Tag: tech-science

Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes

A peer-reviewed scientific journal that this week published a study containing nonsensical AI-generated images including a gigantic rat penis has retracted the article and apologized. The paper was authored by three scientists in China, edited by a researcher in India, reviewed by two people from the U.S. and India, and published in the open access […]

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Scientists Have Made a Record-Setting Fusion Energy Breakthrough

A JET scientist works with a Hot Cell training machine. Image: Leon Neal / Staff via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. A lab in the U.K. has set a new record for the most amount of energy made from a fusion reaction. It lays the groundwork for the […]

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3 Students Reveal Secrets of 2000-Year-Old Scroll In Breakthrough Discovery

Image via Vesuvius Challenge ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. A “superteam” of three university students from across the globe have successfully revealed passages from a 2,000-year-old scroll that was badly burned after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, all without unfurling the delicate and damaged text.  Youssef Nader, […]

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A Discovery Near the Dawn of the Time Has Revealed Something Fundamental About the Universe

NASA graphic showing the timeline of the universe. Image via NASA.  ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. An international team of researchers has uncovered first-of-its-kind evidence from near the beginning of the universe that helps resolve a fundamental question about the cosmos.  The researchers reported collecting the first […]

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New Discovery ‘Keeps Hope Alive’ to Find Signs of Life on Mars, Scientists Say

Image: NASA via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. The latest scans of the Martian Jezero crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover have confirmed what scientists previously suspected—that there was once an ancient lake there. The findings offer renewed hope that we might find traces of life in […]

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Archaeologists Keep Finding Strange Ancient Objects With a Mysterious Purpose

Image: Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group  Archaeologists have been unearthing mysterious 12-sided metal objects across Europe for some 300 years, but they’re no closer now to knowing what they were for.  So-called Roman dodecahedra are 12-sided shapes cast from some kind of metal alloy, with each having a hole connecting to a hollow center. They’re […]

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Inspiring: Cute Tiny Critters Eat Males That Die After Marathon Orgies, Scientists Discover

Image: Auscape / Contributor via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. In the latest case of “WTF nature?!”, scientists in Australia have discovered that a tiny marsupial—famed for its 14-hour sex sessions ending in death for males of the species—also cannibalizes its fallen comrades. The so-called mainland dusky antechinus […]

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Archaeologists Have Discovered Massive Lost Cities In the Amazon Jungle

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Researchers have discovered multiple lost 2500-year old cities deep within the jungles of the Amazon. The highly complex organization of this city network is unlike anything uncovered before, and radically changes our view of ancient Amazonian culture. Historically, Amazonian cultures were thought […]

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Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.

Mountains in Guanxi, China. Image: Mekdet via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Some 330,000 years ago, giant apes the size of elephants roamed the forests of southern China. Their massive teeth—once sold as a “dragon tooth” by a Hong Kong apothecary—gnawed tough leaves and devoured fruit. […]

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Scientists Just Made a 1.75 Billion-Year-Old Discovery About the Origin of Life

Image: Demoulin, Lara et. al.  ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. The origins of life on Earth are still mysterious, but scientists have just taken another step toward understanding how and when complex organisms emerged on our planet. As reported in a new study, scientists have found the oldest […]

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Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. If you’ve ever found it puzzling that “do your own research” is a slogan for conspiracy theorists of all stripes, new research may have some answers. While conventional wisdom holds that researching the veracity of fake news would reduce belief in misinformation, […]

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Scientists Have Solved the Mystery of a Strange ‘Signal’ from Earth’s Core, Study Reports

Image: Rost-9D via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists in China say they’ve solved a major mystery deep inside the Earth by confirming that the inner core wobbles with a predictable rhythm that repeats every 8.5 years.  The research team says that the finding confirms previous […]

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Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic ‘Anomaly,’ Scientists Find

CREDIT: Matthew D. Howland ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. New research on ancient Mesopotamia has uncovered evidence of an ancient magnetic phenomena, providing a way to delve deeper into one of the most fascinating periods in human history.  Scientists have analyzed ancient bricks from Mesopotamia and revealed just […]

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A Monumental Prehistoric Discovery In Siberia Rewrites Human History, Scientists Say

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. New evidence unearthed from ancient fortresses in Siberia is totally rewriting our understanding of how complex societies evolved.  Radiocarbon dating of artifacts has revealed that Eastern Russia’s Amnya I and Amnya II sites are around 8,000 years old—centuries older than similar structures […]

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Red Alert: Scientists Have Discovered a Dolphin With Thumbs

Image: YouTube/@pelagos.institute ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Here’s some news you probably didn’t expect to hear today: Scientists examining a unique society of mixed-species dolphins in Greece recently discovered a unique specimen… with thumbs.  Dolphins are intelligent. But a major advantage we humans have, besides being able […]

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‘Nanoplastics’ Could Be Worse Than Microplastics and We Know Almost Nothing About Them

