Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again. With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that this entire region could suddenly collapse into a destructive maelstrom of swirling debris, posing a threat… Continue reading Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn
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Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery
A 2,000 year old battery, or just a very interesting pot? This is the debate that’s been swirling over the fragments of a puzzling artifact discovered in Iraq nearly a century ago. Dubbed the “Baghdad battery,” it’s believed to have originally been a clay jar housing a copper vessel, at the center of which was… Continue reading Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery
Entire City Buried by Epic Snow
Alexander A. Piragis/Anadolu via Getty Images As much of North America is still recovering from a devastating winter storm over the weekend, other parts of the globe have already been through much worse. Consider the Kamchatka Peninsula, a Russian territory that reaches into the Pacific Ocean north-east of Japan, which has been battling with record… Continue reading Entire City Buried by Epic Snow
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped from the internet. Scientists are still trying to better understand what will happen when these AI models run out of that content and have to rely on synthetic, AI-generated data instead, closing a potentially dangerous loop. Studies… Continue reading AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI
Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Meta says it’s cutting off teenagers’ access to its AI characters — at least until it can build “better” ones. The Mark Zuckerberg company announced the change on Friday, signaling at least some degree of hesitation at the company over how young users are engaging with its chatbots amid mounting concern… Continue reading Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
Gaston Paris / Contributor A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer reviewed, was written… Continue reading AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning
Adult content has never been as accessible as it is now, thanks to the internet. Hell, online smut played a major role in the rise of the web itself in the 1990s. With that glut of porn, some have voiced concerns that some people are consuming too much of the stuff or even becoming addicted,… Continue reading Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning
Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in 2026 can feel more like applying for a bank loan than seeking a job. At least, that’s what a group of disgruntled job seekers is claiming in a… Continue reading Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI
Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form
Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios via Loron / Cooper et al. It’s a plant! It’s a fungus! It’s… an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That appears to be the case for a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived over 400 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form
When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People
The headlines of 2025 painted a portrait of America in chaos, driven by the financial logic of America’s media ecosystem. It’s number one product isn’t news, but fear. “NYC youth crime doubled since controversial state Raise the Age Law kicked in,” exclaims one hysterical New York Post headline from September. “Business owners express frustration over… Continue reading When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People