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Meet California's new state bat that eats scorpions and lizards
The fuzzy, golden pallid bat officially became California's state bat. Here's why it's celebrated by farmers, conservationists, and bat enthusiasts.
Sam Altman's mission to increase human lifespan with a $180 million shipping container experiment at Retro Biosciences
Sam Altman started a $180 million side project called Retro Biosciences, hoping to add 10 healthy, enjoyable years onto the back end of our lifespans.
Future-first thinking
The UK wants to lead the world in quantum technology and the space sector. Government investment is key to success.
The US slides down the happiest rankings — because so many young people are not OK
The US has fallen out of the World Happiness Report's top 20 for the first time, largely because the well-being of young Americans has plunged.
A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque told The Financial Times it plans to start work on a site in Wyoming in June even if it hasn't got a permit by then.
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SpaceX is poised to make rocket launches 10 times cheaper with Starship, experts say
SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket reached a major milestone on Thursday, pushing Elon Musk's ambition to slash launch costs closer to reality, an expert said.
A controversial study says intermittent fasting may shorten your lifespan. It shows how little we really know about the long-term effects.
New research suggests intermittent fasting is linked to a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and lower muscle mass, but experts are skeptical.
Voyager 1 briefly came back to life after a 'poke' from NASA, giving scientists hope for the 46-year-old probe
NASA engineers spotted an unusual set of data in the signal Voyager 1 sent back in response to their prompt.
SpaceX launched a satellite that Google will use to map methane leaks for all to see by the end of this year
SpaceX launched a new satellite that Google will use to map methane leaks for all to see
A man stumbled upon a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil but kept it secret for 2 years
A man in France found a massive and rare dinosaur skeleton while walking his dog.
Satellites burning up in our atmosphere may not be as harmless as first thought
Satellites burning in our atmosphere leave metal particles in the stratosphere, and scientists don't know if these could affect our climate.
Researchers in Antarctica developed a strange accent after being isolated for 6 months
The science provides a snapshot into how new accents develop in a group cut off from the world.
A frog was found with mushroom sprouting from its side, leaving scientists baffled
The amphibian, a Rao's intermediate golden-backed frog, was spotted during a survey of amphibians in the foothills of the Western Ghats in India.
AIs are more accurate at math if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character — and we're not sure why
Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.
Viking Therapeutics' weight loss drug showed faster results in clinical trials than Ozempic or Wegovy. Here's how it works.
Viking Therapeutics' experimental drug helped patients lose weight faster than other popular GLP-1 agonists Ozempic or Mounjaro. Here's how it works.
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NASA's James Webb telescope spotted a strange 13 billion-year-old galaxy that shouldn't exist
The galaxy could re-write what we know about how dark matter shaped the early universe.
Scientists are designing a supercollider so powerful it could push the boundaries of modern physics
CERN is designing the largest and most powerful supercollider of all time. It could solve some of the biggest mysteries of our universe.
Astronomers used JWST to finally solve a 37-year mystery over one of the brightest cosmic explosions ever seen in modern history
The James Webb Space Telescope has solved the mystery of what one of the brightest supernovae in history left behind.
'Weekend warriors' who don't exercise during the week can still lose weight, research suggests
If you want to lose weight and burn body fat but don't have time to work out, a "weekend warrior" strategy could help, new research suggests.
A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report
The well leak, which lasted from June to December 2023, is estimated to have released 140,000 tons of methane into Earth's atmosphere.