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A new study shows that the children of gay dads tend to be more well adjusted than the kids of straight couples.
Studies

Scientists Find Kids With Gay Dads Are Doing Better Than Kids With Straight Dads

They're doing great, everybody.

By Sharon Adarlo

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.
Biology

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

It's one... giant...

By Frank Landymore

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.
Big Bang

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

This could explain a lot.

By Victor Tangermann

Highly detailed industrial computed tomography (CT) scans of a real Apple AirPod Pro and two fakes are blowing our minds.
Robots and Machines

This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds

You definitely get what you pay for.

By Victor Tangermann

A study says that kids who often drink soda are more impulsive, have bad working memory, and may drink alcohol in the future.
Neuroscience and Brain

Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory

"There is no consensus on a safe dose of caffeine in children."

By Sharon Adarlo

By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.
Off-World

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

Just a teensy bit.

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.
Science & Energy

Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

Argoland has finally been unearthed.

By Frank Landymore

An amateur astronomer has compiled new footage from NASA's asteroid-smashing mission to show just how incredible that collision really was.
NASA

Incredible New Videos Show NASA Smashing Into Asteroid

More than a year later, we're still getting visuals from NASA's badass DART mission.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."
Science & Energy

Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

The Sun's outbursts could trigger an "internet apocalypse."

By Victor Tangermann

Former Dreamworks and Walt Disney Studios executive Jeffrey Katzenberg believes AI will make animation far cheaper to produce.
Artificial Intelligence

The Guy Behind “Shrek” Says AI Is Going to Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation

Some of you may lose your jobs, but it's a sacrifice he's willing to make.

By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.
Off-World

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

Foiled again!

By Frank Landymore

Darren Aronofsky is slated to direct the movie, which will be based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

A24’s Making an Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky

Sigh... here we go.

By Frank Landymore

A tool bag was lost during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, and it should be orbiting low enough to see it with binoculars.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Let a Tool Bag Drift Away and You Can Now Spot It With Binoculars

See it before it burns up.

By Frank Landymore

Welsh police used facial recognition software to scan people suspected of terrorism or pedophilia at a Beyonce concert.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Scanned Beyoncé Concert for Pedophiles, Terrorists

But who watches the watchers?

By Sharon Adarlo

The head of the SEC thinks it's chill for FTX to be rebooted as long as whoever does it follows the letter of the law.
Blockchain

SEC Chair Says Fine, Go Ahead and Start FTX Up Again

What's the worst that could happen?

By Noor Al-Sibai

The people building new AIs are growing concerned with how lifelike the next generation of generative content has already become. 
Artificial Intelligence

AI Industry Insider Claims They Can No Longer Tell Apart Real and Fake

That's not good.

By Noor Al-Sibai

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

Boohoo.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.
Solar Power

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

Half of homes in Europe could've gotten all the energy they needed from rooftop solar panels in 2020.

By Frank Landymore

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
Exobiology

Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo

It's a bold strategy.

By Victor Tangermann

The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
Gene Editing

Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green

We love you, little freak.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré