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Enlarge / The Hummer EV and its gargantuan 205 kWh pack is among the GM EVs that gain access to the Tesla Supercharger network today. (credit: GMC) Starting today, electric vehicles made by General Motors gain access to the Tesla…
An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.
Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas.
A study of 4- to 5-year-old children in Spain found that participants who were breastfed as infants, for 1 to 8 months, tended to have better cognitive abilities compared to their peers who were not breastfed. These children had higher…
About one in five U.S. kids have obesity. This condition greatly ups their risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and more. Such dangers partially explain doctors’ interest in helping people avoid excessive weight. Lately, many kids and teens…
A recent study published in Science has identified a previously unknown mechanism in the brain that occurs during sleep, helping to reset memory pathways. Researchers found that a burst of neural silence in a specific part of the brain, the…
Enlarge (credit: Memento | Aurich Lawson) Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we’re seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I’m calling “deep…
Enlarge / iPads running iPadOS 18. (credit: Apple) Apple has temporarily paused the rollout of the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pros. The company has stopped signing the update for these iPads, meaning it will no longer be offered to…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T agreed to pay a $13 million fine because it gave customer bill information to a vendor in order to create personalized videos, then allegedly failed to ensure that the vendor destroyed the…
A new study led by researchers from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research in South Korea and Dartmouth College has revealed that brain activity can predict how people emotionally experience their thoughts. Using brain scans and personalized story narratives, the…
