Imagine ordering a truffle dish in a fancy restaurant, and you might picture pricey gourmet mushrooms from France or Italy. But recent decades have seen an upstart on the truffle scene. Today, one of the world's largest producers of some of the most prized truffles, known as
Researchers at The University of Manchester have shown that microbial communities from terrestrial hot springs could be harnessed to convert industrial CO2 emissions into useful products, offering new routes toward a circular, low-carbon economy.
I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.
WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday he believed a nuclear deal the U.S. is currently negotiating with Iran will be better than a 2015 international agreement to curb Tehran's nuclear program. "The DEAL that we are making with Iran will be FAR
April 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan is confident it can get Iran to attend talks with the United States, a senior Pakistani government official told Reuters on Monday. "We have received a positive signal from Iran. Things are fluid but we are trying that they should be here when we
The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales arrives on July 31, with single "Born to Die" releasing Friday
Satire site the Onion says that it has — after 17 months legal wrangling — successfully landed a deal to let it take over Infowars, the right-wing conspiracy-fueled site run by Alex Jones. Ben Collins, CEO of the Onion, confirmed to Variety details of the company’s new plan to
Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we might be closing in on signs of undiscovered physics.
When explaining why they chose British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. as the international guest of honor at this year’s Projeto Paradiso National Talent Network gathering in Recife, the initiative’s executive director Josephine Bourgois said it was because Davies Jr’s
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably the most celebrated child prodigy in history, composing his first pieces of music aged five, his first symphony at eight and his first opera at 11. After a study in 1993 found that listening to Mozart could improve spatial IQ—prompting
Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan: Paleocanna tentaculum, a soft-bodied, tube-shaped polyp with a ring of tentacles. Closely related to modern jellyfish, the species was identified from
Pragmata sold 1 million copies in two days, Capcom announced, signaling a changing tide for potential in single-player games.
Billy Strings has postponed four shows after breaking a leg from a skateboarding accident. The bluegrass singer-songwriter says that before walking onstage for his encore in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday night, he did an impromptu celebratory skate trick backstage and
J.M. Harper’s documentary “Soul Patrol” garnered the top nonfiction honor at the 28th annual Sarasota Film Festival. About the first all-Black special forces unit in the Vietnam War, the doc premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. “We are so honored to receive this
David Brooks, who recently jumped to The Atlantic, is slated to speak Monday at Yale University in a talk billed as a guide to romance.
The statistics only cover police investigations so no conclusions can be drawn about convictions or the actual number of offenders. The study also does not include cases that are not reported.
Lauded Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho would love to repeat his partnership with Neon on his next film after a “truly great” year working on “The Secret Agent.” The director praised the major American distributor at length while speaking alongside producing partner
Lil Wayne was everywhere in the late 2000s and early 2010s. On the heels of his historic mixtape run, a radio-saturating run of guest verses, and the multiplatinum success of Tha Carter III , the self-appointed Best Rapper Alive was a fixture of the biggest music industry
By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS, April 20 (Reuters) - The Board of Peace’s lead envoy for Gaza told Reuters on Monday that he was “fairly optimistic” a plan for disarmament of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza can be agreed but cautioned that it will still take time. “We've had
If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, you'll see a 17-story tower and a huge L-shaped building. What you won't see is what's underneath you. Two floors below ground, behind heavy double doors
Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. However, observational data over the last 70 years show the opposite—that Southern Hemisphere oceans are warming faster. New
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The colors in Hubble's visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the mission's launch
The head of Fermi America, the company building a large-scale data center campus in Texas named after President Trump, has resigned from his current role amid a broader reshuffling of the firm’s leadership. Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer stepped down Friday, according
David Anthony Burke — the 21-year-old alt-pop star known as D4vd — will be formally charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, following his arrest in Los Angeles County last week. Last September, Hernandez's decomposing body was
According to The Atlantic, Patel's job as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is in jeopardy in part because of what it said were "bouts of excessive drinking" and "unexplained absences."
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Republican Representative Chip Roy is taking aim at free speech and freedom of religion, introducing a bill that would target immigrants who support “socialism, communism, Chinese communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.” Roy calls his assault on the First Amendment to
U.S. importers, such as Walmart and Target, could be in line for billions in tariff refunds as the government launches its claims-filing portal on Monday.
An international research team has rediscovered a dinosaur tracksite in the Saijrakh area of northern Mongolia. The site was originally reported about 70 years ago but had since been lost due to a lack of detailed documentation and follow-up investigation. The team conducted
The bluegrass star — and avid skateboarder — took a hard landing backstage while riding his board in between the main set and the encore
The plan was to lift the whale from the seabed using inflatable cushions and transport it with pontoons back to the North Sea or possibly as far as the Atlantic Ocean.
Christina Applegate says she’s “getting stronger and better every day” after her recent hospitalization. “Thank you for the outpouring of love and well wishes,” she wrote in Instagram caption on Monday. “Health issues are a constant for me, but I’m a strong chick and I’m
Michigan officials are pushing back on the Justice Department’s demand that the state provide ballots and other elections materials from the Detroit area to prove that no fraud took place in the 2024 election. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights,
“Union County,” a recovery-focused drama starring Will Poulter and Noah Centineo, has been acquired by Oscilloscope Laboratories. The film, directed by Adam Meeks, casts Poulter and Centineo as two fictional characters (brothers grappling with opioid addiction) amid the
I expect better from my members of Congress. We need to have faith they aren’t corrupt.
It’s more moonlit mischief than evil spells in Susanne Bier’s sequel to the 1998 film about the Owens family and their dark past.
"He should not go down that street," incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar said when asked about new potential Ukrainian demands to reopen the Druzhba pipeline. Brussels ready for Hungary to lift veto if oil flows resume.
Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners have died and landscapes have changed.
Archaeologists are unearthing evidence of long-term human occupation in the mountains of the Republic of Georgia. A new paper published in the journal Antiquity reports on eight years of digging on the Javakheti Plateau, one of the least-explored regions in the South Caucasus.
Stranger Things: Tales from '85, the new animated Stranger Things show, could only take place at one point in the timeline. We explain when — and why.
At the 1972 Miss World contest, Cynthia Shange was one of two contestants from South Africa - one black and one white.
At the 1972 Miss World contest, Cynthia Shange was one of two contestants from South Africa - one black and one white.
Shaboozey has announced his new concept album, “The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales,” releasing on July 31 via his imprint American Dogwood in partnership with Empire. The country singer’s fourth album is described as a “cinematic outlaw revenge story with a tragic love
The Iranian-run network had allegedly planned attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Azerbaijan. Senior IRGC commanders who headed the network were recently killed in Israeli airstrikes during the Iran war, Israel said
The access route to Morro Dois Irmãos was blocked during the operation in Vidigal, leaving scores of alarmed sightseers stuck on the hill.
The late artist’s submissions to General Idea in the 1970s are the subject of a focused exhibition at Art Metropole in Toronto.
A few days after the arrest of David Burke, and months after the discovery of Celeste Rivas' body, the LA District Attorney's office has an update
