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Here are a few April Fools' shenanigans that, if they weren't necessarily works of comedic art, certainly caught our attention.
Future Society

Okay, that last one...

Space Station Tourists Will Only Enter Russian Segment If Invited, CEO Says
Off-World

It's an awkward time to fly to the International Space Station.

Some users who've taken "magic" mushrooms have experienced "wood-lover's paralysis," also called WLP, and lose control of their body through temporarily.
Neuroscience and Brain

"I couldn't even chew."

Bitcoin — with a capital B — was designed to have a hard cap of 21 million Bitcoins, a limited coin supply. Miners are about to hit the 19 million mark.
Bitcoin

But what does that actually mean?

A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature says a giant blob in a core part of Earth, called mantle plumes, are actually moving.
Climate Change

What is going on down there?

A new report finds Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps cancer doctors who work on thyroid diseases on call or with him at all times.
Cancer

What's going on with Putin's health?

During a recent interview, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he was given a brand new nickname by the people working for him: Eye of Sauron.
Future Society

He says it's a compliment.

Enhance! NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the agency's tiny four pound Ingenuity Mars helicopter from orbit — an impressive feat.
Mars

There it is!

Police found five deceased fetuses in the DC home of a Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising anti-choice activist who had already been arrested five times.
Health & Medicine

Dear god.

Scientists have created a bizarre magnetic slime that can be remotely controlled via a magnetic field, New Scientist reports.
Prosthetics and Devices

Wait, does that look like...

Ukraine officials are now saying that the Russian military is making a hasty retreat from Chernobyl nuclear after troops suffered radiation poisoning there.
Military

Officials say they "panicked at the first sign of illness."

According to reports obtained by The Verge, Facebook engineers warned of a "massive ranking failure" that allowed misinformation to flood people's feeds.
Future Society

Oops!

Vermont representative Bernie Sanders wants to make sure $10 billion of taxpayers' funds won't land in the hands of Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos.
Moon

"If Mr. Bezos wants to go to the Moon, good for him. He has $186 billion in personal wealth.

Now, Scientific American reports that researchers have created a new message to beam out to any intelligent aliens who might be out there.
Science & Energy

"An updated, binary-coded message has been developed for transmission to extraterrestrial intelligences..."

Hackers have been forging emergency legal requests to get personal information from both Facebook parent company Meta and tech giant Apple.
Data Privacy

They just had to ask nicely.

Home security camera manufacturer Wyze kept a vulnerability a secret for three years and didn't let the public know hackers were watching their videos.
Robots and Machines

Yeah, they saw that.

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna published a study that summarizes all the current knowledge about microplastics and human consumption.
Climate Change

But there's an easy way to cut it in half.

Airbus' A380 test plane took off from France and completed a three-hour flight ran on Sustainable Aviation Fuel, also called SAF, made from cooking oil.
Climate Change

"I consider it to have a distinct odor of cooking oil."

SpaceX's long-awaited Crew-4 mission, previously scheduled for April 19, is now slated for April 20, a day with particular significance to CEO Elon Musk.
NASA

Nice!

Russian soldires dug trenches near Chernobyl and have acute radiation sickness. Some went to a special medical facility in Belarus; others are feared dead.
Science & Energy

"Live the rest of your short life with this."