SCIENCE NEWS

World Autism Awareness Day: Expert Explains the Importance of Stimming
Credit: Pixabay Stimming, short for "self-stimulatory behavior," is a self-soothing activity often observed in autistic ...

Brain Waves Transformed into Spoken Words in AI Breakthrough for Paralysis
Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco connect their subject Ann's brain implant to ...

Mudball Meteorite Spent 2 Million Years Dodging Collisions – Until Eart
This 146-gram (5.15-ounce) stone is on loan to the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies from ...

New ‘Fire-and-Ice’ Phase of Matter Discovered in a Magnet
Credit: Pixabay A newly discovered state of matter has emerged within a previously identified exotic ...

Record-breaking Tiny Robot Offloads Electronics To Fly By Magnetism
This is claimed to be the world's smallest untethered flying robot – two minuscule magnets ...

Study Finds Chewing Gum Releases Hundreds of Microplastics in Your Mouth
(pixelshot/Canva) Chewing gum releases hundreds of plastic fragments into the mouth, researchers found, adding to ...

Ancient Parasite Used a Trap-like Appendage To Lay Eggs in Hosts
A specimen of the parasitic wasp, Sirenobethylus charybdis, preserved in amber. Credit: Pixabay If you ever ...

Air-powered Hexapod Robot is 3D-printed in One Soft and Flexible Piece
Yichen Zhai and his six-legged creationDavid Baillot/University of California San Diego While most people imagine ...
TECH NEWS

AI Crawlers Have Led to a 50% Increase in Wikimedia Commons’ Bandwidth Usage
Image Credits:Riccardo Milani / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP / Getty Images The ...

Researchers Suggest OpenAI Trained its Models on Paywalled O’Reilly Books
Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images OpenAI has faced multiple accusations of using copyrighted content ...

TikTok is Discontinuing its Instagram Rival, TikTok Notes
Credit: Pixabay TikTok is shutting down its Instagram-like app, TikTok Notes, on May 8. The ...

Tesla’s First-Quarter Sales Plunge in Europe
Credit: Pixabay Tesla's sales continued to decline in March across several European markets, hit by ...

‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Impact Remains Possible—Just Not on Earth
Image of 2024 YR4 obtained on 27 January 2025. (NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of ...

Roblox Collaborates with Google on Advertising
Image Credits:Roblox/Google On Tuesday, Google announced a partnership with gaming company Roblox, enabling advertisers to ...

ChatGPT isn’t the Only Chatbot Attracting More Users
Image Credits:Malorny / Getty Images OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world's most popular chatbot app, ...
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