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A female octopus lays her eggs near a small rock outcrop, informally known as El Dorado Hill.ROV Subastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute Four new species of deep-sea octopus…
'Groundbreaking': Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrixalamy stock photo I Professor of Physics at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia He is also the author…
The year was 1974. While newspaper columnists were busy talking about the development of in vitro fertilization and the possibility of “test tube babies,” the surprising…
cloned rhesus monkeyZhaodi Liao et al. After many years and many attempts, a healthy rhesus monkey was finally created by cloning. The clone was born in…
Every year, we put millions of tons of salt onto roads around the world. As you walk through the picturesque streets of Krakow, Poland's Old Town…
Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old, made history in the game when he became the first person to win the Nintendo game Tetris on December 21. The game…
TThe Post Office Horizon scandal has long been a frustrating one to follow as a technology reporter. Because even though it stems from the failure to…
Climate change denial has taken on a new focus, according to a recent report from the Center for Digital Action. Instead of denying that the planet…
IIn early November, I was standing in a long line at Van Gogh’s gift shop in Amsterdam to buy a Pokemon ballpoint pen. It was one…
IDuring the blissful summer that Hemesh Chadarabada spent with his grandmother in 2018, they watched endless movies and ate her grandmother's chicken biryani. Late one evening,…
Bitcoin (BTC) closed last week at around $41,750, down 5.0% from the first week of the new year, to close at around $43,750. The price showed…
A coronavirus vaccine is being administered at Epsom Racecourse in Surrey, England. PA Image/Alamy Around 7,000 people in the UK would have avoided dying or being…
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet passing by the young Sun-like star HD 63433. HD 63433d is located close…
Brazilian anthropologist reconstructs ancient human face Homolonghi This comes from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. portrait of Homolonghi. Image credit: Cicero…
The JN.1 version of the Omicron covid-19 variant was first detected in Luxembourg in August and spread to many countries over the next few months. Jun…
New research from the University of Bristol has revealed the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magma on the Moon. A map of titanium abundance on the moon's…
Joe Marino/UPI Credit/Alamy Live News This is the year of the moon, and it has already begun. The Vulcan rocket's first launch on January 8 marked…
Fish caught in discarded nets in the Great Pacific Garbage PatchOcean Voyages Institute/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock It was a bright sunny day in September 2023. Excitement filled the…
According to the Director-General of the International Monetary Fund, artificial intelligence will impact 40% of jobs around the world, and countries need to build social safety…
Dengue fever is currently endemic in 100 countries, putting half of the world’s population at risk. The threat has increased dramatically, with the number of dengue…
Is there a bigger hypocrite in the world when it comes to free speech than Elon Musk? I say this as someone who wishes Elon Musk…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken new photos of the relatively small galaxy UGC 5189A in the constellation Leo. This Hubble image shows UGC 5189A,…
I It's hard to say when it became a daily habit. There were stops and starts. Days when I couldn't think of anything. But little by…
Fossilized skin fragments collected from the Richards Spur Cave system in Oklahoma, US, are at least 21 million years older than any previously reported skin fossil.…
After enduring a severe cyber attack, the British Library is now in the process of restoring its main catalog online. This is a significant milestone as…
Coriolis effect (noun, “Kor-ee-OHL-iss Eh-FEKT”) The Coriolis effect causes airborne objects moving over the Earth to travel along curved paths rather than straight lines. This primarily…
line up: (noun: alignment) The arrangement or arrangement of things in a patterned order, following obvious lines. action: the way something, often a person or other…
One of several giant craters discovered in remote areas of SiberiaVasily Bogoyavlensky/AFP via Getty Images A deep cylindrical crater in Siberian permafrost has puzzled researchers since…
Mink are currently being spotted across the UK after escaping from fur farms or being released by animal activists Roy Waller/Alamy Wildlife conservation groups aim to…
Rishi Sunak needs to decide whether to support Britain’s creative industries or bet everything on the artificial intelligence boom, Getty Images’ chief executive has said. Craig…
Maybe my father walked out on me, the speaker theorized, his voice sounding like the crash of drums (often typical of tense moments on reality TV…
In 1540, coins of Henry VIII were made at the Tower of London. One of his masters of the mint was Ralph his knurling, a goldsmith…
Infrared image of Saturn’s icy moon TitanNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Stephane Le Mouelik, Virginia Pasek Saturn’s moon Titan is home to strange “magical islands” that appear and…
For over 16 years, a large corporation relentlessly accused 900 postmasters of theft, false accounting, and fraud, despite the fact that the branch shortages were actually…
A recent study found that the majority of e-scooter accidents requiring hospital treatment are not officially recorded in road accident figures. This suggests that the danger…
I In any major scandal that has the power to monopolize national attention, there are always key moments when events could have been stopped in their…
Love in the Age of ChatGPT It is a truth universally acknowledged that every single man who owns a computer must be looking for an AI…
aAs you may have noticed, we’re in the midst of a craze about something called generative AI. Many hitherto ordinary people, and economists alike, are riding…
The United States is currently in the midst of an outbreak of the new coronavirus. JN.1 variant That's driving up hospitalizations and deaths across the country.…
The concept of time Understanding time can be challenging, as Einstein demonstrated time’s relativity and how it can be experienced differently based on an object’s speed.…
