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Enlarge / The Altar Stone at Stonehenge weighs roughly 6 tons and was probably transported by land—or possibly by sea. English Heritage The largest of the “bluestones” that comprise the inner circle at Stonehenge is known as the Altar Stone.…

Cockroaches are a common pest LELACHANOK/Shutterstock People buying insecticide sprays to battle cockroaches are wasting their money as the insects have grown resistant to a key ingredient, sparking a call for US regulators to toughen up product testing rules. About…

Set between the original Alien and its more bombastic sequel, Aliens, Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus echoes the the greatest elements of those films, while also delivering his own spin on the 45-year-old franchise. There’s the elegant interplay of light and…

Apple has recently been forced by the European Commission to open up the iPhones’ NFC functionality to third parties, paving the way for mobile payments that don’t involve Apple’s own wallet. Now, the company has uncharacteristically taken things one step…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As anticipated based on updates and new settings in the mobile app for Elon Musk’s social network X, a new large…

On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers ChatGPT. During testing, Sakana found that its…

The Sleep Room in The Outlast Trials is named after a real-life space at McGill University’s Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, where from 1957 to 1964, doctors conducted mind-control experiments on patients as part of the CIA’s MK-Ultra initiative. Led…

Physicists at Purdue University have levitated nanoscale diamonds, hit them with lasers to make them flash and sent them spinning at an incredible 1.2 billion rpm. The experiments aren’t just about creating the “world’s smallest disco” but could help the…

The Google Pixel Watch 4 won’t arrive for another year, but that hasn’t stopped us from brainstorming all the ways it can fix the Pixel Watch 3’s shortcomings come 2025.  The Pixel Watch 3 specs and design sound awfully similar…

Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft. Last week, NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth asteroids and comets, closing an important chapter in the agency’s planetary defense program. From its position in…