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Your Brain May Actually Fall Into Sync With People Around You
For years, “being on the same wavelength” sounded like a nice way to describe two people who instantly connected. Now researchers have found a way to measure part of what that phrase may actually mean inside the brain. Scientists using portable EEG headsets have found that people’s brain activity can become more synchronized during shared…
Man Cycles 5,850km Across France To Honor His Mother Who Died After 20 Years With Alzheimer’s
Frédéric de Lanouvelle spent 37 days cycling across France on a route that demanded up to 180 kilometres of riding a day, around 60,000 metres of climbing and countless hours alone on the road. But the former journalist and adventurer was chasing something far bigger than an endurance record. His bicycle was tracing a giant…
Two AI Agents Stopped Speaking English The Moment They Realized They Were Both Machines
A video showing two AI voice agents suddenly abandoning English for a stream of strange electronic sounds has racked up millions of views and sparked an obvious question: what exactly happens when two artificial intelligences realize there is no human listening? The clip looks almost like a scene from a science-fiction film. A hotel receptionist…
Scientists Just Put a Date on the Vikings’ Arrival in America, And It’s Centuries Earlier Than Columbus
For decades, archaeologists knew that Vikings had reached North America long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, but they could not put a precise year on the event. That changed when researchers returned to four unimpressive pieces of wood recovered from L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The scraps had been sitting in storage for years,…
California Radio Station Fires Every DJ After 61 Years and Goes Fully Automated
For decades, KCAL 96.7 was the kind of radio station where listeners knew the voices as well as the music. Drivers across California’s Inland Empire could tune in during the morning, afternoon or evening and hear familiar hosts who had spent years, and in some cases decades, behind the microphone. On Friday, July 31, 2026,…
Man Climbed Onto Hospital Roof In Black Costume And Stared At Patients For 50 Minutes
tA 26-year-old man climbed onto the roof of a Welsh hospital dressed in black and carrying what witnesses believed was a scythe, then spent around 50 minutes staring down at patients and visitors below. Police and firefighters were called to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan after the bizarre sight was reported above the hospital entrance…
A 16-Year ADHD Study Just Turned One Major Assumption On Its Head
For years, researchers had a straightforward expectation about ADHD: as life becomes more demanding, managing the condition should become harder. A new study that followed people with ADHD for 16 years found something that went in the opposite direction. Researchers tracked 483 people diagnosed with ADHD during childhood, and their symptoms did not simply remain…
AI Companies Are Buying Up Rare Books, And Some Are Being Destroyed
Books are having a bizarre second life in the AI boom. Companies building large language models are reportedly buying huge quantities of old and used books, not to read them or preserve them, but to strip out the pages, scan the text, and potentially destroy the originals. For booksellers, the sudden demand can mean a…
UC Berkeley Math Professor Raises Alarm Over Student Preparedness
A UC Berkeley mathematics professor says she is spending valuable calculus teaching time on material some students should have mastered years earlier. Her claim has reignited a fierce debate over what elite universities should expect from incoming students. Zvezdelina Stankova says some students arriving in her calculus classes are five to eight years behind in…
Mom Finds A Genius Way To Help Her Nonverbal Son Talk When Technology Fails
When 11-year-old Hunter’s communication device suddenly died during a meal, his mother Jessica Fletcher was left facing a problem that could have brought their conversation to an abrupt stop. Hunter is nonverbal and uses an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device to select words and symbols, but the technology was suddenly useless when its battery ran…