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Finns love their coffee. Per capita, people in Finland consume 12 kgs of coffee per year, making them the second largest per-capita coffee drinkers, only surpassed by Luxembourg. Finland also often ranks as the most technologically advanced country in the world. So, it only makes sense that they embrace a merger of the two — technology, and coffee. Thus, an artisanal coffee shop in Helsinki, Finland, made news when they started selling an AI-formulated blend. “We basically gave descriptions of all our coffee types and their flavours to AI and instructed it to create a new exciting blend,” said......

During a single ejaculation, millions of sperm embark on their arduous journey to the egg. On the way, numerous challenges await. These include an acidic environment in the vagina, the cervix’s mucus which can act as a barrier or filter, the many wrong turns within the uterus, and the final challenge of penetrating the egg itself which is encased in a protective layer called the zona pellucida. Only a few hundred lucky sperm actually make it close to the egg. But, in the end, there is only one winner. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now made a breakthrough in understand......

It’s not just that the planet is getting hotter; cities are getting much hotter than their surroundings. In fact, urban heatwaves have become a common occurrence, affecting 1.7 billion people. In Europe alone, the 2023 heatwave killed over 61,000 people. Now, a new study by researchers in the UK shows how much green interventions can help cool down cities. The world is heating up as a result of our activity — by now, hopefully, we all know that. But fewer people know that cities are heat islands. The Urban Heat IslandThe Urban Heat Island is a phenomenon where urban and suburban areas experien......

Credit: The Reality Files. Antimatter is, you've guessed it, the opposite of matter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other. According to the Big Bang theory, at the ‘T zero', equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created in the early universe.

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Birds have a built-in magnetic sensor to help them find their home and migrate safely - all thanks to proteins in their eyes. Image credits Popular Science Monthly Volume 83 via Wikimedia. Common wisdom holds that iron-rich cells in birds' beaks act as microscopic compasses to help them navigate.

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