Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.
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Jacek Krywko
Associate Writer
Jacek Krywko is a freelance science and technology writer who covers space exploration, artificial intelligence research, computer science, and all sorts of engineering wizardry. He previously worked as a staff journalist at a science desk of Gazeta Wyborcza, one of the largest Polish newspapers, and his writing has been featured in Quartz and The Atlantic. He also coordinated projects contracted by ESA aimed at developing 3D printable compliant mechanisms and electrically triggered 4D printed actuators for space. Based in Olsztyn, Poland, Jacek spends his free time mountain-biking or trying to get out of Gold League 1 playing Protoss on the Starcraft 2 ladder.
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Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.
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New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
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Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator.
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Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus
Supposed “first octopus” was something else entirely.
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Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones
A receptor that’s used to find prey is also activated by progesterone.
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Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails
Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
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Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars
There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater.
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Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.
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Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.
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A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs.
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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target
The binary asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was affected by the impact.
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A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later
Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later.
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COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.
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Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours
Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant.
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Early Universe’s supermassive black holes grew in cocoons like butterflies
During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas.
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The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought
A 5,500-year-old fossil from Colombia has scientists rethinking syphilis origins.
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Macaque facial gestures are more than just a reflex, study finds
Study is first to implant micro-electrode arrays to record neurons as they produce facial gestures.
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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored.
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Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands
Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues.
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Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive
A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect.
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Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis
They’re quite a bit cheaper than manufactured nozzles if you can dissect them.
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DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs
AlphaProof can handle math challenges but needs a bit of help right now.
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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence
Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.
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Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species
Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming.
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Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation
Tiny chips can be powered by infrared light if they’re near the brain’s surface.
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Corals survived past climate changes by retreating to the deeps
A recent die-off in Florida puts the spotlight on corals’ survival strategies.
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Some stinkbugs’ legs carry a mobile fungal garden
A dedicated organ grows the fungus, which deters parasitic wasps.
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Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing
A handful of bat species hunt birds, and new sensor data tells us how.
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Even with protections, wolves still fear humans
European wolves flee human conversation faster than dogs’ barking.
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Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control
The termites know how much of their agricultural area has been taken over by weeds.
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Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun
It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.
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Fiji’s ants might be the canary in the coal mine for the insect apocalypse
A new genetic technique lets museum samples track population dynamics.
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DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots
An AI figures out how robots can get jobs done without getting in each other’s way.
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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues
Words you’ll never speak still cause activity in the brain’s speech centers.
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For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits
Neuroscientists find people who don’t enjoy music, study their brain activity.
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