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A Curated Guide to Gifts for Bird Lovers
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (364+ words) Whether someone you know is in their bird-watching phase, preparing for this phase, or has been in it for decades, all of these unique gifts'for traveling bird-watchers and backyard bird enthusiasts alike'are things either I or another bird-loving Reviews team…...
Level Up Your Helicopter Cat Parenting With These Smart Health-Tracking Collars
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (51+ words) Meta's facial recognition glasses could arm sexual predators Big Story: The snake bros getting bitten by their lethal pets The deepfake nudes crisis in schools is worse than you thought Listen: Silicon Valley is spending millions to stop one of…...
Cocaine-Fueled Wild Salmon Swam Twice as Far as Sober Ones
1+ week, 2+ day ago (120+ words) Cocaine pollution can affect the behavior of fish'altering, for example, the way Atlantic salmon move through their environment, prompting them to swim farther and disperse over a wider area. "The location of the fish determines what they eat, what eats…...
Veronika" Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (348+ words) Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of "Veronika," as the animal is called, shows that cattle possess enough…...
How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They're Going?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1576+ words) Here on Earth, it's easy to know how fast you're driving. You get a good sense of it just by seeing trees and cows pass by. And of course you also have a speedometer that counts how many times your…...
Backpack-Wearing Humanoid Robot Celebrates After Chasing Wild Boars Into Forest
2+ week, 2+ day ago (359+ words) We will be providing no further context at this time. OK but if you must know, this is the moment a humanoid robot named "Edward Warchocki" successfully herded a group of wild boars away from a parking lot in Warsaw,…...
A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On'but the Species Remains at Risk
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (569+ words) After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back'as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie Albert, director of the Right Whale Sighting Network at Blue World Research Institute, a nonprofit, first laid eyes on the North Atlantic…...
Elon Musk Robot Dog Found Wandering Streets Of San Francisco
2+ week, 5+ day ago (55+ words) Oh. Oh my God. Why is it doing that? It keeps doing that. [Speaker] Why is it waving at you? Yes. Maybe it likes you. [Lauren] But it doesn't talk. I have some questions I'd like to ask him. It…...
Flight Path Data Shows How Mosquitoes Target Humans
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (415+ words) In this context, a research team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has succeeded in automatically deriving a dynamic model governing mosquito flight by applying Bayesian inference statistical methods to a vast amount of…...
Don't Risk Birdwatching FOMO'Put Out Your Hummingbird Feeders Now
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (203+ words) Though most people associate the beginning of March with the hopefulness of spring and the indignities of daylight saving time, there's another important event taking place yards all over the country: hummingbird season. Though I test smart bird feeders year-round,…...