The Most Advanced Artificial Intelligence In Existence Is Only As Smart As A...
One of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems is about as smart as preschooler, new research suggests. But your preschooler may have better common sense.An artificial intelligence (AI)...
View Article72 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail Found In Mexican Desert
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute for...
View ArticleA Massive Asteroid Flies By Earth Tonight — Here's How To Watch It Live
A newfound asteroid about the size of a football field will cruise past Earth tonight (July 22), and you can follow all the action live online.The near-Earth asteroid 2013 NE19, estimated to be between...
View ArticleThis Wetsuit Makes You Invisible To Sharks
The coast of Western Australia has been particularly dangerous place for shark attacks recent years, earning it the distinction of becoming "shark attack capital of the world."Between October 2011 and...
View ArticleAlcohol-Related Deaths Are A Looming Epidemic Among Young Women
Researchers claim the number of women aged 34 and under who are dying from alcohol related conditions such as liver disease has more than doubled since the 1980s.They warn that in the past decade,...
View ArticleRed Wine Antioxidant Actually Seems To Undo The Effects Of Exercise
PROBLEM: In today's issue of The Journal of Physiology, researchers led by Dr. Lasse Gliemann at the University of Copenhagen report a needling wrinkle in our antioxidant love story.When some plants...
View ArticleCould A Human Beat A T-Rex At Arm Wrestling?
"First, we're assuming that the T. rex won't just eat the person, right?" asks Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Right. This is a...
View ArticleIt's Not Uncommon For Boys To Inhale Blowgun Darts
A 15-year-old boy in Ohio required a visit to the emergency room after he inhaled a dart from a homemade blowgun, according to a new report of his case.The dart lodged in the boy's airway after he...
View ArticleHere's The Incestuous Last-Ditch Effort A Zoo Is Using To Save The Sumatran...
Sometimes you just get desperate. In a last-ditch effort to help save the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) from extinction, the Cincinnati Zoo has gathered together the last two members of the...
View ArticleTo Win A Sports Bet, Don't Over Think It
It's summertime.For Americans, that means baseball season and all the simple pleasures that the game affords — from peanuts and Cracker Jack to the seventh inning stretch and renditions of "Take Me Out...
View ArticleNew Tropical Virus That Sickened Farmers In 2009 Is Spread By Ticks
The Heartland virus, a mysterious virus first identified last year in two Missouri farmers, is indeed transmitted to people by ticks, new research suggests.The findings, published today (July 22) in...
View ArticleStudy Reveals That Every Dolphin Has A Unique Whistled Name
Dolphins call to each other using distinctive whistles that serve as names, new research suggests.Each dolphin makes its own unique whistle, and close friends or family will reply with the same...
View ArticleCoffin Found At Richard III's Grave Site Will Be Opened Soon
Archaeologists are set to lift the lid on a stone coffin discovered at the site of the English friary where Richard III's remains were found.Excavators suspect the tomb — billed as the only intact...
View ArticleWhat Manhattan Would Look Like If Hit By A Nuclear Bomb
The latest nuclear-explosion modeling program includes eye-level views from hypothetical ground zeros.The Cold War might be over, but that hasn't made the threat of a nuclear blast any less upsetting....
View ArticleA Woman Ate A 1-Pound Box Of Baking Soda Every Day
A woman who devoured a 1-pound box of baking soda a day — before and during her pregnancy — developed serious muscle and heart conditions, according to a report of her case.But it took doctors a week...
View Article61 Tons Of Silver Recovered From A WWII Shipwreck On The Bottom Of The Sea
Setting a new record for the deepest and largest metal recovery from a shipwreck, treasure hunters aboard the Odyssey Marine Exploration have brought 61 tons of silver bullion to the surface.Delving...
View ArticleOrganisms Left The Oceans Lot Earlier Than We Thought
South African fossils push the rise of oxygen and life on land to hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.Researchers at the University of Oregon have recently unearthed fossils...
View ArticleThe 'Comet Of The Century' Is Ready To Put On A Spectacular Show
A comet that could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system later this year is already blasting out huge amounts of gas and dust, new observations by a NASA spacecraft...
View ArticleThe North Pole Has Turned Into A Lake — Again
In what has now become an annual occurrence, the North Pole's ice has melted, turning the Earth's most northern point into a lake.Call it Lake North Pole.To be clear, the water surrounding the pole is...
View ArticleMapping The World's Meteorite Strikes Reveals That Virtually Nowhere On Earth...
More meteorites have crashed into Earth than you expect, probably.This interactive infographic, from designer Sebastian Sadowski, charts 100 years of meteorites, mapping them by where they fell and...
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