Genomic analysis has found that all roses were once yellow.
Scientists have “created” a new color by using a laser to stimulate the retina; five people have reported seeing the new color dubbed “olo,” a highly saturated blue-green.
A new Microsoft report found that people are using artificial intelligence to avoid working with their colleagues.
NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who solves the problem of recycling feces and other human waste in space.
Chipotle buys 5% of all the avocados eaten in the US—nearly 132 million pounds of avocados annually.
Researchers in Japan have produced nugget-sized chunks of chicken using animal cells, signaling a breakthrough in lab-grown food production.
Global wine sales last year fell to their lowest level since 1961, totaling 214.2 million hectoliters. (One hectoliter equals 100 liters.)
Plastic surgery has exploded in China. Around 20 million people pay for cosmetic procedures each year. One woman said she had more than 100, the first when she was just 14.
Scientists have developed the world’s tiniest pacemaker—smaller than a grain of rice—that can be inserted with a syringe.
Bruce Springsteen revealed that he will release seven “lost” albums of unreleased music this summer.
Clean energy provided more than 40% of global electricity in 2024, a record.
The U.S. fertility rate remains around 1.6 births per woman—well below the 2.1 needed to maintain the country’s population solely through births.
Listening to your favorite music activates the brain’s opioid system—linked to pleasure and pain relief—as a new imaging study shows that music-induced “chills” trigger the release of natural opioids in key brain areas.
A hormone-free male birth control pill is undergoing clinical testing for the first time ever.
PSA tests falsely indicate prostate cancer in men three out of four times.
Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and tax incentives greater.
Cybercriminals in the U.S. stole a record $16.6 billion last year, reflecting the increased prevalence of online scams, particularly ones including cryptocurrency and those targeting older Americans.
A lab in New Mexico found as much plastic in human brains as five bottle caps, or one disposable spoon.
A rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise became the oldest first-time mother of her species at the age of 97.
Japan built a 3D-printed train station in six hours.
Sam Altman admits that saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power.
Beijing hosted a half marathon that included 21 humanoid robot runners — but only six managed to finish the race. The fastest completed the 13.1 mile track in two hours and 40 minutes, but it had to get its batteries changed three times and fell over once. Others overheated and stumbled; one literally lost its head.
All six of the world’s best airports are in Asia, according to a new report by air travel consultancy Skytrax.
More than 20 billion videos have been uploaded to YouTube and roughly 20 million are added every day.
California is now the fourth-largest economy on the planet—putting it behind just the US as a whole, China, and Germany
According to an Edelman survey, young adults increasingly disregard their doctors’ advice in favor of information from social media, and nearly 60% said they’ve made a health decision they regret based on bad info.
A new theory proposes that complexity increases over time in living and non-living systems, and that this constitutes a fundamental principle of the universe.
The average U.S. adult has 12 unread text messages waiting for them, and more than 1,000 unread emails in their inbox.
Fake job seekers—many of whom are agents of foreign governments looking to steal customer data or trade secrets—are exploiting generative AI and deepfake software to appear as the perfect candidates for remote roles. By 2028, 1 in 4 job candidates will be fake, according to the research firm Gartner.
Roughly 71% of the Earth’s surface is water; 29% is land.
In Japan, Komomaki (菰巻き) are tree jackets to keep damaging pests away.
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