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Enlarge / The cool racing stripe means it’s faster. (credit: Sony) Sony today announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-generation hardware upgrade that will play the same game library as 2020’s PlayStation 5, but with higher frame rates and better…
A recent study published in Psychological Science explored the relationship between how much people value happiness and their overall well-being. The research found that those who placed a high value on happiness generally experienced greater well-being, as reflected in higher…
Enlarge / Quantinuum’s H2 “racetrack” quantum processor. (credit: Quantinuum) On Tuesday, Microsoft made a series of announcements related to its Azure Quantum Cloud service. Among them was a demonstration of logical operations using the largest number of error-corrected qubits yet.…
Enlarge / Where are the gentle creatures and native plants you first saw when you landed? More importantly, could this conveyer belt run on a shorter path? (credit: Coffee Stain Studios) The company that compels you to industrialize an untouched…
ChatGPT and similar AI sort those who use African American English dialect into less prestigious jobs and dole out harsher criminal punishments.
Archaeologists think the earliest skeleton from the Malaysian excavation may be up to 16,000 years old.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Apple has suffered a significant defeat after the EU’s top court ruled that the iPhone maker must pay €13 billion in back taxes, overturning an earlier decision in the Big Tech group’s…
Enlarge (credit: eugenekeebler via Getty Images) In an age when you can get just about anything online, it’s probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. If you, like me, haven’t…
A study of adults diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) suggests that excessive mind wandering, rumination, and decreased mindfulness may mediate the link between ADHD symptoms and depression ADHD may predispose individuals to excessive mind wandering, rumination, and reduced mindfulness, which…
The corrected calculation had an error rate about a tenth of one done without quantum error correction.
A new video from an astronaut’s vantage point in space captures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.
The source of a supposed alien broadcast that made researchers go “Wow!” may instead have been the result of a remarkably rare cosmic event, a new study suggests.
A recent study, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, introduces a new tool designed to measure gaslighting in romantic relationships. The Gaslighting Relationship Exposure Inventory (GREI) consists of 11 items and was found to be a reliable…
Enlarge / An Aurora truck departs the company’s depot in Palmer, Texas. (credit: Aurora) On a sunny morning in December, an 18-wheeler will pull into a truck depot in Palmer, Texas, just south of Dallas. The driver will step out…
The word orangutan means “person of the forest” — a good name for a group of primates that spend most of their time in trees. These great apes have long arms and long, curling fingers and toes for grasping branches.…
Objective: Determine the relationship between musical note frequency and air cavity volume when blowing over the top of a partly filled bottle Areas of science: Music Difficulty: Medium intermediate Time required: 2–5 days Prerequisites: None Material availability: Readily available Cost:…
September’s full Harvest Moon will drift into Earth’s shadow for a partial eclipse on Sept. 17. It is also the second of four consecutive supermoons this year, making our natural satellite look bigger and brighter than usual.
Enlarge / A Crew Dragon spacecraft separates from the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday morning. (credit: SpaceX) A Falcon 9 rocket streaked into the blackened the pre-dawn sky above Florida on Tuesday, carrying four people on…
A pair of 2015 astronaut photos taken just minutes apart shows the eye of tropical cyclone Bansi illuminated by two lightning strikes as the storm raged in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar.
Japan’s new state-of-the-art supercomputer, which is due to cost more than $750 million to build, is set to turn on by 2030.
A recent study published in Neuropsychologia suggests that Olympic-level athletes in closed-skill sports use different brain strategies compared to non-athletes during tasks involving working memory and action inhibition. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers found that these athletes showed…
Enlarge / The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is reflected in one of the mission’s deployable solar array wings during testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (credit: NASA/Frank Michaux) For a while earlier this summer, it looked…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images via Getty Images) On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build 3D environments and objects using text prompts, reports MIT Tech Review. The feature,…
New research suggests that hospitalized patients with flu who start taking Tamiflu the day they are admitted are 40% less likely to die within a month than those treated just days later.
