Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding puzzle in soft-matter physics.
Materials scientists at Rice University and collaborators have developed a material that uses light to break down a range of pollutants in water, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the "forever chemicals" that have garnered attention for their pervasiveness.
The hit Amazon show begins streaming this week The post Fallout Season 2 Will Start Streaming Early appeared first on Kotaku .
No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction:
For a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, processes are needed that can efficiently capture CO2 and convert it into valuable products. Formic acid, or more specifically its salt, formate, is considered a promising candidate as it can be produced from CO₂ using renewable electricity. It
Hanukkah began Sunday night, therefore so did one of the world's greatest holiday traditions, Yo La Tengo's annual eight-night Hanukkah concert residency at New York's Bowery Ballroom. Sunday's surprise openers were Jon Glaser and longtime YLT pals Sun Ra Arkestra, who joined
Research relies on replication: Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built upon or applied. More may rest on the tools researchers use than previously realized—at least for understanding viruses,
A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most puzzling materials—from high-temperature superconductors to solar cell semiconductors—by uniting two long-divided scientific perspectives.
The sale of March of Giants comes less than two months after Amazon said it had decided to "halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development."
The steps you take to get there are so bizarre people thought it was a glitch.
Fast-food executive tells nearly 50,000 Instagram followers to take ownership of their professional paths.
The European Parliament’s public health committee has endorsed compromise amendments to the Critical Medicines Act, setting out a more ambitious approach than member states. This evening (15 December), the European Parliament’s Public Health Committee (SANT) voted on compromise
A study from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), published in Nature Communications, reveals how enteroviruses—including pathogens that cause polio, encephalitis, myocarditis, and the common cold—initiate replication by hijacking host-cell machinery.
“Allison After NXIVM” — the podcast featuring “Smallville” star Allison Mack, who became both a perpetrator and victim within Keith Raniere’s NXIVM sex cult — concludes on Dec. 15 with the release of its seventh and final episode. The podcast, written and hosted by Natalie
President Donald Trump is making full use of his pardon power. This year, Trump has issued roughly 1,800 pardons, or nearly six times the number he issued during the four years of his first term. Granted, about 1,500 of them involved individuals charged for their role in the
The couple's son is in custody after the couple was found dead in their home on Sunday.
Ford said it will pivot hard into gas and hybrid models, and eventually hire thousands of workers.
A new vidoc reveals the major changes Bungie has made to its sci-fi extraction shooter since its alpha earlier this year met with mixed results.
President Trump on Monday lashed out at Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) over Tina Peters, his latest remarks focusing on the case of the state election official who was convicted of multiple felonies after breaching voting equipment in the 2020 election. Trump held an event in
New York’s mayor-elect staged a 12-hour appearance at the Museum of the Moving Image, meeting with around 140 visitors for brief one-on-one meetings.
An NBC News Decision Desk survey released Sunday found that over eight in 10 respondents are satisfied with their health insurance coverage, just weeks before Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are set to expire. The poll, powered by SurveyMonkey, found that 34 percent of
Researchers at Touro University Nevada have discovered that tiny particles in the blood, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a major player in how a group of hormones are shuttled through the body. Physical exercise can stimulate this process.
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to designate fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” dramatically escalating his fight against the drug. Trump hosted an event in the Oval Office to award the Mexican Border Defense Medal to members of the military who
President Trump dug in on his comments criticizing director Rob Reiner following his death over the weekend, telling reporters in the Oval Office he thought Reiner was “very bad for our country.” “I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is
Watch our full interview with Embark art director Robert Sammelin.
Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from decades ago: the misidentification of a poison frog specimen from Peru used as a holotype. A holotype is an individual preserved specimen collected in the
A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus, offering an unprecedented window into medieval diets and expanding the toolkit available to archaeologists for reconstructing ancient foodways.
Donald Trump stood firm Monday on his disturbing comments about Rob Reiner hours after the famed Hollywood filmmaker’s murder. Only a handful of loyal MAGA-ites ( such as George Santos ) have defended Trump’s claim earlier Monday that Reiner would not have been murdered if he
Nicki Minaj has decided that Gavin Newsom is her new favorite sparring partner, although he doesn’t appear quite as eager to engage in a full-on social media battle as she is. She has devoted more than two dozen tweets on X in recent days to slamming the California governor;
Adam Parkhomenko, a longtime Democratic operative, met legendary director Rob Reiner the way much of Washington and Hollywood interacts these days: online. It was the dark days of the pandemic in the summer of 2020, and Parkhomenko, who at the time was putting out a slew of
“Point Break” is smacking the lip once more, as AMC Networks is developing a TV adaptation of the 1991 surf action, Variety has confirmed. The series is set in 2026, 35 years after the events of the original film that starred Patrick Swayze as a beachy bank robber and Keanu
A new study from a research team at the Center for Wireless Communications Network and Systems (CWC-NS) at the University of Oulu has introduced an approach using near-infrared (NIR) light beyond light therapy to facilitate simultaneous wireless power transfer and communication
Hunter Biden was disbarred in Connecticut on Monday after facing complaints about his convictions on gun and tax charges, for which his father, former President Biden, later pardoned him. The former president's son consented to being disbarred and admitted to attorney
“Sore: Wife from the Future” asks much of its audience. From believing in time travel to imagining outlandish fantasy scenarios, Indonesia’s Oscar entry relies on the suspension of disbelief. Many films have managed to convert their audience to a unique story construct. Here,
The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids that make LCD screens shine?
Aerial bombings on the Cambodian side on Dec 15 sent thousands scattering yet again.
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To get to Rayquaza, you'll need to make a special delta donut. We list recipe options in our guide.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its highly anticipated shortlists on Tuesday, narrowing hundreds of eligible films across a dozen categories ahead of the 98th Academy Awards in March, and becoming the first firm indication of where voters’ mindsets
Archaeologist Paula García Medrano, researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology a study on the lithic industry from the Paleolithic site of Terra Amata (Niza, Francia), one of
Primal Scream have been dropped from an upcoming music festival lineup after facing allegations of antisemitism related to a video played at their most recent concert. The post Primal Scream Dropped From Trentham Festival Following Antisemitism Allegations appeared first on
Three Palestinian visual artists, plus one born in Baghdad, are listed among the 56 participants.
The next installment of the Netflix series’ last season arrives on Christmas Day
Corals obtain energy in two ways: firstly, through photosynthesis by their symbiotic algae, and secondly by taking up small food particles such as plankton directly from the water. In scientific terms, this process is known as "heterotrophy."
Sources tell Rolling Stone that Nick exhibited “antisocial behavior” at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party
Metal nanostructures can concentrate light so strongly that they can trigger chemical reactions. The key players in this process are plasmons—collective oscillations of free electrons in the metal that confine energy to extremely small volumes. A new study published in Science
The attack in Sydney shows how the Islamic State continues to inspire violence on a global scale with more frequency than other terrorist groups, officials say.