Pacific geoduck: The large, phallic clam that can live longer than 165 years
The Pacific geoduck is a clam that lives along the shore from Alaska to Mexico,…
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Nanoplastics have been found in the human brain and penis – how worried should we be?
The world is becoming clogged with plastic. Particles of plastic so tiny they cannot be…
Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act targeted CO2 as climate pollutant, study says
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan) This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News,…
Here’s what the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris look like from space (photos)
The European Space Agency shared a high-resolution interactive image of central Paris highlighting several notable…
Grandiose fantasizing appears to serve a vital psychological function for narcissists
Recent research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry has shed new light on the psychological mechanisms…
How many galaxies are in the universe?
If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the…
3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world’s biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals
“Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was…
These 17th-century drawings of the sun by Kepler add fire to solar cycle mystery
Kepler’s sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates.
Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash
Enlarge (credit: The Gemini prompt box in the ) Have you seen Google’s “Dear Sydney”…
DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) The US Department of Justice sued TikTok today,…
Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering
Enlarge (credit: ) Buying counterfeit weight loss drugs from illegal online pharmacies that don’t require…
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,…
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,…
