Millions of years ago, animals adapted to become warm-blooded amid huge climactic changes. Now scientists hope these clues from the past could help us understand what lies aheadIn Chicago’s Field Museum, behind a series of access-controlled doors, are about 1,500 dinosaur fossil specimens. The palaeobiologist Jasmina Wiemann walks straight past the bleached leg bones – some as big as her – neither does she glance at the fully intact spinal cord, stained red by iron oxides filling the spaces...
Researchers have created fibre-based electronics that use the human body to power T-shirts that display changing messagesWhether it is a T-shirt that can display changing messages or a carpet that can sense where you are standing, the future of smart textiles has often seemed rooted in science fiction.Now researchers say they have created smart fibres that can do exactly those things – and they do not even require a battery pack. Continue reading
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PHOENIX --- The Phoenix Suns needed a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves
Political power is not a toy. It is not a trophy awarded to the winner of the debate club. Power is a game, but it is the game of kings. It is chess, not checkers. If you intend to play the game, you had better come with a serious strategy and the will to win, because you can bet the other side is playing for keeps.For too long, conservatives have engaged in politics as if it were professional football, something to watch for entertainment while sitting on the couch so you can complain about...
Battery life always limits a drone’s ability to perform tasks and get anywhere. So why not let it slurp from nearby power lines? (Well, there are reasons.) Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark attached a gripper system to a Tarot 650 Sport drone, which they customized with an electric quadcopter propulsion system and an autopilot module. An inductive charger pulls current from the power line, enabling it to recharge five times over two hours during tests. The benefit here is that...
CALGARY -- Leon Draisaitl scored his 40th goal, and Connor McDavid earned his 98th and 99th assists of the season to help the Edmonton Oilers recover for a 4-2 win against the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and two assists, and Evan Bouchard and Connor Brown scored for the Oilers (47-24-5), who have won five of seven (5-1-1). Calvin Pickard made 34 saves. Yegor Sharangovich had a goal and an assist, Andrei Kuzmenko had two assists, and...
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ARLINGTON -- With his first career three-homer game, catcher Shea Langeliers almost singlehandedly lifted the Athletics over the Rangers on Tuesday, 4-3, in the opener of their three-game series at Globe Life Field.
Tell-tale signs of generative AI images are disappearing as the technology improves, and experts are scrambling for new methods to counter disinformationWith more than 4,000 shares, 20,000 comments, and 100,000 reactions on Facebook, the photo of the elderly woman, sitting behind her homemade 122nd birthday cake, has unquestionably gone viral. “I started decorating cakes from five years old,” the caption reads, “and I can’t wait to grow my baking journey.”The picture is also unquestionably fake....
Even though he just had his best game of the season, Immanuel Quickley only wanted to talk about the Toronto Raptors winning consecutive games for the first time in six weeks.
Junior Sharyland High alumnus Martin Vazquez hit a pair of no-doubt home runs to lead the UTRGV Vaqueros past the UT Arlington Mavericks 8-2 on Friday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium in Edinburg. In his first-career multi-home run game, Vazquez hit a laser-liner 2-run shot over the left field wall in the third before belting a […]