Researchers say an AI-assisted research platform designed to streamline academic output has begun interrupting workflows with philosophical questions, including why the work exists at all and whether anyone involved still cares.
Biologists say city raccoons have begun making direct eye contact with humans, a development experts describe as “unexpected,” “deeply unsettling,” and “probably not nothing.”
Meteorologists say this week’s forecast is solid—assuming the data cooperates, the models behave, and viewers remain flexible about what “accurate” means.
NASA announced this week that a previously classified “potentially hazardous object” will no longer be treated as an urgent concern, explaining that while the asteroid remains on course, it is now considered “a later problem.”
Astronomers confirmed this week that an unidentified object approaching Earth appears to be emitting rhythmic audio signals and intermittent flashes of light, prompting officials to urge calm while declining to explain why a celestial body would need either. Experts insist the phenomenon is “likely natural,” despite acknowledging that space has never previously produced anything resembling a bass drop.
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