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People were shocked when the waters of Venice's Grand Canal became neon green. Investigation revealed it was due to a non-toxic chemical.
Environment

It's not easy bein' green.

By Sharon Adarlo

Ferocious feral chickens with "supercharged survival skills" have gotten out of control in Hawaii, The Atlantic reports.
Science & Energy

"They're not the smartest birds, but they're smarter than people give them credit for."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A second Gallagher brother has responded to an AI-generated Oasis album — and because one loved it, the other, of course, had to hate it.
Artificial Intelligence

"F***ing embarrassing."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rest in peace! A Dutch startup has created a $1,000 mushroom coffin that will biodegrade in less than two months.
Environment

Rest in peace.

By Sharon Adarlo

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.
Artificial Intelligence

Maybe I *am* a robot!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy is expected to be visible for months, even from amateur backyard telescopes.
Off-World

A star just exploded... spectacularly.

By Sharon Adarlo

Electricity in the air can be harnessed — and the simple conductor film used to harvest this energy can be made from almost anything. 
Energy

"The air contains an enormous amount of electricity."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla just fell 50 spots — from number 12 to 62 — in Axios' Harris Poll, an annual survey that ranks America's top 100 most reputable brands.
Tesla

Ouch.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Conspiracy theorists are spreading rumors that NASA is faking the International Space Station and having astronauts float around underwater.
Future Society

Their "evidence" is severely flawed.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that lab-grown meat's environmental impact may actually be "orders of magnitude" higher than retail beef.
Environment

"It’s not a panacea."

By Victor Tangermann

Workers at an eating disorder crisis hotline unionized. Four days later, those workers were told they'd be replaced with a chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

"A chatbot is no substitute for human empathy."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers claim to have created an AI that, trained on a trove of fMRI data, can reconstruct relatively accurate video from brain signals.
Brain

Trippy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Florida Senate has passed a bill that would allow new roads to be paved with a radioactive mining byproduct.
Science & Energy

This is a new low... even for Florida.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A crew of space tourists headed up to the ISS this week — and, once they arrived, had to learn how to go to the bathroom in zero gravity.
Off-World

We don't know how good we have it here on Earth.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 28-year-old coder in Berlin, Germany radically sped up his search for a new apartment in the city by using ChatGPT.
OpenAI

ChatGPT FTW!

By Sharon Adarlo

James Cameron revealed that he's working on a script for the next "Terminator," inspired by the rise of actual artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

It kinda makes sense.

By Victor Tangermann

An Android app that was supposed to be used to do screen recordings has been caught secretly recording audio and sending it somewhere shady.
Future Society

This kind of malware has a sordid history.

By Noor Al-Sibai

After warning that AI could kill us all, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued that AI could help fill in for the babies we're not having.
Google

Don't worry, it'll all work itself out in the end.

By Victor Tangermann

The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the next pandemic following COVID-19 could be even worse.
Developments

"We cannot kick this can down the road."

By Victor Tangermann

As the European Union readies its new artificial intelligence rules, the CEO of OpenAI is, apparently, already preparing his counter-attack. 
OpenAI

"If we can comply, we will, and if we can’t, we’ll cease operating."

By Noor Al-Sibai