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Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age, a new study suggests.The weakening currents triggered a cascade of effects, resulting in a dramatic…
Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more.On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were…
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas – now performing tasks with zero human intervention. In the video released by the futuristic lab…
Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since April 2024, the U.S. has seen 36 human…
Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft’s main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials…
More than 500 Amazon employees sent a letter on Wednesday to the CEO of its AWS unit urging reversal of a full return-to-office policy and rejecting his assertion that the rule had…
A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints that Bronze Age people in this region were slow to urbanize, unlike their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia,…
Eric Schmidt, the billionaire investor and former CEO of Google, said it’s time for the US military to do away with tanks, artillery and mortars in favor of aerial drones…
While searching for dinosaur fossils in Argentina, paleontologists made an accidental discovery: the oldest tadpole ever found.The fossil, unearthed in the La Matilde Formation in Patagonia, may finally settle a…
A union representing Google employees is demanding the tech giant lift what it called an illegal “gag order” barring them from discussing landmark antitrust cases that could upend the company’s…