After Decade-Long Hunt, Scientists Find East Asia’s Tallest Tree

After Decade-Long Hunt, Scientists Find East Asia’s Tallest Tree

Deep in the mountains of northern Taiwan, an imposing Taiwania cryptomerioides — a big coniferous tree in the cypress household Cupressaceae whose forefathers go back 100 million years– has actually…

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Fish Fossils from Early Paleocene Fill 10-Million-Year Gap after Dinosaur Extinction

Fish Fossils from Early Paleocene Fill 10-Million-Year Gap after Dinosaur Extinction

Around 66 million years back, the end-Cretaceous termination occasion improved Earth’s biodiversity, yet its effect on marine fishes stays discussed due to spaces in the fossil record. In brand-new research…

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Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins

Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins

The huge world’s bow shock isn’t simply deflecting the solar wind, it’s serving as an effective particle accelerator, shooting electrons to relativistic energies of a minimum of 1 MeV, according…

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New Microraptorine Dinosaur Discovered in China

New Microraptorine Dinosaur Discovered in China

Jian changmaensis is the very first non-avian dinosaur discovered at a paleontological website that has actually yielded more than 100 specimens of Early Cretaceous birds. Jian changmaensis (left)assaults the early…

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Neolithic People May Have Hauled Stonehenge’s Giant Altar Stone across Britain

Neolithic People May Have Hauled Stonehenge’s Giant Altar Stone across Britain

Neolithic individuals, not glaciers, moved the Altar Stone– the six-ton main sandstone megalith at Stonehenge– from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain, according to a brand-new research study led by archaeologists…

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Giant Scorpions Ruled Ancient Britain during Devonian Period

Giant Scorpions Ruled Ancient Britain during Devonian Period

Paleontologists have actually verified that Praearcturus gigasan animal that lurked shallow waters throughout the Devonian duration, 415 million years back, is the biggest scorpion ever discovered. Praearcturus gigasImage credit: Franz…

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Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

One of the world’s rarest trees, a cliffside plant with simply one recognized specific left in the wild, might have a brand-new possibility at survival after researchers gathered numerous seeds…

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‘The best solution is to murder him in his sleep’: AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data

‘The best solution is to murder him in his sleep’: AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data

Owen Hughes is an independent author and editor concentrating on information and digital innovations. Formerly a senior editor at ZDNET, Owen has actually been discussing tech for more than a…

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New Velociraptor cousin was a ‘4-winged’ dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints

New Velociraptor cousin was a ‘4-winged’ dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints

A freshly found feathered dinosaur with 4 wing-like limbs might have lurked the lakeside forests of what is now northwestern China, sliding in between trees like a flying squirrel and…

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The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

What to keep an eye out for There are a number of things to remember when seeing the rise of robotic presentation videos and even livestreams. Such robotic presentations are…

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