Cave diver exploring Chan Aktun HaMartin Broen The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes. When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is now the town of Chicxulub, the impact created a massive...
Unlike humans, dogs may know what they know through living rather than through thinkingShutterstock/Tom Wang The Happiness of DogsMark Rowlands (Granta Books) Do you spend a large chunk of your day looking at your dog, asking questions like “what do...
A new kind of weather forecast could tell us beforehand whether extreme events, like the 2018 Hurricane Florence, were made worse by climate changeNathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images A revolution in weather forecasting could soon see warnings of...
A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle sits parked at an EVgo charging station in Los Angeles, California, on May 15, 2024.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesUber announced Friday it is expanding its partnership with Alphabet's Waymo to...
Lady Gaga is blasting some former NYU classmates for creating a nasty Facebook group about her years ago, claiming she would never make it as an entertainer. The celebrated singer/actress hopped on TikTok to address the now-deleted page from when...
Posted by Francesco Romano – Developer Relations Engineer on Android, and Fahd Imtiaz – Product Manager, Android Developer To empower tablet users to get more done, we're enhancing freeform windowing, allowing them to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows...
Biomarkers in blood can point towards certain conditionsEvgeniy Salov/Alamy Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) could one day be diagnosed with a blood test, after researchers have linked eight genetic markers to the condition. People with ALS – the most common form...
This is a real photo of Joe Biden giving a speechSHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock People can generally spot when videos of famous politicians giving speeches are actually AI-generated deepfakes. But we have more trouble discerning counterfeits from reality when listening to audio...
Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes today, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition, it makes people laugh, then think. The awards gala happened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in...
To the chagrin of many Stephen King fans, Salem’s Lot — the latest movie adaptation of the horror master’s 1975 bestseller — will bypass theaters and debut on Max. So we’ll be deprived of the big screen experience, and non-subscribers...
