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Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces have made it possible to more accurately extract speech from neural signals in humans, but language is just one of...
It’s harder than ever to tell AI-generated images from real photographs and illustrations produced by flesh-and-blood human beings. And in recent years, the fakery produced...
Everywhere you turn in Davos, Switzerland, this year, people are talking about trust. And there’s no one who knows trust better than Richard Edelman. Back...
After more than forty years, a bizarre panel from “The Far Side” comic strip has finally become prophecy. The cartoon depicts a strangely eye-less, bipedal...
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.
Cold weather is mostly a physics problem: your body makes heat, and winter tries to steal it via wind, convection, and damp fabric. A decent...
Scotland’s smallest whisky distillery also hopes to be one of the most innovative in time for its first batch’s debut. But with only around two...
Last week, we broke down a major debacle unfolding in the health research space. To recap: over the past month, concerned researchers have been sounding...
Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might support life. Now researchers are planning an expedition to...
Hoang Pham has spent his career trying to ensure that some of the world’s most critical systems don’t fail, including commercial aircraft engines, nuclear facilities,...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been leading the charge on artificial intelligence for years, owing to his long alliance with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and the...
It sounds like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is already coming up with excuses in case the whole AI boom turns out to be a massive...
Kurdish Iraqis who survived the 1988 chemical weapons attack on Halabja and nearby communities have lasting trauma, a new report finds, highlighting the need for...
For a place named Dinosaur, it’s been a while since the small Colorado town revealed any actual fossils. But after a 101 year lull in...
Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are depleted and the world faces huge economic, social and environmental...
An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden seasonal ecosystem.
Apple’s Time Capsule was always a strange item in the company’s hardware lineup. Coming out in 2008, after the introduction of the sleeker version of...
This week, thousands of the world’s biggest names in business, economics, and politics have descended upon Davos, a small town in the Swiss Alps. But...
Earlier this month, NASA announced that it had to cancel a scheduled spacewalk, citing a “medical situation” affecting a “single crew member who is stable”...
Every year, millions of dogs come face-to-face with a life threatening parasite coiled up inside one of their vital organs—heartworm. The spaghetti-looking parasite can be...
An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts say that the chances are extremely slim due to the age...
Imagine if our skies were always filled with a thick layer of opaque clouds. With no way to see the stars, or to view our...
Anybody who’s regularly driven in winter conditions knows the importance of keeping windshield washer fluid topped up. Keeping the salty grime stuck to your windshield...