Natural Selection The head of the world's largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid jaw-dropping claims about its death toll. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Nadhmi…
Doctor out of town? No problem — they can be beamed in as a 3D image. Crescent Regional Hospital outside Dallas, Texas, has become the first in the country to…
Shadow and Bone A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser, under specific conditions, can cast a shadow — a counterintuitive finding that could open…
Grandma Design UK telecom company Virgin Media O2 just revealed a fascinating AI entity: an audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except…
Scientists looked into the efficacy of an app that claims to help people lucid dream — and found it was a runaway success. Published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, this study…
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 saw…
Antarctic Rainforest Scientists have discovered amber in a sediment core recovered thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate the existence of an…
A new study has found that one of the top names in the groundbreaking new class of weight loss drugs may not only be good at treating diabetes, but could…
Mercurial Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a big deal out of being put in charge of a "Department of Government Efficiency" or DOGE by president-elect Donald Trump,…
Survive AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington — yes, the publishing mogul who started the Huffington Post during the mid-Bush administration — thought they could improve healthcare with…
Will.I.Am Shakespeare It's no secret that Google has been slammed with a tidal wave of AI-generated slop. The wide proliferation of easy-to-use large language models and image generators has polluted…
If you're hitting middle age, scientists say there's a simple way to live significantly longer — but unfortunately, it'll involve getting off your butt. According to new research, US adults…
Chilly Reception Coke is cashing in on your nostalgia by remaking one of its best-known commercials with all new tech: generative AI. 'Tis the season indeed. The Coca-Cola Company's recently…
The budding bromance between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump could have massive implications for the United States' space program — assuming the volatile pair don't flame out,…
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's newly minted secretary of Health and Human Services. But a particularly concrete example might be that…
Don't Speak In one of the many copyright lawsuits it's facing, OpenAI is asking a judge to narrow the scope of discovery to limit insider communications from being aired in…
Take a Leak In September, NASA's inspector general warned in a report that new cracks and leaks affecting the Russian segment of the aging International Space Station continued to be…
Pro Bonehead Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy's committee to slash government spending is now hiring — with one catch: you'll be working for free. On Thursday, the so-called…
Tick Tock Elon Musk and Donald Trump grew incredibly chummy toward the end of the election, but some influential Republicans think the supercharged pair's affection for one another is bound…
One Job If there's one thing the Tesla Cybertruck can be relied on for, it's not being reliable. On Wednesday, Tesla announced it was recalling around 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between…