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Tipsy Bats and Perfect Pasta Win Ig Nobel Prizes for Weird Science Research
Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the physics of cacio e pepe
Writing in Your Books Is Good for Your Brain—Here’s Why
Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature
Astronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien Worlds
It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows
How Do You Weigh a Black Hole?
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The Linguistic Science behind Viral Social Media Slang
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Strong Earthquake Hits Kamchatka. Tsunami Risk Waning
A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is raising concerns about possible tsunami impacts, although risk appears to be waning
New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone May Develop in 20 Years
A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases
Genetics Can Track How Languages Mixed in the Past
New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well
Some Dogs Can Learn Categories like Human Toddlers Do
These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning
RFK, Jr.’s Overhauled Vaccine Panel Meets Today. Here’s What We’re Watching
Three vaccines are on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key advisory panel on immunization: the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine, the hepatitis B vaccine and COVID vaccines
The World’s Largest Treasure Hunt Turns 25
These hobbyists use GPS coordinates to hunt for secret prizes around the world
Secrets of DeepSeek AI Model Revealed in Landmark Paper
The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for $300,000
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