Category: Shorts

Scientists Create Mind-Reading AI That Can Translate Your Thoughts Into Words #shorts #researchers #machine learning #words #text Scientists have developed a new technology that can read minds! Just kidding, they’ve actually been able to do that for a while now. But this new breakthrough is way more convenient than the old methods, which required brain…

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Snowflakes #shorts #snowflakes #snow crystals #Libbrecht #environmental conditions Snowflakes are one of those things that everyone knows are unique, but how do we know that for sure? Scientists have been studying snowflakes for years and they’ve come up with a few theories. One theory is that no two snowflakes…

72 Million Years Ago, A 50-Foot-Long Sea Monster Terrorized The Pacific #shorts #mosasaur #researchers #Konishi #Advertisement Advertisement Researchers have discovered a new species of mosasaur that lived 72 million years ago in the Pacific Ocean. This mosasaur, named the Wakayama Soryu, had four large flippers and a rudder-like tail that made it a formidable predator.…

Did a Star Really Lead the Wise Men to Jesus? #shorts #real event #night sky #star #time The Bible tells us that the wise men were guided to Bethlehem by a star, but what was that star? Was it a supernova, a comet, or something else? Astronomers have been debating this question for centuries, and…

10 Mind-Blowing Photos of Winter On Other Planets! #shorts #winter #Earth #seasons #whole planet Winter on Mercury is nasty, brutish, and short. It gets really hot during the day, but then it gets really cold at night. Winter on Venus is just hot. Like, really hot. Even at night. Winter on Mars is like a…

AI solves 50-year-old math problem that stumped even the brightest minds #shorts #AI #training data #first time #FunSearch DeepMind claims that their AI has solved a famous math problem that even human mathematicians couldn’t crack. The AI tool, called “FunSearch,” was trained on computer code and programmed to reject incorrect answers and feed correct ones…

You Won’t Believe What’s More Painful Than Giving Birth! #shorts #pain #Advertisement Advertisement #Kidney stones #CRPS The most painful insect venomThere are so many things in the world that can bite, sting, or otherwise afflict us with deadly poisons, that the question of which is most painful must surely be unanswerable. As for the most…

You Won’t Believe What This Guy Did To Find Out What Plutonium Tastes Like! #shorts #plutonium #Donald F. Mastick #question #acid The public’s fascination with the taste of everything, from the oldest water on Earth to the sludgy remains of an ancient corpse, has now extended to deadly radioactive metals. People on the internet have…

Reindeer Can See in the Dark and Have Superhuman Senses #shorts #flying reindeer #cancer #human clock genes #circadian rhythm Rudolph and his pals may not be able to fly, but they’ve got some other tricks up their sleeves. For instance, reindeer can override their circadian rhythms to deal with the long days and nights of…

Mars’ Magnetosphere Saved Christmas From a Solar Wind Storm! #shorts #solar wind waxes #Mars #upper atmosphere #effects The MAVEN Mars orbiter witnessed a brief restoration of the long-lost Martian magnetosphere and a temporary tripling of its ionosphere. This happened when the solar wind, which usually blows away Mars’ atmosphere, disappeared for a few days. Scientists…