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A new study has found never-before-seen ridges on the foot bones of a 7-million-year-old fossil ape, indicating that they walked upright on two legs while on the ground.This lump, called the femoral tubercle, is only found in members of the human lineage. This species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, is the oldest known hominid, according to a study published January 2 in the journal Science Advances. (Hominidae is a group of species including humans that existed after the split from chimpanzees and bonobos. Upright bipedalism is a characteristic of hominids.)”that [bump] Scott A. Williams, lead study author and associate professor of paleoanthropology at…
Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image generation feature to paying X members only after the tool drew intense criticism from around the world for allowing users to generate sexual and nude images of women and children. Grok said in a response to users on Friday that only paying X subscribers can generate and edit images on the platform. Notably, these limitations do not apply to Grok apps. At the time of publication, the Grok app allowed anyone to generate images without paying a subscription fee. Grok’s image generation feature was initially available to everyone with a…
As the United States seeks to expand nuclear power generation to meet surging demand for electricity, a less visible constraint is coming into focus: uranium fuel. While policy momentum and private investment are flowing to both existing plants and next-generation reactors, the supply chain that supplies uranium fuel is strained, geopolitically exposed and slow to scale up. Recent industry discussions highlight that without swift action, fuel availability could limit the pace and safety of U.S. nuclear growth. Rising electricity demand fuels nuclear ambitions The push for nuclear energy is driven by structural changes in the U.S. economy. The rise of…
Kyrexa is advancing cancer treatment in companion animals through comparative oncology, and its lead drug rimcazole is ready for pivotal development following a successful pilot evaluation in dogs with advanced cancer. Kyrexa’s vision to provide gentle and effective treatment for cancer in companion animals is explained in its introductory article. Kyrexa’s flagship drug was backed by decades of scientific research, which had been stalled by several key pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and distrust that a single common approach to cancer treatment was possible. In this second article, Kyrexa describes how comparative oncology (the study of animal and human cancers)…
Andreessen Horowitz just announced that his company has raised just over $15 billion in new funding. The funding represents more than 18% of all venture capital allocated in the U.S. in 2025, according to company co-founder Ben Horowitz, but what’s even more impressive is that the organization has more than $90 billion in assets under management, putting it on par with Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s largest venture firms. This is appropriate since a16z appears to be very friendly with real sovereign wealth funds, including at least Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The company employs approximately several hundred people…
simple factsName: Baobab Street or Baobab AlleyLocation: Menabe, MadagascarCoordinates: -20.2504, 44.4196Why we don’t believe it: Baobabs are remnants of the dense forests that once covered Madagascar.As its name suggests, Baobab Street is a road lined with towering baobab trees in Madagascar. These trees are the remnants of the tropical forests that once spread throughout the island, and are now designated as natural monuments by the Madagascan government.Baobab Street is made up of the endangered Grandidier baobab (Adansonia grandidieri), one of Madagascar’s six endemic baobab species. The Grandidier baobab’s trunk typically grows to about 80 feet (24 meters) tall and 10…
The new mission will use cutting-edge scientific methods to more fully understand the relationship between the Sun and Earth, helping to advance scientific knowledge and better understand the effects of space weather. The SMILE mission will provide global 3D imaging of the Earth’s magnetosphere for the first time and investigate the dynamic response of the magnetosphere to solar wind influences. SMILE is expected to answer three questions. What is the fundamental mode of interaction between the solar wind and the magnetosphere during the day? What defines the substorm cycle? How do coronal mass ejection storms originate and what is their…
January 9, 2026hacker newsArtificial Intelligence/Enterprise Security As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. However, many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge is not a lack of predictability. It’s about identifying which predictions reflect real emerging risks and which predictions can be safely ignored. Upcoming webinars hosted by Bitdefender aim to cut through the noise with a data-driven perspective on where organizations are already falling short and what those failures mean for the year ahead. Rather than speculative scenarios, this session will focus on the threats that are actively reshaping today’s…
The 1,100-year-old mummified remains of a man have revealed that he likely died in an ancient turquoise mining accident in Chile. Extensive evidence of blunt force trauma found on the man’s skeleton suggests he died from a falling rock or mine collapse, according to a new study.The naturally mummified remains, along with grave goods such as a bow and arrow and a hallucinogenic snuff kit, were originally unearthed in the 1970s in an area just outside a pre-Hispanic turquoise mine in El Salvador, a city in northern Chile in the middle of the Atacama Desert. An obvious fracture in the…
Significant advances in D-band wireless communications were achieved through joint Anritsu and VTT demonstrations, highlighting the real-world feasibility of very high frequency wireless links. This project will validate that D-band technology can provide stable, high-capacity performance suitable for future backhaul, industrial connectivity, defense systems, and emerging 6G networks. Jonathan Boril, CTO of Anritsu’s Test and Measurement Division, commented: “Together, we validated the performance levels that bring high-frequency wireless links closer to real-world deployments.” Understand the role of D-band in future networks D-band spans frequencies from approximately 110 GHz to 170 GHz, providing significantly greater contiguous bandwidth than today’s 5G mmWave…