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Baby manta rays stick to the shallows to avoid sharks and orca
Adults can reach 30 feet long and weigh over 4,400 pounds, but coastal areas offer the young fish space to grow.
AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers
One secret code word is all it takes.
WWII fighter plane crash found in Hungary after nearly 80 years
The Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1 likely lost a dogfight against German ace pilot, Peter Düttmann.
Spooooooky! Alaskan man makes terrifying ‘kelp-o’-lanterns’
The kelp-y creations will only look creepier with time.
Earth’s spookiest lake is in Siberia and dates back 25 million years
Plus soiled underpants and other weird things we learned this week.
Monkeys also avoid germs after viral outbreaks
Macaques who survived the spread of a deadly disease were more wary of potentially contaminated food.
Roman sarcophagus inside Westminster Abbey originally held a different body
A case of coffin swapping may explain the mysterious medieval burial.
Why calling for a ‘kill switch’ is the wrong way to think about reining in AI
It would be nice to think that stopping an out-of-control AI could be this simple.
For the first time, artificial intelligence is a top 10 fear in the U.S.
Many Americans are more scared of AI than a loved one getting sick.
This robot exists solely to bounce ping-pong balls
Hexa-Bouncer is the latest in a series of ‘useless but mildly interesting ball bouncing machines.’
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