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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least interesting one
In some ways, my review of the new MacBook Pros will be a lot like my review of the new iMac. This is the third year and fourth generation of the Apple Silicon-era MacBook Pro design, and outwardly, few things…
Spotify’s Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life
Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot more interest and have stepped in to save, and upgrade, a potentially useful gadget. Spotify’s…
Lucid dreaming app triples users’ awareness in dreams, study finds
In a recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition, researchers at Northwestern University showed that a smartphone app using sensory cues can significantly increase the frequency of lucid dreams—dreams in which a person is aware they are dreaming while still…
The virus behind an outbreak in Brazil can spread from mother to fetus
Transmission of Oropouche virus to the womb has been confirmed in two stillbirths and one birth with congenital anomalies that occurred in Brazil.
Pando, the world’s largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old.
Leonid meteor shower 2024: How to spot ‘shooting stars’ and ‘fireballs’ over the US this week
The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.
Our ancestor Lucy may have used tools more than 3 million years ago
An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the Homo genus arose.
2,600-year-old Celtic wooden burial chamber of ‘outstanding scientific importance’ uncovered by archaeologists in Germany
The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a “stroke of luck for archaeology,” scientists say.
Sex-specific brain pathways influence threat processing
A new study published in Nature Neuroscience reveals that male and female mice process threats differently in the brain, even though their behavioral responses are similar. By studying neural activity in two key brain regions, researchers discovered sex-specific pathways that…
