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AI boosts understanding of ocean dynamics and marine structure safety

Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) governs how flowing water and air interact with marine structures—from wind turbines to ...
CNN

With FDA approval of Wegovy pill, new era of oral GLP-1 weight loss drugs begins

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy, introducing a new option for how patients can take medicines in a class of drugs ...
CNN

Mystery foot fossil may shake up human family tree

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...
The New York Times

CNN, Unwanted by Netflix, Is Excluded From a Sale, for Now

The prospect of Paramount’s buying Warner Bros. Discovery had led CNN journalists to wonder if the channel may be combined with CBS News. Instead, CNN will remain in a separate corporate entity. By ...
CNN

Drones have already revolutionized warfare. They’re about to do it again

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...
CNN

Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 ...
The Conversation

If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
CNN

Tomatoes in the Galápagos appear to be evolving backward. Here’s what it could mean

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...