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ELIZA, The World’s First Chatbot, Brought Back From The Dead

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As the world grapples with a flood of Large Language Models, some computer programmers have gone old school, reaching back to where it all began by reanimating the first chatbot using its original code. This comes sixty years after Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT created ELIZA, named after the character Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and generally […]

Trump’s Executive Order Against Trans People Technically Makes Every American Female

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Moments after the presidential inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed several anti-scientific executive orders (EOs), such as taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement to curtail human-made climate change and withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization. He also signed an EO targeting trans and non-binary people which had the unintended consequence […]

What Would Happen To Your Body If You Were Shot By A Shrink Ray?

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Popular culture, especially in relation to sci-fi, is filled with nifty gadgets and incredible devices. One of the more entertaining and arguably iconic is the “shrink ray”, a staple of many TV and film plots, like Marvel’s Ant-Man, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and so on. The principle is simple – scientists have a gun […]

Hybrid Fish Released In Religious Rituals Are Taking Over The Waters Of Hong Kong

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Hybrid grouper fish, released into Hong Kong’s coastal waters as part of a religious ritual, could be wreaking havoc on local biodiversity. By exploiting unique ecological niches and asserting themselves as dominant predators, the hybrid giants have the potential to outcompete their native, non-hybrid counterparts and threaten the balance of marine ecosystems. ADVERTISEMENT GO AD […]

What Is The Pacific Ring Of Fire?

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As Johnny Cash once sang: “Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring […] And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire; the ring of fire.” This isn’t wrong, apart from one little detail: the first word should have been not “love”, but “a 40,000-kilometer-long horseshoe-shaped tectonic belt running around the […]

Incredible Footage Shows Ultra Rare All-Black King Penguin On South Georgia Island

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An ultra-rare all-black penguin has been spotted on South Georgia Island, standing out among its more typical black-and-white buddies by bucking the tuxedo trend with an entirely black body. Remarkably, the rare animal was captured by a photographer who’s no stranger to unusual color morphs, having snapped a peculiar yellow-and-white penguin back in 2021. ADVERTISEMENT […]

Contagious Urination Confirmed In Chimps For The First Time, Surprising Scientists

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In chimpanzees, peeing is contagious. That’s the surprising conclusion reached by scientists at Kyoto University who described it as “an unexpected and fascinating result”. They conducted observational studies of chimpanzees at a sanctuary and saw that not only did they exhibit contagious urination, but that it was also more likely among individuals with lower dominance […]

The Legend Of An “Evil Ancient Mummy” That Sunk The RMS Titanic

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Ask around today, and most people will tell you that the RMS Titanic in April 1912 sank due to an ill-placed iceberg, poor visibility, the material weaknesses of the not-so-unsinkable ship, and a healthy dose of human error. However, in the early 20th century, when supernatural séances and recent archaeological discoveries were lighting up people’s […]

We’ve Caught A Glimpse Into What Early Human Relatives Ate 3 Million Years Ago

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When the Paleolithic Period dawned, at least one group from which humanity may have descended had a diet that would infuriate most people who think they’re “eating Paleo”. In fact, a group of australopithecines had an overwhelmingly vegetarian diet. ADVERTISEMENT GO AD FREE Members of the genus Australopithecus, made famous by the individual known as […]

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