Technology

Glacial Fright This week, Alaska's Mendenhall glacier has flooded its accompanying river in Juneau, and city officials are calling it an "unprecedented" catastrophe. As CNN and other outlets report, more than 100 houses in the remote Arctic state's capital have been damaged as a result of what is known as a "glacial lake," which occurs when […]

  A new survey conducted by interns at investment bank Morgan Stanley has found that the "Tesla 'cool factor' is cooling" among Gen Zers in the US. According to the report, the Elon Musk-led company was the most desirable brand for only 11 percent of Morgan Stanley interns, compared to 14 percent last year, and […]

American women getting abortions actually increased in the first quarter of this year compared to previous periods, according to a new report, when the right to an abortion was still guaranteed until it was overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2022. The increase is largely due to doctors in more abortion-friendly states providing abortion […]

Need a Lift? How ancient Egyptians managed to build their astonishingly large but precisely engineered pyramids is something that scientists are still trying to piece together. It's no secret that they were fairly technologically sophisticated for their day, but new research suggests that at least one pyramid was built using a technology altogether more ingenious: […]

It's the setup to a meeting of the minds for the ages. Wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan has just announced his support for presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr — and we couldn't name a more potent matchup of two credulous meatheads, one of whom says he has brain worms, while the other at least […]

Baggage Claim Chicago authorities are scratching their heads after they had found a woman who had died after getting tangled up in a baggage carousel's conveyor belt at the O'Hare International Airport, The Guardian reports. The strange situation came to light on Thursday when fire officials were called to the airport that morning at 7:45 […]

Spin Class The biggest iceberg on the planet has apparently been spinning in place for months — and that's very much not what it's supposed to do. As the BBC reports, the ginormous iceberg named A23a is supposed to be moving along Earth's most powerful current. Instead, it's trapped atop a huge rotating column of water […]

When staying in the Parisien Olympic Village during this year's summer games, American athletes were shocked and awed to discover an underrated aspect of European life: free healthcare. As Sports Illustrated reports, US Olympians are taking full advantage of the free health services provided at the Olympic Village. From gynecology to ophthalmology and most everything in […]

Have the Bots You know, most social media sites try to purge bots from their platforms. But Meta-owned Instagram says hey, why not let people create their own bots, using — wait for it — AI? This is the push behind Meta's newly released AI Studio, which allows US-based Instagram accounts to create an AI […]

Make Tesla Great Again Tesla CEO Elon Musk's endorsement of former TV host Donald Trump is starting to directly affect the EV maker's business in Europe. As Fortune reports, Rossman, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, cited the mercurial CEO's support for the former president and climate change denier — who has repeatedly flip-flopped […]