The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
Read MoreThis article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. Robotics systems have long been assembled from separate perception, planning, and control parts that rarely add up to intelligence a robot…
In 2005, Nokia sold its billionth mobile phone, a budget-friendly device that went to a customer in Nigeria. By then, the company, based in Espoo, Finland, was making one of every three cellphones globally.But just nine years later, the mobile-device maker offloaded its entire handset division to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar, compared to…
If you grew up in the 1980s or ’90s, you likely remember shaky home video footage, taken with a handheld camcorder, of family gatherings, vacations, and other events.Camcorders combined a camera with a video recorder. They included a rechargeable battery, a slot for a videotape, and a shoulder strap. Most were outfitted with an optical…
Earthen barrow, Sobota, Poland POZNAŃ, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, analysis of charcoal and pollen in ancient lake sediments collected in western Poland, near the site of a cemetery belonging to the Funnelbeaker culture, suggests that Neolithic farmers did not burn large swaths of forest. Rather, the farmers removed young trees and shrubs,…
STAVANGER, NORWAY—A metal detectorist discovered a 900-year-old silver coin linked to Magnus Barefoot, or Magnus Berrføtt, who ruled Norway from A.D. 1093 to 1103, Live Science reports. Only about 100 coins minted by the ruler have been recovered. Found in a plowed field near Utstein Monastery in southwest Norway, the coin is the first of…
Two-handled vessel, Ancash, Peru LIMA, PERU—Andina News Agency reports that Ilder Cruz Mostacero of Peru’s National University Santiago Antunez de Mayolo and his colleagues have unearthed traces of a Huaylas settlement dated to about A.D. 1200 in western Peru’s Cordillera Negra Mountains. So far, the researchers have excavated pottery, funerary architecture, and monoliths, in addition…
Skull and mandible of Qafzeh 25 BURGOS, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), a micro-computed tomography examination of Qafzeh 25, a set of fossilized modern human remains found in Israel’s Qafzeh Cave that have been dated to between 92,000 and 145,000 years ago, has identified lesions…
Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in Earth's greatest mass extinction, when warming oceans and falling oxygen levels wiped out animals that couldn't adapt. Species with body plans and metabolisms better suited to the changing conditions survived and went on to…
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New Zealand's birds. The find suggests the country's giant flightless geese evolved from much more recent arrivals, revealing a far more dynamic evolutionary history than once believed.
The computing community recently lost one of its enduring voices: IEEE Fellow Peter G. Neumann. The renowned computer scientist and respected risk analyst died on 17 May at the age of 93.For almost 70 years, Neumann shaped the computing field through his pioneering work on risks, system dependability, security, and fault tolerance with rare intellectual…
