Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be doing more harm than if we stopped polluting the ocean with plastic in the first place.

Plastic Pretending

What ARE we supposed to do, then?

Marine Scientists Say Pulling Plastic Out of the Ocean Isn't Even Worth It

Russia's internet regulator Roskomnazor has announced it is officially blocking Facebook outright in retaliation of the company blocking state media.

Discrimination, Huh

"Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information."

Russia Is Officially Blocking All Access to Facebook

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.

AI Dot Net

"The internet would be completely unrecognizable."

Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

One UK father is getting backlash online for tricking his family into thinking Russia launched a nuclear bomb attack with a prank BBC news segment.

Dad Jokes

That's seriously messed up.

Dad Criticized for "Pranking" Family Into Thinking They Were Going to Die in Nuclear War

A team at the University of Southern California managed to capture images of a memory form in laboratory zebra fish brains in real time.

Fishy Fear

Oh, so that's what a memory looks like.

Scientists Watch Memories Form in Living Brain

The NFT market is starting to cool down, Bloomberg reports. The average trading value of the nonfungible tokens has dropped precipitously lately.

NFT Cooling

It's not quite that simple.

Report: The NFT Bubble Could Be Starting to Burst

A NASA flight controller and safety engineer aboard the ISS said that geopolitical tensions haven't affected his relationship with his Russian coworkers.

Friendly Coworkers

"We have the same goal… to ensure the crew and vehicle are safe."

NASA ISS Engineer Says Relationships With Russian Counterparts Still Cordial

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

Shark Attacked

"It surprises people that these things can turn up on their pet’s plate.”

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.

Not a Good Look

He's reaping what he sowed.

Bumbling Russian Space Boss Forced to Slash Huge Raise He Gave Himself

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.

Look Out Below!

Your destination has arrived. 

A Derelict Rocket Just Smashed Into the Moon, Experts Say

If a new state legislature bill becomes law, Oklahomans may soon have to go out of state to buy and service their Teslas. 

EV Haters

That doesn't seem like a great idea.

Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill To Outlaw Tesla Sales and Service Centers

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning users in Ukraine who have received one of the company's Starlink dishes could be targeted by Russian actors.

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