“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent.
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New radiocarbon dates from Sala Keimada, a hard-to-reach chamber of Cueva Palomera in Burgos, northern Spain, suggest that people returned to this sacred cave from the end of the Ice Age through the Iron Age. Over that long stretch, visitors left behind art, structures and offerings. Cueva Palomera is the main entrance to the Ojo Guareña cave system, and it is where most of the system’s rock art spaces are located. The study was led by Dr. Ana Isabel Ortega Martínez, a researcher at the Royal Burgos Academy of History and Fine Arts, Fernán González Institution, together with her colleagues.…
A research team led by Kyushu University and the National Institute of Genetics has discovered that during the two-cell stage of mouse embryonic development, the embryo’s nucleus softens and deforms. This nuclear softening is an integral part of major zygotic gene activation, where approximately 2,000 genes necessary for embryonic development activate simultaneously. This indicates that nuclear softening is a critical step for further embryonic development.
Findings from a study spanning the Americas show that climate change forecasts are underestimating threats to biodiversity—even to exceptionally resilient species—by not factoring in extreme weather events that become more likely in a warmer world.
What if you could use AI agents to manage your emails, organize your schedule, create content, and help run your entire business? I sat down with Peter Yang to explore the personal AI system he uses to run his one-person business. He walks me through his AI chief of staff, a personal advisor that keeps him focused on his goals, and the automated workflows he uses for podcast research, video editing, content creation, and everyday tasks. We dive into how he connects ChatGPT, Claude Code, and GroqBot using reusable AI skills, how he keeps those skills improving over time, and…
A faint glow emitted by plants as they absorb sunlight could offer scientists a powerful new way to monitor photosynthesis across the planet. Fully realizing that potential, however, will require advances in both the general understanding of plant biology and the satellite technology used to observe it.
Researchers in Florida unearthed a “dark magic mushroom” that boasts a combination of hallucinogenic and poisonous traits.
Calculations suggest powerful ultraviolet light from young stars could sweep gas out of early galaxies while leaving dense star-forming regions intact, offering a clue to their mysterious brightness. The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed something unexpected about the early universe: bright galaxies were far more common just a few hundred million years after the […]
Researchers have recently developed a gas sensor that can detect tiny amounts of dimethyl sulfide in human breath, even in the presence of interfering gases and high humidity. The study was carried out by researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Key Laboratory of Odor Pollution Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Shenzhen Technology University.
People living on the moon may seem like science fiction, but major U.S. labs and agencies are actively working toward building lunar habitats. Making those habitats livable will require solutions for extreme temperatures, limited resources and the handling of waste generated by long-term human missions.