For a while yesterday, Elmo was definitely not tickled. Elmo’s verified X account, which has more than 650,000 followers, was taken over by an unknown hacker on Sunday. In a short burst of posts, the ...

Are you ready to rock? How about a space rock? Sotheby’s “Geek Week” sale in New York will feature NWA 16788, a 54-pound hunk of Martian crust that blasted off Mars after an asteroid strike, drifted 1 ...

Well, this isn’t creepy at all. Researchers in France and the U.K. have built a “Skincase” that looks and feels just like human skin, and even “sunburns” in real time. Created by designer Marc Teyssie ...

AI use is causing new problems on college campuses, but this time it's professors who are getting in trouble. While teachers used to complain about students using AI, now students are getting upset ab ...

Herpes is "the gift that keeps on giving" and may be useful. Doctors at the University of Southern California turned herpes into a cancer fighter. They took herpes simplex virus type 1 (the kind that ...

You’re minding your own business, and suddenly…bee attack. A quiet Sunday in the central French town of Aurillac turned chaotic when a swarm of bees raged through downtown for roughly 30 minutes. Twen ...

The path to the stars is lined with…bees? Eight engineering majors at London’s Kingston University have built and test-fired a hybrid rocket engine that burns ordinary beeswax instead of standard para ...

Indonesia has rolled out 25 new robot police officers that look like real-life Robocops to help fight crime, especially drug smuggling. The Indonesian National Police showed off these emotionless robo ...

Just two weeks ago, no one had heard of The Velvet Sundown; today the “group” boasts more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and two full albums. Music site Loudersound dug into the band ...