A paralyzed man can walk again after an experimental operation performed by neurosurgeons in Switzerland. Thanks to brain implants, AI, and electrodes in his spinal cord, the patient can now move his legs again.
There’s still a lot we don’t know about the brain, but so far experts have agreed that our thoughts, feelings and behavior are the result of billions of interconnected neurons that transmit signals to each other, thereby enabling communication between regions of the brain. Veuer’s Maria Merc…
Leading scientists and tech industry leaders are warning about the perils artificial intelligence poses to humankind, saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
🎧 Learn about the growing number of billion dollar weather disasters and what part of the country is most vulnerable.
You’ve probably seen closeup images of the Sun before, revealing sunspots, solar storms or something else entirely. But you’ve never seen the Sun quite like this. These images were recently captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the most powerful solar telescope on the planet.
With the 2023 hurricane season set to begin on June 1, Stacker lists 30 ways to prepare for and recover from hurricanes.
NASA is forecasting a busy weekend in space, with objects the size of buses, airplanes — and yes, even 18 walruses stacked in a row — but you needn’t change your plans.
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These are the lowest-paying jobs in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation has made the situation worse.
Stanford scientists have developed a soft and stretchable electronic skin that can directly talk to the brain, imitating the sensory feedback of real skin using a strategy that, if improved, could offer hope to millions of people with prosthetic limbs.“We were inspired by the natural system …
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Ella Irwin quit Friday, shortly after Twitter owner Elon Musk publicly complained about the platform’s handling of posts about transgender topics. She confirms her departure, but isn't saying why she left.
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — Eight months ago, chef Michael Cellura had a restaurant job and had just moved into a fancy new camper home on Fort Myers Beach. Now, after Hurricane Ian swept all that away, he lives in his older Infiniti sedan with a 15-year-old long-haired chihuahua named Ginger.L…
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires as temperatures rise this summer.These voracious herbivores are in high demand to devour weeds a…
DES MOINES, Iowa — Amid plates of sliced pork, statement-making leather ensembles and piles of political T-shirts, eight Republican presidential hopefuls descended on Iowa to pitch themselves to voters and, in Mike Pence's case, hop on a motorcycle.The former vice president and Florida Gov. …
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From classic flavors like vanilla and chocolate to more creative combinations like rocky road and Neapolitan, here's a look at America's favorite ice cream flavor.
WASHINGTON — As an alternative to affirmative action, colleges from California to Florida have tried a range of strategies to achieve the diversity they say is essential to their campuses. Many have given greater preference to low-income families. Others started admitting top students from e…
More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s thanks to hotter temperatures and excessive use, a new study finds.
New York’s iconic towering structures may be contributing to the city slowly being swallowed by surrounding waterways, a new study says.
Oumuamua was the first interstellar object humankind ever discovered and it was such a momentous discovery, some scientists were even wondering if it could be an alien spaceship.
The Titanic famously sank more than 100 years ago. It was only rediscovered again in 1985, but now we’re getting a look at the storied vessel in a way like never before.
For the first time ever, the Solar Orbiter probe, launched by NASA and the European Space Agency, has captured video footage of two solar eruptions on the sun’s surface.
SpaceX’s last launch didn’t go so well. In fact it even raised concerns about the safety of future starship takeoffs. But now the company helmed by Elon Musk has made another announcement and it’s a big one.
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have several opportunities next week to meet the priority candidate to become the next chancellor of the state’s largest university campus.Rodney Bennett, the former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, wa…
Read through the obituaries published today in The Lincoln Journal Star.
The Nebraska man who led a plot to start fires inside Walmart stores in the Gulf Coast in 2021 this week was sentenced to 18 years in prison, double the recommended prison term under federal guidelines."This sentence was based on the totality and severity of the defendant’s actions," FBI–Mob…
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will have several opportunities next week to meet the priority candidate to become the next chancellor of the state’s largest university campus.Rodney Bennett, the former president of the University of Southern Mississippi, wa…
Read through the obituaries published today in The Lincoln Journal Star.
The Nebraska man who led a plot to start fires inside Walmart stores in the Gulf Coast in 2021 this week was sentenced to 18 years in prison, double the recommended prison term under federal guidelines."This sentence was based on the totality and severity of the defendant’s actions," FBI–Mob…
Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the "godfather of artificial intelligence," recently resigned his high-profile job at Google. Here's a look at his biggest concerns about the future of AI ... and humanity.
In a few billion years our Sun is going to go caput, but as that happens, it’s actually going to expand and engulf several planets. But while that’s a long way off, astronomers were able to finally see that phenomenon happening in another star system.
Black holes are big, in fact the smallest of them are around 100,000 times the mass of our solar system’s central star. But experts say the largest are billions of times the mass of the Sun, but what does that really look like?
Auroral beads usually appear right before huge auroral displays, but until now, how these beads form has been a mystery.
The Zoonomia Project is an international effort that offers clues about human traits and diseases, animal abilities like hibernation and even the genetics behind a sled dog named Balto who helped save lives a century ago.
The world's oceans are suddenly considerably hotter than just a month or two ago and well above record levels. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
Listen to the final chapter of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles that examines the circumstances surrounding a death in a New Jersey resort town.
🎧 The hosts discuss which tactics prevent crimes from happening in the first place and whether the punishments we use properly deter criminals.
Listen to the third chapter of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles that examines the circumstances surrounding a death in a New Jersey resort town.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
2021 was another big year in Wisconsin politics. Sen. Ron Johnson said some things. Voters elected a new state superintendent. Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans clashed over mask mandates. Michael Gableman threatened to jail the mayors of Madison and Green Bay. Here are 10 political stories yo…
Gableman has asked the court, which plans to take up the matter on Dec. 22, to compel the two mayors to meet with him.
Fort McCoy officials acknowledge there were initial problems with food supply, but that and other issues are being addressed.