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Microplastics have recently entered the public consciousness for finding their way into our bodies and to some of the most remote places on Earth. But now, a much smaller, potentially much more nefarious, and less understood threat is drawing scientist’s attention—nanoplastics. They’re […]

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Physicists Propose Way to Harvest Incredible Energy From Black Holes In Wild Paper

Image: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Researchers from Tianjin University in China have proposed a way to turn tiny black holes into batteries and nuclear reactors. They published their calculations in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Review D.  In their out-there study, […]

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A Ray From Space Hit Earth with Such Incredible Power That Scientists Named It After a God

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. A cosmic ray so powerful that scientists had to check their measurements to make sure it was real has collided with Earth. Now, experts are trying to determine its source, with no clear answers in sight. It’s the second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever […]

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Archaeologists Discover Vast, Complex Prehistoric Society That Rewrites History

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a highly complex prehistoric society in Central Europe that thrived in a region experts previously believed was abandoned in 1600 BC. This sophisticated society was one of the “major cultural centers of southern Europe” and exerted “regional […]

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Scientists Create Monkey Chimera With Fluorescent Eyes in Breakthrough

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Chinese scientists have reported the creation of a monkey chimera—meaning an animal made up of cells from two genetically distinct organisms—with fluorescent green eyes and fingers.  While this seems pulled right from the pages of a comic book, the creation of animal […]

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Declassified Spy Images Just Upended What We Know About the Roman Empire

Images: Casana, Goodman, F ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Roman forts in Syria that “fundamentally challenge understandings” of the contours of the Roman empire, they say in a new study. The archeologists made the discovery while analyzing recently-declassified Cold War spy satellite […]

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Extreme Drought Is Revealing Ancient Carvings of Human Faces In the Amazon

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Ancient rock carvings of human faces that are normally submerged in the Brazilian Amazon have been exposed this month by a record-breaking drought that has dramatically lowered water levels. The carvings were made by Indigenous peoples some 1,000 to 2,000 years ago […]

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A Mind-Blowing Explosion In Space Forged Ingredients for Life, Scientists Discover

Image: dima_zel via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have detected key ingredients for life in the fallout of one of the biggest and most inexplicable space explosions ever seen, reports a new study.  The discovery offers a rare glimpse of cosmic processes that may forge […]

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15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could ‘Collapse’ This Century In Dire Climate Report

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists are warning that we are now in “uncharted territory” as a result of human-driven climate change in a new “state of the climate” report that was signed by 15,000 researchers from 163 countries. Researchers emphasized the current suffering caused by record-breaking […]

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An Ancient Space Crystal May Have Just Rewritten the History of the Moon

Image: LeonardoFernndezLzaro / 500px via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. In a revelation that could rewrite the early history of the Moon, a team of scientists have determined that the Moon is about 40 million years older than previously known by studying ancient crystals brought back […]

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Astronomers Discover Mysterious Radio Burst from 8 Billion Years Ago In Unprecedented Finding

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser  ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have discovered by far the most ancient and distant “fast radio burst,” a type of enigmatic bright radio pulse from deep space, using a sophisticated radio telescope in Australia, reports a new study. The burst, known as FRB […]

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Earth’s Core Appears to Be Leaking In the Arctic and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Image: Bloomberg / Contributor via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have detected unprecedented concentrations of helium-3, an ultra-rare element with futuristic potential applications, in Arctic rocks that may have originated in Earth’s core.  The discovery sheds new light on the deepest and most mysterious region of our […]

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A 21-Year-Old Just Solved a 2000-Year-Old Mystery In ‘World-Historical’ Breakthrough

Image: Vesuvius Challenge ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. A 21-year-old computer scientist named Luke Farritor just became the first person in nearly 2,000 years to read words from a papyrus scroll that was buried under more than 60 feet of volcanic ash after the disastrous eruption of Mount […]

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Scientists Want to Melt the Moon to Create Roads and Tested It With Lasers

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Future astronauts could pave roads, launchpads, and other infrastructure on the Moon by melting lunar dust with focused laser-like sunlight to manufacture solid tiles, according to a new study.  Scientists have now road-tested this technique in the lab by zapping fake lunar […]

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Thousands of Ancient Structures Are Still Hidden Deep In the Amazon, Study Says

Image: Ignacio Palacios via Getty Images ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have estimated that anywhere from 10,000 and 24,000 archaeological sites made by pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples lie hidden beneath the forest canopies of the Amazon Basin, according to a new study.  In other words, ancient earthworks that […]

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Archaeologists Discovered a Lost Ancient Temple of Legend In Mexico

Atlixco Valley. Daniel Cortes v ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. For generations, legends have circulated in the Mexican city of Atlixco about a long-lost temple, or teocalli, that was built by the Indigenous peoples in the area long before the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s. Locals, […]

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