Honeybees just helped scientists build tiny drones that navigate without GPS and find their way home |

Honeybees just helped scientists build tiny drones that navigate without GPS and find their way home |

Most drones rely on GPS and powerful computers to find their way around. That makes them heavy, expensive, and power-hungry, basically not practical for anything small. But honeybees? They navigate perfectly with brains smaller than a grain of rice. Now, scientists at Delft University of Technology have figured out their secret and built drones that…

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Elon Musk: Labour MP Jess Asato sues Elon Musk's xAI over deepfake bikini images in landmark UK AI lawsuit | World News

Elon Musk: Labour MP Jess Asato sues Elon Musk’s xAI over deepfake bikini images in landmark UK AI lawsuit | World News

UK MP takes on Elon Musk’s xAI in groundbreaking deepfake legal challenge / Image: File A British Labour MP has launched a groundbreaking legal challenge against Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence company xAI, arguing that AI developers should be held accountable when their systems create harmful content.Jess Asato announced that she has filed a claim in…

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Inside Onkalo: The world’s first nuclear waste vault built for 100,000 years of isolation | World News

Inside Onkalo: The world’s first nuclear waste vault built for 100,000 years of isolation | World News

Deep under the pine forests of southwest Finland, the rock arrives first before anything else. It is old in a way that makes human construction feel temporary, shaped by geological time rather than anything built at the surface. According to PBS, the underground facility known as the Onkalo nuclear repository lies near Eurajoki, where nothing…

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Intelligence in an insect: Bumblebees break new ground with timing skills that baffle researchers |

Intelligence in an insect: Bumblebees break new ground with timing skills that baffle researchers |

For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations, a skill as fundamental as reading the dots and dashes of Morse code. But researchers at Queen Mary University of London have turned that assumption on its head, proving that buff-tailed bumblebees can do…

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Was King Tut’s desert glass born from a cosmic explosion: New Zircon discovery sparks wild debate | World News

Was King Tut’s desert glass born from a cosmic explosion: New Zircon discovery sparks wild debate | World News

It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass has been sitting in museum drawers and scattered across remote stretches of North Africa for decades, sometimes even cut into jewellery that once…

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Klystron Gallery: Inside California’s 3-kilometre straight corridor: The 40-minute walk through the Klystron Gallery that never curves | World News

Klystron Gallery: Inside California’s 3-kilometre straight corridor: The 40-minute walk through the Klystron Gallery that never curves | World News

PC: YouTube (SLAC from the Sky – Extended Version) On a patch of California land that looks, at first glance, like a low industrial sprawl, a single straight building runs for miles without changing direction. It doesn’t rise into the sky, it doesn’t curve into architectural showmanship, and it doesn’t really behave like a place…

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US charges tech CEO over alleged exports of restricted equipment to Iran

US charges tech CEO over alleged exports of restricted equipment to Iran

A dual US-Iranian citizen and chief executive of a Tehran-based technology company was arrested in the United States on federal charges relating to an alleged ten-year scheme to unlawfully export American-origin networking and encryption hardware to Iran’s nuclear and military sectors, in violation of sanctions regulations.According to ANI, the defendant, Jamshid Ghomi, 63, a resident…

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