Many of the manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study that could transform…
Category: 7. SciTech
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Chimpanzees can ‘catch’ yawns even from robots – leaving scientists perplexed
Chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from an android robot imitating human facial expressions, according to a new study that raises more questions…
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Dehorning Rhinos Cuts Poaching by 78% – Saving Thousands of Animals’ Lives : ScienceAlert
Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at which the animals are killed by poachers.
Across 11 nature reserves in South Africa, scientists found that dehorning black (Diceros bicornis) and white rhino (
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AI helped design an innovative new cancer treatment plan
Researchers may have come up with an interesting new treatment for cancer by talking to AI. According to a paper published this month, a research team led by the University of Cambridge turned to an “AI scientist” powered by GPT-4 to help create a new AI-designed cancer treatment…
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Elon Musk says he will slay Dragon space station transport after Trump contract threat
The online feud between billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has been jettisoned into…
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Scientists invented a lens made of water with adjustable focus
Researchers based out of the Philippines have created a tunable liquid lens system that could be used in classrooms and other low-cost environments. The system is devised of several droplets of water-based liquid, which vary in size and curvature. The drops are then situated on a…
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Worms Use Their Bodies to Build Towers as a Wild Survival Strategy : ScienceAlert
Under the clinical sterility of glassware, life can do some rather curious things. Whether such behaviors are exclusive to laboratory environments or represent a common survival strategy is often a topic for heated debate.
One bizarre activity glimpsed in past lab experiments has now been…
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Scientists perplexed to find chimpanzees can ‘catch’ yawns – even from robots
Chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from an android robot imitating human facial expressions, according to a new study that raises more questions…
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Strange signals are reaching us from a dead galaxy. Here’s what we know…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the greatest cosmic enigmas of our time. First discovered in 2007, these fleeting flashes of radio waves have been puzzling astronomers ever since.
Despite detecting thousands of them, we still don’t know exactly what causes them, where they come from or why…
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In a world without people, how fast would NYC fall apart? Here’s the timeline.
Imagine the ceaseless cacophony of New York City suddenly stopped. No sirens wailed. No cars zoomed. No subways rumbled beneath…
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