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Hydrogen and electric truck maker Nikola Motor is running into some serious issues with developing its battery-powered trucks.
Advanced Transport

Another Brand of Electric Trucks Keeps Catching on Fire

Its stock is in freefall.

By Victor Tangermann

An area known as Thacker Pass on the Nevada-Oregon border is home to clay that contain tens of millions of tons of lithium.
Science & Energy

Colossal Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World’s Largest

"It could change the dynamics of lithium globally..."

By Frank Landymore

During a recent mission mapping a habitat off the coast of Alaska, a submersible came across a golden egg. Experts can only guess what it is.
Science & Energy

Scientists Recovered That Golden “Orb” From the Bottom of the Ocean and It Looks Different Now

Wrecked.

By Victor Tangermann

A fellow scientist is not convinced that Harvard's resident UFO-hunter found evidence of interstellar debris at the bottom of the Pacific.
Off-World

Scientists Says Those Interstellar Debris May Be Something Totally Different

Okay, that's an interesting theory.

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research that studied thousands of twins who suffered a concussion early in life has grim implications on cognitive decline.
Neuroscience and Brain

If You Had a Concussion When You Were Younger, Scientists Have Bad News

Think you fully recovered from that concussion? Think again.

By Frank Landymore

It's been over a year since last summer's crypto crashes, and investors who lost on the digital currencies are still licking their wounds.
Cryptocurrency

Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto

Hindsight is 20/20.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Since landing on the planet back in 2021, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has generated enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours.
NASA

NASA Brags That in Just Two Years, It Generated Enough Oxygen for a Small Dog to Breathe for 10 Hours

At least a puppy gets to live on Mars.

By Victor Tangermann

Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system's translation AI, that price could cost people their freedom. 
Artificial Intelligence

ICE Is Using Busted Translation AI That Can’t Understand Detainees

Grim.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.
Robotics

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

Points for creativity!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk apparently has a third child with musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher, this one with the fictional-sounding name Techno Mechanicus.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has a Secret Child Named Techno Mechanicus

Interesting name choice.

By Jon Christian

Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage.
Developments

Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage

"It's crazy to think that our collective bowel dysfunction problems have gotten so bad that we're literally running out of stool softeners."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In what may be a resurgence of an old wasteful fishing method, people in fishing towns are launching dynamite into the water to catch fish.
Science & Energy

People Are “Fishing” by Just Throwing Dynamite in the Water

"Blasting is widespread, misreported, and ongoing."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."
Robotics

Scientists Have a Great Idea: Cover Killer Robot in Horrifying Fungus

Of course it was inspired by "The Terminator."

By Victor Tangermann

What if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours?
James Webb Space Telescope

If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists Notice Our Civilization?

There's a short and a long answer.

By Victor Tangermann

A PR firm called Bunker 15 reportedly lobbied small review publications to ensure its movies were rated as "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.
Future Society

Film Studios Are Using Dirty Tricks to Manipulate Rotten Tomatoes Scores

"Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do."

By Frank Landymore

Computer scientist Guillaume Cabanac spotted a telltale ChatGPT phrase in the paper, and is on a mission to uncover other frauds.
OpenAI

Paper Retracted When Authors Caught Using ChatGPT to Write It

You'd think scientists would know better.

By Frank Landymore

Nearly a year ago, NASA successfully smashed an asteroid for the first time — but now, the asteroid in question is behaving strangely. 
NASA

Something Weird Is Going on With the Asteroid NASA Smashed

"That was inconsistent at an uncomfortable level."

By Noor Al-Sibai

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

"G/O management removed all bylines from Gizmodo Español — even the bylines of the four journalists who were laid off by G/O Media this week."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.
Environment

The Environmental Warriors at Burning Man Left a Disgusting Mess Behind

There's a lot of trash stuck in the Nevada desert mud right now.

By Victor Tangermann

Grindr played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting. 
Future Society

Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit When They Were Forced Back to the Office

This return-to-office policy has backfired spectacularly.

By Noor Al-Sibai