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A scarlet macawPhoto: Benjamint444 (Wikimedia Commons) DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new study reports. A team of researchers from several U.S. universities analyzed ancient scarlet macaw DNA to try to understand how so many scarlet macaw skeletons ended up outside their native range of…

Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) Ants can do pretty amazing things when they work together, like building elaborate nests and even creating bridges from their bodies. One team of scientists wanted to know how these social insects figure out how to take on their various roles within a colony. Given that “survival of the fittest” is…

Québec à vélo by Para-Sol (left) and ABCyclette by Hatem+D Architecture (left).Photo: Para-Sol & Hatem+D Architecture Two years ago, the city commissioned designers to create a unique bike rack that was not only functional, but also an aesthetically-pleasing addition to Quebec City’s historic neighborhoods. As the CBC reports, of the 18 submissions received, two were…

Photo: AP Earlier this week, someone attempted to infiltrate the system housing the Democratic Party’s voter file using a fake login page, Democratic officials and a leading cloud service provider told Gizmodo on Wednesday. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) was notified on Tuesday of an effort to collect the usernames and passwords of Democratic officials…

Lead researcher Brian Scassellati and a child interacting with Jibo the robot.Photo: Scassellati, et al (Science Robotics) As excited or terrified as we might be by the latest advances in robot technology, they’re still far from being the ubiquitous helpers portrayed in science fiction. But a new study published Wednesday in Science Robotics does seem…

A “blushing” macaw, left.Image: Arielle Beraud Do you ever get so excited about something that your whole face starts to turn red? Well, it seems that blue-and-yellow macaws do the same thing, according to new research—though the exact reason they go red in the face is still unknown. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to…

Photo: Getty The Dictionary.com team would really like misguided or trolling internet users to stop asking them to add new words to the online dictionary. On Wednesday, a lexicographer at Dictionary.com addressed a viral tweet going around suggesting that the online dictionary would add a word to the dictionary if it got 50,000 retweets. The…

The ALPHA experiment at CERNPhoto: CERN Antimatter continues to behave just like regular matter, no matter what tests scientists throw at it. And in the face of yet another new challenge, antimatter has again refused to crack. In a new study, physicists attempted to find differences between matter and antimatter—confusingly, also a kind of matter,…

A digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Escherichia coli bacteria, which often cause urinary tract infections. Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The bacteria that cause urinary tract infections are not only becoming more resistant to antibiotics, suggests a recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, but they’re starting to…

The company Vivo announced the imminent start of sales of the smartphone Vivo Y85 in Russia. This is an inexpensive model with a frameless design, dual main camera and functions on the basis of artificial intelligence. Vivo Y85 equipped of 6.22-inch display with a resolution of HD+ (1520 x 720 pixels), front camera of 8…