Alibaba's Tongyi AI smartphone. (Image credit: Getty Images) Chinese tech firm Alibaba has announced a new version of artificial intelligence (AI) that it claims outperforms rivals such as OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek. The announcement of the Qwen2.5-Max came yesterday (January…
Oppenheimer isn't the only biopic about famous scientists worth checking out. (Image credit: Universal Pictures) Jump to: 1. Hidden Figures 2. Einstein and Eddington 3. October sky 4. Agora 5. The Imitation Game 6. Temple Grandin 7. Tesla 8. Gorillas…
The effective pressure beneath the Antarctic ice sheet illustrates how freely the ice moves above the layer of water that separates the ice from the bedrock. The new maps combine data on bed topography, ice thickness, subglacial hydrology, and base…
Mycologists say the fungus may belong to the genus Mycena. (Photo courtesy: Lohit YT) In an unusual and previously unrecorded case, a live frog was found in India with a fungus growing out of its skin, surprising scientists. The frog,…
Locals are perplexed (Photo: SWNS) An ordinary street in Nottinghamshire has found itself at the centre of a fruit mystery that some are calling for an end to. Residents of Abbey Road and Vensor Avenue in Beston have been left…
On a sunny day Saturday, SpaceX launched 21 more Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral into low Earth orbit after the private company's plans for a launch on Friday were scrapped. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 30 at…