Legendary ROM hacking site shutting down after almost 20 years
Enlarge / A thing that exists through ROM hacking, and ROMHacking.net: Super Mario Land 2,…
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Dangerous strains of ‘hypervirulent’ superbug detected in US and 15 other countries
A drug-resistant bacterium that causes severe infections has been spreading globally, and it’s now in…
Pot overflowing with gold coins discovered in ancient Greek city in Turkey
The coins were found beneath a home and were likely hidden by mercenaries.
Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency
Enlarge / Some solar panels, along with a diagram of a perovskite’s crystal structure. (credit:…
NZXT wants you to pay up to $169/month to rent a gaming PC
Enlarge / NZXT’s subscription program charges $169/month for this build. (credit: NZXT) NZXT, which sells…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Human muscle cells come back from space, look aged
Enlarge / Muscle atrophy is a known hazard of spending time on the International Space…
Once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion from T Coronae Borealis will create a ‘new star’ in the sky
The T Coronae Borealis nova will soon burst into life above our heads for the…
Classical music boosts language recovery and brain connectivity in stroke survivors
Listening to classical music could help stroke survivors recover language skills and increase brain connectivity,…
Intel is offering extended warranties for crashing 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs
Enlarge / Even mainstream CPUs like the Core i5-13400 could theoretically be affected by Intel’s…
Tycho Brahe dabbled in alchemy. Broken glassware is revealing his recipes
The shards contain nine metals that the famous astronomer may have used, including one not…
Minerals evolve under pressure in the same way life does, researchers find
Researchers say they’ve discovered evidence for the recently proposed ‘law of increasing functional information’ by…
A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC
Enlarge / The Pocket 386 is fun for a while, but the shortcomings and the…
‘Screaming Woman’ mummy suffered a painful death in ancient Egypt, virtual autopsy finds
The mummy was well preserved with an expensive embalming material. Her organs were still intact,…
Genetic risk for neuroticism increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Could your personality influence your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease? An analysis of UK Biobank…
Rocket Report: Falcon 9 is back; Starship could be recovered off Australia
Welcome to Edition 7.05 of the Rocket Report! The Federal Aviation Administration grounded SpaceX’s Falcon…
