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Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk
Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought Read more…
This tiny nuclear reactor just won safety approval
A nuclear power startup called NuScale has received safety approval for its tiny nuclear reactor. The…
Russian coronavirus vaccine results have been published – here’s what they reveal
Another day, another politicised vaccine. Read more at The Conversation…
I’m Sorry Dave, You Shouldn’t Write Verilog
We were always envious of Star Trek, for its computers. No programming needed. Just tell the…
How Gödel’s Proof Works
In 1931, the austrian logician pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in…
Giant Gaping Void Emerges in Siberia, The Latest in a Dramatic Ongoing Phenomenon
A bubble of methane gas, swelling beneath Siberia’s melting permafrost for who knows how long, has…
Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface
Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music…
Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns Trump will appear to win big on election night
Way more Democrats will vote by mail than Republicans given partisan differences about fears of the…
A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged
A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis Read more at Medium…
Facebook open-sources Opacus, a PyTorch library for differential privacy
Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable…
Comedian uses Trump supporters’ ‘conservative logic’ to defend the most evil people in history
Comedian Greg Larsen on Monday challenged his Twitter followers to name some of the most evil people in…
Vintage NASA satellite falls to Earth, meets fiery doom after 56 years in space
RIP, OGO-1 satellite. You’ve had a long trip since 1964. Read more at Space.com…
Repeating fast radio burst woke up again on schedule. Now what? | EarthSky.org
FRB 121102 is one of the few known repeating fast radio bursts, and astronomers are trying…
iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its…
Study suggests hibernation was an ancient adaptation to harsh winters
The image seen below is an illustration of a creature called a Lystrosaurus. The strange-looking creature…
Neuralink demonstrates its next-generation brain-machine interface
During a press conference held online, Elon Musks Neuralink gave a progress update on its ambitious…
Fix For Potential SSD-Damaging Bug Coming in Windows Update – ExtremeTech
Microsoft is rolling out a fix for an SSD defrag bug introduced in the 2004 update…
Did life travel between Earth and Mars? New study supports theory of panspermia
Scientists conducted an experiment onboard the International Space Station that supported the controversial theory of panspermia.…
Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it
California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny…