On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the heated race between two companies to build a commercial brain-computer interface.

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet.

A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes.

The country’s newly formed space agency wants to establish a lunar base by 2045.

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

This collision of two galaxies could demonstrate that theorized “direct collapse black holes” exist.

As the EPA moves to shut down the Office of Research and Development, leadership is unable to answer questions as basic as when it will close and how many will lose their jobs.

Bad mood? Puffy face? Immune issues? Across TikTok and Instagram there are scores of influencers ready to sell you some products—without ever sending you to a doctor.

Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.

US health officials, from RFK Jr. on down, have made some wild claims. See if you can name the person responsible for these quotes and factoids.

Long before TikTok and probiotics, animals were teaching each other tips on feeling better, from swallowing leaves to get rid of parasites to using icebergs for exfoliation.

Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.

Unlike Elon Musk's brain-computer interface, Synchron's doesn't require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in.

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.

Reforming California’s environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding Los Angeles after the fires in January.

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same for all observers.

In an industry where 90 percent of drug candidates fail before reaching the market, a handful of startups are betting everything on AI to beat the odds.

The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.

At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.

A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar system.

There are just a few weeks left to tap federal programs that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable.