"The X-Files" still make us want to believe
Salonby Coleman Spilde6d ago
It’s difficult to get one’s hopes up when it comes to the dicey state of Hollywood filmmaking, and even more difficult to keep them there.
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top 73%How the Toxoplasma parasite adapts to crowded conditions in host cells
MIT Newsby Mackenzie White | Whitehead Institute6d ago
Toxoplasma gondii, or Toxoplasma, is a parasite that infects hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Creating innovations that scale across borders
MIT Newsby Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering6d ago
Creating innovations that can succeed in both emerging markets and in developed, higher-income markets requires a targeted, thoughtful design process.
'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler6d ago
Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set...
American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Francis6d ago
The AI industry has been rocked by recent large-language model (LLM) releases from Chinese labs, most notably the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot.
Static electricity is a mystery, and scientists are all charged up
Science Newsby Emily Conover6d ago
Galien Grosjean was a caretaker of tiny glass beads. He bathed them, gently cradled them with tweezers, placed them delicately in his experimental apparatus.
Nick Reiner Locked Out of Using $1.6M Trust Fund for His Murder Trial Defense
Vanity Fairby Blanche Marcel6d ago
Nick Reiner is currently incarcerated at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, awaiting further legal proceedings in connection with the alleged murder of his parents, Rob and...
Does Creatine Cause Hair Loss?
GQby Michele Ross6d ago
If you spend any amount of time in a gym, you’ve likely heard about creatine. I’d even bet good money that you’re already taking it.
DOJ charges 17 Iranians in cybertheft campaign
Defense Oneby David DiMolfetta7d ago
DOJ charges 17 Iranians in cybertheft campaign Prosecutors say the Mabna Institute stole 31.5 terabytes of academic data and breached email accounts at U.S. agencies and companies.
AI’s abortion misinformation problem
Salonby Nicole Karlis7d ago
Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are quickly changing the healthcare landscape. An estimated one in seven people have used AI for a health-related question instead of seeing a general practitioner.
A new documentary shows what growing up lion is really like
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey7d ago
Becoming a king of lions is as dramatic in real life as it is in the movies. A new four-part documentary series, Lion, captures the journey of a cub named Kio in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National...
We Went Wedding Suit Shopping With Karl-Anthony Towns
GQby Frazier Tharpe7d ago
Karl-Anthony Towns has been sleepier than usual lately. The seven-foot-tall Dominican power forward they call Big Purr has been taking a lot of, ahem, KAT naps over the last couple of months to...
Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall7d ago
The North American plains bison stands as a symbol of both rampant devastation wrought by colonizing powers and of the potential to bring a species back from the brink of extinction.
Flipping the script on biology education, and scaling it up
MIT Newsby Edgerton Center7d ago
It turns out the best way to teach students how DNA works may be to start at the end. That’s the idea behind a hands-on curriculum from the MIT Edgerton Center: Teach proteins first so that...
Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner7d ago
- Egypt is famous for ancient ruins but its protected areas and biosphere reserves contain another kind of heritage: Fossil valleys, desert plants, coral-linked coastal systems, migration routes...
Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missions
SpaceNewsby Moog Inc.7d ago
East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator of high-performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems announces...
A record-breaking star could reveal how the Milky Way’s giant black hole spins
Science Newsby Mara Johnson-Groh7d ago
There’s a new speed demon in the galaxy. Astronomers spotted a star that reaches top speeds of 25,000 kilometers per second, about 8 percent the speed of light.
Decoding the Origins of Lightning's Violent Currents - Eos
Eosby Caitano da Silva, Logan Baeza, Jacob Wemhoner and Saulo Orizaga7d ago
Every lightning flash has one defining moment: the return stroke, an intense surge of electric current that rockets upward along the ionized channel at a sizable fraction of the speed of light...
Queen Camilla Breaks Silence On King Charles' Health Battle For The First Time
World Newsby Carly Ledbetter7d ago
Queen Camilla is opening up for the first time about the early days of King Charles’ cancer diagnosis.
New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu7d ago
- Five new marine protected areas (MPAs) came into effect in Aotearoa New Zealand in July after more than a decade of grassroots and governmental work — and a sixth is expected to open in the near...