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Next time you’re caught in the rain, thank your eyelashes for keeping your vision clear. Several traits help eyelashes fling water away from the eyes, a new study finds. One secret to their water-wicking superpower is their structure. The outside of…
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can’t exactly do.
In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Northwestern Medicine discovered that the brain regions used for thinking about other people’s thoughts are linked with ancient, emotion-related structures deep within the brain—specifically, the amygdala. Their work shows that…
Sometime during the next several weeks, the directors of federal agencies will receive a draft version of President Trump’s budget request for the coming fiscal year, which begins on October 1. This “passback review” is a standard part of the…
It’s been a month since we first heard rumors that the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons could be slid across a flat surface to function like a computer mouse. Now, a newly published patent filed by Nintendo seems to confirm that…
Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books. Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large…
A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot that had simulated reasoning capabilities that were largely on par with those from market…
A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn’t previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.
With the closure of its last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, on September 30, 2024, the United Kingdom has taken a significant step toward its net-zero goals. It’s no small feat to end the 142-year era of coal-powered electricity in the…
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University’s 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty members across 23 campuses, reports Reuters. The education-focused version of the AI assistant will aim to provide students with personalized tutoring and study…
