Professor Dallas Trinkle and colleagues have provided the first quantitative explanation for how magnetic fields slow carbon atom movement through iron, a phenomenon first observed in the 1970s but never fully understood. Published in Physical Review Letters, their computer
As the White House considers military options in Iran, some political allies are concerned about attempting another high-risk operation or starting a wider war.
Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.
Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet is part performance, part artist book, and part financial experiment.
The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold laws in Idaho and West Virginia that forbid some transgender students from participating in school sports, but the court’s conservative members seemed divided on how comprehensive the defeat for transgender rights would be. During oral
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A lot of people are talking about the revamped “CBS Evening News” under new anchor Tony Dokoupil — but not enough to make the program an unqualified ratings success in its first week. Overall viewership for the first five days of Dokoupil’s official run on the venerable CBS
UCLA biologists are developing a tool to predict when deadly Salmonella outbreaks are likely to happen in wild songbird populations so that people can protect their feathered friends by taking down bird feeders at the right time. The research is published in Proceedings of the
It looks like the go-away-voluntarily program announced in 2025 didn't cut deep enough.
John Forté, the musician known for his work with Fugees and Wyclef Jean, has died. He was 50. Massachusetts’ Chilmark Police confirmed to Variety that Forté died yesterday at approximately 2:25 p.m., when officers were dispatched to see to an unresponsive male. Forté was
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a Wasteland snail disguised as Bethesda's legendary designer The post Don’t Let Todd Howard Catch You In This Fallout 4 Mod Or You’ll Die appeared first on Kotaku .
Some House Republicans have joined in criticizing the Department of Justice’s probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, arguing that it could undermine the regulator’s independence. Those GOP members join a chorus of Democrats and some Republican senators who have
Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”) and Blake Harrison (“The Inbetweeners”) are the new Moony and Wormtail in Audible’s “Harry Potter” audiobooks. They make their debuts as Prof. Remus Lupin (Rheon) and Peter Pettigrew (Harrison) in “Prisoner of Azkaban,” released by Audible
The first two television series adapted from fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga are about epic struggles for the fate of Westeros — civil wars in which an entire fictional continent is plunged into sprawling, multifaceted chaos. The third, “A
Day trippers and tourists might be returning, but merchants in China’s northeastern Suifenhe town tell CNA the long-awaited spending boom has yet to materialise.
An innovative product with the potential to replace polymers used in soil fertilizers is being developed in São Carlos in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
The timeline is slipping for a bipartisan group of senators to release a compromise to revive the expired enhanced ObamaCare subsidies, according to one of the lead negotiators. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers are looking at a deadline of the
Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something that literally stopped her in her tracks.
It’s been more than a year since the season two finale of “Tell Me Lies” back in Oct. 2024. However, the hit TV drama based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Carola Lovering is back for season three. Dropping with the first three episodes starting on Tuesday, Jan.
Geoffroy van Raemdonck, who led Neiman Marcus for nearly seven years and left the company in 2024 when it was acquired by Saks, has been tapped to steer the retail behemoth through its restructuring, sources said.
Erewhon influencer and Bar Mitzvah host William Patrick Corgan recently welcomed Conrad Flynn to his The Magnificent Others podcast. You might've seen Flynn — writer, occult historian, grandson of Jingle All The Way cop Robert Conrad — on your timeline a few months ago because
"I get so shy when everybody starts talking about award season and stuff," the 'One Battle After Another' star admitted in a new profile.
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s fixer, has entered the Iran mess and is now talking to Iran’s leaders. This is a very bad sign for the Iranian revolution, because Witkoff’s approach is to fix “problems.” The Iranian revolution is not a problem. It is an unprecedented
[The Conversation Africa] Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news.
The Senate must now vote on the bill, which sets annual allocations for the NEA, NEH, Smithsonian, and other cultural programs.
Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist top prosecutor hand-picked by President Trump in the Eastern District of Virginia, told a federal judge Tuesday she's entitled to continue calling herself the U.S. attorney after different judge found she was unlawfully installed to the post. The
The Transit Museum honors a NYC icon, Ayoung Kim goes stargazing at MoMA PS1, a puppy persona performance, and more to plan your week in New York.
Jan 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States would take "very strong action" if the Iranian government starts hanging protesters, but did not elaborate on what those actions would be. "I haven't heard about the hanging. If they hang them, you're
GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R) joined House Democrats to introduce legislation seeking to preemptively block President Trump from using military force to acquire Greenland — a prospect the president has declined to rule out amid renewed interest in the Danish territory. The “No Funds
The comedian revealed the cuts she made to her planned punchlines ahead of the broadcast
Over five years ago, in a glorious, brief reprieve from peak COVID-era doom, a regular guy named Nathan Apodaca posted a TikTok of himself happily skateboarding while drinking cranberry juice. The viral clip was set to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," subsequently sending the former
NBC has given out a pilot order to a reboot of the classic series “The Rockford Files.” The pilot hails from writer and executive producer Mike Daniels. Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman will executive produce, with Chris Leanza co-executive producing. Universal Television is
Matt Damon appeared on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast and remembered Clint Eastwood shutting him down during their first day on set together. Damon has appeared in two Eastwood movies: 2009’s “Invictus,” for which he earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting
The Spanish singer reflects on youth and new life experiences on her latest EP, Verano Saudade
The food-delivery apps rolled out the new tipping policy in December 2023, as New York City hiked minimum pay requirements.
Shift Up's CEO thinks it's the only way to compete with studios from China The post Stellar Blade Dev Believes ‘One Person Can Perform The Work Of 100 People’ With AI appeared first on Kotaku .
Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on farms and in food production operations.
A new Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent of respondents support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with 43 percent opposed to getting rid of the agency. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 35 percent of respondents strongly support eliminating
Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems related to image aberrations in single-pixel microscopy using a recent technology: programmable deformable lenses. The new method was described by the
The CEO of Games Workshop isn't interested in replacing humans with computers for Warhammer and Warhammer 40K
Amy Homma, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ director and president, has been elevated to run the 52-million-piece Academy collection, it was announced Tuesday. Additionally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled a number of new acquisitions to the
Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical components that enable super-resolution imaging, with each lens costing less than $1 to produce. The new fabrication approach is poised to broaden access
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised Tuesday to allow states to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. The court heard oral arguments for two cases from Idaho and West Virginia in which lawyers for the trans teens argued
Iran on Tuesday allowed citizens to call internationally after days of phone and internet outages amid violent protests. More than 2,000 Iranians have been killed amid antigovernment protests, activists told The Associated Press. Some in Tehran told the newswire they were able
Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nicolas Sommet, a social psychologist and research manager at the LIVES Centre at the University of Lausanne, and his team have published the first
An Iranian security official says 2,000 people have been killed so far after a crackdown on weeks of anti-government protests.
There’s a guy named Orion who surfs the St Lawrence River in the winter , sometimes dodging massive chunks of ice and sometimes riding them downstream, looking for waves. If you’ve ever been in Montreal near the river, even in the summer, you know how scary the water looks —
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday said his people "choose Denmark" and "choose NATO" instead of the United States, amid President Trump's calls for the island territory to be annexed into the union. “If we have to choose between the United States and
Study from research firm finds that US greenhouse gas emissions grew faster than economic activity last year In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year
