New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics

Killing a mature wild boar was dangerous enough that a 19th-century Belarusian saying advised hunters to send for a priest first. The boar behind one particular medieval trophy made that advice worth listening to. It was at least eight years old, weighed more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds), and had reached the full size and…

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that yet.

Weiquan Lin/Moment/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The SaaS apocalypse is over, says a leading VC.  Salesforce is doing just fine, thank you. Hybrid firms providing both software and services are on the rise. The software-as-a-service approach may be fading, but what’s going to take its place?…

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Star Wars has its fair share of canceled projects, ranging from one-off TV shows to whole movie trilogies. But there’s one project that feels especially tragic. Star Wars: Detours, an animated parody series that had two whole seasons — 39 episodes — fully produced, was never released after the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney. At…

The ocean is giving up one of its secrets: how members of the same species can turn up at far-flung deep-sea hydrothermal vents. An epic migration up to — and across — the ocean’s surface could be the answer. Chemical traces on the shells of three limpet species endemic to these extreme seafloor environments suggest…