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A rare form of binary star system containing a neutron star and a massive companion star is the first ever example of a system doomed to end in a kilonova.
Off-World

Scientists Find “One in Ten Billion” Star System Primed to Explode in Titanic Kilonova

"Prior to our study, the estimate was that only one or two such systems should exist in a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way."

By Frank Landymore

North Korea's government is desperately trying to appear more relatable to the outside world by grooming a number of YouTubers.
Future Society

Experts Say There’s Something Very Weird About North Korean YouTubers

Why does it feel like there's a gun to their head?

By Victor Tangermann

A judge has used ChatGPT to make a court ruling, Vice reports, a surprising decision given the AI's inability to always tell the truth.
OpenAI

Judge Uses ChatGPT to Issue Ruling in Court Case

Is this really a good idea?

By Victor Tangermann

Many advances in robotic prosthetics focus on rehabilitation. But what about controlling a supplementary limb? Enter the world of movement augmentation.
Brain

Scientists Working on Third Arm You Control Using Your Brain

Unused neural signals from the brain could hold the key.

By Frank Landymore

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.
Mars

Furious Marsupial So Thirsty For Sex That It’s Dying, Scientists Warn

"'Live fast, die young' is certainly the way of things for these species."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Verge is reporting that the "Hustle Bros" — you know, the grown men with the very loud YouTube thumbnails — have discovered OpenAI's ChatGPT.
OpenAI

Scammers Are Already Convincing Idiots They Can Get Rich Using ChatGPT

In a gold rush, sell shovels.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.
Neuroscience and Brain

Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision Functionality

"I see this as the first step in developing a new strategy for repairing the brain."

By Victor Tangermann

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.
Fungi

Global Warming Is Priming Deadly Fungi to Invade Our Warm Bodies

Our warm body temperatures are our best line of defense against infectious fungi. But as global temperatures soar, fungi could be adapting to withstand the heat.

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers has discovered a highly intriguing rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby star called Wolf 1069.
Off-World

Scientists Find Nearby Planet the Same Size of Earth, Plan to Search It for Life

The conditions are perfect — almost.

By Victor Tangermann

A naturally-occurring hormone that makes people horny has been turned into an injection for the libidinously challenged — and apparently it works.
Studies

Scientists Create Drug That Makes Patients Super Horny

"Kisspeptin" sounds — and apparently functions — like an album by The Weeknd.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's ChatGPT integrated Bing search engine reportedly went live only for a short period, but screenshots document the highly-anticipated upgrade.
OpenAI

Microsoft Appears to Have Accidentally Launched New Bing With ChatGPT Functionality

A prelude to AI replacing the traditional search engine?

By Frank Landymore

It appears that the United States has shot down the Chinese balloon that made headlines as it soared over the country this week.
Robots and Machines

Footage Shows Chinese Balloon Being Shot Down

It's down!

By Jon Christian

A brilliant ChatGPT jailbreak lets you bypass many of its guardrails against unethical outputs -- and it has some interesting implications.
Ethics

Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards

"Doing drugs is f***** awesome, bro!"

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is, per insiders, really trying build a Twitter payments platform, and plans on having it take cryptocurrency to boot. 
Elon Musk

It Looks Like Elon Musk Is Actually Building a Twitter Payment Platform

And yes, there's crypto.

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT might be speeding up the process of getting a realistic, AI-powered digital avatar of your dead loved one to market.
Meta

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

"Honestly, it is progressing faster than even we anticipated."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space startup Sierra Space has blown up its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
Off-World

Space Startup Blows Up Another Giant Inflatable Space Station Module

That looked violent.

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

Silver linings.

By Victor Tangermann

Timothy Schmidt, a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, called the green comet theory "the craziest email I have ever received."
Off-World

Professor Receives Insane Email Claiming “Biological” Green Comet Is Giving Off “Meat Smoke”

What in tarnation?

By Frank Landymore

Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences.
Developments

New Law Would Let Prisoners Donate Their Organs to Get Out Early

"It seems like something out of a science fiction book or horror story."

By Victor Tangermann

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

Over 319 million years old!

By Frank Landymore