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A new gene therapy has shown promising results in restoring hearing to children, teens, and even a young adult born with a rare form of inherited deafness. Researchers in China tested the treatment on ten patients aged between 18 months and nearly 24 years old, all of whom have a genetic condition called "autosomal...
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A bright fireball streaked across the daytime sky, astonishing onlookers and generating a sonic boom that rattled homes from Georgia to the Carolinas. The brilliant phenomenon, confirmed by NASA as a meteor, ultimately broke into fragments, some of which impacted at least one residence in Henry County, Georgia.
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The concept of a full hard drive might become a thing of the past sooner than you think. In a massive leap forward for data storage, scientists have developed a new type of molecular magnet that could pave the way for hard drives with a full 100 times the capacity of today's 24TB behemoths. This breakthrough doesn't...
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File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big computational simulation. Yep, we're talking simulation theory again — the idea that reality is just a very elaborate piece of...
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In a twist straight out of a sci-fi flick, researchers have discovered that AI agents—specifically large language models (LLMs)—can independently develop their own communication systems and biases, all without human intervention. This revelation comes from a recent study by City St George's, University of London, and...
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A group of scientists might have discovered a new color thanks to a unique retina stimulation technique. Using an experimental process that targeted specific photo receptors in the eye, test participants were able to see a color dubbed "olo," which is described as a highly saturated blue-green hue, a color normally...
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In a recent study, scientists sounded the alarm on the vulnerability of DNA data, particularly those obtained through next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS), against nefarious hackers. While no known bio-data breach has occurred in the real world yet, the study set out to identify new and emerging hacking methods that...
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Did you read our explainer on display technologies? If so, you'll already be well aware of the concept of PPI, or "pixels per inch," which is a more informative measure of "display resolution" than a static value like 1024×768. Typical PC monitors have PPI values in the 90-130 range, while smartphones go as high as...
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The world's first "biological computer" has officially hit the market, marking what may actually be a significant breakthrough in AI technology. Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to create a dynamic, learning neural network. This innovative system...
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There's a thermal noise problem in quantum computing, and it comes from an unlikely source: the wiring used to interface with the qubits. You see, electrical signals traveling across wire generate heat, and quantum bits or "qubits" have to be just a few degrees above absolute zero to do their thing. This means that...
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As a popular online research tool that gives users unlimited access to various interdisciplinary literature, Google Scholar is relied upon worldwide for conducting research and in-depth analysis. Sadly, a new study has revealed that Google Scholar has been exploited and used to legitimize over a hundred Junk...
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A new study that analyzed 9,855 American children first at ages 9-10, and then again two years later, has unusually taken great pains to account for both genetic differences in intelligence as well as the effects of socioeconomic status. Wealthier people are typically healthier and more educated, which leads them to...
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If you read that headline and thought "okay, what's the catch," we'll spoil it for you: the "catch" is that the battery can only provide a very small amount of power, on the order of milliwatts. It's still very exciting, though, because the new diamond battery technology can provide this power for, without...
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Scientists are constantly on the lookout for ways to slow down climate change, such as one study that devised a $200 trillion diamond dust umbrella for Earth. They are also seeking all the possible contributors to climate change, which even includes belching cows (seriously). Now, a new study finds humans tilted the...
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Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which was viewed up close by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, has been the focus of more than a few studies over the last few decades. One of the more recent studies included planetary scientists clearing up a perplexing problem surrounding the planet’s weaker-than-anticipated...
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Proposals to combat climate change have ranged from placing data centers in space, to a lunar missions designed to dim the Sun with Moon dust. Now, a new study suggests using $200 trillion worth of diamond dust to create an umbrella over Earth to fight climate change. The group of scientists using 3D models to compare...
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Scientists who conducted a six-year study of the Thwaites glacier, often dubbed the “doomsday glacier,” say the outlook for the massive iceberg is “grim.” The research team, using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots, determined the iceberg is melting at an accelerating rate which could put it on an irreversible...
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A dramatic new video shows how Earth’s surface has changed over the last 1.8 billion years. The video reconstructs Earth’s surface evolution, and is presented as a relative plate motion model in a paleomagnetic reference frame.
The video, based on the work of Xianzhi Cao from the Ocean University in China and...
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Whatever you think about global warming, there are plenty of other serious environmental crises to worry over. One of the most pressing is the problem of what to do with all this plastic. We keep producing a near-endless quantity of plastic for all kinds of purposes, but plastics don't really degrade naturally, which...
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Scientists have created a flying robot inspired by how a rhinoceros beetle flaps its wings to take off. The concept is based on how some birds, bats, and other insects tuck their wings against their bodies when at rest, and then deploy them to power flight.
The idea of fashioning a robot after an animal is not a...
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A vein-filled rock on Mars has caught the attention of the science team at NASA. The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” was found by the Mars Perseverance rover, and has traits that lead scientists to think it may have harbored microscopic life from billions of years ago.
Since landing on the Red Planet, NASA’s...
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A group of Japanese scientists have conjured up a way to attach living skin to robot faces to make them more lifelike. The skin equivalent is a “living skin model composed of cells and extracellular matrix” which is said to be “an ideal covering for robots due to its biological functionalities.”
As artificial...
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