Celibacy: Its surprising evolutionary advantages
Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us. Yet many religious institutions around the world require exa.....»»
Immortals of Aveum applies Call of Duty’s action to a magic shooter
Immortals of Aveum is a first-person magic shooter that takes some surprising cues from Call of Duty......»»
Man loses $50,000 after downloading fake Google Play app onto his phone
A man from Singapore lost a whopping $50,000 after downloading a fake app posing as the Google Play Store. Mobile phone scams are on the rise and it’s not surprising, given how much we rely on our phones and how often we use it daily. U.....»»
Natural selection among neural progenitor cells controls mammalian brain size
In nature, competition for survival among organisms or species is a fundamental evolutionary force, as described by Darwin's theory of natural selection. Similarly, in multicellular organisms, competitive interactions also occur between cells, creati.....»»
Why some terror campaigns escalate to civil war and others don"t: Study reveals surprising new answers
Most terrorist campaigns are short-lived. But some aren't. In some cases, terror campaigns (low-intensity violence) turn into civil wars (high-intensity violence) where militants fight the government for control of the state......»»
Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town
Researchers study emergent AI behaviors in a sandbox world inspired by The Sims. Enlarge / A screenshot of the "Generative Agents" demo where 25 AI-controlled characters live out life in a town called Smallville. (credit: J.S. Pa.....»»
Yellow crazy ant males have two sets of DNA
A small international team of molecular and evolutionary scientists has discovered that male yellow crazy ants (also known as long-legged ants) have two sets of DNA throughout their bodies. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group d.....»»
Providing critical insights for animal development: Biologists determine the evolutionary age of individual cell types
A research team led by Dr. Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant discovery about the evolutionary age of different type of cells in a small animal called Caenorhabditis elegans.....»»
New research finds surprising science behind bumble bee superfood
It's the spines. This is the conclusion of two new papers, led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, showing that the spiny pollen from plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) both reduces infection of a common bee parasite b.....»»
Google Drive has a surprising file creation limit
It turns out that when it comes to calculating Google Drive storage limitations, it’s not just the size of the files that matter, but how many files you have as well. Let’s say you sign up for a Google One account to act as a cloud ba.....»»
The surprising reason your powerful PC still can’t handle the latest games
New games are pushing even powerful last-gen GPUs to their limits and exposing a big problem with graphics cards: VRAM limits......»»
I just found the perfect ChatGPT iPhone app, and it’s free
There are plenty of ChatGPT iPhone apps, but a new one called Perplexity AI is surprising and impressive in all the right ways. Here's why I love it......»»
Intervention with educational robotics for the development of early childhood lexical relationships
Technological evolution poses challenges in all sectors, which is why, in the case of the educational community, it is not surprising that more and more studies are interested in the integration of STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering a.....»»
Structural advantages key to Taiwan IC industry development in next decade, says DIGITIMES president
Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing sector boasts structural advantages in its next decade of development, but the advantages for its IC design sector are likely to change, according to Colley Hwang, president and founder of DIGITIMES......»»
Rare video of wombats offers a glimpse into the bizarre realm of animal reproduction
If you look at where wombats deposit their poo, you realize they must be able to perform some surprising acrobatics. It has always amazed me to see wombat scats on top of grass tussocks or logs, because I've always wondered how the stocky creatures m.....»»
How to improve water permeability and rejection performance of RGO membranes? RGO-MXene membranes give answer
Membrane separation technology has become one of the most effective methods for water treatment, owing to its advantages of high separation efficiency, convenient operation and low-energy consumption. The membranes prepared from graphene oxide (GO) h.....»»
I think I just found the perfect ChatGPT iPhone app
There are plenty of ChatGPT iPhone apps, but a new one called Perplexity AI is surprising and impressive in all the right ways. Here's why I love it......»»
Big telecom equipment vendors still hold advantages in O-RAN era
With the advent of the O-RAN era, more networking supply chain players are poised to embrace huge business opportunities, and the three traditional heavyweight network equipment vendors Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei are widely believed to soon end their.....»»
What should we call evolution driven by genetic engineering? Genetic welding, says researcher
With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or plants by inserting genes that can easily spread through entire populations. Evolutionary geneticist Asher Cutter proposes that we call this evolutionary.....»»
IC Design White Paper - Taiwan"s IC design builds new armada
Taiwan's IC design sector is facing more and more internal and external challenges. Furthering the existing advantages as the second-largest IC design base in the world, and maintaining or even closing the gap with the leading US suppliers while also.....»»
9 surprising foods to cook in an air fryer
These air fryer foods are worth a try and the results may well surprise you – in a good way......»»