Can AI help tell the difference between a good and bad sweet potato?
Most grocery store patrons take for granted just what it takes to transport a humble sweet potato out of the...
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A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite
A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of...
Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers… for now
Modern robotics is awash with human-made machines mimicking the animal world. From stadium-surveying robot dogs to daddy long-legs-inspired exploration bots...
This 400-pound prehistoric salmon had tusks like a warthog
About five million years ago, the North American Pacific Northwest was teeming with some pretty big fish that would have...
These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer...
NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube
NASA hitched a ride aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron Launcher in New Zealand yesterday evening, and is preparing to test a...
Inside the new $2 billion campus that GM hopes will launch it into the future
On the floor of General Motors’ new Design West building, various concepts and work-in-progress next-generation vehicles dot the vast, open...
Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought
Many marine organisms–including sea worms, some jellyfish, sea pickles, and more–can emit ethereal glow through a process called bioluminescence. The...
Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again
For the first time since November 2023, NASA is receiving meaningful communication from its Voyager 1 probe. The agency has...
Read the last letters by George Mallory, who died exploring Mt. Everest in 1924
Letters written by famous British mountaineer and Mount Everest explorer George Mallory are now digitized and freely available to the...
The algorithmic ocean: How AI is revolutionizing marine conservation
This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. Dyhia Belhabib’s journey to becoming a marine scientist began with war...
Nearly all Cybertrucks recalled over faulty accelerator pedal, misapplied soap
Tesla is recalling nearly every one of its Cybertrucks due to a faulty accelerator pedal that could get stuck in...
