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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."

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

The Cybertruck Has a Small Issue With Looking Like Complete Garbage

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

Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions Per Thirst Trap

"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

Expert Says Rock That Hit Woman Was NOT a Meteorite

"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

US Treasury Secretary Reportedly Ate Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

"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

Amazing Fossil Froze Dinosaur in Death Match With Prehistoric Monster

This is almost too wild to be true.