Category: Shorts

How Long Does It Take for Your Brain to Heal After Quitting Drinking? #shorts #thickness #AUD #regions #new study BREAKING NEWS: People who quit drinking alcohol can regrow their brain cells! That’s right, folks, if you’re an alcoholic, you can actually reverse the damage that’s been done to your noggin. Just give up the booze…

Earth’s Heartbeat: The 27.5 Million Year Cycle That Could Wipe Us Out #shorts #study #planet’s major geological events #different time points #geologists Yo, Earth! You’ve been acting kinda funky lately, what with all those earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Scientists have been studying your behavior for the past five decades and they think they’ve finally figured…

Horses Don’t Know They’re Racing, But They Still Win #shorts #horses #race #horse behaviour #group gallop Horses don’t give a shit about winning races, they just wanna run with their friends. But the jockeys and trainers are like, “Nah, you gotta go faster. Faster! Faster!” And the horses are like, “Why? We’re having a good…

Bamboo Bloom: The Rare Event That Could Wipe Out Entire Forests #shorts #flowering #bamboo #regeneration #team Scientists discovered a bamboo plant that only flowers once every 120 years. And then promptly dies. Talk about a party animal! The researchers were hoping to study how the bamboo regenerates, but it turns out that it doesn’t. At…

Half-Synthetic Yeast Genome: The Future of Genetic Engineering #shorts #yeast cell #chromosomes #synthetic and native genes #genome Scientists have created a yeast cell with a genome that’s over 50 percent synthetic, including the world’s first entirely synthetic chromosome. They did this by removing so-called “junk” DNA from the genome and replacing it with new snippets…

AI Is Running Out Of Data. Here’s What Happens Next #shorts #AI #training data #disinformation or illegal content #high-quality data A.I. is running out of data! That’s right, the world’s most sophisticated machines are learning at a breakneck pace, and they’re burning through data like there’s no tomorrow. But don’t worry, there are a few…

The First Words: How Language Evolved and Changed the World #shorts #humans #speech #theory #human’s ability Scientists have been arguing over when humans first started talking for ages. Some say it was 50,000 years ago, while others say it was 20 million years ago. Who knows? Maybe it was even earlier, but those early humans…

500-million-year-old sea creature revived as a squishy robot! #shorts #researchers #pleurocystid #muscular stem #animal kingdom BREAKING NEWS: Scientists have brought back a 450-million-year-old sea creature using soft robotics! That’s right, folks, the extinct pleurocystid is back and better than ever. This amazing feat of engineering has given us a new understanding of how extinct organisms…

Shrek Creator: AI Will Destroy Animation Jobs #shorts #executive Jeffrey Katzenberg #years #powerful AI #animation industry Jeffrey Katzenberg, the man who brought us Shrek and the failed streaming service Quibi, says that AI will make animated films up to 90 percent cheaper to produce. That means 90 percent of the jobs of human animators will…

Man With Parkinson’s Disease Walks Again Thanks to New Treatment #shorts #Parkinson’s disease #Marc Gauthier #spinal cord #experimental spinal implant A new spinal implant has been shown to help people with Parkinson’s disease walk without falling. One patient, who used to fall 5-6 times a day, is now able to walk 6 kilometers every Sunday!…