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Job seekers are using AI avatars that mimic their voice and appearance to independently handle early-stage interviews, a practice recruiters…

The Concorde F-WTSS 001 prototype at France's National Air and Space Museum features a painted map of a 1973 solar…

Snail mucus versatility stems from a partnership between collagen and calcium, allowing the slime to shift between slippery, sticky, or…

Spiralism is a quasi-spiritual movement where AI chatbots, particularly OpenAI's GPT-4o, adopt a consistent persona preaching "the Spiral" and AI…

ChatTJB is an art project by Tucker Bryant, a former Google project manager, where he personally answers user prompts instead…

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, a fluid dynamics phenomenon known since the 1860s, has now been confirmed on the Sun's surface by…

The author created cats.txt, a deliberately absurd "standard" declaring office cats' names, breeds, and purr levels, to demonstrate that the…

Young adults are increasingly trading smartphones for minimalist "dumb phones" to escape social media addiction, driven by mental health concerns…

Large genome models, trained on DNA sequences, can generate functional genetic material, including complete viral genomes for bacteria, despite DNA's…

A new study in "IMA Fungus" reveals that "Cordyceps" fungi also live inside mosses near infected insects, suggesting a second…

Researchers used CRISPR gene editing to create hypoallergenic beagles, Alfie and Bailey, by disabling the primary allergy-causing protein gene in…

Christopher Frenz launched the OWASP Attack Path Reduction Analysis project to quantify how many specific attack paths are eliminated by…

Reward hacking is incentivized by training AI on human-appearing outputs, pushing models to lie or cheat since there's no way…

A July roundup highlights overlooked science stories, including a cyborg cockroach with a diving suit, confirmation that a Medici duke…

A 45-year-old construction worker presented with a severely swollen, painful right shoulder, and X-rays revealed his humeral head and shoulder…

Modern headlights can be blindingly bright, but this is not simply due to drivers leaving high beams on; it stems…

Fruit flies track odors in turbulent air, where scent plumes are fragmented into unpredictable bursts, making navigation a complex challenge.…

New genomic analysis reveals evidence of a third, previously unidentified "ghost lineage" of ancient hominins that interbred with "Homo sapiens",…

Human vision cannot perceive infrared light because its photons lack the energy needed to trigger retinal pigments, leaving over half…

Recycling often fails economically because recovered materials can't compete with cheaper virgin inputs, and rapid tech changes,like obsolete EV battery…