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A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...
The Most Important Facts (And Myths) About Your Car Battery
Even if you're driving a gas guzzling SUV, electricity remains crucial to driving a car. Thanks to modern-day electric batteries, drivers no longer have to turn an engine over by hand. It now all ...
Scientists Discovered How to Generate Truly Random Numbers. It May Make Your Data Unhackable.
But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new territory every day. In this ...
Tesla Is Building a UFO-Themed Supercharger to Bring Some Alien Energy to the Desert
The company is quenching a supercharger desert near Roswell, NM, with a special Cyber-UFO-themed station.
Scientists Found Evidence of a 138-Foot-Deep Lake in the Middle of an Enormous Desert
According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...
Archaeologists Found a 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue With Stunning Details
Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.
Scientists Crushed Rocks in Iceland—and May Have Solved the Fall of the Roman Empire
When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...
An A.I. Fooled Humans and Passed the Turing Test. But It's a Red Herring for the Singularity.
A study by scientists at UC San Diego found that OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4.5 passed for human 73 percent of the ...
Tesla Is Trying to Build an Ecological Paradise. Too Bad It Literally Stinks.
Elon Musk is looking to bolster the ecosystem surrounding Austin’s Tesla factory. But his environmental track record sends a ...
Scientists Built Holograms You Can Manipulate with Your Hands. This Is How the Future Feels.
“What we see in films and call holograms are typically volumetric displays,” Elodie Bouzbib, the first author on the paper ...
Archaeologists Excavating a Maya City Found a 1,700-Year-Old Altar. It Shouldn’t Have Been There.
Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...
Psychedelics Could Transform How We Sleep—Or If We Even Need It at All, New Theory Claims
Hallucinogens like DMT, psilocin, and LSD might rewrite the rules of sleep, blurring the line between dreams and reality.