A robot inspired by Cheerios releasing alcohol fuel with a fluorescent dye Jackson K. Wilt et al. 2024 The same phenomena that let beetles float across ponds and cause Cheerios to cluster together in your cereal bowl can be harnessed to…
November 28, 2024 3 min read Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ago,…
More than 2 million years ago, a mutation reduced the power of the chewing muscles in human ancestors. That may indicate they were doing more food preparation, but also possibly making more controlled use of their mouths. Expanded nerve outlets…
Language AI models achieved 81% accuracy in predicting neuroscience research outcomes, significantly surpassing human experts’ 63% success rate in a first-of-its-kind study that points to AI’s potential for accelerating scientific discovery. Published in Nature Human Behaviour | Estimated reading time:…
COP a load of this Feedback has been watching bemusedly from a distance as the latest round of international climate negotiations, COP29, struggled along in Azerbaijan. In a previous life, we covered a few COPs, and are still on most…
In 2014 astronomers announced a whopper of a discovery: primordial waves from the earliest moments of the big bang. The South Pole telescope results validated the long-standing but still-shaky hypothesis of cosmic inflation, the scenario where the extremely early universe…
According to Bodoque, we need to improve flood-risk mapping too. There is a need to characterize vulnerability in a holistic manner, which implies considering the social, economic, physical, institutional, and cultural dimensions of what makes a community vulnerable to the…
New climate models reveal a stark disparity in predictions for Greenland’s ice loss, with some suggesting the rate could be double previous estimates – a finding that carries profound implications for global sea levels. Published in Geophysical Research Letters |…
Optimus robots wandered around the party held after Elon Musk’s Tesla unveiled its robotaxi last month, doling out drinks and chatting with guests. They were also being photographed, as android butlers make for great social media content. Partygoers couldn’t believe…
Are we alone in the universe? The answer is almost certainly no. Given the vastness of the cosmos and the fact that its physical laws allowed life to emerge at least one place—on Earth—the existence of life elsewhere is effectively…
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