Lost WWI trench lives on in immersive VR installation
The rolling, green hills of West Flanders, Belgium, were once the bitter, brutal staging ground for some of the bloodiest fighting of World War I. An estimated 600,000 soldiers were…
Ancient hidden graffiti discovered in Bronze Age temple
Thanks to some powerful lasers, a fleet of ancient ships hidden in plain sight for over 40 years has resurfaced inside a Bronze Age temple in Cyprus. However, it’s understandable…
Meet the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest
Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. Credit: Ning Xu, Tsinghua University Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a…
Garbage trucks analyze thousands of homes with AI-powered cameras
Garbage trucks now do more than just pick up tossed-out food scraps and junk. They also snitch on people with unkempt lawns. In at least four states (California, Georgia, South…
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text,…
Mathematician debunks the Parthenon’s famous optical illusions
The Parthenon is undeniably one of history’s most renowned architectural feats,but one detail of its structural genius is a total hoax. For over 2,000 years, scholars and admirers have alleged…
EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
Days after finalizing a rule that would eliminate climate rules for power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was sued by groups who say the EPA’s repeal was shockingly short-sighted…
A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it
Staff at the Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort off the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia are well acquainted with the shenanigans of a male bottlenose dolphin they’ve nicknamed Bubbles.…
Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by “critical blow” from a cyberattack
The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack. “We recently…
Sunken WWI sub is leaking TNT into the North Sea
A World War I submarine that sank nearly 110 years ago has been leaking explosive pollutants into the North Sea for decades. What’s more, ocean researchers say the problem may…