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In the TV series Doctor Who, treeborgs supply fresh air to spaceship passengers. Part tree, part robot, these devices convert starlight into oxygen. In Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Zahrah the Windseeker, children receive their own “flora computers.” These are personal machines…
A 21-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after she was bleeding from her face and palms, with no obvious cause.
Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.
Regions of Germany that were under Roman rule approximately 2,000 years ago exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being, better health, and more adaptive personality traits compared to regions outside the Roman Empire, a new study has found. Published in Current…
I almost missed it. Amid a bout of prime-time doomscrolling, a social media post reminded me there was something worth seeing in the sky. Mars disappeared behind the full Moon for a little more than an hour Monday night, an…
Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.
When fed peanuts, red squirrels in Britain developed weaker bites — showing that food supplements to threatened animals could have unintended side effects.
Eli Lilly and other drugmakers are reportedly planning to urge the Trump administration to pause Medicare drug-price negotiations that were put in place by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). “They need to fix [the IRA],” Eli Lilly CEO…
A day after announcing that CEO Patrick Spence is departing the company, Sonos revealed that chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. Bouvat-Merlin had the role since 2023. As first reported by Bloomberg, Sonos will not fill the chief…
The FBI said today that it removed Chinese malware from 4,258 US-based computers and networks by sending commands that forced the malware to use its “self-delete” function. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) government paid the Mustang Panda group to…
