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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, …

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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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