June 25, 2026 5:18 PM
June 25, 2026
Scientists Intrigued by Microbe That That Makes Mice Swole
A special gut microbe helped mice get jacked, researchers found. Because this microbe is found in humans, it…
Sharks Showing Unusually High Levels of Cocaine
The expression “coked to the gills” has never been more apt. Scientists from Brazil have discovered that sharks…
Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain
Shortly after the influential biogerontologist L. Stephen Coles was declared legally dead in 2014, his brain was put…
China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky
Now officially taking rides: an over-a-half-mile long escalator that stretches ever upward in a mountainous city in China’s…
Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office
Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the…
Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity”
As NASA continues to push for a permanent presence on the Moon, future space travelers will face plenty…
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.” Now, a decade on,…
Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from…
Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes
The future of robotics may not lie in the clunky androids we’ve been seeing so many of lately,…
Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America
Police technology is a major business in the US. Altogether, the law enforcement equipment market was valued at…
New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop
Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re…
Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge
Elon Musk’s promises tend to follow a formula. They involve a number ending in “-illion,” pertaining to something…
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex…
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running…
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s…
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House…
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and…
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts…
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use…
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform…
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff.…
Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself
Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely…
SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks
Now that EV tax incentives have gone up in smoke, Tesla is expected to disappoint once again with…
Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska
Some of Alaska’s scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange…