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Researchers have developed a tent that harvests energy from its own motion — a process that could one day power small devices in shelters, disaster zones and off-grid camps.The key…
The patient: An 82-year-old woman in Bologna, ItalyThe symptoms: The woman was admitted to the hospital with abdominal pain that had worsened over the previous four days. The symptom was…
A wild widow spider behavior involving a backflip into death during sex has a simple genetic explanation, new research finds.Male redback spiders (Latrodectus hasselti) — Australia’s version of black widows…
The largest 2D map of the universe just dropped, and it’s a stunner. Compiled from more than a decade of observations, the new map charts 4 billion stars, galaxies, black…
A few years ago, a pop culture store owner in Wisconsin mentioned to Jason Ganos, a well-known Nintendo game collector, that he had a box of Super Mario cartridges that…
Scientists have developed a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) chip that mimics the human brain’s aptitude for instinctive motor responses.Modeled after the cerebellum, the part of the brain that…
A bitter battle over a massive AI data center in the Bay Area has taken an ugly turn as a powerful union claims its members were subjected to vile racial…
On Wednesday (Aug. 12), the new moon will swoop in front of the sun, casting its dark shadow across a stretch of Earth from Iceland and Greenland to northern Spain.…
Tens of thousands of years ago, Neanderthals mated with modern humans and passed along a gene variant that enables us to pack on more muscle, a new study finds.Researchers found…
When penicillin was first introduced to the public, it earned the nickname “the wonder drug” because it cured infections that had once been deadly. It ushered in the golden era…