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• The enormous mass of warm water in the Pacific that has just “woken up” and could influence storms, wildfires, monsoons, and temperatures through 2027
• Science discovers the “point of no return” for mosquitoes: the mathematical trick that could forever change the fight against malaria
• They hid the number zero from an artificial intelligence system in the hope that it would discover it on its own; what happened teaches us an important lesson about the future of AI
• Scientists at MIT have created a robot with an “elephant’s memory” that promises to tell you where you left your keys last night—and it does so in a matter of seconds
• NASA is developing and testing an artificial intelligence system that identifies 93% of the signs of a flash flood and could provide crucial time to respond
• A NASA astronaut filmed the southern lights swirling like neon paint, turning orbital night into a free light show
• A few cookie crumbs on a trail may seem insignificant, but a new study conducted in Panama suggests that they can distract ants from a task that is key to a plant’s expansion
• Cockroaches already seemed indestructible, but a new genomic study has just revealed something even stranger: they harbor thousands of fragments of bacterial DNA hidden within their own genome
• An animal about the size of a small house cat has just caused quite a stir in Mexico after becoming the first known photographic evidence of the mysterious Cozumel dwarf fox