Sunday Special: Tesla unveils the Roadster

Welcome back, Superhuman. We never thought we’d see the day. After years of delays and seemingly impossible promises, Tesla has finally shown off its redesigned Roadster, sending social media into a frenzy over what some are calling the first “flying car.”

In other news, the phrase “dead as a dodo” may soon need a rewrite, as scientists edge closer to bringing the extinct bird back to life.

1. Tesla ushers in the age of flying cars (kind of): When Elon Musk said “the future should look like the future”, he wasn’t kidding. After multiple delays, Tesla has finally redesigned the Roadster using SpaceX-inspired compressed-air thrusters, helping the EV lift off the ground for short, gravity-defying leaps. Although it’s not meant for long-haul flights, excitement around the launch has been high. You can see the blockbuster demo here and read more about the features here.

2. Colossal claims it’s increasingly close to bringing back the dodo: The iconic dodo bird went extinct in the 1600s, wiped out by humans and the rats they brought to Mauritius. Now, Colossal Biosciences says it has filled in 95% of the bird’s genome, with its new AI platform narrowing the search down to about 2,300 genetic targets linked to the dodo’s iconic beak. There’s no hatch date yet, but the company claims to be well on-track to return dodos to Mauritius.

3. Experimental drug offers new hope against hard-to-treat tumors: Bristol Myers Squibb’s cancer drug RYZ101 hit its main goal in a Phase 3 trial for advanced ‘neuroendocrine tumors’ — rare cancers diagnosed in about 18,000 Americans a year. The drug works like a guided missile, latching onto tumor cells and hitting them with short-range radiation that breaks down their DNA. BMS hasn’t shared numbers yet, but the news could offer hope to patients with few medical options left.

4. Some scientists think a hidden force could be altering your lifespan: University of Nottingham scientists have found that certain fruit flies lived around 20% longer when shielded from nearly all of Earth’s magnetism. Scientists do not yet know exactly what causes this effect, or whether the effect applies to humans, but the findings could help researchers understand how long-term travel beyond Earth’s magnetic field may affect astronauts’ bodies.

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1. Apple HomeView: An AI-powered smart home hub featuring a 7-inch touchscreen and an upgraded, conversational Siri. It lets you control smart devices, make FaceTime calls, play music, and access personalized information using facial recognition.

2. Amazon Bee Frontier: An AI device that goes on your wrist or clips to your clothing and remembers what you talk about throughout the day.

3. Godox C100: One of the most unique pocket cameras on the market. Built for everyday photos and video, you can look through the camera like a window.

4. Form Studio 1: An affordable resin 3D printer that brings high-detail prints, hands-off resin handling, and safer printing indoors.

😬 Bad Timing: Imagine spending years preparing a once-in-a-generation sports car reveal, and getting one-upped by Tesla just a few hours later. Porsche just went through this nightmare scenario, and social media users can’t stop roasting the company.

🚁 Sky Kart: Jetson describes the ONE as a “Formula 1 racing car for the sky,” and according to this viral video resurfacing on social media, the claim isn’t that far off. It’s a pretty compelling glimpse of what “personal aviation” could eventually look like.

📚 Bookmark Fix: Most read-it-later apps are where articles go to die. Now, a new app promises to change that by combining saved articles, PDFs, bookmarks, highlights, and AI answers in one personal library to make the archive actually usable.

💸 Bot To The Top: One North Carolina man is going to prison for operating a multi-million-dollar scam in which he generated billions of streams on his music despite having essentially no real audience. See how he did it here.

📸 Sleep On It: Two photographers pointed their camera at a galaxy 2.5 million light-years away and went to bed. What they woke up to barely looks real.

🧠 Gaming Gains: A new study claims that a month of playing StarCraft II produced a surprising shift in participants’ brain-wave patterns. One metric suggests that they had apparently shaved years off their neural age.

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Fighting Back: For many patients, lung cancer is no longer the dire diagnosis it once was. When doctors found a tumor in Pope Leo XIV’s lung, they were able to remove a lobe, a procedure that spotlights a major shift in how lung cancer is now treated. Genetic tests on his tumor will likely follow, which can unlock targeted drugs that spot leftover cancer DNA. Thanks partly to these advances, the lung cancer death rate has halved since the 1990s. Read about the trove of treatment options available to the Pope here.

Defense Upgrade: Every year, blast disease wipes out enough rice to feed about 60 million people, and scientists fear that the fungus is spreading to wheat and barley too. Now, they’ve redesigned plant immune proteins to recognize two of the fungus’s attack signals at once, potentially making crops harder to infect. The technique has only been tested in individual wheat cells, but could eventually help create longer-lasting crop protection as the fungus spreads into new regions.

Now You See Me: Imagine making your tattoo disappear for a job interview and bringing it back for a night out. University of Colorado Boulder scientists have developed PhotoTat, an ink that fades to nearly invisible under white light and becomes vividly visible under UV light. It may also have applications beyond customizable body art, and could potentially make medical markings visible only when doctors need them. It remains experimental, however, with durability problems and extensive safety testing up ahead.

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