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A study published Monday found that cannabis consumers were 22 percent more likely to end up in the ER or be hospitalized than those who didn’t smoke weed.
Developments

Study Finds That Weed Puts You at Higher Risk for Hospitalization

"Cannabis use is not as benign and safe as some might think."

By Frank Landymore

A pair of robotic arms allowed a partially paralyzed man to eat with a knife and fork, an impressive demonstration that could help many people.
Prosthetics and Devices

Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Man to Eat Cake With Knife and Fork

This is amazing.

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos has cancelled plans to transform an ocean freighter — renamed after his mother Jacklyn — into a booster rocket recovery site.
Off-World

Jeff Bezos Ditches Plan to Land Rockets on Ship Named for His Mom

Sorry, mom!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A massive cloud of yellow gas took the lives of at least 13 people after a crane accidentally dropped a chlorine gas tank onto a ship at a Jordanian port.
Science & Energy

Huge Cloud of Toxic Yellow Gas Kills 13

Horrifying.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins has harvested radishes and mizuna greens aboard the ISS — successfully grown without any soil whatsoever.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Harvest Delicious Space Vegetables, Sans Soil

Get ready for space hydroponics.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's been an entire week since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has last tweeted. Which begs the question: where the hell is Elon Musk?
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Missing

Where is he?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are perplexed by a mysterious star, believed to be destroyed in a supernova — only to be found still alive, burning brighter than ever before.
Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by Star That Exploded in Supernova But Somehow Survived

"This star surviving is a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi coming back as a force ghost in Star Wars."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's offices are literally not equipped to handle the recent influx of workers, with parking spots and desks becoming difficult to come by.
Tesla

Tesla Demanded Workers Come Back to Office, Then Realized It Didn’t Have Enough Desks

Oops.

By Victor Tangermann

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.
Hacking

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

"THE ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE!"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.
Environment

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

"As a materials expert, I believe that plastic one of the misunderstood materials."

By Victor Tangermann

Israeli military technology startup Camero-Tech has unveiled a device that it claims could allow soldiers to literally "see through walls," Insider reports.
Military

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

Kinda creepy!

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's job slash is in full swing — and newer employees, including some who had yet to start accepted positions, seem to be bearing the brunt.
Tesla

As Crisis Deepens, Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who’d Already Accepted Them

"D*mn, talk about a gut punch."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, is suing Ryder Ripps, an outspoken NFT critic who minted his own collection of Bored Ape clones.
Blockchain

Yuga Labs Files Furious Lawsuit Against Guy Minting Copies of Bored Apes

"This is no mere monkey business."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created a "wearable muscles" exosuit that's designed to give its wearer serious strength boost.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Show Off “Wearable Muscles” You Can Strap on to Get Way Stronger

It's compact enough to fit underneath a shirt.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at UC Riverside and the University of Delaware say they convinced food-bearing plants to grow in total darkness with acetate.
Science & Energy

Scientists Invent Way to Grow Plants in Complete Darkness

That could really come in handy.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Police in China are putting surveillance on the future with footage, data and patterns of residents and reporting troublemakers to the government.
Future Society

Police in China Stalk Citizens With Surveillance That Predicts Future Crime

It's giving 1984.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Snoop Dogg and Eminem released a new music video for "D 2 the LBC" featured the rappers as Bored Ape Yacht Club apes based on NFTs they own.
Blockchain

Eminem and Snoop Dogg Make Music Video Where They Appear as Their Bored Apes

Finally, apes that aren't boring af.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.
Off-World

Scientists Say the Sun Is Acting Up and Causing Satellites to Fall Back to Earth

Space weather is weird.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A pilot readying to land a plane at the giant, uber busy Los Angeles International Airport spotted someone flying a jetpack just 15 miles away from LAX.
Advanced Transport

Pilot Spots Jetpack While Landing at LAX

Not the smartest move.

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.
Blockchain

Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash

"As far as buying food and all that, maybe not."

By Lonnie Lee Hood