Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over a faulty exterior panel.

Tesla is recalling more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to a potential safety issue. According to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the armored vehicle's cant rail (a cosmetic exterior trim panel) could detach from the truck, potentia…

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"Venus kiss" happens Saturday as the planet passes between the Earth and sun.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. The moment of conjunction will happen at around 9 p.m. EDT, but don't plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot without special equipment and…

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Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as Covid-19.

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi Zhengli – a leading virologist known as the “batwoman” due to her extensiv…

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Rare Purple Dinosaur Track discovered by Fossil Tour Guide in UK.

A UK-based fossil tour guide used to pointing out fossils to tourists was given quite a treat recently when he discovered a rare purple dinosaur track on the Isle of Wight. On February 12, Joe, from South Coast Fossil, was exploring the coastline of the Isle of Wight when he…

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30 million-year-old skull reveals previously unknown species of apex carnivore.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago, leaving prehistorians to grapple with what caused the apex predator to go extinct. Now,…

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New Kind of Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Discovered.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened …

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Scientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer's.

Researchers have discovered a link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of Alzheimer's disease in some people. Most people encounter cytomegalovirus (CMV) during childhood, and after the initial infection the virus remains in the b…

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Researchers discover 27 animal species new to science.

Researchers on an expedition in Peru discovered 27 animal species new to science, and some are quite interesting. “New to science” means the species has never before gone through the formal scientific process through which they are given a scientific name. The researchers une…

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Tesla is working with Austin on deploying self-driving cars.

Tesla is working with the City of Austin, the automaker’s new home, on deploying self-driving cars. Now, Tesla simply needs to have self-driving cars. According to a new Bloomberg report, Tesla has been in contact with Austin officials about the requirements to deploy self-dr…

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Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe discovered.

Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named from Zimbabwe. The research detailing this significant discovery is publish…

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Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species that lived during the time of dinosaurs.

When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fo…

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Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques.

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work on artificial neural networks and the fundamental algorithms that let machines learn, which are key to today’s large language models like ChatGPT. The Royal Swedish Academy o…

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James Webb telescope catches baby stars roaring to life.

A new image of the Serpens Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows that when clouds collapse to form stars, all of those stars spin in the same direction. What it is: The Serpens Nebula Where it is: 1,300 light-years away, in the constellation Serpens When it w…

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Microsoft's Edge desktop browser approaches 14% market share as Chrome slides.

Pretty much everyone knows that Google's Chrome is and has been the dominant desktop web browser for years. Ask about second place, however, and the number of correct answers registered is likely to dip significantly. According to the latest data from web traffic analyst…

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China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week.

China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear. While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China may meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month, according to a report. What's …

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New HIV prevention drug shows 100% efficacy in clinical trial.

A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection. The trial tested whether the six-month injection of lenacapavir would provide better protec…

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Microsoft China bans Android, demands staff use iPhones.

As part of an overall security drive, Microsoft in China has told staff they will all be required to switch to iPhone. As China's government has variously been said to be banning iPhones, and not exactly banning iPhones, now Microsoft is definitely doing the opposite in …

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Scientists inject radioactive material into live rhino horns making them poisonous to humans.

Scientists in South Africa are now injecting the horns of live rhinos with non-toxic radioactive isotopes to make the horns unfit for human consumption and allow for easier tracking at international border crossings, according to a press release from the University of the W…

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US Bans Kaspersky Software.

The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the compan…

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Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI.

Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing "emotion-canceling" technology powered by AI that will alter the voices of angry customers to sound calmer during phone calls with customer service representatives. The proje…

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