In a counterintuitive new analysis, an international group of researchers are suggesting that concussions from college sports injuries might not only be less harmful than previously thought, but that they might also slightly help cognitive performance. As the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia explains in a press release about the r

Running a robotaxi empire ain’t cheap. Waymore Revenue As its competitors falter, the Google-owned and California-based robotaxi service Waymo seems to be in cruise control. According to figures the company shared in August, Waymo is now giving over 100,000 paid rides to customers each week in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, using it

Whoa. Edge Case A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects at the edge of our Solar System. The resulting studies, set to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, suggest that there could be an entire structure of objects lying beyond the […]

The seventh-richest man in the world has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research. In a wide-ranging interview with The Verge, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates explained that he often uses the OpenAI chatbot to learn things. “You know, I’m often learning about topics, and ChatGPT is an excellent [&hellip

The “Milky Way and Andromeda are already overlapping and interacting.” Personal Space Researchers are suggesting that the outer boundary of our home Milky Way galaxy may stretch much farther into the vastness of space than initially thought — and is in fact already touching its closest neighbor, the galaxy Andromeda. As detailed in a pa

Temporarily, at least. Holy Fail When SpaceX’s Starship rocket blew up — again — it punched a hole open in our atmosphere, according to new research. Four minutes after launching from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas on November 18, the Starship’s superheavy booster exploded at an altitude of roughly 56 miles after separatin

During a characteristically incoherent speech in New York on Thursday, former president Donald Trump called for the creation of a “government efficiency commission” to audit the entire federal government and implement “drastic reforms.” Who would he put in charge of this endeavor? None other than his latest number one fan, m

Image by Getty / Futurism A biologist with the US government’s research and development arm is working on a radical new approach to anti-aging treatments: replacing parts of the human brain with cloned tissues. As the MIT Technology Review reports, researcher Jean Hébert was recently hired by the US Advanced Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H

Researchers have developed an ingenious way of making mice transparent, so that you can see their little organs, veins, and all their other fleshy circuitry with the naked eye. The secret? Doritos dust. Well, sort of — so put those grubby fingers away. Specifically, it’s the yellow food dye found in those binge-able tortilla chips […]

Image by Getty / Futurism In May, the Louisiana state legislature passed an unfathomably stupid and unscientific law that reclassified the increasingly politicized drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, which are in some cases used to induce abortions, as “controlled dangerous substances.” The law was idiotic for a slew of reasons, one of