Un artista del suono ha calato un idrofono nelle radici di Pando, il pioppo tremulo clonale dello Utah che con i suoi 6.000 tonnellate e 47.000 tronchi identici è l'organismo vivente più grande del pianeta. Quello che ha registrato — un brontolio sotterraneo prodotto dal fremito di milioni di foglie che viaggia attraverso le radici — apre nuove possibilità per mappare e monitorare questo essere antico di 12.000 anni, oggi sempre più minacciato dalle attività umane.

Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online.

Ryan Primrose dell'Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education coordina le indagini sul ritrovamento di una lastra di roccia a Wawa, in Canada, che reca incisi 255 caratteri runici. Il runologo Henrik Williams ha decifrato l'iscrizione, scoprendo che riproduce il Padre Nostro in svedese moderno tramite un sistema grafico del Seicento ripubblicato nel diciannovesimo secolo. L'opera, che include anche il disegno di una barca con 16 passeggeri e 14 misteriose "X", è attribuibile a un lavoratore svedese della Compagnia della Baia di Hudson e non a esploratori norreni.

Una visione offuscata prima in un occhio e poi nell’altro ha allarmato Nelize Pretorius e i medici pensarono si trattasse di congiuntivite. “Riuscivo a malapena a vedere”, ha ricordato. “Stavo perdendo la vista e nessuno sapeva spiegarmi il perché”, ha dichiarato ad ABC . La causa del problema non risiedeva affatto nei suoi occhi. Si trattava di […]

Friggere è una delle tecniche di cottura più diffuse nelle cucine di tutto il mondo, ma pochi sanno che il calore elevato può trasformare l’olio in una fonte di composti chimici potenzialmente dannosi per la salute. Quando un olio viene sottoposto a temperature troppo alte o viene riutilizzato più volte, infatti, inizia un processo di […]

Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest that cloning, not competition, dominated the Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution until environmental stress helped drive the rise of sexual reproduction and a burst of biodiversity.

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Scientists find fog droplets host growing bacteria that may help clean polluted air.

Single cells used past nutrient shocks to change how they grew.

A proposta da Record Club é semelhante à de plataformas como a Letterboxd, mas aplicada ao mundo da música, permitindo acompanhar os mais recentes lançamentos e avaliar álbuns, assim como organizar e partilhar descobertas.

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Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid impact that occurred 3.5 billion years ago on the Moon, helping to reconstruct a period of intense bombardment that left lasting marks across the inner Solar System.

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On Tuesday, NASA announced the crew for the Artemis III mission, which is scheduled to be flown no earlier than summer 2027. As part of the announcement, space agency officials also discussed plans for the crew to dock with both a Blue Origin lander and a SpaceX Starship lander during the spaceflight in low-Earth orbit.

The presentation, although informative, still left open key questions about the landers' readiness and what exactly they'll look like. After the crew announcement, Ars sat down with Jeremy Parsons, NASA's Artemis program manager, to answer some of these questions.

This interview, conducted at NASA's Johnson Space Center, has been lightly edited for clarity.

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The UK's communications regulator has reminded social media platforms they have a duty to minimize hateful content, not encourage it.

Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "you can now see the topics we think you're interested in, and change them, across all the major parts of Instagram," according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. Right now, the feature will only surface topics, but Instagram is working on "supporting requests for people, different moods or vibes, content types, and more."

The company has been slowly giving users more agency over some algorithms on Instagram, having already launched the Your Algorithm feature for your Reels feed and the Explore page. With Wednesday's announcemen …

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BYD is building a charging network that makes Tesla’s Supercharger look slow — and it’s deploying it at a pace that could see it surpass Tesla’s global network within two to three years.

The Chinese automaker has already deployed over 5,700 Flash Charging stations in China in just a few months and just opened its first overseas stations in Europe. The chargers deliver up to 1,500 kW of power — three times what Tesla’s latest V4 Superchargers can do.

What happened when livestreaming vigilantes ambushed an innocent man.

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

In new research, scientists sequenced and analyzed chromosome-level genomes of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) and the southern anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla).

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Diehl Defence will explore using Spire’s constellation for detection of ballistic and hypersonic missile threats

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Cursor will open its European headquarters in London and expand its EMEA workforce as demand grows for AI coding tools.