Iran"s rare cheetah cub dies of kidney failure
The last survivor of three endangered Asiatic cheetah cubs born in captivity in Iran died in hospital Tuesday from kidney failure, state media reported......»»
US prestige at stake as Texas company launches for the moon
Another month, another Moonshot: An American spaceship attempting a lunar landing is to launch early Wednesday, the second private-led effort this year after the first ended in failure......»»
23andMe Is Under Fire. Its Founder Remains ‘Optimistic’
23andMe’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has saved the genetics company from the brink of failure before. She sat down with WIRED to talk about where it goes from here......»»
Rare marbled godwit dies soon after drawing admirers in Vermont: What happened?
Excited nature lovers flocked to a tiny town from all across the state of Vermont last September, wildlife officials said. They all came to see one rare sight: a marbled godwit......»»
Apple patches pesky text bug with updates to Mac and mobile devices
Apple issued a surprise round of operating system updates across most of its devices on Thursday, with a rare bug causing periodic duplication of text now fixed.iOS 17The patch notes for all the releases are sparse, saying only that they contain gene.....»»
Physicists capture first sounds of heat "sloshing" in a superfluid, revealing how heat can move like a wave
In most materials, heat prefers to scatter. If left alone, a hotspot will gradually fade as it warms its surroundings. But in rare states of matter, heat can behave as a wave, moving back and forth somewhat like a sound wave that bounces from one end.....»»
New techniques for making qubits out of erbium
Qubits are the building block for quantum technology, and finding or building qubits that are stable and easily manipulated is one of the central goals of quantum technology research. Scientists have found that an atom of erbium—a rare-earth metal.....»»
US to launch next moon mission on Valentine"s Day
US companies are set to launch for the moon on February 14, less than a month since a similar mission ended in failure with the spaceship burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Wednesday......»»
NASA"s Roman telescope to use rare events to calculate expansion rate of universe
Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos—the rate at which the universe is expanding—are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by M.....»»
Asteroid that impacted near Berlin identified as a rare aubrite
An official classification now aligns with what many suspected from merely looking at the images of the strange meteorites that fell near Berlin on January 21, 2024. They belong to a rare group called "aubrites.".....»»
Decades of research samples destroyed in Sweden cooler failure
Research samples collected over decades at a prestigious Swedish medical university have been destroyed after a freezer malfunctioned over the Christmas holidays, the university said on Monday......»»
Researchers describe a novel species of jellyfish discovered in a remote location in Japan
A research team has published a description of a rare medusa found at a depth of 812 meters. The animal has been sighted only twice in a deep-sea volcanic structure called Sumisu Caldera, in the Ogasawara Islands. The gelatinous animal with a diamete.....»»
An infectious gibbon ape leukemia virus found to be colonizing a rodent"s genome in New Guinea
A research team has caught a glimpse of a rare case of retrovirus integration. Retroviruses are viruses that multiply by incorporating their genes into the genome of a host cell. If the infected cell is a germ cell, the retrovirus can then be passed.....»»
Former Trump official Mike Gill dies after being shot during Washington DC carjacking incident
Former Trump official Mike Gill dies after being shot during Washington DC carjacking incident.....»»
U.S. Hits Back at Iran With More Than Just Airstrikes
U.S. Hits Back at Iran With More Than Just Airstrikes.....»»
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”
Prolog-based Japanese education hardware sported an early touch-panel, speech synthesizer. Enlarge / "Expanding the Possibilities.....with Artificial Intelligence" (credit: SMS Power) Even massive Sega fans would be forg.....»»
Ice and fire: Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars
On Deception Island in Antarctica, steam rises from the beaches, and glaciers dot the black slopes of what is actually an active volcano—a rare clash of ice and fire that provides clues to scientists about what life could look like on Mars......»»
Tesla’s week gets worse: Fines, safety investigation, and massive recall
There have been 2,388 complaints about steering failure in the Model 3 and Model Y. Enlarge / More than 2,000 Tesla model-year 2023 Model Y and Model 3s have suffered steering failure, according to a new NHTSA safety defect inves.....»»
Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you"ve ever seen
In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don't usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. But now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology descri.....»»
Bug bounty hunter gives rare peek at Apple’s special research iPhone for security experts
Apple started shipping special research iPhone hardware to security experts in 2020. Naturally, security researchers have been mostly coy about sharing the specifics of what Apple calls “rooted” hardware. Still, there are some program participant.....»»
Tim Cook teases Apple AI announcements coming “later this year”, amid iOS 18 rumors
During the quarterly earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a rare comment about the future of Apple’s products, referencing the company’s investments in artificial intelligence. Cook said that Apple is “excited to share the details o.....»»