Science

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Twin Brothers Allegedly Wiped 96 Government Databases Minutes After Being Fired

Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, had prior federal convictions before getting IT jobs with a firm serving 45 federal clients.

May 12, 2026

Teen Dies After ChatGPT Recommends Lethal Drug Combination, Family Sues OpenAI

Sam Nelson, 19, died of accidental overdose after the now-retired ChatGPT 4o model told him it was safe to mix Kratom and Xanax.

May 12, 2026

Las Vegas Animal Shelter Overhauls Pet Adoption Process Using QR Codes

The Animal Foundation has replaced its traditional adoption paperwork system with QR code technology to speed up the process for prospective pet owners.

May 12, 2026

Google Updates Gemini for Home to Allow Cocktail Recipe Requests

The change fixes a filter that was blocking adult users from getting answers about age-gated beverages on smart home devices like the Nest Hub.

May 12, 2026

Sony Releases Upgraded Wearable Neck Cooler With Better Performance

The Reon Pocket Pro Plus delivers a two-degree Celsius increase in cooling power and is priced at £199 in the UK.

May 12, 2026

Scientists Warn AI Adoption in Research Labs Risks Eroding Critical Thinking

More than half of researchers now use AI for tasks including journal reviews and experiment design, raising concerns about long-term scientific reasoning skills.

May 11, 2026

New Study Finds Plants Can Detect the Sound of Falling Rain

Researchers discovered that plants respond to acoustic vibrations from raindrops, opening new questions about how flora perceive their environment.

May 11, 2026

Hermann's Tortoises on Macedonian Island Are Eliminating Their Own Females

On the protected island of Golem Grad, aggressive male courtship behavior has produced a sex ratio of 100 males for every egg-laying female, the only known case of demographic suicide in the wild.

May 10, 2026

Alaska Landslide Sent a Tsunami Wave 1,580 Feet Up Fjord Walls

The August 2025 event in Tracy Arm became the second-highest tsunami in recorded history, driven by a glacier that had retreated more than a third of a mile in just two months.

May 10, 2026

Atlantic Ocean Current Has Been Weakening for Nearly Two Decades

Monitoring instruments anchored to the seafloor measured the slowdown across a stretch of ocean spanning from 16.5 degrees north to 42.5 degrees north latitude.

May 10, 2026

Underwater Volcano Eruption Destroyed Methane and Surprised Scientists

Researchers tracked a formaldehyde cloud across the Pacific for 10 days, revealing a previously unknown atmospheric cleaning process.

May 10, 2026

Kyushu University Researchers Build Organic Molecule That Emits Near-Infrared Light 30 Times More Efficiently

The new material, described in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, also lasted more than 100 times longer under laser exposure than conventional versions of the same compound.

May 9, 2026