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The sleeping spiders' legs twitched like a dog's as they snoozed. | Continue reading
An AI shown videos of physical phenomena and instructed to identify the variables involved produced answers different from our own. | Continue reading
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Crungus is awake. | Continue reading
Apple must conform to the universal solution by 2024 if they wish to sell in the EU. | Continue reading
An important principle of quantum mechanics has been confirmed via a variation of a thought experiment suggested by Einstein, made possible by technologica | Continue reading
In another display that AI can see things that humans inherently can’t, researchers have discovered that AI may be able to identify race from X-ray images, | Continue reading
An amphibian mounting a boot in a sex attempt gone wrong, known as “misdirected amplexus”, was what led researchers to ask 'How could a behavior like this | Continue reading
From the top of the tallest mountain to the depths of the ocean floor, this planet of ours is now pretty much covered in a thin layer of plastic. Tiny frag | Continue reading
Around the world, several teams of scientists are looking to create 'contagious vaccines', that would spread by themselves, giving herd immunity to populat | Continue reading
For decades, scientists have chased the dream of quantum computing, which would transform information processing. An accompanying dream is long-distance qu | Continue reading
Of the things artificial intelligence is good at, trawling through thousands of chemical compounds to identify drug candidates is easily one of the best. H | Continue reading
Scientists have taken a major step towards creating an aircraft of the future, one powered by an ion drive rather than using moving parts and fuel like con | Continue reading
Almost all of us, if we go back far enough in our family trees, come from somewhere else. Maybe it was your mom or dad; maybe it was a distant ancestor who | Continue reading
The infamous Russian number station UVB-76, thought to be a tool of the Russian state to communicate with agents, has begun broadcasting strange messages, | Continue reading
Cleaner fish with parasite tattoos will try to scrape them off if they catch sight of themselves in a mirror, indicating that these fish have mirror self-r | Continue reading
A linguistics expert has revealed what he believes is the best word to open with in Wordle.There's a good chance you've come across Wordle already, the ho | Continue reading
In a video captured by the US Navy, an unidentified flying object is seen dancing across the screen before crashing into the ocean, capturing the imaginati | Continue reading
A man has created traffic jams by walking around town, wheeling a big trailer full of cell phones behind him.Google Maps is incredibly useful. It tells yo | Continue reading
Whilst doing some Spring cleaning back in 2013, a man threw his old PC hard drive into the trash, which quickly joined the mountain of rubbish at his local | Continue reading
Once in a blue moon, a decades-old piece of media that seems to have predicted the future with unnerving accuracy is unearthed. Unexpectedly, the most prom | Continue reading
Is your cat a total creep? Do you wonder how it is they always know where you are, and why they're looking at you like that? Well, now science has an answe | Continue reading
Recent surveys have indicated that children in some developed countries now receive two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods, leading to con | Continue reading
“Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over.”Those six simple words hold the power to activate an installable shortcut on iPhones that automatically records any in | Continue reading
The record for the coldest temperature ever achieved has been broken with the cooling of rubidium gas to 38 picokelvins (3.8 * 10-11 K). The work could lea | Continue reading
In an article for the Times Educational Supplement, researchers Anna Wilson, Kate Wilson, and David Low claim that boys might have an advantage over girls | Continue reading
New music is no longer a thing, thanks to a pair of lawyers who created an algorithm to write every single musical melody that can possibly exist. Rather t | Continue reading
New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) analyzing medical scans can identify the race of patients with an astonishing degree of accuracy, | Continue reading
People on the Internet appear to be setting their iPhone's location to France, despite not living there, in an attempt to speed up their devices. The 'hack | Continue reading
When someone uses the phrase 'biological attack' your mind doesn't immediately leap to hippy cults, but the biggest attack of this kind in US history was c | Continue reading
There’s a reason we use diamonds as the benchmark for hardness. The sparkly gemstones have the highest confirmed Vickers hardness (VH) of any natural mater | Continue reading
Over the last few hundred years, the human population of Earth has seen an increase, taking us from an estimated one billion in 1804 to seven billion in 20 | Continue reading
A strange cluster of lights has been spotted this week in live footage from the International Space Station, prompting a flurry of excitement in online ufo | Continue reading
Archeologists have typically had to get their hands on skeletal remains to obtain the ancient DNA of a human, but a remarkable new study has managed to seq | Continue reading
Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has been hospitalized due to hiccups that have lasted for 10 days, accompanied by abdominal pain. “I apologize to | Continue reading
The conservation community is enjoying some good news as it’s been announced that giant pandas are no longer endangered in the wild in China. The announcem | Continue reading
In the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has deployed AI and supercomputers to identi | Continue reading
China has officially eliminated malaria. On June 30, an official certification of malaria elimination from the World Health Organization (WHO) was awarded | Continue reading
Ah, TikTok. You’ve given us so much over the years, even if most of it has been baffling, NSFW, or a sea shanty.And then there’s the genre of viral conten | Continue reading
The super-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 infected everyone who attended a recent party in Sydney, Australia – except for the six people who were vacc | Continue reading
A visitor to a cash machine outside a bank in California was surprised one morning to see intruders inside the building before it had opened for the day. T | Continue reading