Technology & Innovation
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Outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting its competitors, the reality competition series Survivor turned 25 this year.
D-Day was the largest single-day aerial operation in history. On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded German-occupied France, landing on the beaches of Normandy, France.
Captain Joseph Foss shot down 26 Japanese aircraft defending Guadalcanal making him Amercia’s top ace. In the account that follows, learn about the Guadalcanal Campaign through his eyes.
FreViEW, a collaboration between the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, is a large-scale, long-term forest warming experiment taking place in Seoul, Korea.
Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A recent study of people who speak both English and Spanish hints at a single “grammatical engine.”
A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic’s A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the Jacobian conjecture. While experts consider it a milestone, the work raises questions about the future of mathematical research.
The bioinspired device, which weighs roughly half a pound and measures around three feet wide, was also modeled after aquatic birds like puffins, gulls and loons.
Recently FDA-approved treatments work to clear clumps of the protein amyloid beta in the brain. A drug that instead goes after tangles of the protein tau can yield similar cognitive outcomes, a new study suggests



