😎 Metaverse = meta-worse 🍼 Plastic breast milk 🍹 Chill hack
This week, Meta (Facebook) unveiled its latest virtual reality headset called Meta Quest Pro. It has a beefy $1,500 price tag and a not-beefy battery life of 1-2 hours.
🐦 Elon v. Twitter 🥜 "Healthy" redefined 🎤 Crowd hack
Elon Musk changed his mind about Twitter again, declaring earlier this week he wants to buy the "bird app" for a cool $44 billion (his original offer price).
⚔️ Tech fight 🐜 Ant world 🍝 Microwave hack
It’s game-on between the US and China, and we aren't talking about the 2024 Olympic trampoline event (should we be?).
👶🏼 Crybaby cure 🍭 Sweetener scare ✈️ Flight hack
If you're pro crying babies, skip this story (and maybe do some soul searching). If you're ANTI crying babies, listen up - scientists just found the single most effective way to lull a bawling bab...
🏥 Shocking cancer data 📜 Ancient surgery 🐤 Bird hack
A new, first-of-its-kind global study found that almost half (44.4% to be exact) of all cancer deaths are caused by preventable risk factors.
🌌 Galaxy gazing 😴 Day-long daydream 🍝 Pasta hack
The universe just got even more heady... On Monday, NASA scientists unveiled a stunning new photo (see above!) taken by the James Webb Telescope of M74, a galaxy 32 million light-years away compos...
🍄 Shrooms soon? 🤦♂️ Bitcoin bungle 👍 Thumb hack
Tripping is apparently fantastic for your mental health. And when I say "tripping" I don't mean catching the 6am Spirit Airlines flight to Vegas. I mean eating magic mushrooms.
🦕 Extinction stinks 🔋 Paper battery 🛑 Sales repellent
A recent climate study reinforced what we largely already knew: Earth is in trouble.
🧬 23andMurder?! ☠️ Polio's back 🤧 Sneeze hack
That spit sample you sent to 23andMe last week could be used to develop biological weapons against you. At least that's what Colorado congressman and House Intelligence Committee member Jason Crow...
🌎 8 billion peeps 🐻 Bear strength 💦 Water hack
Ready to feel small? A recent report from the United Nations projects Earth's population will reach eight billion people by mid-November, and reach a peak of 10.4 billion about 60 years from now.
😡 Hanger is real 🏡 Chill gardening 🍌 Banana hack
Ever snapped at a co-worker in a meeting that cuts into lunch? Or considered violently flipping your table while you wait for caesar salad at a restaurant? Us too...
✂️ Gene scissors 🅾️ "O" skills 🍏 Fruit fly hack
CRISPR (pronounced "crisper") might sound like a fast food menu item, but it's actually a revolutionary gene-editing technology.
👃🏻 Stinky soulmates 🚬 Cig struggle 🐶 Dog device
Ever met someone you immediately knew you'd be friends with? Was it their smile? A joke they told? Their sweet Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tee?
💺 Quitting sitting ✒️ A stink about ink 🐈 Cat control
You may want to sit down for this one. On second thought, maybe stand. New research has confirmed just how bad sitting for multiple hours at a time can be (an activity as common as breathing in to...
🤖 Un-artificial intelligence 🌿 Weed ≠ greed 📱 Phone finders
Artificial intelligence has evolved so much in recent years that it now resembles...wait for it...un-artificial intelligence (a.k.a. human intelligence).
☕ Coffee science + 🐵 Monkeypox + 👯 "Body doubling"
Good news, coffee lovers: your daily java addiction habit may help you live longer. Researchers from Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China looked at data on coffee habits and health outc...
📢 Loud Zoom guy + 🌊 Protein seaweed + ✈️ Airplane AC
Anyone who’s used Zoom (read: everyone) has experienced the token "loud person" on video calls. Some of you reading this are that person. Yeah, you. Now, scientists have discovered what causes you ...
🏭 Dirty air + 👨🔬 "Shill" Nye + 🦟 Mutant mosquitos
Scientists have sounded alarm bells on air quality in cities like Delhi and Beijing for a long time. However, a World Health Organization report released last week revealed the issue to be universa...
🖥️ "Triple Peaking" at work + 💳 Eating plastic + 🐵 Drunk monkeys
According to Microsoft, the 9-to-5 workday is dead - and they have the data to prove it! Coincidentally, that data can only be viewed in Excel. Hmm…
Apparently there's science behind your obsession with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go." A newly released meta-analysis of 26 previous studies found that singing, playing, and listening to music can al...