Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a 'dying' sun god during solar eclipses (www.livescience.com)
Underwater robot in Siberia's Lake Baikal reveals hidden mud volcanoes — and an active fault (www.livescience.com)
Man in critical condition after catching deadly 'B virus' from wild monkeys in Hong Kong (www.livescience.com)
A man caught a rare but potentially lethal infection after being wounded by wild monkeys in a Hong Kong park and is currently in critical condition, health officials report.
'It's had 1.1 billion years to accumulate': Helium reservoir in Minnesota has 'mind-bogglingly large' concentrations (www.livescience.com)
1,700-year-old Roman fort discovered in Germany was built to keep out barbarians (www.livescience.com)
'It's had 1.1 billion years to accumulate': Helium reservoir in Minnesota has 'mind-bogglingly large' concentrations (www.livescience.com)
Laboratory results for a helium reservoir discovered in northern Minnesota suggest concentrations of the sought-after gas are the highest the industry has ever seen.
Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off Tasmania (www.livescience.com)
See photos of NASA's suitcase-sized rovers that will soon map the moon's surface (www.livescience.com)
Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack (www.livescience.com)
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9,000-year-old rock art discovered among dinosaur footprints in Brazil (www.livescience.com)
Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event (www.livescience.com) French
'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses (www.livescience.com)
For millennia, solar eclipses have inspired awe, wonder and fear. After all, it’s not often that twilight descends in the middle of the day. And just as we plan for and anticipate their occurrence — like the total solar eclipse that will be visible to millions of North Americans on April 8 — ancient cultures across the...
Ötzi the Iceman used surprisingly modern technique for his tattoos 5,300 years ago, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
Ötzi the Iceman’s many tattoos were made by “hand-poking” — a manual version of the tattooing technique usually used today — and not by cutting his skin as some researchers have suggested, according to a new study....
MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster (www.livescience.com)
Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time (www.livescience.com)
Centuries-old Aztec texts detail history of their capital, conquests and fall to the Spanish (www.livescience.com)
4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb with stunning wall paintings was burial place of priestess and royal official (www.livescience.com)
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,300-year-old tomb with remarkable wall paintings illustrating everyday life. The tomb is located at Dahshur, a site with royal pyramids and a vast necropolis that’s about 20 miles (33 kilometers) south of Cairo. When the team returns to the field, they plan to excavate the burial...
'If you don't have inflammation, then you'll die': How scientists are reprogramming the body's natural superpower (www.livescience.com)
Inflammation can be both a superhero and a villain, depending on the context. Rather than eliminating it completely, new treatments are trying to redirect it....
Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack (www.livescience.com)
Scientists witnessed the clever defense strategy unfold Tuesday (March 19) during a tourist excursion in Bremer Canyon, a whale-watching hotspot off the coast between Albany and Hopetoun. They described seeing a “cloud of diarrhea” permeate the water, and this rarely seen defense mechanism seemed to help the sperm whale pod...
Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance. (www.livescience.com)
A branch of the flu family tree has died and won't be included in future US vaccines (www.livescience.com)
Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago (www.livescience.com)
[News] Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance (www.livescience.com)
Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance.
A branch of the flu family tree has died and won't be included in future US vaccines (www.livescience.com)
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Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring (www.livescience.com)
