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Humanity is struggling to contain two compounding crises: skyrocketing global temperatures and plummeting biodiversity. But people tend to tackle each problem on its own, for instance by deploying green energies and carbon-eat…
This still shows the unidentified object tracked by a Navy pilot in 2015 in the “Gimbal” video.
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On a blustery October afternoon at the Wolfcrow Bison Ranch in southern Alberta, Canada, Dan Fox and his ranch hand, Man Blackplume, tried to wrestle fence panels into place despite a 60 mph wind. The next day was weaning day—…
Enlarge / A Eurasian jay takes a skeptical view of magic.
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Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ig…
Tomorrow, official tournament stores will begin selling Build & Battle Boxes of the latest Pokémon TCG expansion, Sword & Shield – Chilling Reign. Chilling Reign will release fully on June 18th, but the Pokémon TCG was kind…
Enlarge / Bats, remarkable little things.
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Life, for most of us, ends far too soon—hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to delay the aging process and extend our stay on Earth. But there’s a paradox at the he…
Security cameras are often thought of as one-dimensional devices. They keep an eye out for suspicious activity around your home, but security cameras are capable of significantly more than just the bare minimum of motion detection.
While smart cameras …
Trinitite specimens.
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Update, 5/29/21: It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US, and staff are trying to stay away from the keyboard accordingly. As such, we’re resurfacing a few classic pieces from our archives. This one originally ran on Septem…
The concept of a time loop has become synonymous with one thing in video games: the roguelike genre. It’s an easy association to make; should you die in those games, you’re sent right back to the beginning and must start afresh. You use the lessons tau…
The Batgirl movie will now be directed by the team of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the duo that helmed 2020’s Bad Boys for Life.According to The Hollywood Reporter, El Arbi and Fallah will direct the Batgirl film starring Barbara Gordon. The movie i…