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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

Fragments of the skull (left) and shoulder blades (right) of a woman buried at Loch Borralie, UK Rebecca Ellis-Haken A woman interred in Scotland 2000 years ago has peculiar scrape marks inside her skull, which suggest that removing the brain…

Jackie and Shadow’s chicks’ genders revealed: It’s a boy…and a girl!

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Scientists found a new Alzheimer’s trigger and a drug that stops it

A promising experimental compound developed by researchers at ETH Zurich could offer a new way to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In studies involving mice, the treatment reduced nerve cell loss, helped the animals live longer, and targeted a…

Conan O’Brien Is Hosting Educational Videos For An AI Cybersecurity Company

At long last, a corporate training you might actually enjoy. Axelle/bauer-griffin/Getty Images Cybersecurity AI company Adaptive Security has partnered with famed comedian Conan O’Brien for a 15-part educational video series. These training videos will help Adaptive’s clients and…

Congress just gave Trump another $70 billion for mass deportations

Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years. The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate’s…

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

The AI boom has been built on a basic assumption: Bigger models are more powerful, and the most powerful models win. Now, the industry is about to learn what happens if that assumption starts to break.   Mounting costs have already pressured users to give smaller and cheaper…

MacOS 27 Golden Gate: Top New Features

One of the most interesting new features is Custom Extensions, which lets you create an extension for Safari in natural language. Lastly, the new version of Safari will work the Passwords app to automatically fix website login passwords that are…

A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

The galaxy MoM-z14 was called a “cosmic miracle” by its discoverers J. DePasquale (STScI) I’m certain scientists before me have thought this about their own era, but nonetheless, I think we are living in a wildly exciting time for galaxy…

To reconstruct an ancient ecosystem, the proof is in the squirrel poop

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NASA updates worsening ISS leak after crew safety alert

NASA has released a new update on the ongoing air leak issue inside Russia’s Zvezda service module on the International Space Station, where cracks in a transfer tunnel have caused small atmospheric leaks since 2019. The affected area is known…