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Hollywood’s lack of originality is starting to bleed into real life. According to a BBC report , a South Korean man was arrested for his 2020s AI reboot of The Boy Who Cried Wolf , after sharing an AI-generated picture of a wolf roaming the streets of Daejeon. The crime? The wolf, a real zoo escapee named Neukgu, wasn’t actually there. Neukgu is a two-year-old wolf and part of an effort to reintroduce the species to South Korea. He escaped his enclosure on April 8. Authorities deployed drones for aerial coverage, deployed emergency crews on the ground, and told the public to be on the lookout for a gray wolf roaming the city streets. For as globally relevant as South Korea can be at times, it’s easy to forget it’s a fairly small nation; by land area, it hovers somewhere around Indiana or Kentucky. So when even the country’s president weighed in on the story, urging emergency crews to safely recover the wolf , it’s a reminder that in a nation so small, all politics is truly local. Thi...

Scientists pulled a microscopic animal they dubbed a “zombie worm” from Siberian permafrost, thawed it, and watched it wake up and reproduce. The organism had been frozen since the Late Pleistocene, back when woolly mammoths were still a thing. It took a nap for 24,000 years and came back as if nothing had happened. The creature is a bdelloid rotifer, a tiny multicellular animal about half a millimeter long, usually found in freshwater environments. They’re already known among scientists for being nearly indestructible—surviving radiation, dehydration, extreme cold, and low oxygen. Researchers from Russia’s Soil Cryology Laboratory drilled down about 11.5 feet into the Alazeya River region of northeastern Siberia, pulled a core sample, and carbon-dated it to between 23,960 and 24,485 years old. Then they thawed it. The rotifer not only moved but also reproduced asexually, creating more just like it. The thing freaking cloned itself. Scientists barely had time to track which organisms...

When the human brain sees an emoji face, it does the stupidest thing it could possibly do in that moment: it interprets it as a real human face. It’s not, though. It’s a silly, exaggerated cartoon interpretation of a human expression. And yet, according to research published in Psychophysiology , there is a measurable split-second bit of stupidity where the human brain doesn’t notice, or maybe doesn’t care, that it’s not a real face. Unfortunately, the study doesn’t clarify whether this applies only to faces or if something like the smiling poop emoji briefly registers as a living, breathing poop man. Maybe we’ll find out more about that in the future. Anyway, researchers at Bournemouth University found that the brain processes emoji expressions and real human faces in similar ways, especially in the first fractions of a second. Using EEG caps with 64 sensors, scientists tracked participants’ brain activity while they viewed photographs of people or emoji faces depicting emotions su...

A brand new week and the sky’s already got opinions. Venus settles into Gemini, sharpening conversations and charging up connections that actually have somewhere to go. The Moon sextiles Jupiter, handing even the most reluctant signs a genuine shot at optimism today. Meanwhile, the Sun in Taurus keeps everything grounded enough to actually follow through. So what does that mean for you, stargazer? It means Monday isn’t the enemy this week. The energy is cooperative, the timing is decent, and the universe is essentially pointing at you and asking what you’re going to do with a wide-open week. Don’t waste it. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Monday hit different when you actually want to be there. No major cosmic activity today, just Mars at home in your sign doing what it always does: keeping that internal engine running hot. The real question, Aries, isn’t whether you have the energy. It’s w...

At some point in your mid-thirties, you look around and realize your social circle has somehow dwindled. People got married, moved away, had kids, got weird about politics. The friendships you made effortlessly at 14 in a school cafeteria now feel like a distant, nostalgic memory. Back then, proximity was enough. You sat next to someone, complained about the same teacher, and that was it. Easy peasy.  Adulthood doesn’t work like that anymore, and the stats are pretty grim, honestly. According to the American Perspectives Survey , the percentage of U.S. adults with zero close friends has quadrupled to 12 percent since 1990, while those reporting 10 or more close friends have fallen by nearly three times. All of this while we’ve never had more ways to reach each other. The fix, according to Psychology Today contributor Nir Bashan, requires actual effort and a little creativity. Here’s where to start. Stop Being So Picky As kids, we played with whoever showed up. Nobody cared abo...

The biggest event on the sky map this week is the Full Moon in Scorpio on May 1, and it means business. Scorpio Full Moons don’t do surface-level—they root around in the places you’ve been avoiding and drag whatever they find into the open. Paired with a Moon square Pluto earlier that same day, this lunation has teeth. Whatever you’ve been postponing emotionally, financially, or relationally is about to stop waiting for your permission to surface. This is not a week for half-measures, stargazer. The rest of the week builds toward that peak in interesting ways. Venus makes a string of meaningful moves—sextiling Neptune, trining Pluto, and closing out with a grounding sextile to Saturn—while Mercury squares Jupiter early on before escaping into steady Taurus by May 2. The sky this week pulls you between big feelings and bigger ambitions, between dreams and the discipline it actually takes to realize them. Pay attention to what comes up. It’s trying to tell you something. How will your ...