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A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.

Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.

Zone 2 of the Las Vegas destination opens September 17, and io9 has the scoop on what’s to come.

While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This time, it printed something dangerously close to anti-trans blood libel in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. In its live-update blog yesterday, the Journal wrote, “Ammunition […]

Meanwhile, Congress is trying to keep serious scientists from weighing in.

We did not evolve to handle this, Utah governor says.

In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate “The money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on America and the rule of law.” The letter amounts to a request for subpoena power to […]

Gretchen Felker-Martin opens up on her ‘Red Hood’ book being cancelled and her comments on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Discord denies that the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk used the messaging platform to discuss his crime, following the service getting mentioned by law enforcement in a press conference — and after accusations that it helped radicalize the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson. In a statement to The Verge, Jud Hoffman, Discord’s vice president of trust […]

Researchers can now check off another mystery from a long list of kind-of-confirmed principles in science, this time in fundamental chemistry.