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"AI image generation has improved a lot over the past few years, but Google's nano banana models take AI creation to an entirely new, somewhat scary level. The two versions, the original (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) and the new pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), have only been around for a couple of months, but they've quickly redefined what's possible with AI image generation and editing.  The pro version uses Gemini 3's reasoning model to power results. That means it takes a little bit longer to generate, but the images are more detailed. You can also add swaths of legible text to your images, an industry first. The pro version is the best AI image generation tool CNET has ever tested, hands down. But that isn't necessarily a good thing."

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"Hungarian and Romanian palaeontologists have discovered a huge collection of vertebrate fossils at Hațeg Basin in Romania's historic Transylvania region. The bonebed — which has been named the K2 site — included dozens of dinosaur bones, which appeared black in the clay-rich ground, along with the fossils of other animals such as pterosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, amphibians, fishes, and turtles. In all, the remains of at least 17 species were found. Recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, the findings offer scientists a clearer picture of the evolution and ecology of Eastern European dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous, a period that included the final few million years before this diverse group of ancient reptiles went extinct."

"The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species — white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, chinkapin, blackjack, and pin. Leaves thickened, elongated, and contorted into grotesque shapes — cupping, puckering, curling, and twisting until it was hard to tell one species from another. Veins bleached yellow, losing chlorophyll. Soon after, some of the trees died. Seth Swoboda first noticed the sickness in the spring of 2017 on his 40-acre property in Nashville, Illinois, smack in the middle of some of the United States' most productive farmland. He knocked on the door of his neighbor, Martin Kemper, and asked if there was some new oak disease going around. Kemper didn't think so, but he had a theory."

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"Photographer Tori Harp didn't expect the stunning alignment captured in the top image: a glowing aurora, an icy cave, and the silhouette of a lone hiker. After eight months of scouting Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, Harp had initially envisioned setting up her friend against New Zealand's night sky when auroras lit it up a brilliant pink — bringing out, by contrast, the chilling shade of blue in the ice caves."

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