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Penguin Spears, Ocean Currents, and a Gladiator Bear
Penguins with dagger-like beaks, a collapsing Atlantic current, a brain map of 600,000 cells, and a bear skull that proves gladiators fought wild animals.SOURCESEarly penguins may have used…
How to Sweet-Talk an AI
Why scrolling on the toilet could be bad for your health, why we may have way less carbon storage underground than we thought, whether plant-based dog food really works, and how humans and AIs fall…
Can We Recycle Every Car?
Blobs from failed planets hiding in Mars, a possible anti-aging drug, a surprising benefit of the hepatitis B vaccine, and recycling old cars into new ones.SOURCESDozens of mysterious blobs…
Red Onion, Green Energy
Volcanoes can lead to revolutions, onions powering solar panels, a spacecraft predicting solar storms, and computers you can throw in the wash.SOURCESVolcanic eruptions may have helped spark the…
Spiders Throw Nature's Creepiest Rave
Stress in pregnancy may prime babies for eczema. Pee tests could help eliminate cervical cancer. Spiders use fireflies as glowing bait. China builds a macaque-sized brain supercomputer.SOURCESThe…
Shocking New Eye Treatment
A brain-inspired AI outsmarts ChatGPT, a new zap for your eyeballs could replace LASIK, middle age isn’t the low point it used to be, and CPR in space gets a boost from machines.SOURCESScientists…
Foam Sweet Foam
Screwworms have invaded the US, AI is predicting hurricanes, U.S. power is slowly shifting to solar, and scientists crack the mystery of beer foam.SOURCESUS reports its first New World parasitic…
The Pig Lung That Could (for 9 days)
A pig lung transplanted into a human body, why half our farmed calories never reach our plates, microbes that shrug off 100,000 years of ice, and asteroid dust older than the solar system…
China Is Dumping Servers Into the Ocean
China drops data centers into the ocean, some people feel nothing from music, a Christian cross rewrites Gulf history, and our primate ancestors turn out to be cold-weather champs.SOURCESChina Is…
Brains Aren't As Adaptable As We Thought
A myth about brain rewiring gets busted, Denisovan DNA helped the first Americans survive, solar cells that get power from your kitchen lights, and why your car’s paint color is roasting the…
Paper Made From Pollen
AI predicts solar flares, Uranus gets a new moon, bees get a superfood boost, and pollen turns into paper.SOURCESNASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth | New…
Quantum Space Navigation
A quantum upgrade for GPS-free navigation, AI bots messing with surveys, a brain implant that brings back joy, and sheep’s wool repairing teeth.SOURCESQuantum alternative to GPS navigation will be…
You Probably Aren't Allergic to Penicillin
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede could help detect dark matter, a new way to break down forever chemicals in water, an Arctic heatwave that melted massive amounts of ice, and why you might not actually be…
The Earliest Baby Picture Possible
Viruses hitching a ride inside bacteria to fight cancer, a world-first video of a human embryo implanting, ancient toolmakers who planned way ahead, and why an FDA panel stirred confusion over…
Computers That Read Minds
Dinosaur tracks emerge after Texas floods, a shocking rise in dangerously hot and humid days, Inca recordkeeping may have been more common than we thought, and AI that can turn imagined speech into…
Vape Pens Are Riddled With Fungi
RFK Jr. takes aim at a massive vaccine safety study — and loses. Plus, fungi lurking in vape mouthpieces, Viking treasure that rewrites history, and levitating discs that could explore the…
Toxicity On Social Media Might Be Inevitable
Toxic social media may be inevitable, ancient England was more diverse than you think, losing your Y chromosome might wreck your heart, and two bee viruses could quietly sabotage hives.SOURCESSocial…
Deepfakes and Fake Tastes
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13’s commander, passes away at 97; lights that hide secret codes to fight deepfakes; the first artificial tongue that tastes and learns; and why working past retirement might make…
Flesh Eating Science News
A new executive order threatens science funding, NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, Texas is getting ready for a flesh-eating invasion, and archaeologists uncover evidence of human…
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