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When and where was chess invented and why is it still so popular around the world?

If you plan to take on a toy line with an established brand that's been around for almost 25 years, you need to bring something new to the playroom. For Hot Wheels, hoping to take on Tech Deck's miniature skateboards, th...

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, io9 sat down with the creative teams shepherding Warner Bros.' classic Looney Tunes characters into new and reimagined cartoons. In a push led by Looney Tunes Cartoons' Alex Kirwan--who spear...

In just the past few weeks, wild monkeys have attacked at least 58 people in and around the city of Yamaguchi in southwestern Japan, and no one seems to know exactly why, according to a report from the Associated Press. ...

In what could be a first of its kind, an AI furry porn generator makes bizarrely erotic artworks.

Complete your smart home setup with the Aqara Camera Hub G3 2K Indoor Camera. Boasting Ai pet, gesture, and facial recognition, it knows when you come home. Likewise, it recognizes if a stranger enters the room and sends...

Book Review: Author Beth Revis' novel doesn't make their honeymoon quite as engaging though.

The Los Angeles Times recently published an article that was over four years in the making, documenting the trials and tribulations of a pregnant homeless woman as she prepared for the birth of her daughter and looked fo...

The manipulation and use of gas in water have broad applications in energy utilization, chemical manufacturing, environmental protection, agricultural breeding, microfluidic chips, and health care. The possibility of dri...

Google has been developing a 3D Immersive View feature for Google Maps that will provide a bird's-eye view of notable landmarks. The new feature is being rolled out to mobile users, on both Android and iOS platforms, and...

Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.

New research in biomechanics measures the impact of head-first, hand-first and feet-first diving and the likelihood of injury at different diving heights, providing data-driven recommendations for safe diving and a model...

In mouse studies, researchers report that lactating mothers expose their feeding pups to triclosan, an antimicrobial commonly used in consumer products, resulting in early signs of liver damage.

ByteDance, TikTok's parent company based in China, used its now-defunct news app called TopBuzz to spread pro-China messages, according to BuzzFeed News. Former employees who worked at the English-language news aggregato...

Infants from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds who have positive newborn screening tests for cystic fibrosis received their diagnostic follow-up for the disease later than recommended and later than white, non-Hi...

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Artificial turf has grown in popularity, but it has major drawbacks, says Beronda L. Montgomery, who is looking for a sustainable alternative

Quantum computers, devices that exploit quantum phenomena to perform computations, could eventually help tackle complex computational problems faster and more efficiently than classical computers. These devices are commo...

Russia will stop sending cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as early as 2025, the country's new space chief confirmed this week.

The bulk of the layoffs affect senior staff on trading card game Gods Unchained.

The Entomological Society of America has given murder hornets a new name. We originally labeled the hornets as the Asian giant hornet. However, the Entomological Society of America has announced it will refer to the spec...

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to determine whether a specific material's atomic structure could host a novel state of matter called a spiral spin liquid. By tracking tiny magneti...