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Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.
Off-World

This is ultimately bad for everyone.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In what could be a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have, for the first time ever, grown hair follicles in a lab. 
RX and Medicine

"You might be able to take hair from someone whose hair is really lush and make it grow in the lab."

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI image generators are not perfect as a channel called "failed-diffusions" on Stable Diffusion's public Discord server goes to show.
Artificial Intelligence

We're dying.

By Victor Tangermann

In the next year, Pfizer plans to nearly quadruple the per-dose price of their COVID-19 vaccine, jacking costs from $20 to $30 per shot to $110 to $130.
Developments

Other vaccine makers will likely follow suit.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered generator tools that can create brand new and uncanny music tracks at the click of a button are worrying record labels.
Artificial Intelligence

Is AI music infringing on the rights of artists?

By Victor Tangermann

According to a scathing new Greenpeace USA report, only five percent of plastic waste generated by US households — a shockingly low number.
Pollution

Recycling plastic is a "failed concept," according to a scathing new report.

By Victor Tangermann

Engineer and prototype machinist Brian Stanley has gone viral with a video of a cyborg eye flashlight that can light up an entire room.
Prosthetics and Devices

"I lost my eye to cancer, so I made this and turned my head into a flashlight."

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out for Slotie, a "metaverse casino" that was just issued an emergency cease-and-desist order by four different US states.
Metaverse

"Investing in virtual realities can leave investors virtually broke."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With new tests, NASA is asking a bold question: What if the easiest way for rovers to land on Mars is to let it crash onto the surface?
Mars

It's pretty genius.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a gas giant planet in the vicinity of a red dwarf star, and its density is so low that it's comparable to a marshmallow.
Mars

Its surface is pretty toasty, too.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University have constructed an AI-powered robot trained to kill cockroaches and other insects with a deadly laser.
Robotics

"If you can kill them, you can kill any pests."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ex-Tesla executive has unloaded on her former boss Elon Musk, who, according to her, used to transform into another person when he got mad.
Elon Musk

"I wasn't seeing Elon — I was seeing this person that was taken by anger."

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the help of the Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, eight-year-old David from Mexico, who suffers from cerebral palsy, is learning to walk.
Robotics

It's a miracle.

By Frank Landymore

Bloomberg reports that the Biden administration might perform a national security review of Elon Musk, his Twitter deal, and Starlink.
Elon Musk

It kind of makes sense.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has announced that it has put together a 16-expert team to investigate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) or UFOs.
NASA

"Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is at the heart of who we are at NASA."

By Noor Al-Sibai

By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.
Quantum Physics

"You can have the system behave as if there are two distinct directions of time."

By Frank Landymore

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, reportedly planned to spy on the locations of specific American citizens using the popular video app's location data.
Future Society

What the hell is TikTok up to?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ant photographed under a microscope by wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas has gone viral on social media for its evil appearance.
Science & Energy

Fear its gaze.

By Frank Landymore

New drone footage shows that Saudi Arabia has begun excavating for its giant skyscraper megacity — just after sentencing a group of people to execution.
Future Society

This is insane.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA’s New James Webb Shot Is Much Better When You Put Googly Eyes on It
James Webb Space Telescope

It's perfect. No notes.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré