Ren Xiaorong is the latest AI news anchor for People’s Daily in China capable of delivering breaking headlines 24-hours a day and 365 days a year. Several of the country’s media outlets including Xinhua, Hunan TV and CCTV also have their own AI-powered virtual presenters, due to them being able to broadcast around the clock, thus reducing labor costs.
Although ice spheres aren’t as exciting as this first-person view of a waterfall, they are fascinating nonetheless. BC Wanderer spotted this natural phenomenon while hiking and captured a short clip showing just how many you can find in one of these small pools of icy water.
No, an electromagnetic rail launcher was not used to set this new Guinness World Record, just a small hand-folded paper airplane by Boeing engineers Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen. The two have always been fascinated by paper airplanes, so what better record to break than farther flight by paper aircraft? They did just that on December 2, 2022 in Crown Point, Indiana.
Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic-ray radiography, and they believe the unfinished tunnel was likely created to redistribute its weight around either the main entrance or around another as yet undiscovered chamber or space.
A strange metal sphere washed ashore on Enshu Beach in the city of Hamamatsu, Japan and once the footage surfaced, Godzilla theories quickly ensued. Those theories, along with rumors that it could be a bomb or stray mine, were quickly dismissed after X-rays revealed that its interior was hollow.
Photo credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has just released never before seen footage of the Titanic wreck that was captured in 1986 on an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard in Alvin, a human-occupied submersible. New imaging technology was developed by WHOI in 1985 that included Argo, a camera sled that was towed from the research vessel Knorr and captured the first photographs the ship beneath more than 12,400 feet of water.
A falling asteroid, designated as Sar2667, put on a fiery light show over the English Channel and as far south as Paris, France at approximately 3am local time. Explosions, or meteor air bursts, of this size happen a few times each year, but rarely are they discovered in advance like this one was.
Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshire set the record this past weekend for coldest wind chill temperature ever seen in the United States when it dipped all the way down to -108°F (-77.8°C). The record was previously held by Alaska, where extremely cold air and monstrous winds achieved a wind chill reading of -105°F (-76°C).
Photo credit: Jeremy Corbell
Jeremy Corbell has been investigating unexplained aerial phenomena for quite some time, and his latest find is eye opening to say the least. This image, captured in 2016 by a US spy plane, appears to show a silver UFO orb over a conflict zone in Mosul, Iraq. It was allegedly flying alongside the plane without changing altitude.
Photo credit: Maria Valdes
An international team of researchers recently discovered a massive 16.7-pound meteorite during their expedition, but no sight of Husky UGV. In all, they collected five meteorites, with the 16.7-pound specimen being one of the largest ever retrieved from the continent, and plan to analyze them at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.