These keycaps look amazing! Keycap maker Hirosart created these amazing keycaps that contain dioramas of Pokemon in their natural habitats. From fiery, volcanic settings for fire-type pokemon to different waterscapes for water-type pokemon, the artist’s talent and skill can be seen in these small landscapes that fit in a single key. The amount of detail in each of the keys explains its price, sold at $50 per key and $175 for a spacebar. 

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It’s an amazing coincidence! Animal shelter volunteer Hannah Rountree reunited with her childhood cat Spunky three years after the cat disappeared. The fifteen-year-old was on her second day at the Saving Grace Pet Adoption center when she spotted a cat that resembled Spunky. It turns out that the feline was actually her childhood friend, who was returned to the shelter by his new family because he didn’t want to catch mice. 

The two are now reunited and Spunk returned to his old home, equipped with a microchip on his person in case he gets lost again! 

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Sometimes you just want to delete your last search queries. Maybe it’s to avoid any weird or invasive questions or to save yourself from sheer embarrassment the next time you type into a Google search bar. For whatever reason you have for wanting to delete your Google search history, that’s none of our business. But here’s a way to delete your recent search history, courtesy of CNET: 

Step 1: Tap on your profile picture to access your menu.

Step 2: Click Delete last 15 minutes.

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Don’t underestimate its size! This salt grain-sized camera can snap sharp, full-color images. Created by researchers at Princeton and the University of Washington, this camera is capable of capturing images measuring 720 x 720 pixels in full color, wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers in natural light with a spatial resolution of 214 line pairs per millimeter. According to the researchers, these images are on par with those captured with a conventional camera lens that’s way bigger than their new sensor. 

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Did you know that having a morning routine can lead to a night of better sleep? According to neurologist W. Chris Winter, MD, certain components of a routine, such as light, temperature, food, schedule, and social interaction, can influence and regulate our circadian rhythm. This rhythm is the 24-hour body clock that prompts us to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Learn more about regulating your body clock here! 

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This streamer spent two weeks building a giant Oreo in the hit sandbox video game Minecraft. The player, NomALlama built the structure with all the constraints of a survival run. He used up 46,727 blocks of concrete, and a lot of candles (to keep the mobs from spawning). As for his next masterpiece, the streamer explains that he is never doing that to himself again. 

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This is scary. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be taught how to persuade people to make decisions that benefit its creators or owners. This technological marvel can only do so through huge amounts of data from other people obtained by private companies. AI can convince people to do a lot of things, such as buying something, sharing a post, or even voting for a candidate! 

In a study conducted by a team of experts from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s federal scientific and research agency, it was discovered that AI could locate and exploit weaknesses in human decision-making, and use that to guide people toward certain decisions. “The implications of this research are potentially quite staggering,” Amir Dezfouli, an expert in machine learning at CSIRO and lead researcher on the study, said in a press release.  

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Networks of underground fungi will be mapped to protect these systems from damage. These networks use carbon to build their systems in the soil, which connect to plant roots and act as ‘highways’ for the exchange of carbon from the roots for nutrients. Also known as the ‘circulatory system of the planet,’ these fungal networks can extend for many miles without being noticed. 

These networks are under threat because of agriculture, urbanization, pollution, water scarcity, and changes to the climate. To protect fungi, which are vital to soil fertility, the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), will collect 10,000 samples of these fungi around the world to understand these underground networks for better conservation efforts. 

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A resident from Rutland, England noticed an unusual glimpse of pottery on the ground of their family farm during his walk. After getting a spade, the man, Jim Irvine, dug a shallow trench to see what was there. According to the team of experts who excavated the site after Irvine, the ceramic tiles were a Roman mosaic depicting scenes from the Iliad. The artwork is the first of its kind that was found in the United Kingdom. “This is certainly the most exciting Roman mosaic discovery in the U.K. in the last century,” says  University of Leicester Archaeological Services Project Manager John Thomas in a statement. “It gives us fresh perspectives on the attitudes of people at the time, their links to classical literature, and it also tells us an enormous amount about the individual who commissioned this piece.”

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Gamers have been treated to new games, unexpected ports and remasters, and surprising sequels for well-known franchises. While this is good news, there’s also bad news for the gaming world this year, with the complete removal and delisting of old games by publishers uninterested in keeping up with the maintenance. This means that players can no longer find or purchase these games on official sites. Kotaku lists the games or franchises that were removed, delisted, pulled offline, and/or straight-up murdered throughout the year. Check their full piece here.

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This new feature will let headphone users easily listen to their surroundings without the need to take it off! The transparency mode is a feature that helps people keep track of their surroundings even if they are fully absorbed in music, podcasts, or a phone call. It’s a mode that can be found on new noise-canceling headphones, such as the Apple AirPods Pro and the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds. Learn how to activate the transparency mode for your next trip outside here! 

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Liangzhu City was home to an ancient civilization in the east of China that was known for building the most brilliant city in all of Asia. Unfortunately, the culture of this city mysteriously collapsed around 4,300 years ago, much to the scientists’ bafflement. Christoph Spötl from the University of Innsbruck in Austria and his colleagues tried to find a clear conclusion behind the mysterious disappearance of the Liangzhu residents. 

After studying the mineral formations (or speleothems) from two underwater caves in the region, which preserved chemical signatures of climatic conditions long ago, the researchers concluded that massive flooding and inundation due to poor drainage systems forced the people to abandon their capital city, which led to the collapse of the Liangzhu civilization. 

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Neutrinos, also known as ‘ghost particles,’ were detected by physicists in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. These elementary particles are tricky to detect because of their electrically neutral nature. In addition, neutrinos are light and rarely interact with other particles, so it’s rare and tricky to detect through instruments, even though the particles are very common. Experts need the right instruments to find these particles. During the pilot run of an experiment called FASER, which was executed in the particle collider, scientists picked up six neutrino interactions. “Before this project, no sign of neutrinos has ever been seen at a particle collider,” says Jonathan Feng, co-author of a study describing the results. “This significant breakthrough is a step toward developing a deeper understanding of these elusive particles and the role they play in the universe.”

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Over 130 works of 15th-century Florentine sculptor Donatello will be displayed in an exhibition in Florence after 40 long years! The works will be displayed at the Palazzo Strozzi and at the nearby Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which are home to the artist’s most popular works, such as David and bas reliefs made for the Baptistery in Siena and the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. Smaller exhibitions of his works will be held in Berlin and London in 2023. The exhibition in Florence will be open from March 19  to July 31, 2022.  

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Don’t worry it’s not the kind of killing you’re imagining. A team of experts looked for peptides, which are fragments of proteins that can contain the right combination to be lethal to pathogens, that were naturally produced by people, and can fight microbes. To determine the peptides that fit these conditions, they used an AI that scrutinized the chemical makeup of each and every one in the human proteome (the set of proteins the body can produce). Their search yielded 2,603 antibiotic candidates, a feat they accomplished because of AI’s strength in digesting huge data sets. Learn more about the study here. 

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