The New York Times

At a Los Angeles Museum, Giving New Life to Dead Animals

The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully. Art of Craft The creation, care and keeping of ...
KXAN

Robots are building clay homes in Central Texas using dirt from the ground

LULING, Texas (KXAN) — A rather unusual home is going up on a ranch south of Austin — made of clay and built by robots. An adobe home under construction at Proto-Town near Luling, Texas, shows thick ...
Yahoo

Andy Serkis explains why he changed Orwell's iconic 'Animal Farm' ending for new movie

NEW YORK – Andy Serkis has been trying to animate George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” for 15 years. In 2026, he says, it “couldn’t, actually, be more relevant.” Serkis and his producing partner, Jonathan ...
Los Angeles Times

First time: Sumatra orangutan seen using a canopy bridge built just for animals

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the first time, conservationists have captured video of a Sumatran orangutan using an artificial canopy bridge ...
MIT Technology Review

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

The good news is it’s a problem we can solve if we want to. When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world ...
Forbes

Make It Verbal: Using Google NotebookLM

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The raw power of Google NotebookLM in the user world shows the average person’s hunger for ...
WPXI

Local man pleads guilty to paying people in Indonesia to make animal torture videos

A local man pleaded guilty to paying people in Indonesia to make animal torture videos. The Department of Justice said Joseph Garrett Buckland, 44, of Mt. Pleasant, pleaded guilty in federal court on ...
Business Insider

I teach at Harvard and encourage my students to use AI on every assignment. They just have to follow my ground rules.

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...
KCCI Des Moines

Animal torture bill stalls in Iowa Statehouse, ARL pushes for action

MOVE IN. KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT TEN STARTS NOW. GOOD EVENING. IOWA’S LAWS COULD SOON BE TOUGHER ON PEOPLE CHARGED WITH VIOLENCE OR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA IS URGING LAWMAKERS ...
New Scientist

A variety of jungle animals all use one type of tree as a latrine

A host of tree mammal species, including opossums, two-toed sloths and wild cats, have been found sharing a latrine in the forest canopy. Jeremy Quirós-Navarro, an independent ecologist in Costa Rica ...
PCGamesN

Minecraft's new crop of babies will "deepen your bond" with your animals, but make sure to keep them safe

The Minecraft Tiny Takeover has arrived, transforming the sandbox game's younger cast with new-look models, complete with fresh sounds. Whether you're setting up a farm or love having pets around the ...
Wired

A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks ...