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AI Engineers Are Having Their Oppenheimer???Destroyer of Worlds??? Moment
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (370+ words) A cascade of regret and apocalyptic short-term forecasts hit social media this week 8:08 PM CDT on September 10, 2026 “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” These lines from the Bhagavad Gita echoed through the mind of Robert Oppenheimer at…...
NASA???s New Experimental Jet Promises Supersonic Flight Without the Sonic Booms
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (211+ words) Sneaking past the sound barrier 4:30 PM CDT on September 8, 2026 NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight…...
What???s Creating These Mysterious Seafloor Hexagons?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (257+ words) We now know who is responsible for them, but why they’re doing it is still up for debate 9:00 AM CDT on September 7, 2026 Etched on seafloors around the world is an enigmatic honeycomb pattern, the source of which has eluded explanation…...
Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth???But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (813+ words) Several space missions are searching for extraterrestrial life, which could come in the form of microbes 7:00 AM CDT on September 6, 2026 The discovery of microbial life would expose significant gaps in international governance related to space. While there are some existing…...
Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards
2+ week, 2+ day ago (221+ words) A deep-sea denizen with an identity crisis 5:00 PM CDT on August 28, 2026 What looks like a shrimp, walks like a crab, and swims like a fish? The armored sea robin (obviously). Among other things, the team was able to confirm that…...
Listen in on the Sounds of a Jurassic Period Forest
2+ week, 2+ day ago (194+ words) Behold the call of the katydid 3:00 PM CDT on August 28, 2026 Do you want to hear what the insects in a Jurassic forest in Mongolia sounded like? Obviously, there were no recording devices, let alone humans, 165 million years ago, but there…...
How We Decide Who Deserves Our Help
2+ week, 4+ day ago (396+ words) Cooperation is a double-edged sword 3:30 PM CDT on August 26, 2026 Cooperation is the bedrock of civilization, but how it emerged from the seemingly selfish evolutionary regime of “survival of the fittest” is something of a puzzle. After all, helping someone comes…...
This Hidden Glacier Has Enough Water to Fill 600 Olympic Swimming Pools
2+ week, 5+ day ago (307+ words) And there are more than 50,000 others like it worldwide 6:00 AM CDT on August 26, 2026 There’s a monster hiding in the mountains of Utah: the Timpanogos Glacier. Unlike most glaciers, visibly sprawled across mountaintops or slowly coursing through valleys, Timpanogos is a…...
This Cookie Was a Plastic Bottle
2+ week, 6+ day ago (165+ words) Would you eat a trashy treat? 2:00 PM CDT on August 24, 2026 “We were trying to develop technologies for plastic upcycling to make more valuable products,” Lahiru Jayakody of Southern Illinois University said in a statement. “We thought, ‘Why not focus on…...
New Species of Groundsnake Named After Guns N’ Roses Guitarist and Noted Herpephile Slash
3+ week, 2+ day ago (322+ words) It likes the nightlife 9:00 AM CDT on August 24, 2026 While Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has some serpentine dance moves, the lead guitarist, Slash, is the real snake-lover. He’s owned a variety of reptiles since he was young, including anacondas,…...