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Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a whole continent.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

"This has profound implications..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!
Moon

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

Finally, science has an answer!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To train its AI models, Anthropic stripped the pages out of millions of physical books before immediately tossing them out.
Anthropic

Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

Such waste.

By Frank Landymore

To roll out the nearly seven-hour audiobook, Melania partnered with ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech software company.
Future Society

Melania Trump’s Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

"Artificial intelligence and social media are the digital candy for the next generation."

By Joe Wilkins

A writer coordinated a group of humans and their AI companions for a cabin retreat — and it went even worse than anyone could have imagined. 
Artificial Intelligence

Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

This sounds absolutely harrowing.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer made an application for smart glasses that can block billboards and other advertisements in real life.
Virtual Reality

New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising

Imagine: no more ads.

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in China are arresting writers, many of them women, for writing erotic fiction about men in intimate relationships.
Future Society

Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

Crime and punishment.

By Sharon Adarlo

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.
DNA

Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

Get Mary Shelley on the phone!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses faint luminescent properties.
Developments

Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

Wow... you really *are* having some bright ideas!

By Joe Wilkins

All of the industry's leading AI models resorted to blackmailing users in new tests conducted by researchers from Anthropic.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down

Getting AI models to not choose evil? It's harder than it looks.

By Frank Landymore

Despite president Donald Trump's plans to phase out the Space Launch System rocket — but the agency seems to have other plans.
NASA

NASA Continues Testing Multi-Billion Dollar Rocket While Trump Is Actively Trying to Cancel It

And things did not go well.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could be extracted.
Brain

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

"That's a substantial chunk of neuroscientists who think there's a very real chance that it will work."

By Sharon Adarlo

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find
Developments

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken."

By Frank Landymore

A decision to start factoring buy-now, pay-later data into FICO credit scores could have major impacts on the economy.
Future Society

Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy

"It’s going to get worse, at least in the short term."

By Joe Wilkins

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.
Science & Energy

Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur

We're a happy fa-m-ily!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists using the James Webb took its first ever direct picture of an exoplanet that resulted in its discovery.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It

Okay, that's pretty cool.

By Sharon Adarlo

Families trying to memorialize to their lost loved ones in space were shocked to learn that those remains ended up at sea.
Off-World

Families Get Unpleasant Surprise After Trying to Shoot Their Loved Ones’ Ashes Into Space

"It’s a bummer."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet, and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood.
Off-World

Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

What can a comet tell us about the Universe?

By Sharon Adarlo

As AI ruins the economy and takes over the world, Google is quietly working to change the advertising game in favor of AI. 
Artificial Intelligence

The Economy Is So Off the Rails That They’re Trying to Figure Out How to Make Ads Specifically Targeted at AI Bots

Who wins in this scenario?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.
Brain

Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain

But to what end?

By Sharon Adarlo