The Most Elusive Color in Chemistry Might Surprise You
Seeing a color in nature is one thing. Recreating colors artificially is an entirely different challenge—one with some unexpectedly high…
Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Verification Service Is Coming to a Gap Store Near You
Worldcoin, aka World Network, aka World, is trying to take over the… well, the world. Up until now, the creepy…
Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide
Instagram will soon notify parents if their teens repeatedly search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short…
Anthropic Tells Pete Hegseth to Take a Hike
Anthropic is holding the line. At least for now. The Pentagon approached Anthropic this week with a demand that it…
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Got Its Best Ratings for 30 Minutes of Men Hobbling
Ser Duncan the Tall emerged bruised but victorious from his Trial of Seven, but HBO might have been the real…
Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Deal, Paving Way for Paramount Assimilation
The tide has seemingly turned on one of the biggest Hollywood deals in recent memory. While Netflix had been positioned…
Could Melting Glaciers Actually Slow Climate Change?
It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t stopped researchers from…
Astronomers Wake Up to 800,000 Notifications From Observatory Watching the Night Skies
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory spent the night staring at the dark cosmos, alerting astronomers of ongoing changes in the…
Disney World’s Villains Land Is Pivoting Itself Away From Scaring Kids
When Disney announced it was going to build a villains-themed section at Magic Kingdom in Florida, it was a little…
On ‘Starfleet Academy’, the Theater Kids Are All Right
Star Trek has always had a history with theater. From the forefront of “public domain” contemporary culture being the spine…
