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Elon Musk's daughter has filed to change her name and gender identity marker because she doesn't want to be associated with her famous father. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Daughter Comes Out as Trans, Cuts Ties With Father

"I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.
Moon

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

Are we ever going to make it back to the Moon?

Scientists say they've figured out at least part of North America's invasive, imported fire ant problem by turning a virus that kills them into a weapon.
Viruses

Scientists Suggest Killing Ants With Viruses

It's because they're murderers and vandals.

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

Virtual trees might make our brains happy.

"We’re changing Starlink’s default wifi name to Stinky," Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted yesterday. Will he really call the Starlink wifi Stinky?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Starlink’s Default WiFi Name Will Be “Stinky”

Whoever smelled it dealt it.

The clock is ticking for Voyager 1 and 2. NASA says the Voyager vehicles will run out of power by 2025, ending a decades-long mission launched in 1977.
NASA

Tragedy! NASA Says the Voyager Space Probes are Powering Down

An era closes.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.
Google

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

"Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf."

Videos a TikTok account literally named "Unreal Margot," are posting are deepfakes, not real clips of actress Margot Robbie, the "Suicide Squad" star.
Future Society

Amazing Deepfakes of Margot Robbie Are Almost Indistinguishable From Reality

It's literally called "Unreal Margot."

Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other polar bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said in a new study.
Climate Change

Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland

Is this what hope feels like?

The sleek white exterior of Tesla's electric Semi looks more than a luxury RV than an 18-wheeler. So why are Tesla Semi customers still waiting?
Tesla

Watch the Tesla Semi Show Off at a Speedway

"Need to see them on the streets."

Cattle are dying by the thousands because of an intense heat wave. The The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed at least 2,000 dead cattle.
Climate Change

Thousands of Cattle Die From Intense Heat in US

"I have never seen anything like this."

A group of researchers say they found the molecules in mouse blood that reduces appetite and obesity — an exercise pill, if you will.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Say They’re Honing in on a Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

The medicine could prevent osteoporosis and heart disease.

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.
Off-World

Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

And their remains are still inside it.

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral
Climate Change

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

What's going on here!?

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.
Off-World

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

What, like you have a better idea?

An international team of researchers have created a wriggly "odd wheel" robot that can spontaneously roll up an incline.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Wheel That Can Roll Uphill

It's runnin' up that hill.

Police in Virginia Beach arrested two men they say stole gas and re-sold it at a discount to other people using a gas hack and social media.
Energy

Police Say Dudes Hacked Gas Station Pumps to Make Prices Lower

"First of all: praise be to those boys."

A UK toddler started puberty at just two years old after being exposed to his dad's testosterone gel, a hormone used for gender-affirming care.
RX and Medicine

Doctors Puzzled by Two-Year-Old Boy Who Already Hit Puberty

"His own environment was contaminated."

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?
Cryptocurrency

New York State May Ban Any Crypto Mining Powered by Fossil Fuels

Okay, that's an interesting idea.

Russia's Progress cargo spacecraft had to perform an unplanned engine burn to avoid debris left behind by one of the country's own satellites.
Off-World

Russia Forced to Dodge Space Debris From When It Blew Up Satellite

Well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.