A recent study published in Psychology of Violence has shed light on the connection between pornography consumption and sexual aggression among men in the United States. The researchers identified three distinct patterns of pornography use, with one group—those who viewed…
Enlarge / Karen Dunn, one of the lawyers representing Google, outside of the Albert V. Bryan US Courthouse at the start of a Department of Justice antitrust trial against Google over its advertiing business in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 9,…
During an archaeological dig at the former site of a Pictish fort, a volunteer unearthed a rare metal ring with a red centerpiece.
Enlarge / A man helps a boy look at a handgun during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on April 16, 2023. (credit: Getty | Jeremy Hogan) Gun-owning parents who teach…
Enlarge (credit: Olga Pankova/Moment via Getty Images) This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Most of the products in…
Researchers have developed a method of reversing the aging process in mouse egg cells.
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was a battleground not just for policy differences but for the very meaning of what it means to be American. A recent study published in Political Communication examined how then-President Donald Trump and then-candidate Joe…
These are the new colors and finishes for the iPhone 16 Pro. As expected, Apple announced the new iPhone Pro models today during a livestream: the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. The iPhone 16 Pro has a…
Enlarge (credit: Apple) For the last couple years, Apple has reserved its most significant silicon updates for its iPhone Pro models, while the less expensive non-Pro iPhones have made do with year-old chips. This year, Apple is introducing new A18-series…
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple plans to release the next versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to the general public on September 16, the company announced via its website following its iPhone-centric product event earlier today. We should also see…
Enlarge (credit: Apple) The newest Apple Watch is all about a big screen, a thinner case, and lighter metal options, allowing for better typing and easier viewing. Apple’s first wide-angle OLED display inside the Series 10 is 40 percent brighter…
If you paid $40 for the physical edition of Concord, you can make a lot more than that back on eBay. [credit: Kyle Orland ] As recently as a week ago, a new disc copy of Sony’s team-based shooter Concord…
Enlarge / The AirPods 4. (credit: Apple) The AirPods 4. [credit: Apple ] Apple announced the fourth-generation AirPods today during its It’s Glowtime event. As you can tell from the gallery above, the AirPods 4 look different from their predecessor.…
The iPhone 16 has a new rear camera arrangement. [credit: Apple ] Apple’s new iPhone 16 isn’t a revolution by any means, but it’s a solid upgrade with a handful of new features (including two new physical buttons), plus better…
A study in Germany found that individuals need to pay more attention to their actions when performing squats on an unstable surface compared to doing the same exercises on a stable surface. Performing squats on a stable surface reduced participants’…
Enlarge / Medieval scholar Lisa Fagin Davis examined multispectral images of 10 pages from the Voynich manuscript. (credit: Lisa Fagin Davis) About 10 years ago, several folios of the mysterious Voynich manuscript were scanned using multispectral imaging. Lisa Fagin Davis,…
Enlarge / Boeing Factory workers assemble Boeing 787 airliners at the Boeing factory in Everett, WA. (credit: Vince Streano | The Image Bank Unreleased) Boeing is hoping to avoid a strike Friday with a tentative deal reached Sunday with the…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) America has been getting more and more dangerous for pedestrians over the past few years. It’s a trend with several contributing factors—our built environment prioritizes passenger vehicle traffic and encourages speeding, and traffic enforcement is virtually…
A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Research has found that couples who exhibit a communication pattern known as demand-withdrawal during discussions about sexual conflicts experience lower levels of relationship and sexual satisfaction. The study also found that…
A man who received a partial face transplant that included an eye can’t see out of the eye, but there is blood flow to it.
The ancient map offers a glimpse of how the Babylonians viewed the world thousands of years ago.
Researchers have found a potential link between prolonged exposure to natural sunlight and negative effects on brain health. Their study, published in Scientific Reports, indicates that spending more than two hours in the sun each day could be linked to…
The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that stimulate the mineralization of gold.
The future of search will include AI, but the technology will need a lot of work and trust before it changes how we access information.
A study published in Sex Roles found that parents with higher levels of benevolent sexism before the COVID-19 pandemic experienced lower parenting strain and psychological distress during subsequent lockdowns. Benevolent sexism, which idealizes women as nurturing caregivers and men as…
Enlarge / The reMarkable Paper Pro tablet. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Our main critique of Amazon’s Kindle Scribe when it launched in late 2022—and one that still mostly holds up—was that it felt like a big e-reader with writing functionality tacked…
