Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) explores how one species of frog evolved its…
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Male or female? How one frog gene 'hijacked' sex determination about 20 million years ago
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NHTSA to investigate Waymo after an AV hit a child near a Santa Monica school
Waymo’s sensor stack on top of a Waymo autonomous vehicle. | Source: Waymo
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, today said it is opening an investigation into Waymo LLC, a self-driving vehicle developer and subsidiary…
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Massive Undersea Volcanism May Explain Frequent Extinctions in Triassic Period
A team of geologists from China and Australia has found evidence that episodic eruptions from vast marine large igneous provinces (LIPs) drove repeated lower-order extinction events in the Triassic period.
Early Earth. Image credit: Peter…
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Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607
People living on the low-lying shores of the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary began their day like any other on January 30, 1607. The weather was calm. The sky was bright.
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Rethinking Troy: How years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city
Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.
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Augmenta AI Helps Organize Electrical Work on School Jobs
Electrical contractors are usually the last trade in to the project design phase, and by then, are competing with mechanical and plumbing systems for space in crowded pathways. Endless change orders and delayed coordination meetings can also…
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Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey
The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and travel with us easily. Some scientists have a word…
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I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator
Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images.
Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with the experimental research…
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NASA jet crashes in flames on Texas runway — taking it out of the Artemis II mission
A 50-year-old NASA research jet has performed an emergency “belly” landing, unleashing a torrent of flames and smoke as it skidded across a runway in Texas, new footage reveals.
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EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health
When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such as setting national…
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