A Spot robot equipped with a blowtorch for tackling weedsDezhen Song et al. (2024) A robot dog equipped with a blowtorch could be used to stop weeds growing on farms, potentially offering a replacement for harmful herbicides. Even highly targeted...
Komodo dragons are fierce predatorsCharlotte Ellis/Zoological Society of London The Komodo dragon, one of the planet’s fiercest reptiles, reinforces its teeth with an iron cap – and researchers think some dinosaurs may have had this adaptation too. Komodo dragons (Varanus...
Tipping points can leave once lush forests dried outPiotr Poznan/Shutterstock AI can predict when complex systems like forests, animal populations or the power grid will suddenly start behaving very differently. Identifying such tipping points may help avert disastrous collapses in...
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Alphabet — Shares of the Google parent-company slipped nearly 4% before the opening bell. Advertising revenue in Alphabet's YouTube segment undershot expectations in the second-quarter and overshadowed results that beat analyst...
Kathy Hilton caused a bit of a stir at a Los Angeles fashion show, bumping into a model as she walked the runway – and the embarrassing moment was caught on video. Not Kathy IN THE MIDDLE of the runway...
Posted by Nick Sharma – Product Manager, Google Play At Google Play, we’re passionate about helping people discover experiences they’ll love while empowering developers like you to bring your ideas to life and build successful businesses. At this year’s Google...
A researcher plucks a bird as part of an experiment into Neanderthals’ cooking skillsMariana Nabais Archaeologists have cooked and prepared five wild birds using only fire, their hands and stone tools to learn more about the culinary abilities of Neanderthals....
Images from a camera attached to a basking shark before, during and after a collision with a boatBig Fish Lab at Oregon State University. A collision between a boat and a basking shark has been recorded for the first time,...
Jacklyn Gates at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory separating atoms of livermoriumMarilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 The Regents of the University of California The third-heaviest element in the universe has been made in a way that offers a route for synthesising the...
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with JawsA bizarre fossil of a Cambrian creature that looked like an “alien fish taco” reveals how a single group with jaws came to account for around 90 percent of all animal...
