Frank Landymore

Whatever you think of Twitter, now X, over a year after Elon Musk's takeover — whether, perhaps, you think inescapable porn bot spam and paid for blue check reply guys are worth enduring — the numbers tell a dismal story. NBC News reports that a mix of new data shows that the amount of daily […]

Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have discovered some of the earliest forebears of our galaxy: two streams of ancient stars that both formed over 12 billion years ago. As detailed in a study published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal,  the streams are so old that they likely predate the formation of the Milky […]

New research has shown that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems like our own may be less common throughout the cosmos than once believed. As detailed in the study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers analyzed the chemical composition of nearby stars to detect for signs […]

A movie released to critical acclaim has now been met with backlash after fans discovered it used AI-generated images. Written and directed by siblings Cameron and Colin Cairnes, "Late Night With the Devil," is a found footage horror movie starring David Dastmalchian as a 70's talk show host. It takes place in a live TV […]

Neuralink has released footage of the first human recipient of its brain implant controlling a computer cursor with his mind. The debut was made during a livestream on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. In the video, the recipient identifies himself as 29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, a quadriplegic who says he was left fully paralyzed below the […]

A huge, volatile comet called the "devil comet" is flying its way past Earth for the first time since 1954 and is currently visible in the night sky. Officially named 12P/Pons-Brookes, the periodically exploding comet earned its infernal moniker for the "horns" it sprouted after a recent eruption left it with a pair of distinctly […]

Intermittent fasting is a popular diet that's simple in theory and execution: you consume calories during a short, several hour window of the day, and outside of that you don't eat at all. This time regimented approach to dieting has helped many people achieve the discipline they need to lose weight. But a new study, […]

American sportswear brand Under Armour has come under fire for releasing an "AI-powered ad" which recycled footage made for previous commercials without full credit, TechCrunch reported, raising concern over whether the AI technology was being used to paper over other people's work. The one-minute commercial, which features British boxer Anthony Joshua in a black and […]

  SpaceX's massive constellation of satellites are an eye-grabbing spectacle, but they're also the center of great controversy, ranging from concerns about space junk to astronomers complaining they're blocking their view of the sky. Now, a controversial, yet to be peer reviewed paper has suggested an even more catastrophic consequence of the Starlink network. As […]

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has claimed that metallic fragments, or "spherules" his team recovered from the bottom of the TK ocean could be evidence of alien technology. Those spherules, Loeb maintains, came from a meteor dubbed IM1, which originated from outside our solar system and was confirmed as the first interstellar object known to fall […]