Kangaroos are pretty peculiar on the outside: They’re the world’s largest marsupials, they hop to get around, and they use their tails as a fifth limb. But they’re also pretty unusual on the inside: Female kangaroos have two vaginas — or three, if they’ve given birth. Why could that be? The most likely explanation is … Read more
Genre: Historical Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: KA Masters Get It On Amazon About The Book Three disparate women; one common goal: survive. Jorunn holds fast to duty and honor. The stalwart shieldmaiden is admired for her skill and courage in a harsh landscape beset by dangers and enemies. Would she sacrifice it all for … Read more
A brain implant that uses artificial intelligence (AI) can almost instantaneously decode a person’s thoughts and stream them through a speaker, new research shows. This is the first time researchers have achieved near-synchronous brain-to-voice streaming. The experimental mind-reading technology is designed to give a synthetic voice to people with severe paralysis who cannot speak. It … Read more
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, New Adult LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Estora Get It On Amazon About The Book An exiled prince searching for the truth.A curious squire desperate to prove himself.An epic romance that will change the world. Sixteen-year-old Prince Anden has spent eight years in the shadows – banished, forgotten, blamed for the death … Read more
Physicists have discovered a new phase of matter, dubbed “half ice, half fire,” that could open the door to new advancements in fields such as quantum computing. The new phase combines a number of “up” spins of electrons within an atom, which are highly ordered and referred to as cold cycles, with a number of … Read more
Large artificial intelligence (AI) models may mislead you when pressured to lie to achieve their goals, a new study shows. As part of a new study uploaded March 5 to the preprint database arXiv, a team of researchers designed an honesty protocol called the “Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge” (MASK) benchmark. While various studies … Read more
You may have heard the myth that humans use only 10% of their brains. That statement is patently untrue — most people use all of their brains, all of the time. But for people who have survived a stroke, traumatic brain injuries or brain resectioning surgeries, things do get less clear. In fact, many of … Read more
We think of oxygen as life, sustenance, a literal breath of fresh air. But it’s actually a very reactive element. Anyone who’s burned a log has witnessed this firsthand. So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a … Read more
A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may belong to a totally unknown branch of the tree of life, scientists say. These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and resembled branchless, cylindrical tree trunks. These organisms would … Read more
Current approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) are unlikely to create models that can match human intelligence, according to a recent survey of industry experts. Out of the 475 AI researchers queried for the survey, 76% said the scaling up of large language models (LLMs) was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), … Read more
