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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up …

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This mental trick can help you run faster in just seconds

This mental trick can help you run faster in just seconds

A few words, said the right way, can help you run faster. Not next month or after a few training sessions, but immediately. A study with elite athletes in their teens found that simple, environment-focused word cues instantly improved sprint speed over a distance of at least 20 yards. The effect of using these word cues was an increase of …

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The Bizarre Biological Trick That Makes These Teeth Tougher Than Steel

The Bizarre Biological Trick That Makes These Teeth Tougher Than Steel

At first glance, chitons look like any other mollusk: round, bashful creatures creeping across seashore rocks. Flip one over, however, and you’ll notice rows of freakishly sharp, polished teeth—indestructible, multi-purpose chompers that researchers are seeking to replicate for the next breakthrough in material science. A new study published August 7 in Science presents a detailed investigation into what makes chiton …

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This Quantum Entanglement Trick Has Physicists Losing Their Minds

This Quantum Entanglement Trick Has Physicists Losing Their Minds

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Creating quantum entanglement from scratch can be tricky business, so researchers are exploring ways that entangled pairs can “share” these states amongst themselves. A new study shows how an entangled pair can pass on their entangled state to another pair by using particle interactions. Theoretically, this sharing could be done indefinitely, …

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Microsoft Is Trying to Trick You Into Using Copilot

Microsoft Is Trying to Trick You Into Using Copilot

There are a ton of AI products out there to choose from today, but it’s pretty clear who the big players are. There’s Google’s Gemini, with its 400 million monthly users, which sounds like a lot, until you learn ChatGPT nets 700 million users every week. That’s really no match for even Microsoft, whose AI assistant Copilot garners a humble …

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Octopuses Fall For The Classic Fake Arm Trick – Just Like We Do : ScienceAlert

Octopuses Fall For The Classic Fake Arm Trick – Just Like We Do : ScienceAlert

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, suddenly changing their color, or retracting their arms, as if they’d really been hurt. The reaction is not proof that cephalopods are dim-witted or easily tricked – quite the contrary. …

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Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions

Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions

Christina Chapman, 50, an Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the global North Korean IT workers scheme, has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss also ordered Chapman to forfeit proceeds of $284,000 that was to be paid to the North Koreans. She was also ordered to pay a …

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