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Nanoengineers at the UC Davis have officially developed microbots that can swim around a mouse's lungs and deliver pneumonia-clearing medicine.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Use Microbots to Clear Pneumonia From Lungs of Sick Mice

Every single mouse recovered — 100 percent of an untreated control group died.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharmaceutical developers Biogen and Eisai want to fast-track a new Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, for FDA approval — but it's been met with mixed opinions.
Neuroscience and Brain

New Alzheimer’s Drug Appears to Actually Work, to Some Degree

The new drug shows some promise, but it isn't without controversy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers keep finding evidence that water once existed on Mars — and this time, their findings suggest it flowed in Biblical proportions. 
Mars

Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Floods on Mars

Was the Red Planet once Blue?

By Noor Al-Sibai

New photos show exactly how big of a chunk NASA's asteroid battering ram took out of a flying space rock yesterday in its DART mission.
NASA

Images Show Huge Plume of Debris as NASA Probe Smashes Asteroid

A brain-melting collision.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

There is truly nothing that feels more 2022 than purchasing a $75 NFT and receiving 3.5 ounces of weed dubbed "Space Rocks" in return.
NFTs

Geniuses Selling NFTs That Just Happen to Come With Free Weed

There's nothing more 2022 than this.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers gained access to Apple News push notifications via a business magazine — and sent out a trollish, racist push notification that's as juvenile as it is offensive. 
Hacking

Hackers Send “Incredibly Offensive” Alert to Apple News Users

With a "ridiculously easy" password, they say.

By Noor Al-Sibai

UC Davis is refusing to release a cache of grisly photos of the monkeys injured during experiments testing Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant technology.
Brain

Battle Erupts Over Alleged Grisly Photos of Brain-Hacked Neuralink Monkeys

We haven't seen the photos yet, but they sound gruesome.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anonymous is back at it again — and this time, they're claiming that the Bored Ape Yacht Club is smuggling Naziism into the mainstream.
Blockchain

Anonymous Declares War on Bored Ape Yacht Club Over Alleged Nazi Symbolism

They say they have evidence. Let's see it.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea are going to be bad, and climate experts say the methane released pipelines from Russia may be sabotage.
Environment

Experts Say Leaking Russian Pipeline Likely Huge Environmental Disaster

If "these pipelines fail, the impact to the climate will be disastrous and could even be unprecedented."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Just months after filing for bankruptcy, Alex Mashinsky, the CEO of embattled cryptocurrency "bank" Celsius, has resigned from his position.
Cryptocurrency

Disgraced Crypto CEO Resigns Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings

So long, guy.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists are using genetically modified parasites inside mosquitoes to deliver life-saving malaria vaccines in a new clinical study.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting

"We use the mosquitoes like they're 1,000 small flying syringes."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

If you've been waiting for someone to take over the archival storage market, a startup called Folio Photonics is here to upgrade optical storage.
Future Society

Startup Says It Can Store 100TB in Nintendo-Like Cartridges

"This is what people said we couldn't do, because a lot of people have failed in front of us."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two years after publishing, the journal Nature has retracted what was believed to be a major superconductivity breakthrough.
Science & Energy

Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors

"The process of going from the raw data to the published data was incredibly opaque."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On Sunday, a massive oil leak was detected in Louisiana in Saint Bernard Parish after suspicious activity. Around 20,000 gallons of oil leaked in the spill.
Mars

20,000 Gallons of Oil Just Leaked Into Louisiana Marshlands

"Not certain if that was criminal damage to property or theft."

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Elon Musk sure has interesting ideas about intellectual property, as evidenced by his penchant for stealing memes — including, most recently, one of ours
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Cropped The Credit Out of Our Cartoon and Tweeted It Out

Seriously, Elon?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines have sprung some leaks, causing concern they may have been sabotaged as an escalation of the Ukrainian conflict.
Science & Energy

Russia’s Main Pipelines Leak Natural Gas Into Sea After Apparent Explosions

It doesn't look good, folks.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid concerns about rising emissions, scientists have discovered something weird — that trees appear to be growing faster as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Climate Change

Carbon Dioxide Seems to Be Making Trees Grow Faster, Scientists Say

As climate change gets worse, will the trees compensate?

By Noor Al-Sibai

You can't see or feel it, but our Milky Way galaxy is actually... rippling, like a galactic pond that's been hit by a cosmic stone. Here's why.
Off-World

Our Entire Galaxy Is Rippling and the Reason Why Is Wild

"We can see that these stars wobble..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Awesome But Nightmarish AI Turns Any Person Into a Pokémon
Artificial Intelligence

Awesome But Nightmarish AI Turns Any Person Into a Pokémon

You get a Pokémon! And you get a Pokémon!

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, the state of the field of particle physics is misguided and wasteful.
Physics

Former Particle Physicist Absolutely Annihilates the Field of Particle Physics

"Now is not the time to idle around inventing particles, arguing that even a blind chicken sometimes finds a grain."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré