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Exports of quantum computers are restricted in many countriesSaigh Anys/Shutterstock As a result of secret international negotiations, governments around the world have imposed identical export controls…
Ocean warming threatens to reduce golden tiger shark populationsShutterstock/Podlonaya Elena The world's egg-laying shark populations could be hit hard by the end of the century as…
Google’s Sycamore quantum computer Peter Knefel/dpa/Alamy In 2019, Google claimed that its Sycamore quantum computer could perform calculations that would take the world’s most powerful classical…
The field of anti-aging medicine has exploded in recent years as discoveries about the basic biology of aging are translated into experimental treatments. The latest fountains…
The snow leopard was one of the animals hunted by the DenisovansKlaus Honal / Alamy The ancient humans known as the Denisovans hunted a wide variety…
I’ll be 60 in just over 5 years, which is a big deal. I already have an age-related disease (high blood pressure), and the odds are…
Traces of cave paintings depicting pigs and human-like figures from Leang Karampuang, Sulawesi, IndonesiaGriffith University An Indonesian cave painting depicting a pig with a human-like figure…
Reconstruction of Gaiasia geniaeGabriel Rio 280 million years ago, the cold swamps of what is now the Namib Desert were home to giant salamander-like predators that…
If you struggle to picture a two-ton, wingless creature hovering, you’re not alone. However, a recent study shows that hippos (or hippopotamuses, to use the full…
The skull, discovered on the banks of the Thiel River in Corneau/Les Sauges, Switzerland, is currently kept at the Laténium Museum in Hauterive. Swiss National Fund…
Malware may use ChatGPT to rewrite its own codeJusan/Getty The researchers found that computer viruses can use ChatGPT to rewrite code to evade detection, create customized…
Amplify: To increase the number, amount, or other measure of a response. Note The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a particular object or event. average:…
Acidic: An adjective describing a substance that contains an acid. Acidic substances often dissolve minerals such as carbonates or prevent them from forming in the first…
Looking to age gracefully? There’s a plethora of advice out there, but the key seems to lie in maintaining a healthy diet. A recent study published…
You may be surprised by how little we actually know about the inner workings of the Earth. While we have a good grasp of how the…
Do you ever wonder why your cute cat suddenly becomes a shredding machine when you’re not looking? Cats scratching furniture is a common issue, but it’s…
Within the range of uncertainties in the relevant astronomical and biological parameters, the Drake equations typically predict that many exoplanets should exist ( Stern and Geriya…
The Trypilyan culture flourished in western/central Ukraine, Moldova and eastern Romania for over two millennia, from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age…
Silicon chips could connect quantum devices more easily than ever before Shutterstock/Fit Ztudio We may be one step closer to achieving unhackable quantum Wi-Fi, thanks to…
Water levels rise at Rapidan Dam in MinnesotaBen Brewer/Bloomberg/Getty Images The near failure of a century-old dam in Minnesota has drawn new attention to the vulnerability…
Three years ago, Google launched an ambitious plan to address climate change, aiming to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2030. This goal entails not emitting more…
Ronaldo, a six-foot-long Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a British school, was thought to be male until he gave birth to 14 babies last month.…
Over the past 50,000 years, terrestrial vertebrate faunas have experienced severe declines in large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring during the Late Pleistocene and early…
Small changes in average facial temperature can reveal information about your age and whether you have certain medical conditions.Zheng Qingyu and Wang Jingdong If your cheeks…
Episodic memory and mental time travel have been considered uniquely human traits. This view has begun to change with the development of behavioral criteria to assess…
Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the Vitaceae family. Vitaceae It is based on fossil seeds from four tropical palaeoflora sites, dating back 60 to…
Sasithorn Puapangkasemsuk/Getty Images When you imagine an environment that has been largely untouched by humans, the Amazon rainforest might come to mind. After all, most of…
Termites in FloridaPaul Young/Alamy Some ants will bite off the infected limbs of their nestmates to improve their chances of survival, making them the only non-human…
Florida carpenter ants are unique in their behavior, as they have been observed selectively cutting off the injured limbs of their nestmates. This unusual behavior was…
average: (scientific term) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a set of numbers divided by the size of that group. Drosophila…
In Pac-Man, players must collect dots in a maze and avoid being caught by ghosts. ArcadeImages/Alamy Stock Photo Artificial intelligence can accurately predict how a monkey…
If you have ever had a dog as a pet, you are likely familiar with this scenario: you are engaged in a task, and suddenly you…
Many individuals desire to shed a few pounds and maintain a healthy weight, especially as the pandemic has led to weight gain for some individuals over…
Working with Indigenous rangers and conservation managers, University of Sydney And elsewhere, they sequenced the genomes of living organisms. Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) And then it…
A hyperon is a particle that contains three quarks, like a proton or a neutron, and one or more strange quarks. Physicists from the LHCb collaboration…
Fossil and molecular evidence suggests that complex multicellular organisms arose and proliferated during the Neoproterozoic Era (1-541 million years ago). An extreme glacial period during the…
Can you find your way out of the red center of the maze? Scroll down for the answerUniversity of Bristol An algorithm designed to find the…
A team of scientists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History has described a new species of nightjar that lives in the tropical forests of Timor…
Hurricane Beryl is causing chaos in the southeastern Caribbean and setting new records.This past Sunday, Beryl became the first Category 4 storm to develop in the…
California is bracing for a dangerous combination of extreme heat and high fire risk this week as people across the state celebrate Independence Day outdoors. Temperatures…
