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Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16,…
Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16,…
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ChatGPT is listening… really listening. Image: Solen Feyissa/Unsplash OpenAI continues to plug new features and options into its AI-powered ChatGPT bot, and one of the latest to arrive is ‘memories’.…
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A team of marine biologists led by a Florida International University researcher has described a new species of the shark genus Sphyrna from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic. Sphyrna…
Xibalbanus tulumensis, a venomous remipede found in anchialine caves on the Yucatán Peninsula, is the only crustacean for which a venom system has been described. Xibalbanus tulumensis. Image credit: Pinheiro-Junior…
Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple species of fungi for food, but the history of fungus-ant co-evolution is poorly known. In a new study published this week in the journal Science, researchers…
The ancient microbes were confirmed using fluorescent and infrared dye. Credit: Y. Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka et al. 2024/ Microbial Ecology A sealed rock fracture almost 50 feet…
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Explore.org’s livestreams rely on everyday security cameras. Credit: Explore.org / Popular Science Fat Bear Week is officially underway. The 10th annual contest will determine 2024’s best hefty hibernator currently chowing…
The NASA Science Activation program’s Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship (PLACES) project supports middle and high school educators to engage students in data-rich Earth science learning through…
Tokay geckos have either reddish orange or black spots. They are native to south and southeast Asia and are known to thrive in human-made environments. Duncan Leitch The brightly spotted…
NASA has selected 71 teams from across the U.S. to participate in its 25th annual Student Launch Challenge, one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges. The competition is aimed at…
Short-tailed pterosaurs like Balaenognathus were adapted for life on the ground. This bizarre creature boasted nearly 500 needle-like teeth in its jaws, and likely used them to filter-feed on tiny…
The premise of cancer immunotherapy is that cancers are specifically visible to an immune system tolerized to healthy self. The promise of cancer immunotherapy is that immune effector mechanisms and…
Early embryogenesis is driven by transcription factors (TFs) that first activate the zygotic genome and then specify the lineages constituting the blastocyst. Although the TFs specifying the blastocyst’s lineages are…
Kinases are critical regulators of cellular function that are commonly implicated in the mechanisms underlying disease. Most drugs that target kinases are molecules that inhibit their catalytic activity, but here…
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Wombats have a hard cartilaginous plate for a butt. Deposit Photos Do wombats–the boxy Australian marsupials already famous for their cube-shaped poop–use their butts to kill? A viral video with…
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