Environment No, trees can't anticipate a solar eclipse Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In April 2025, a scientific study went viral online for a particularly wild claim. A forest of Norway spruce trees () in the Dolomites of northern Italy appeared to rapidly synchronize their cellular-level electrical signals--known as electromes--in the hours leading up to a partial solar eclipse in October 2022 . If true, the discovery by the Italian Institute of Technology represented a possibly major development in understanding how plants communicate with one another. Despite many critics' skepticism, headlines describing a " forest-wide phenomenon " of talking trees spread quickly across the internet.

Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Say goodbye to AI-assisted mass surveillance for now. Ring aired a Super Bowl ad touting its that didn't quite get the intended buzz. Instead, the commercial scared the pants off of anyone . The feature is advertised as a way to reunite missing dogs with their owners, a noble cause indeed, but Search Party does this by turning individual Ring devices into a surveillance network. Each camera uses AI to identify pets running across its field of vision and all feeds are pooled together to potentially identify lost animals.