Meet ‘small diver’: One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered
A tiny extinct penguin from New Zealand is key to understanding penguin wing evolution, researchers say.
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FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” (credit: FLUX.1) On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and the release of its…
Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts
Enlarge / Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during an interview at Bloomberg House on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg) OpenAI…
James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there’s something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.
Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is sinking into the ground
Tanzania’s outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has been sinking at a rate of 1.4 inches per year for the past decade.
Giant wildfires can create their own weather. Here’s how.
Wildfires can generate tornado-like fire whirls and other “unpredictable and erratic” weather. An atmospheric scientist explains how.
Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city
Enlarge / There is something so wonderfully obscene about having a town with hundreds of people living their lives, running into conflict, hoping for better, and your omnipotent self is stuck on which bookcase best fits this living room corner.…
US probes Nvidia’s acquisition of Israeli AI startup
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia’s acquisition of Run:ai, an Israeli artificial intelligence startup, for potential antitrust violations, said a person familiar with discussions the government agency has had with third parties. The DoJ…
Alzheimer’s blood tests are getting better, but still have a ways to go
Blood biomarker tests could help doctors know if a person’s cognitive symptoms are due to Alzheimer’s or something else.
Human muscle cells come back from space, look aged
Enlarge / Muscle atrophy is a known hazard of spending time on the International Space Station. (credit: NASA) Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems…
