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Seoul’s ginkgo trees help absorb carbon dioxide emitted by traffic Khanh Nha Trang/Alamy Becoming Earth Felice Jabr (Picador (UK)) Penguin Random House (USA) The first ginkgo…
Supernova remnants in the Milky Way GalaxyChandra X-ray Observatory After a star explodes in a supernova, its remains can be reborn multiple times as new stars.…
ohBut out in the desert, the skies begin to darken. You are here to hunt Dosha-gama – fearsome, scaly, lion-like, squashed-faced beasts that roam the dunes…
Today marks the first day of Gamescom, the Cologne trade show that is currently the biggest event on the video game calendar. This year, I wasn't…
In Tuesday’s election, a mayoral candidate in Wyoming who proposed letting artificial intelligence bots govern the local government was defeated by a significant margin. Victor Miller,…
Based on satellite analysis, it has been found that the construction of Tesla’s megafactory near Berlin resulted in the cutting down of approximately 500,000 trees. The…
A groundbreaking space mission known as Polaris Dawn is set to take off next week with four private citizens on board. The mission is expected to…
IIf there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I’m really into drugs. I read Empire of Pain by Patrick Raddon Keefe earlier this…
The Guardian has uncovered detailed manuals and video guides on financially motivated sexual extortion, commonly known as sextortion, available for free online. Criminals provide customised instruction…
Google’s latest flagship phone is a significant advancement, focusing on battery life, camera quality, and intelligent features. It represents a new era of Android devices that…
circleWhen Aleksandar Matkovic initially received a life-threatening message, he believed it was a prank. The message, sent to his Telegram account just after midnight on August…
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaegangliae) Whales build so-called “bubble nets” as tools to hunt, but researchers from the University of Hawaii and the Alaska Whale Foundation have…
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius that hosts seven planets. The period ratios of the neighboring planets are…
Historical and ethnographic sources document that portable pole-hafted weapons, or spears, were used for hunting and defense against large game in North and South America, Africa,…
Set against the backdrop of Jupiter’s dramatic, swirling atmosphere, Europa may look a bit drab at first glance — its gray-white surface might even resemble well-worn…
Composite image of the New York Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the tracks of particles it has detected. Joe Rubino and Jen Abramowitz/Brookhaven National Laboratory Our…
AP Photo/François Mori, File/Alamy As a COP26 During climate change negotiations in Glasgow, UK, in November 2021, a new slogan entered the vocabulary: “Stay at 1.5°C.”…
Duodenal hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale) cause one of the most common intestinal parasitic infections worldwide.Katerina Conn/Shutterstock People with intestinal parasitic infections, quarter This has been suggested by…
Lasers could provide cooling effect in quantum experiments Mike Schott/Shutterstock In the strange world of quantum mechanics, nothing is never actually absent, and now it turns out that nothing, or the absence of photons, can be used to cool objects. One of the most common ways scientists cool objects is with lasers: when a particle
AI programs quickly lose the ability to learn new thingsJiefeng Jiang/iStockphoto/Getty Images The algorithms that underpin artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are unable to learn as…
The impact of the long corona pandemic appears to vary by ageDamir Cudic/Getty Images Symptoms of long COVID appear to be very different in young children…
Recently, ChildLine counselors have been receiving an alarming number of calls regarding a specific issue. In one case, a 17-year-old boy reached out for help after…
13,000 years ago, humans had to come up with creative ways to survive in icy environments. Recent studies suggest that their solutions were more inventive and…
Hubble astronomers have released a stunning new image of the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble Space Telescope…
Scientists are puzzled by mysterious object speeding through galaxy at over a million miles per hour
An object moving through space at close to 1 million miles per hour has been detected, moving so fast that it is leaving the Milky Way…
The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico detected a radio signal similar to the Wow! signal. NAIC/Arecibo Observatory/NSF An unexplained radio signal detected in 1977 and known…
The oldest known fragment on Earth? A 4.4 billion year old zircon John Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Until recently, many people discounted the idea of life…
circleWhen Atomfall was first revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, many people asked, “Is this the British Fallout?” “In some ways it is, and…
debtOr when he advertised a free online tech-skills class, it got hundreds of likes on Facebook and eventually 1,500 people signed up. But on the first…
During the Cretaceous period on Earth, both large dinosaurs and smaller creatures coexisted, shaping the landscape. The battles between these creatures can still be seen in…
Three authors have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic in California federal court. They claim that the company illegally utilized data from their…
Condé Nast and OpenAI have announced a long-term partnership to feature content from Condé Nast’s brands such as Vogue, Wired, and The New Yorker in OpenAI’s…
Red meat is best enjoyed in moderationAnton Vielitin/Getty Images In the ever-evolving and confusing world of nutrition science, new research has linked eating meat to an…
Using the large number of human fossils found in Ice Age Europe, paleoanthropologists have identified a population turnover in Western Europe 28,000 years ago, isolation between…
Researchers from James Madison University conducted a comprehensive study of thunderstorm environments in two distinct geographic regions: Washington, DC, and the Kansas City metropolitan area. Air…
Astronomers Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array observed Polaris, the nearest and brightest classical Cepheid star, which is part of a triple star system.…
Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas caused the extinction of most mitochondrial lineages of North American dogs between 1492 and present, and…
Quantum effects cause particles to behave like waves that interfere with each other.Shutterstock/sakkmesterk The quantum world’s ambiguities have been demonstrated on the largest scale yet, exploring…
IIt’s been eight years since Civilization 6 launched, the latest in the long-running strategy game series in which you lead a nation from the first town…
A new species of three-bearded rockfish has been described from a specimen taken from a depth of 595 metres in the Tanoudre Valley, off the coast…