Mountaineering astronauts and bad spelling? It’s advertising’s future
[ad_1] James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust AdVerts FRom HeLl Feedback is often both baffled and intrigued by the tricks advertisers will pull to try to
Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar
[ad_1] An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone’s speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation,
A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from seven people
[ad_1] A skeleton from a Gallo-Roman grave in Belgium is made up of bones from at least seven individuals Photograph courtesy of Paumen, Wargnies, and
Are we really ready for genuine communication with animals through AI?
[ad_1] James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls on my lap and meows at me urgently, I often find myself
Orca – Black & White Gold review: Tense docu-thriller exposes cruel whale trade
[ad_1] Orcas in the Sea of Okhotsk, off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Orca – Black & White GoldSarah NörenbergTerra Mater Factual
Simple fix could make US census more accurate but just as private
[ad_1] The US government uses census data to distribute resources fairly Valentyn Semenov/Alamy A change to the US government’s system for processing the census could
Infinite Monkey Theorem: Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare
[ad_1] “Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat’st!” Colin Waters/Alamy If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn’t reproduce the works of William
Map of cancers reveals how tumours evolve
[ad_1] Mapping tumours and the genetic changes within them could help develop new cancer treatments Sipa Press/Alamy We now have some of the most detailed
Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years
[ad_1] Scientists found the fossil in Santa Cruz province, Argentina Mariana Chuliver et al., Journal (2024) An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever
Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer
[ad_1] The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his