Antarctica’s Terror Bird Was an Apex Predator of the Eocene EpochThe terror bird — an extinct group of carnivorous birds that once dominated the current territory of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay after the extinction of dinosaurs — persisted between 23 million years ago and up to about 17 thousand years ago.
Miami is 'ground zero' for climate risk. People are moving to the area and building there anywayRising seas threaten to swallow much of the Miami metro area in the coming decades as the world continues to warm and faraway ice sheets melt.
The Mystery of Uruguay's Ferocious, All-Female Cannibal InsectsA tribe of ferocious, cannibalistic Amazons lurks in the grasslands of southern Uruguay. Ok, they’re not the notorious warrior women of myth: They’re only a few inches long and they can’t fire an arrow.
Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and cropsThe plants slowly choke to death, wither and dry out. They die en masse, leaves dropping and bark turning grey, creating a sea of monochrome.
Bird flu traces have been found in cows' milk. Should we be worried?The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Thursday that genetic fragments of the H5N1 bird flu virus have been detected in one in five retail samples of milk it tested. This comes just days after the agency first said it found inactive traces of the virus in the commercial milk supply.
Beyond Neuralink: Meet the other companies developing brain-computer interfacesThis article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.
How your brain decides which memories to saveMost of what happens to you every day vanishes without a trace. Countless walks, interactions, meals, and discussions have little or no long-term impact on your brain.
Into the 27-Year-Old Brooklyn Man’s Bedroom“I would get rid of this fake plant,” Rachel Coster tells me, pointing to a real plant. Then, noticing the Dusen Dusen Dash pillow on my bed, she groans. (“Childish” and “very gay guy,” she says.
Deep Dive into Transformers by Hand ✍︎There has been a new development in our neighborhood. It is a Tesla Cyber Truck and I have tried to explain that name to my son many times but he insists on calling it Robo-Truck.
Joyce Carol Oates on Life as a MysteryIn “Late Love,” a woman who has lost her husband of thirty-six years marries a man she knows very little about. There’s a temptation for the reader to see something of you in the character, since you also lost your first husband after nearly four decades, and then remarried.
Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?Signs point to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors showing up in actual, real-world, human-purchasable computers in the next couple of months after years of speculation and another year or so of hype.
ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts ExpireWhen Mayor Brandon Johnson announced in February that Chicago would stop using the gunshot-detection system known as ShotSpotter by year’s end, local activists were elated.
Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?When Tommy Nicol told his sister Donna Mooney about his prison sentence, she didn’t believe him. It was May 2009 and he had stolen yet another car. Nicol was a petty criminal, always nicking motors, and was rarely out of jail. “He said: ‘They’ve given me a 99-year sentence.
'Uncharted territory': El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on recordEl Niño is likely to give way soon, ushering in a quick switch to its opposite atmospheric and ocean pattern, La Niña. For the U.S.
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespreadAndrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream — onto store shelves.