucinogenic.
Science & Energy

"I have a friend who mistakenly ate them and hallucinated for three days."

An incredible fossil depicts a mammal locked in battle with a dinosaur — a scene so unique, they did extra legwork to make sure it was real.
Fossil Fuels

This is almost too wild to be true.

Scientists are calling a new drug called donanemab a "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's. A trial showed promising results.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists are calling it "potentially life-changing."

While the marketplace for NFTs still hasn't bottomed out, the appetite for NFTs has seen major declines this year.
NFTs

Say it ain't so.

After a disastrous toe-dipping into AI, the owner of Gizmodo is doubling down and pledging to publish even more bot-written content. 
Artificial Intelligence

"It is absolutely a thing we want to do more of."

Researchers pinpointed six chemical cocktails that can reverse aging in cells and turn them into a more "youthful state."
RX and Medicine

"Until recently, the best we could do was slow aging. New discoveries suggest we can now reverse it."