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Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile cousin that lived during the late Triassic.

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AI-powered humanoid robot can serve you food, stack the dishes — and have a conversation with you

Figure 01 learned how to make coffee by watching a human do it, and now it can speak to you like a person.

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Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance

Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance.

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'Astonishing' Neolithic burial containing a human, cattle and chariot discovered in Germany

The massive Neolithic burial site was part of a processional route where cattle were sacrificed.

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2,000-year-old carvings of celestial bodies and animals discovered on rocky cliffs in Brazil

Archaeologists identified 16 sites with representations of human footprints, animals and celestial bodies.

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Deadly dog parasite found in Southern California in a 1st

A free-swimming worm that can infect and kill dogs has been found in the Colorado River near the California-Arizona border.

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Watch bizarre video of termites trapped in 'death spiral'

Footage shows termites trapped inside a fungus in a death spiral, where they march until they die from exhaustion.

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Brutal footage shows orca mom and son team up to drown another pod's calf

First of its kind footage captures the moment an orca mom and her son drown a calf in an extremely rare case of infanticide.

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Beluga whales appear to change the shape of their melon heads to communicate, scientists discover

Beluga whales appear to change the shape of their heads during encounters with one another in what scientists believe is a form of visual communication among this highly social species.

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Lavish, 800-year-old tombs in China may hold remains of Great Jin dynasty elites

Three newfound brick tombs date to the Golden Khanate, a non-Chinese people who ruled in northern China centuries ago.

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Dozens of Neolithic burials and 'sacrificed' urns and ax discovered in France

The site was occupied throughout much of the Neolithic period and contains dozens of ancient burials and artifacts.

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Ice-cold plunges and breath-holding: Does the 'Wim Hof method' do anything?

Wim Hof, known as "The Iceman," purports a combination of breathing exercises and cold exposure has many health benefits. But a new review of studies finds there's limited evidence.

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8-hour intermittent fasting tied to 90% higher risk of cardiovascular death, early data hint

A study followed participants for about eight years and found an increased risk of death in those who practiced intermittent fasting. But more data is needed.

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Worm-like creature squirts 'milk' from its butt to feed its young in 1st-of-its-kind video

Video footage captures an egg-laying amphibian "nursing" its babies with a nutritious liquid similar to mammalian milk.

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Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component

By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to twice as fast and consume 50% less energy.

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Why do babies rub their eyes when they're tired?

Babies usually rub their eyes when they're tired, but why?

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Hummingbird hawk-moth: The bird-like insect with a giant sucking mouthpart

Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers.

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Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world record

A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.

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What does python taste like? Because it could be slithering onto our dinner plates.

A study conducted on two snake farms has found that breeding pythons for meat is more energy and resource-efficient than current livestock production, offering a viable protein alternative.

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Watch scientists control a robot with their hands while wearing the Apple Vision Pro

Scientists built an app that let them control a robot using hand gestures while wearing the Apple Vision Pro VR headset.

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Designer immune-cell therapy could shrink deadly brain tumors, early trials show

Two early clinical trials that together included nine patients suggest that a treatment called CAR-T therapy could treat glioblastoma, but its long-term effects are unknown.

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Deadly amoeba brain infection can result from unsafe nasal rinsing, CDC warns

A CDC report describes 10 patients infected by an amoeba after conducting a nasal rinse, three of whom died from a nervous-system infection.

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'Flow state' uncovered: We finally know what happens in the brain when you're 'in the zone'

Researchers say they've found the answer to competing hypotheses about how the brain functions in a "flow state."

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Winged 'basilisk' on medieval pilgrim's badge discovered in Poland

Such badges were common among Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages, but it's not clear what the basilisk represents.

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World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder

Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day.

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