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It's not over just yet, but we're almost there, the United Nations' IPCC watchdog group has said in its latest anxiety-inspiring report.
Climate Change

Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble

Things are not looking good.

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Plant Admits It Accidentally Leaked 400,000 Gallons of Radioactive Water

The leak was first identified in November, but authorities are only just now letting the public know.

Residents of Sacremento and Northern California at large were treated to fiery streaks soaring overhead. Magnificent, but with mundane origins.
Off-World

Jettisoned From Space Station, Burning Space Junk Streaks Across California Sky

Damn!

Some scientists have made fancy space concrete out of potato starch — and it works much better thank building bricks out of blood and urine to work.
Mars

Scientists Propose Mars Settlers Live in Potato-Based Structures

Hey, stop eating the Mars habitat!

If you need random numbers generated, steer clear of ChatGPT. Unless you want responses to be less random and more poisoned by human preferences, that is.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Hilariously Bad at Generating Random Numbers

How hard can it be?

Babesiosis ticks
Developments

Summer 2023’s Hot Tick-Borne Flu Disease to Fear: Babesiosis

Wear long pants and longer sleeves, folks.

The AI-powered Wonder Studio allows users to automatically replace real actors with convincing CGI characters — with a simple drag and drop.
Future Society

Mind-Blowing Video Editing App Can Replace Actors With CGI With a Simple Drag and Drop

"...we want to have a platform where any kid can sit and direct films by sitting at his computer and typing."

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat
Elon Musk

Oh, Great, Elon Musk Has Entered the Trans Kids “Debate” Chat

Guess which side he's on.

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future
Drones

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future

A Jetsons-esque future of delivery, that might finally be here.

Rolls-Royce Will Be Building a Nuclear Reactor for the Moon
Moon

Rolls-Royce Will Be Building a Nuclear Reactor for the Moon

Fancy, huh?

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue
Exobiology

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue

Moons are an absolute menace, it turns out.

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans
Robotics

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

Robots in the workplace? Well they better be goddamn adorable.

MIT students have dreamed up a lunar colony-building robot that's part spider and part worm — and looks 100% creepy as heck.
Robotics

MIT Students Built a Terrifying Mix-and-Match Spider Robot to Build Lunar Colonies

That's one way to build a lunar colony.

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”
Health & Medicine

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

And Who Are YOU to Say Otherwise?!?!

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash
Black Holes

Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash

And they're taking four galaxies down with them!

Pandemic Wasn’t So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study
Mental Health

Pandemic Wasn’t So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study

Social media is literally where nuance goes to die.

A pair of philosophers sounded the alarm on the dystopian applications they see being ushered in by brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
Computers

Experts Warn: Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Usher In the Singularity

They "could change us irrevocably."

Canada’s New Space Agency Logo Is Very Awesome (and Very Canadian)
Off-World

Canada’s New Space Agency Logo Is Very Awesome (and Very Canadian)

O, Canada: We're kinda jealous tbh.

venus volcanos
Off-World

Incredible: An Active Volcano on Venus, Seen for the Very First Time

It's still kicking.

A startup co-founded by a SpaceX alum plans to jumpstart the future of space manufacturing with its orbital pharmaceutical lab run by robots.
Space

Startup Wants to Use Robots to Make Drugs in Space

Microgravity could be the key to coming up with brand new medicines.