Last year, scientist Xiaoqi Mi made a surprising discovery. While shining a flashlight across the trunks of numerous trees alongside a road in Tibet, the scientists spotted an exceedingly rare snake, a Gammie's wolf snake, climbing up one of the trunks. This species was first discovered in 1878 and has only been spotted and collected around ten times...

From the moment OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the chatbot had guardrails to prevent abuse. The chatbot might know where to download the latest movies and TV shows in 4K quality, so you can stop paying for Netflix. It might know how to make explicit deepfake images of your favorite actors. Or how to sell a kidney on the black market for the best possible...

The last sci-fi novel that I couldn't put down, that had me hooked from start to finish, was Blake Crouch's mind-bending techno-thriller Dark Matter. So believe me when I say that while Apple TV+ doesn't hit all of its releases out of the park (no streamer does, of course), they knew exactly what they were doing with the decision to adapt Crouch's novel...

What if the key to cleaning up deadly oil spills in the ocean was right there on your head? According to Matter of Trust, a non-profit organization started by Lisa and Patrice Gautier, it is. They say human hair acts as a natural oil spill cleanup tool that’s extremely effective. The idea for using hair to clean up oil spills came from Phillip McCrory,...

I know, I know. This is a really weird idea, especially considering that the Kindle Paperwhite is not a full-fledged tablet like the 6th-generation iPad mini. But hear me out! This is what's best for me, and I think it might also be the best move for others who have my needs as well. I've owned my iPad mini for a couple of years now (at least, it feels...

Scientists finally found a way to thaw frozen human brain tissue without damaging it. In a groundbreaking development, scientists have discovered a new technique that allows human brain tissue to be frozen and thawed while maintaining its normal function. This breakthrough, achieved by a team led by Zhicheng Shao at Fudan University in Shanghai, China,...