April 6, 2026 6:07 PM
April 6, 2026
You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You’d Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging
A growing contingent of the scientific community has become skeptical about the body of research finding that microplastics…
Scientists Investigating Whether Object NASA Is Approaching Is Core of Destroyed Planet
Scientists have long been intrigued by an enormous potato-shaped asteroid, dubbed 16 Psyche, that they suspect to be…
Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users
Your AI chatbot isn’t neutral. Trust its advice at your own risk. A striking new study, conducted by…
Australia Turns Into Bright-Red Vision of Hell
Tropical cyclone Narelle made history last week by becoming the first storm in over 20 years to make…
Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI
In its early days, Twitter alternative Bluesky tried to paint itself as a safe haven from the onslaught…
Law Seeks to Ban Public Officials From Making Polymarket Bets on Upcoming Bloodshed, Because Apparently We Live in a Complete Dystopia
Bad news, war profiteers: efforts are underway in the US to ban public officials from placing Polymarket and…
Top ICE Official Falling Apart Medically Due to Stress of Getting Yelled At
Look — it doesn’t matter if your job is supervising a burger joint or managing an office; it’s…
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…
Doctor Reels as Son Becomes Plumber in Age of AI
Fear not, dreary laborer. There will always be back-breaking jobs you can do when your office ones get…
Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Training an AI Agent to Do CEO Job
Here’s one job we won’t be sorry to see get automated with AI. According to a new scoop…
Microsoft Realizes It’s Epically Screwed Up Windows 11 as Users Rage at Copilot AI Crammed Everywhere
Microsoft’s commitment to shoving its Copilot AI chatbot into every imaginable facet of its widely-used Windows operating system…
Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks
In June 2019, a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa2 touched down on Ryugu, a 3,000-foot asteroid some 185 million…
Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons
As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has…
Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Unveils Plans for Orbital Anti-Asteroid Defense Weapons
Its rockets may have only reached orbit twice so far and its lunar lander is still many years…
SpaceX’s One Million Orbital Data Centers Would Be Debilitating for Astronomy Research, Scientists Say
Earlier this week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, successfully…
Scientists Just Found Something Rather Grim That Happens When You Stop Taking GLP-1s
Much has been said about how GLP-1s are “miracle” drugs, providing myriad health benefits beyond weight loss or…
The Head of the FBI Just Admitted Something Moderately Horrifying
Turns out the FBI’s been on a shopping spree. And it’s not just any spending binge: as director…
Quadcopter Drone Caught Trying to Deliver Hunting Knives to Inmates in Prison
Last weekend, a neon-green quadcopter drone released a mysterious package into a New York state prison, which was…
Scientists Startled by What Happens When They Point Hubble at Comet
Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet drifting through…
Birds Are Getting Hooked on Cigarettes
Nicotine, the highly addictive chemical compound in cigarettes, is having a bit of a resurgence as of late…