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Specialist 'carbon nanotube' AI chip built by Chinese scientists...
Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they...
Mysterious 'mustached' burial mounds in Kazakhstan date...
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches."
We now know why tarantulas are hairy — to stop army ants...
Tarantulas' hairy bodies protect against the scavenging, spider-eating army ants that clean their nests, scientists say.
50,000 'knots' scattered throughout our DNA control gene...
The mapping of 50,000 mysterious "knots" in the human genome may someday lead to the development of new cancer drugs, researchers...
Horse domestication didn't happen the way we think it did
New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it's time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated...
Ancient Egyptian head cones: Mysterious headgear that could...
Archaeologists remain uncertain about the purpose of these head cones, but it appears that ancient Egyptians associated them with...
Kamikaze termites blow themselves up with 'explosive' backpacks...
Kamikaze termites in French Guiana carry highly volatile toxic "rucksacks" that are ready to be deployed in an instant, when the termite...
Silver is being buried beneath the sea, and it's all because...
For the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change.
