Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Instead of heading straight back to the bottle after the end of Dry January, some people are looking for an alternative that doesn’t require cutting out the “fun” altogether. Alcohol’s risks are well documented, from physical diseases to…

Gliding through warm ocean waters, the odd, yet majestic, manta ray looks like something out of this world. Its body is relatively flat, like a diamond-shaped pancake with wings, and it has a narrow tail that trails behind it. At its mouth are…

A new artificial intelligence tool can help identify dinosaur footprints that have been difficult to pin to a specific animal, including tracks that may belong to some of the earliest birds. By comparing the shapes of nearly 2,000 fossil…

Artificial intelligence has become deeply entwined with all sorts of human enterprise. It pervades business, medicine, scientific research, and, increasingly, everyday life — OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said recently that the platform…

As much of the country contends with an unprecedented winter storm,…

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The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have…

T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, printable…

In Earth’s highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference.

A different story has emerged at the Fukushima Daiichi…