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Scientists at Texas A&M University were stunned when a piece of metal appeared to heal itself before their eyes.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Metal That Can Heal Itself After Damage

"This was absolutely stunning to watch first-hand."

Astronomers have discovered a suspected magnetar, which has been sending out radio waves every 22 minutes since at least 1988.
Off-World

Mysterious Space Object Has Been Pulsing Every 20 Minutes Since the 1980s

"They missed it because they hadn't expected to find anything like it."

Emad Mostaque, the CEO of open-source AI company Stability AI, says AI will be the "biggest bubble of all time."
Artificial Intelligence

AI CEO Warns AI Will Be “Biggest Bubble of All Time”

"I call it the ‘dot AI’ bubble, and it hasn’t even started yet."

Apple is secretly developing a generative AI framework called "Ajax," along with an internally used AI-powered chatbot similar to ChatGPT.
OpenAI

Apple Is Secretly Building Its Rival to ChatGPT

"Apple GPT" is here, but only behind closed doors.

We know that parasitic worms called hairworms can "mind control" their host. But as it turns out, they're also missing huge amounts of genes.
DNA

Scientists Surprised by DNA in Worms That Control Hosts’ Brains

This bizarre organism is missing huge amounts of genes.

Four patients infected with anthrax after eating horse meat escape a Siberian hospital, panicking local officials who send out an alert.
Bacteria

Russia Says Patients Infected With Deadly Bacteria Have Escaped

Is this the beginning of an infectious disease thriller?

A green background filled with code text with a brain in the foreground.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Developers Are Already Quietly Training AI Models Using AI-Generated Data

"Human-created data... is extremely expensive."

Astronomers have spotted a two-faced, white dwarf star that appears to be made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.
Off-World

Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side

"When I show the observations to people, they are blown away."

New legislation which would require any information on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)" to be publicly disclosed.
Off-World

Bonkers New Law Would Reveal Alien Technology, “Non-Human Intelligence”

"The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins."

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

Brutal Heat Wave Is Literally Putting People Into Comas

"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

Authorities Warn Residents to Stay Indoors as Lioness Escapes

"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

Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator

"Goodness gracious."

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

There’s Something Weird Going on With the Sun

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

Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider

"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

Government Opens Investigation Into Tesla Autopilot Crash That Killed Teen and Baby

"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

James Cameron Says He Tried to Warn Us About AI

"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

Bird Uses Anti-Bird Spikes to Create Fortified Nest

"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

Divers Discover Epic Shipwreck From World War II

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

Watch Celebrities Try to Patch Leaks in Simulated Mars Base

"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

Friend of OceanGate CEO Says Sub Was a “Mousetrap for Billionaires”

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