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A little fly enters a man's eye during a press conference. Photo by Alejandro Garcia/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Fly Brains Are Wildly Complex, But Scientists Finally Mapped One
They sliced a fly’s brain into 7,000 pieces then used AI to form connections between neurons and create a map.
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(fake) Giant Wooly Rhino in the tv show 'Prehistoric Park.' Photo by ITV/Shutterstock 32,000-Year-Old Woolly Rhino Found Preserved In Siberian Permafrost
The woolly rhino is so well-preserved that it still has a lot of soft tissues intact along with a well-preserved horn.
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UC Berkeley researchers developed an innovative recycling method that breaks down tough plastics into reusable gases. New Recycling Tech Could Vaporize Plastic Waste (To Make More Plastic)
UC Berkeley researchers developed an innovative recycling method that breaks down tough plastics into reusable gases.
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Shoji Takeuchi, University of Tokyo Japanese Scientists Who Made a Flesh-Faced Robot Smile, Please Stop
Specially engineered skin tissue grants these robots special properties and abilities.
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Photo by ENNIO LEANZA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Woman’s ‘Suicide Pod’ Death Leads to Several Arrests
An unnamed American woman, who had a serious illness that left her in severe pain, died in recently died near the Swiss-German border.
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Good news: If these things come too close, we can blast them out of the sky. Photo: NASA/ZUMA Press Wire Service/Shutterstock Scientists Have Finally Worked Out How to Save Earth from a Huge Asteroid
A new study has answered a question that Hollywood directors and defense specialists have been asking for decades.
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An octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish on the other. Photo: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins Fish Are Leading Octopuses On Collaborative Hunting Missions, Red Sea Scientists Find
But if the fish step out of line, the octopuses aren’t scared to punch them in the face.
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Tailed-Jay Butterfly Photo by Gerard Lacz/Shutterstock ‘Butterfly Emergency’ Declared, After the UK’s Record-Low Butterfly Count
Butterfly Conservation is calling for pesticide bans after its 2024 Big Butterfly Count found the lowest number of butterflies since the survey began.
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