Lab-grown food pipe offers new hope for young patients
UK scientists have grown fully functioning food pipes and successfully transplanted them into mini pigs, paving the way for human trials.
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
US suffers hottest March day ever recorded as heat dome drives up temperatures
Preliminary readings of sites in Arizona and southern California indicate that the US has suffered its hottest March day on record.
NASA’s Artemis II now back on launchpad for first lunar mission in more than 50 years
A NASA spacecraft is now back on its launchpad ahead of the first lunar exploration mission in more than 50 years, after a month of
BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally
Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams
The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to
Slovenia heads to polls with diverging views on Israel in focus
Slovenia’s election sees the centre-left coalition take on the populist right amid claims of foreign meddling.
Israel says it hit Syrian army camps in the south after Druze ‘attacked’
Israeli air strikes target army camps in response to alleged attacks on the Druze community in Suwayda on Thursday.
A university removed professors’ Pride flags over Spring Break. Now they’re fighting back.
Educators at Boston University (BU) in Massachusetts are pushing back against President Melissa Gilliam’s Thursday defense of administrators’ removal of Pride flags from the windows
Refugee Council questions Australia’s Iran strategy at Women’s Asian Cup
Women’s Asian Cup hosts Australia face criticism for the political tug of war over the Iranian women’s football team.
Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty
Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a
Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it’s great—go see it! Though a little light
Did 3 Black sisters and white photographer secretly help free slaves in 1860s? We uncovered the truth
A story described three Black sisters named Clara, Ruth and Viola covertly collaborating with a white photographer to free slaves.
Does San Francisco celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by dyeing sidewalk poop green? Don’t step in this claim
Satirical website The Babylon Bee first posted the made-up rumor.