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Researchers have made their own burned, rolled-up papyri and showed that they can decipher the text by detecting the element lead in the ink, in a study published last Wednesday in PLoS ONE 1 . Almost 2,000 years ago, in…
Credit: hamzaturkkol/iStock via Getty Hundreds of academic journals that launched as free to publish in and free to read have ended up switching to a fee-charging model, according to a study that examined the fate of…
Signs of life had dropped off a cliff; they weren’t reproducing. They were goners. And that was good; the cell biologist had been looking for chemicals that would poison cancer cells. These secret battles between your…
At room temperature, atoms hum with thermal energy and appear blurry in images, but at ultra-cold temperatures, near absolute zero (0 kelvin), they come almost to a standstill and can even adopt strange quantum…
Incidents this year, in which AI agents ‘escaped’ their test environments, have sparked widespread concerns about AI safety. Yet the real issue is not rogue AI. It is human negligence and a failure to hold AI…
He joined Apple in 2000 to build its retail business as online shopping was beginning to take off, and went on to help create a store network that became central to how Apple sells its products and connects with…
The California Assembly Bills (AB) and Senate Bills (SB) signed by Newsom require greater disclosure of datacenter water and electricity use, address who pays for grid connections and other power infrastructure, and…
More than 70 percent of our planet is covered by the ocean, but the vast majority of it remains unexplored — an increasingly urgent blind spot as climate change raises water temperatures and. Autonomous underwater drone…
The technique, called InjectEave , was presented at USENIX Security 2026 in Baltimore, and multiple outlets have since covered the researcher's claim that the attack "can recover headphone audio from up to 30 meters…
The photo was taken off Shetland, UK, as the bird hunted for fish to feed its offspring. When gannets spot fish, they turn to fly into the wind, stretch out their wings as brakes, precisely adjust their position and then…