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looorg writes:Just how many penises are there on the Bayeux tapestry? The previous count was 93. Now they claim to have found another one. So is it 93 or 94? Most of them belong to horses. So it's a Oxford professor showdown in how many penises they can see in a tapestry. Nobs for History!

Fnord666 writes:Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

upstart writes:Sunscreen might have helped early humans outlive Neanderthals:

upstart writes:Scientists transformed energy-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning 'beige' fat. Once implanted, How Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death:

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NotSanguine writes:From Nate Anderson over at Ars Technica:

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hubie writes:People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer - new study:

hubie writes:Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston:

upstart writes:Black hole analogs are one of our best tools for understanding how they work:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates/

upstart writes:A breakthrough in Hilbert's sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics in math:

upstart writes:Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027:

DECbot writes:As first seen in @Day of the Dalek's journal, and suggested to be posted as a Meta story on the Main page by @quietus, here is a call for volunteers:

owl writes:https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/adventure-march-1980/

upstart writes:Kosmos 482, weighing 500kg, was meant to land on Venus in the 1970s but it never made it out of orbit because of a rocket malfunction:

upstart writes:Backstage access: Spotify's dev tools side-hustle is growing legs:

upstart writes:Microsoft Finally Launches Its Controversial Recall Feature:

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upstart writes:Plastic-eating mealworms native to Africa discovered:

upstart writes:The final farewell for LG's phone business:

upstart writes:China may have achieved a "Sputnik moment" in the clean energy technology race by successfully reloading a nuclear reactor that runs on thorium:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2025/05/intel-386-register-circuitry.html

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upstart writes:Largest Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter Achieves First Light at the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope - NSO - National Solar Observatory:

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upstart writes:Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search:

owl writes:https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-35th-anniversary-hubble-space-telescope/682628/

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upstart writes:A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?:

Snotnose writes:According to Popular Science some dolphins have an unusual way to attract a mate.

upstart writes:Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50:

taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-flying-squirrel-drone-foldable-wings.html

upstart writes:China's '2D' chip could soon be used to make silicon-free chips:

upstart writes:A gas clump in the Milky Way's neighborhood might be a 'dark galaxy':

hubie writes:The company is also pulling Nest thermostats out of Europe entirely, citing "unique" heating challenges: