Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is an AI with X-ray vision. “Omnipresent wireless signals that keep us connected can now be used like X-rays to see and track the movements of people, even when hidden behind walls,” said Andrew Liszewski at […]
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The Real Scientific History Behind the Jurassic Park Dinosaurs
The Jurassic Park franchise — including Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in theaters Friday, almost exactly 25 years after the first movie came out in 1993 — is obviously entirely fictional, so you don’t have to worry that the dinos are coming to get you. But that doesn’t mean there’s not something real at its heart: […]
An Ancient Chinese Tomb Reveals an Extinct Species of Gibbon, and a Warning
An ancient Chinese royal tomb may contain more surprising discoveries than anyone expected, including what appears to be a previously unknown species of gibbon that has since been driven to extinction. A new analysis revealed that the interred primate, whose skull and jawbone was exhumed in 2004, may not just represent a new species, Junzi […]
Koko the Gorilla Wasn’t Human, But She Taught Us So Much About Ourselves
Koko the gorilla earned her pronoun a long, long time ago. It is one of humanity’s great vanities that we withhold pronouns from most animals — or at least we withhold the good ones. Homo sapiens get the dignity of a “he” or a “she.” We fob off other species with an “it.” We speak […]
Yet Another Study Says Jurassic Park Was Very Wrong About T. Rex
Most dinosaurs including T. Rex could not stick out their tongues, according to a new study. The report, which comes ahead of a new Jurassic Park movie, upends the popular depictions of dinosaurs that show them with mouths open wide and tongues hanging out. According to the study, published in PLOS One on Wednesday, most […]