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In 2024, hackers took over Ecovacs vacuums to shout slurs at owners. In 2025, Dreame and Narwal robots were found to have ...

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

Imagine a country with no rivers, no freshwater lakes, and no springs. Now, pack 65,000 people onto it. Add half a million ...

“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

A new light-based sensor detects cancer markers at near-zero concentrations.

Scientists think groundwater once moved through fractures in bedrock which resulted in the infamous stone latticework.

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How one amazing YouTuber turned a 3D printer into an automated tattoo machine.