AnyChat unifies ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and more under one platform, offering developers and enterprises unprecedented flexibility to switch between leading AI models seamlessly.Read More
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A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags, a behavior that continued after the rules were no longer in place.
Plastic bag bans have lingering impacts, even after repeals Read Post »
After Ars spent Half-Life 2‘s 20th anniversary week looking back at the game’s history and impact, Valve marked the occasion with a meaty two-hour YouTube documentary featuring insider memories from the team behind the game itself. Near the end of that documentary, longtime Valve watchers also get a chance to see footage of the long-promised
Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned Read Post »
Velvet Voice After discovering that his voice has been cloned by artificial intelligence, veteran documentarian David Attenborough has been moved to genteel fury. In a new BBC segment, two near-identical clips — one generated by AI, the other recorded by the twice-knighted man himself — are heard promoting Attenborough’s new special, “Asia.” According to host Kasia Madera,
David Attenborough Disgusted by AI Clone of His Voice Read Post »
The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive — until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period.
Tiny worm makes for big evolutionary discovery Read Post »
Researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth contractions.
New oral drug to calm abdominal pain Read Post »
Through the intricate study of lava tubes — caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down — an international team of researchers has uncovered clues about Earth’s ancient environments that could be significant in the search for life on Mars.
New research explores volcanic caves, advancing the search for life on Mars Read Post »
Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers—whether they’re skittering across your floor, getting comfy in the folds of your camping tent, or minding their own business. Scientists, too, have given them short shrift compared with the seemingly endless attention they have lavished on social insects like ants and bees. Yet, there
The amorous adventures of earwigs Read Post »
Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they pioneered the basic mechanics that eventually made cart wheels possible. Archaeologists found hundreds of perforated, roundish, flattish pebbles in the 12,000-year-old village of
To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle? Read Post »
President-elect Donald Trump announced last night that he will make Brendan Carr the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, who wrote a chapter about the FCC for the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality rules and other regulations imposed on Internet service providers. Although Carr wants to deregulate
Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs Read Post »
