The story of the park begins in 2014, when Enrique Peña Nieto, the president of Mexico at the time, announced plans for a new transport hub for Mexico City. It would be built on the largely dry bed of Lake Texcoco, the body of water that had once surrounded Mexico City’s ancient ancestor,…
The world’s oldest known mosquito larva from when the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth has been discovered trapped in a piece of
Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, according to researchers, could have a profound effect on the future of navigating the surrounding region in an increasingly ice-free world.
Led by the Technical…
Flatworms are infamous in biology labs for their surreal ability to regenerate heads when you decapitate them. Now, researchers have discovered that an odd developmental defect can cause them to grow heads at both ends – and it only gets weirder from there.
The extraordinary regenerative…
From chatbots to search engines, the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that power modern life all seem to have studied the same site: Wikipedia. With over seven million English-language articles and a free-use policy, the site is a goldmine of high-quality training data.
But will the online…
From chatbots to search engines, the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that power modern life all seem to have studied the same site: Wikipedia. With over seven million English-language articles and a free-use policy, the site is a goldmine of high-quality training data.
But will the online…
Meteorologists who have spent the past few days monitoring the rapid development of Hurricane Melissa in the Atlantic Ocean are sounding the alarm about the storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica today as a Category 5 hurricane. The sustained—and growing—intensity of the storm is…
