Cloning used to sound like something out of a late-night sci-fi flick, but these days it’s more about pixels than petri dishes. The idea of recreating an image—sometimes even a person—through artificial intelligence has turned from…
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Earliest evidence of mating between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals found in Israel – JNS.org
- Earliest evidence of mating between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals found in Israel JNS.org
- Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Child From 140,000 Years Ago Found in Israel’s Skhul Cave Haaretz
- Neanderthals, Homo sapiens interbred in Israel – new study The…
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Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot handles annoying co-worker gracefully
Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas was one of the names missing out in the inaugural Robot Olympics in China last week. It was absent – but for a reason.
Engineers at the Massachusetts-based company have toiled hard to improve the…
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Brazil cities order endangered angelshark meat despite fishing ban
Government agencies in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state launched public procurements for more than 200 metric tons of meat from endangered angelshark species between 2015 and…
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New bio-inspired medical glue seals bleeding wounds in seconds
When you think of medical glue, chances are you picture a quick fix for small cuts. But scientists are taking the idea of glue far beyond first-aid kits. A new generation of bioadhesives—medical glues inspired by the natural world—may one day…
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‘This technology is possible today’: Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel
Nuclear waste could be repurposed into a rare isotope necessary for nuclear fusion, which could theoretically produce near-limitless amounts of clean energy, one scientist says.
The radioactive version of hydrogen, called tritium, is not…
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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem
And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4…
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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a “super IC”—an individual contributor. He stood to shake my…
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Latest Data Rule Out a Leading Explanation of a Neutrino Anomaly
• Physics 18, s115
The MicroBooNE experiment’s five-year dataset has shown that an unpredicted neutrino-flavor oscillation is not the cause of anomalous results obtained by its predecessor.
MicroBooNE Collaboration
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Alleviating Symptoms Associated with Breast Cancer Endocrine Therapies
About two thirds of breast cancers are classified as “hormone receptor positive” disease. These cancer cells express a group of proteins that bind to hormones, including estrogen and progesterone,…
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