When the Greek army reached Thermopylae in 480 BC to block the Persian invasion, the wall it planned to fight behind was already old. According to Herodotus, it had been built long before, and most of it lay in ruins…
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From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
University at Buffalo scientists have found evidence that different species of yeast have shared genes originally acquired from an ancient virus—and the guts and droppings of beetles may have helped make it happen.
During his renowned excavations at the Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki located burial sites containing pollen and flower fragments from various species of wildflowers. He interpreted this as evidence that Neanderthals may have…
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Synthetic voices can restore speech, enable scams and outlive their owners. These uses raise questions about trust, consent and control.
When fishers are out working their boats, they are typically targeting a specific type of fish. However, other species often end up in their nets or trawls as well. This is known as “bycatch”—seafood for which the fishers receive no…
Stanford engineers and colleagues designed a chip that can take a muddled mixture of light from multiple lasers and output clean beams of light. It’s the first time researchers have demonstrated a device that can take in mixed, or partially…
Researchers have digitally rebuilt the face of a man who was beheaded after death and buried near a Roman fort in Scotland almost 2,000 years ago. Chemical analysis suggests he grew up in southern Britain, far from where he was…
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