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A 4,700-Year-Old Shipwreck Hailed as the World’s Oldest May Have Carried Goats and Been Bound for Troy
Learn how ancient pottery from a shipwreck off Turkey offers insight into Bronze Age trade and daily life at sea
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60 Dope-as-Hell Things on Amazon That Are Actually Life-Changing — & Damn They’re Cheap
These genius finds deliver a surprising amount of usefulness for very little money.
Meet D-Rex, a Newly Discovered 5-Pound Fungus With a 65-Million-Year-Old Lineage
Learn why researchers suspect this fungus lives quietly inside healthy trees before feeding on their remains after they die.
See the Stunning Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest, Capturing the Splendor and Drama of Nature
These 19 recognized images highlight the diversity across our planet and the value in appreciating and protecting the natural world
Things are finally looking up for NASA’s first missions to Venus in a generation
Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago. That is about to change.
A 230,000-Year-Old Homo sapiens Fossil Reveals Early Humans Were More Robust Than Once Thought
Learn more about Omo I, whose skeleton provides key details on the origins of modern humans.
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Street Fighter 2026 Movie: Cast, Release Date & Everything We Know
The highly anticipated Street Fighter reboot releases later this week, and here's everything fans should know going into it.
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The Wildest Survival Thriller Of The Decade Finally Reveals Its Endgame
Yellowjackets started as a word-of-mouth success on Showtime. Since then, it’s grown its sprawling mystery over two additional seasons, with Season 3 finally showing the survivors a path back home. But with the reveal that Season 4 will be the show’s final season, the pressure is on to wrap things up. Can this final batch of episodes explain what’s really in the Wilderness? And what will happen to the remaining characters in the present?
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Will There Be More Seasons Of ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’? Books 3 And 4 Are On The Way
When Paramount first announced the continuation of the Avatar saga with Avatar: Seven Havens, the new series was plagued by the constant threat of an untimely leak. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender had already been leaked in its entirety, and the same hackers claimed they would do the same with episodes of Seven Havens. Paramount seemed eager to get ahead of that; with two seasons of Seven Havens completed and 26 episodes to think about, that instinct made plenty of sense.
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Why Is ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Rated R? Producer Reveals The Surprising Reason
Godzilla Minus Zero upgrades the King of the Monsters in several ways, and one of the more unexpected ones is that it’s the first Godzilla movie to receive an “R” rating in the United States. That’s partially becaise of the monster action: The climactic kaiju battle incorporates realistic gore into the creatures’ sci-fi regenerative abilities, making for a more intense viewing experience than in Godzilla Minus One.
A New Contender for the World’s Oldest Shipwreck Has Been Discovered Off the Coast of Turkey. Its Ancient Cargo Is a ‘Time Capsule’ From 4,700 Years Ago
The ship was likely transporting huge jars of olive oil or wine across the Mediterranean when it sank to the seafloor. One archaeologist "could not believe how much" residue remained inside
SpaceX rocket launch creates glowing ‘space jellyfish’ cloud – video
The sun illuminated the exhaust plume of a SpaceX rocket launch on 13 October, creating a glowing jellyfish-like cloud in the sky, according to Nasa. Continue reading
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Could AI help scientists with their paperwork?
Yes—but that amplifies existing problems
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AI will make it possible to design and build organisms from scratch
Synthetic biology has arrived at last
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AI companies want to become frontier scientific researchers
Better AI models may be their reward
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Bleached Coral Rebounded After Touching Healthy Coral, Study Finds
After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic make-up, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.
Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain. Continue reading
This Vincent van Gogh Painting Has Not Been Seen in Public for Over 60 Years. It Is Now Poised to Set a Record at an Upcoming Auction
The Dutch Post-Impressionist painted "Chestnut Trees in Blossom" during the highly productive yet tragic final months of his life. It is heading to auction as part of a "legendary" private collection which also includes works from Cézanne and Renoir
Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
A protein is a chain of amino acids held together by what are called peptide bonds. On their own, those bonds are extremely stable; they're estimated to have a half-life of several hundred years. But in Earth's environment, most proteins don't last nearly that long. That's because organisms have evolved a handful of ways to catalyze the break-up of peptide bonds, which have diversified into countless specialized protein-digesting enzymes.
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Can math stay human in the age of AI?
As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the answers?
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