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Whoop Coach is powered by ChatGPT 4 Whoop just announced a new feature called Whoop Coach. Powered by ChatGPT, it’s meant to deliver more personalized recommendations and data insights based on your goals. Whoop says the feature can comb through your data to draw conclusions about why you might be feeling a certain way, and…

Google Podcasts vs. YouTube Music Next year, Google will focus on offering podcast access within YouTube Music instead of Google Podcasts. The company explains in a blog post that it will invest more in the podcast experience on YouTube Music as part of its efforts to create a better overall destination for fans and podcasters.…

Microsoft is hiring a principal program manager to lead its nuclear energy strategy. The next-generation nuclear reactors will power its data centers and AI ambitions, according to a job listing for a principal program manager who will lead the company’s nuclear energy strategy. The role nuclear energy ought to play in combatting climate change is…

Pangea Ultima: The End of the Planet The supercontinent that will end all mammals? New research suggests that in about 250 million years, the existing continents will collide to form a supercontamerica, Pangea Ultima, which will make Earth inhospitable to land-based mammals and likely lead to a mass extinction. The authors claim that these changes…

Azulene Fluorescence Fluorescence Fluorescence Fluorescence Fluor Tomáš Slanina explains the remarkable blue color azulene, a molecule that scientists have puzzled for decades. Its chemical structure is similar to that of mothballs, but it has eight hydrogen atoms instead of seven. It also has a ring-shaped structure and is highly stable. However, its fluorescence is observed…

The Wholphin Whale Hybrid Whale The first known wholphin was born in a Tokyo SeaWorld park in 1981, but it died after just 200 days. Another female hybrid was born at another park in 1985, and that too died after 100 days. A wholphin is a hybrid born as a result of an unlikely canoodling…

The Squishable Part of the Mummy This guy died of Chagas disease, was unable to absorb proteins adequately in the months preceding his death, and was likely rendered immobile by his condition. This is significant because someone would have had to bring him food resources, as well as attending to his daily needs. An adult…

Highlighter, a light-based communication tool for plants Using a new light-sensitive tool called Highlighter, scientists have been able to activate the immune response of the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana by using light as a stimulus. The team hopes that they can use this technology to warn plants of disease outbreaks and pest attacks in order…

Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Night Hopes are fading that the Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover will wake up after the lunar night, as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) continues to attempt to establish contact. In August, India became the fourth country to touch down on the moon and the first to land near the lunar south pole.…

Animals Up Close: The Adventures of Petaka Bertie Gregory’s new series, Animals Up Close focuses on the lives of animals and includes never-before-seen behaviors. His honest portrayal of the highs and lows of wildlife filmmaking has made him a social media sensation. However, as Gregory told IFLScience, often it’s the humans that are the danger,…