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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Apple Finally Announces Calculator App For iPad After 14 Years.
The app is part of iPadOS 18 that features special Apple Pencil support and a new Math Notes feature. The new feature allows users to write down math problems and it will solve them. The app also includes a History feature that contains a history of previous calculations, as…
Chinese scientists create mutant ebola virus in lab.
Scientists at Hebei Medical University in China have engineered a mutant virus using parts of the Ebola virus to study the disease and its symptoms. The study, published in Science Direct, involved injecting hamsters with the lethal virus, which resulted in their deaths wit…
Microplastics Found in Blood Clots in Heart, Brain and Legs.
Earlier this year, we got news from a landmark study that microplastics – tiny shards of plastic shed from larger chunks – had been found inside more than 50 percent of fatty deposits from clogged arteries. It was the first data of its kind to draw a link between microplast…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip.
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday. It's unclear what caused the th…
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target.
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusiv…
World's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell die.
Lori and George Schappell, the world’s oldest living conjoined twins, have died. The twins passed away on April 7 of undisclosed causes, according to joint obituaries published by Leibensperger Funeral Homes in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The Schappell twins were born in Pennsylva…
A 605 MW PV plant in Germany is now Europe’s largest solar farm.
A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized, is owned by German investment firm HANSAINVEST Real Assets. It’s…
App Store is currently down for many users around the world.
If you’ve been experiencing problems when trying to access the App Store, it’s not just you. The App Store is currently down for users around the world. Although Apple is yet to acknowledge the problem, many people have been complaining about an ongoing outage affecting the…
Microplastics found in every human placenta tested, study finds.
It's been over three years since scientists first found microplastics swimming in four different human placentas, and as it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg. A few years later, at the start of 2023, researchers announced they had found microscopic particle…
Paleontologists discover a 240 million-year-old 'dragon' fossil in full.
It's a fitting discovery in the Year of the Dragon: A team of scientists has uncovered a complete fossil of an aquatic reptile that resembles a "Chinese dragon" because of its snake-like appearance and elongated neck. The fossil of the Dinocephalosaurus orienta…
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