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An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago
Only 1,280 breeding individuals may have existed at this dramatic era of human history.
Ancient Egyptian mummy balm probably smelled delicious
You'd find some of the same ingredients for this organ-preserving ointment in trendy skincare products today.
Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new type of AI attack
The threat in question is called a "prompt injection" attack, and it involves the large language models that power chatbots.
Google’s new pollen mapping tool aims to reduce allergy season suffering
It's a hyper-local forecast, but for pollen.
Google made an invisible watermark for AI-generated images
It only works with content generated through Imagen for now.
Cremated remains still hold clues to life and death in the Bronze Age
Archaeologists can still decode the secrets of the past with burned prehistoric remains, but only with the help of other fields.
YouTube’s extremist rabbit holes are deep but narrow
New research indicates most users don't see hateful YouTube content—but the site can further strengthen hateful echo chambers.
Category 3 Hurricane Idalia makes landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast
Fueled in part by record warm ocean temperatures, Idalia is the strongest storm to hit the Big Bend region in over 125 years
Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas
Plus other weird things we learned this week.
A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut
The state's High-Speed Rail Authority will soon begin accepting proposals from electric train manufacturers ahead of a proposed 2030 debut.