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Noah Smith, an economist-turned-blogger who writes the Noahpinion newsletter, wrote an essay titled, "I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?" Fast forward a few decades, and I actually have that little robot friend I always dreamed of. It's not exactly ...

This cat lying face down in a see-through seat is the best thing you'll see on the internet today. The camera slowly moves underneath the cat's face, revealing what it looks like squished against the curved, transparent seat. The cat, in deep slumber ...

With science currently under attack, it's nice to be reminded that there is still some pretty incredible work being done. The Perseverance rover has been driving around Mars since 2021, taking samples to - hopefully - be returned to Earth for ...

An American student was extracted Friday from a giant vagina sculpture in Tuebingen, Germany, in which his legs were trapped. The 20-year-old exchange student climbed into the artwork to pose for a photograph and was thereby enmeshed by it. NBC News ...

A high school student has won the top prize in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge by modifying a traditional origami fold to support over 9000 times its weight. 14-year-old Miles Wu, of New York City, won the $25,000 grand prize ...

These nightmare-fuel images are photocopies of Russian passport photos, and they look like rejected concept art for an analog horror series for entirely mundane technical reasons. When you photocopy a small passport photo, several things go wrong ...

Learning with Lyrics creates educational videos that explain how things work through songs. I wish this had been around when I was a kid--for some reason, I remember what I learn in these videos much easier because of the singing. In this video, we ...

Just when you think the person 'in charge' can't stoop lower or get more outlandish, another day passes and proves you wrong. On Thanksgiving, while Americans worked hard serving others--at service jobs or volunteering to cook and deliver meals to ...

I love how protesters across the country have dressed up like unicorns, hot dogs, giraffes, and other animals to join marches and protests against ICE and National Guard deployment. The most famous is the Portland Frog Brigade, which inspired ...

A poll released by the journal Nature in April revealed that 75% of U.S. scientific researchers are considering leaving the country. The Trump administration's cataclysmic slashes to federal science funding have had a devastating effect on research ...