Megalodon Was a Sleek, 80-Foot Death Machine—Not a Giant Great White
For years, megalodon has been miscast as a great white shark on steroids. Turns out, that’s completely wrong. New research suggests this prehistoric killer was longer, leaner, and built for energy-efficient cruising—more like a monstrous lemon shark than a bloated...
Japan’s Robot Uprising—at Your Favorite Restaurant
Japan isn’t waiting for the future—it’s building it, one robotic waiter at a time. Faced with an aging population and a workforce that keeps shrinking, businesses are replacing humans with machines at an alarming rate. If trends hold, Japan’s service robot market will...
The $10 Billion Plan to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth (and Maybe Save the Planet)
Ben Lamm has no interest in building Jurassic Park. That’s what he told the SXSW crowd, anyway. The CEO of Colossal, a biotech startup with a $10.2 billion valuation and a penchant for reviving ancient species, insists his mission is far more noble: undoing humanity’s...
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Scientists just proved the existence of quantum tornadoes. Not in the sky—these vortices twist through the momentum space of tantalum arsenide, a quantum semi-metal that now sounds even cooler than its name suggests. Electrons, it turns out, don’t just drift lazily...Recent News
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