Futurism

Hardboiled Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought, Space.com reports. It's called WASP-12b, and while the existence of an egg planet is delightful, don't get too attached. Once it collides with its parent star, it'll disintegrate. And unfortunately for the exoplanet, a recent — though yet-to-be-peer-reviewed — […]

Medicare could soon start to pay for weight-loss treatment drug Wegovy, the Wall Street Journal reports, a treatment that has gained a considerable amount of popularity, especially among celebrities. Not every Medicare member, however, will qualify. Per the report, only those with a history of heart disease, who are using it to prevent heart attacks […]

Grim Tale Billionaire Angela Chao, who accidentally backed into a pond at her Texas ranch while driving her Tesla and drowned, had a blood alcohol level that was almost three times more than the state's limit, The BBC reports. Blanco County Sheriff's Office confirmed the findings to news media this week and called the events […]

On the morning of March 15, workers at The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk arrived to find that one of the facility's endangered siamang gibbons had given birth — and soon, the musical primates were heard literally singing the baby's praises. In a Facebook post about the new addition, the zoo announced that mother Malana and […]

Much-hated Reddit founder and CEO Steve Huffman gifted himself a stunning $193 million compensation package — while unpaid moderators on the platform have yet to see a single dollar, as Variety reports. It's an especially pertinent topic, given the company is set to go public at a share price of $34, a valuation of $6.4 […]

CEO Eyes Only OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model (LLM), to prospective buyers — and they're very impressed with the merchandise. "It's really good, like materially better," one CEO told Business Insider of the LLM. That same CEO added that in the demo he previewed, OpenAI tailored […]

  Chipmaker Nvidia has shown off a clone of our entire planet that could help meteorologists simulate and visualize global weather patterns at an "unprecedented scale," according to a press release. The "Earth climate digital twin" dubbed Earth-2 was designed to help recoup some of the economic losses caused by climate change-driven extreme weather. Now, customers […]

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy and Zepbound continue to fly off the shelves, scientists are busy working on a medicine that may mimic the effects of exercise. As explained in an American Chemical Society press release about the potential pill, trials thus far on SLU-PP-332, the potentially groundbreaking compound in question, show that it […]

In a world's first, surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living 62-year-old man. Researchers are hoping the procedure could greatly reduce our reliance on both extremely hard-to-come-by human donor kidneys and expensive dialysis machines to treat kidney disease and failure. Fortunately, the surgeons' […]

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 […]