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New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!
Moon

Finally, science has an answer!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To train its AI models, Anthropic stripped the pages out of millions of physical books before immediately tossing them out.
Anthropic

Such waste.

By Frank Landymore

To roll out the nearly seven-hour audiobook, Melania partnered with ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech software company.
Future Society

"Artificial intelligence and social media are the digital candy for the next generation."

By Joe Wilkins

A writer coordinated a group of humans and their AI companions for a cabin retreat — and it went even worse than anyone could have imagined. 
Artificial Intelligence

This sounds absolutely harrowing.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer made an application for smart glasses that can block billboards and other advertisements in real life.
Virtual Reality

Imagine: no more ads.

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in China are arresting writers, many of them women, for writing erotic fiction about men in intimate relationships.
Future Society

Crime and punishment.

By Sharon Adarlo

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.
DNA

Get Mary Shelley on the phone!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses faint luminescent properties.
Developments

Wow... you really *are* having some bright ideas!

By Joe Wilkins

All of the industry's leading AI models resorted to blackmailing users in new tests conducted by researchers from Anthropic.
Artificial Intelligence

Getting AI models to not choose evil? It's harder than it looks.

By Frank Landymore

Despite president Donald Trump's plans to phase out the Space Launch System rocket — but the agency seems to have other plans.
NASA

And things did not go well.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could be extracted.
Brain

"That's a substantial chunk of neuroscientists who think there's a very real chance that it will work."

By Sharon Adarlo

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find
Developments

"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken."

By Frank Landymore

A decision to start factoring buy-now, pay-later data into FICO credit scores could have major impacts on the economy.
Future Society

"It’s going to get worse, at least in the short term."

By Joe Wilkins

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.
Science & Energy

We're a happy fa-m-ily!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists using the James Webb took its first ever direct picture of an exoplanet that resulted in its discovery.
James Webb Space Telescope

Okay, that's pretty cool.

By Sharon Adarlo

Families trying to memorialize to their lost loved ones in space were shocked to learn that those remains ended up at sea.
Off-World

"It’s a bummer."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet, and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood.
Off-World

What can a comet tell us about the Universe?

By Sharon Adarlo

As AI ruins the economy and takes over the world, Google is quietly working to change the advertising game in favor of AI. 
Artificial Intelligence

Who wins in this scenario?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.
Brain

But to what end?

By Sharon Adarlo

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Artificial Intelligence

“I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré