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"Transformers" actor Megan Fox likes drinking blood from her boyfriend, the rapper Machine Gun Kelly's blood. Here's why that's a terrible idea.
Developments

Vampire Association Warns Against Drinking Human Blood

Wait, what?

Scientists told national French news outlet AFP that human urine may be a way to better fertilize agricultural produce and reduce climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Say Key to Feeding World May Be Human Urine

"We are beginning to understand how precious water is."

Billionaire and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said he wouldn't take $25 for all the cryptocurrency and bitcoin in the world. What happened?
Bitcoin

Warren Buffett Says He Wouldn’t Buy All the Bitcoin in the World for $25

Why'd he switch up now?

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a special device that can trick you into feeling like a spider is crawling across your mouth.
Virtual Reality

Rejoice! Scientists Say Amazing Technology Can Make You Feel VR Spiders Crawling on Your Mouth

Who wouldn't want to experience that?

The Event Horizon Telescope project, which brought us the first-ever image of a black hole back in 2019, is back for its latest announcement this month.
Science & Energy

The Black Hole Telescope Scientists Are Hyping Something Huge

They're promising something "groundbreaking."

Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin may have it out for his own space agency.
NASA

Former NASA Official Says Russian Space Head Is Trapped, Trying to Escape

"He never wanted this job."

Canada has snuck a Criminal Code amendment into its 2022 federal budget making it a crime to commit illegal acts — in outer space.
Off-World

Canada Says Astronauts Are No Longer Allowed to Murder Each Other

Well, okay then.

There may be a link between cats and psychosis, according to new reserach from scientists at McGill University in Montreal.
Parasites

Can Cats Infect You With a Psychosis-Inducing Brain Parasite? The Answer Is Complicated

"Cat ownership in childhood may be a risk factor for psychotic experiences in adulthood."

Despite hackers stealing $13.7 million of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, interest was so high in its metaverse plots the Ethereum crypto blockchain crashed.
Ethereum

Bored Apes’ New Drop Was So Popular That It Crashed the Entire Ethereum Blockchain

Smell that? It's blood in the water.

Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne has tested postive for COVID-19, a disease that may have come from bats, 40 years after he bit the head off a live bat.
Developments

In Epic Revenge, Bats Infect Ozzy Osbourne

Destiny — and bats — comes for us all.

The European Space Agency posted new photos of Mars' topography captured by the Mars Express. The depressions look like "fingernail" scratches.
Mars

Scientists: It’s As If Something With Huge “Fingernails” Scratched the Surface of Mars

Are there monsters on Mars yet?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Twitter users he doesn't like Adderall, Ritalin, Wellbutrin and other prescriptions used to treat mental illness.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Warns Against Specific Prescription Drugs

Not cool.

Swimmer Ben Lecomte swam the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, where fish and animals thrive. Life created an entire unexpected ecosystem.
Climate Change

Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists Say

It's bittersweet.

A man drank shigella bacteria, which causes excruciating dysentary and tweeted the week-long process in stomach-churning detail.
Health & Medicine

Brave Volunteer Drinks “Dysentery Smoothie” to Give Himself “Life-Threatening Diarrhea”

"I truly felt like I could not move."

Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, assumed Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez subtweeted him on Twitter yesterday in an awkward exchange.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Feuding With [Checks Notes] AOC

C'mon, man.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group modified a virtual reality headset to simulate haptics on the mouth and kissing in VR.
Future Society

Scientists Invent Weird Device to Simulate Kissing in VR

At last!

Paleontologists have found a giant ichthyosaur tooth in the Swiss Alps that re-writes what we know about their size. Glacial melt could meant more.
Environment

Scientists Find Giant Tooth

"Bigger is always better."

A Tesla Model 3 owner's vehicle was taken apart by a local body shop, after he rented it out to them over peer-to-peer carsharing app Turo.
Tesla

Man Freaks When Someone Rents His Tesla and Starts Taking It Apart

"Should I be worried? Should I be calling the cops?"

The Federal Aviation Association's environmental assessment of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft has been set back yet again, according to a notice.
Starship

The FAA Just Pushed Back SpaceX’s Starship Orbital Test Even Further

Starship is still grounded.

A controversial TikTok account fooled fans into believing a deepfake Robert Pattinson, but has since been deleted. Who did it?
Artificial Intelligence

Deepfaked Robert Pattinson TikTok Account Mysteriously Nuked

"That uncanny valley feeling haunts me when I watch this."