Futurism

Forgetting words is a common experience — but when your speech starts slowing, it could signal something worse. As dementia researchers explain in The Conversation, a new study had found that slowed-down speech may be a greater early indicator of dementia than "lethologica," the medical term for forgetting words. Conducted by researchers out of the […]

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suffer from fear and anxiety well past the traumatic event that triggered their PTSD. We try to stop these crippling emotions with a gamut of remedies, from counseling to medication, but what's the neural mechanism that sustains fear in people even when their environment is now safe? A team of […]

Not As I Do One of the world's most famous YouTubers is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps. "It’s painful to see people quit their job/drop out of school to make content full time before they’re ready," MrBeast posted on X-formerly-Twitter. "For every person like me that makes it, thousands don’t." "Keep […]

  In a newly released clip of the upcoming, inaugural episode of Don Lemon's show, which was recently rejected by Elon Musk's social media network X, the CNN anchor can be seen confronting Musk about his drug use. In the clip broadcast by CNN this week, Musk was upfront about taking ketamine. "The reason why […]

  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 […]

Strong Resemblance Employees at a wildlife center in Richmond have taken to wearing a supersized fox mask to help feed a baby fox — and folks online are pointing out that it looks a lot like, well, a fursuit. The story started off extremely wholesome, as it were: employees began wearing the fursuit-looking full-head mask, […]

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 […]

No Pain, No Gain Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang knows a thing or two about success. The gaming and AI chip maker he co-founded has soared to a ludicrous $2 trillion valuation under his leadership while his personal net worth has topped $80 billion. Now, in an interview with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he […]

Curious Causes As Boeing continues being in the news for its repeatedly malfunctioning planes, the fallout from one ex-employee's death continues — and new reports complicate the coroner's initial suicide ruling. In an interview with Charleston, South Carolina's ABC4 News, a friend of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, whose body was found dead in a car parked […]

  Tesla is having a horrible year so far. The Elon Musk-led company's future is on thin ice, CNN reports, and as we approach the end of Q1, Tesla has remained the worst-performing stock on the S&P 500 for over a month now. The company is down almost 32 percent since January, hitting a ten-month […]