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A study of middle school students found that those who are unattractive and unathletic get bullied — but we've got questions of our own.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Shocked That Middle School Is Horrible If You’re Ugly and Bad at Sports

"The adolescent social world is often still quite unforgiving." 

While it's customary to hear about Teslas crashing and burning, one that came back from the dead in Ukraine is another thing entirely.
Tesla

Man Puzzled When His Totaled Tesla Comes Back Online in Ukraine

Jumpscare!

New research suggests that there's a massive asteroid crater hidden beneath Australia, dwarfing even the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Buried Under Australia

It could be the largest crater ever.

OpenAI's "BotGPT" is hitting the streets, ready to devour anything that's ever been posted online. Luckily, it's pretty easy to block.
OpenAI

OpenAI Deploys Crawler to Vacuum Up Your Posts and Train AI With Them

Time to block that sucker.

Security researchers say they can hack a card shuffling machine widely used by casinos to show the hands of other players.
Hacking

Hackers Gain Control of Casino Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control Over Games

"Basically, it allows us to do more or less whatever we want."

A known AI hater, Nick Cave has once again gone off on OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators being used to mimic real songwriting.
OpenAI

Nick Cave Unloads on Musicians Using ChatGPT to Write Songs

"ChatGPT rejects any notions of creative struggle."

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Brain

The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

Why are we not surprised?

The US Department of Energy will invest $1.2 billion to build two direct air capture facilities that will remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Climate Change

White House Pledges $1.2 Billion to Suck Carbon Out of the Air

Climate change can suck it.

NASA's adorable new Moon rovers are lightweight and about the size of a carry-on — and as a video shows, they can get some sweet air, too.
Moon

Watch NASA’s New Moon Rover Yeet Itself Over a Boulder

Roll over, Moon rover.

The biggest, brightest meteor shower of the year, the annual Perseids shower, will be on full display this Saturday and Sunday.
Off-World

The Most Amazing Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend

It's Perseids weekend, everyone!

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

"There's a huge boom in AI —some people are scrambling to get exposure at any cost, while others are sounding the alarm that this will end in tears."

Researchers have found that bots are better at completing CAPTCHAs than humans in both accuracy and speed.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Now Better Than Humans at Solving Those Annoying “Prove You’re a Human” Tests

CAPTCHAs are officially over.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper atmosphere, but not space.
Off-World

Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space

Kudos.

If Elon Musk's recent posts are anything to go by, his fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be an epic, "Gladiator"-style affair in Italy.
Future Society

Elon Says the Zuck Fight Is Back On, Gladiator-Style

Are you not entertained?!

As more and more preprints detailing efforts to reproduce the room-temperature superconductor come rolling in, things aren't looking good.
Science & Energy

That Room-Temperature Superconductor Seems to Be Falling Apart

"No point in fighting with the truth."

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.
Mars

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

Okay, that's fascinating.

By activating a defective gene in mice, the researchers were able to restore their hearing to almost normal levels.
Gene Editing

Scientists Successfully Reverse Hearing Loss in Mice

"Seeing the once-deaf mice respond to sounds after treatment was truly thrilling."

A New Zealand supermarket's AI recipe bot suggested users chef up a series of poisonous, deadly, and/or cannibalistic meals.
Artificial Intelligence

Supermarket’s Meal-Planning AI Suggests Deadly Poison for Dinner

Bleach-infused rice surprise, anyone?

Boeing's latest Starliner delay highlights the widening gap between it and SpaceX, which is slated to launch its seventh crewed NASA mission.
Boeing

Boeing Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed by SpaceX

Boeing's near-decade-long fumble continues — and SpaceX continues to charge ahead.

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.
Off-World

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

Somebody crack open a window!