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Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode

“We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.” Credit: Kathryn Ayres Credit: Kathryn Ayres There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned…

Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

​Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.  Tesla posted its financial statement for the second quarter of the year this afternoon. Earlier in July, we learned that the American automaker had had a good quarter in terms of sales, growing 25 percent year over year. Fans hoping that sales increase…

Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.  For years, Microsoft has leaned heavily into extensive backward compatibility across multiple generations of Xbox hardware as a major selling point for its consoles. Today, that effort expands past the console ecosystem, making select original Xbox titles…

What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons. A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it…