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Enlarge (credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on,…
Researchers have discovered that, unlike other four-legged mammals, hippopotamuses trot at high speeds and become airborne for “quite a large amount of time.”
Researchers used lidar technology to map Iruña Veleia, a Roman-era city in Spain.
New research has found that psilocybin reduces alcohol consumption in rats by altering specific brain pathways, particularly in the left nucleus accumbens. This suggests that psilocybin could potentially be a useful treatment for reducing alcohol use, but more research is…
Enlarge / Travelers navigate customer service and ticketing lines at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. A global computer outage started from an update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that impacted flights worldwide along…
Enlarge / With Dragon and Falcon, SpaceX has become an essential contractor for NASA. (credit: SpaceX) There is an emerging truth about NASA’s push toward commercial contracts that is increasingly difficult to escape: Companies not named SpaceX are struggling with…
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in Joker: Folie à Deux. This weekend will be all about San Diego Comic-Con and the hotly anticipated theatrical release of the summer blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverine, but Warner Bros. is already looking ahead…
New photos show a young giraffe with an extremely deformed neck in Kruger National Park. The animal may have survived a broken neck or could have a severe case of an illness that also affects humans.
Earth from Space
Female green and golden bell frogs in Australia will eat their male counterparts when the males’ mating call displeases them.
