The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors of a much richer and stranger lost world.
Imagine taking out a 12-inch ruler and finding that the number 12 is on the left side and the number 1 is on the right side. For most native English speakers, this would be disorienting. We are used to seeing the numbers move from smallest to largest, from left to right. When
Matt Damon is in talks to star in the next movie from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. He’s being eyed for the role after Ryan Gosling, who had been circling the role, exited the project due to creative differences and scheduling
Marvel will publish Indiana Jones: The Further Adventures later this year. It's a two-volume collector's set of Indiana Jones comics from the 1980s.
Activists protest the WHO pandemic treaty in Geneva with giant Tedros and Gates balloons, accusing the deal of threatening national sovereignty.
New research from Singapore University of Technology and Design and the Singapore-ETH Centre finds that private cooling may protect people from heat while reducing the perceived urgency of broader urban climate solutions—a pattern the researchers call "behavioral insulation."
Researchers from the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, the Kastler Brossel Laboratory and the University of Glasgow have developed an innovative method that renders a scattering medium transparent solely for information carried by entangled photon pairs, while the same medium
Urbanisation drives economic growth and job creation, a World Bank senior expert told Euronews at the World Urban Forum in Baku, but warned that Africa faces a financing gap that no single institution can fill alone.
If you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot — and get a lot in return. Buying Nintendo’s own $89 Switch 2 Pro Controller, for instance, will net you the console’s only wireless controller with a 3.5mm headphone jack for private
Contemporary pop artist fnnch’s essay on How to Make a Living as an Artist is pretty great. Lots in here that resonates with my experience of turning a creative hobby (KDO) into a business. Most people who enjoy making art should not try to make it their full time job. When
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is proposing a constitutional amendment that would prohibit foreign-born U.S. citizens from serving in Congress, becoming federal judges or holding Senate-confirmed positions. In a Wednesday statement shared to social platform X, Mace said she
The man reportedly snapped a kitten's neck in front of the children, according to police.
Hudson’s late surge helped him overcome Attorney General Steve Marshall, who fell short despite his long experience in local elected office.
[Ghanaian Times] Ghana will face Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia and Somalia in Group C of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
The publisher is undergoing 'One of the most ambitious transformations in the company's history,' Ubisoft's CEO said amid layoffs and studio closures.
A social media influencer, her father and one-time boyfriend have been charged in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a popular singer who she shares a child with.
“Victorian Psycho” is a film that lives up to its brazen title. Maika Monroe plays Winifred Notty, a young governess who arrives at the sweeping Ensor House in the 1850s, ready to work for the well-to-do Pounds family. But Winifred also harbors a violent past and dark impulses,
A majority of officials anticipated that interest rate increases would be necessary if the Iran war continued to aggravate inflation.
Brittany Pierson, a Dallas-based content designer who spent four-and-a-half years at Meta, said she felt “so much relief” after getting laid off.
America's favorite grocery store (at least according to a recent study) is experiencing a growth spurt.
Azara's owl monkeys, a small primate species found in South America, are heavier today than those that lived a quarter-century ago, and evidence suggests that rising temperatures might have driven the weight gain, according to a Yale-led study of a wild population.
President Trump publicly broke with The Federalist Society — but are Trump’s second-term judge selections really any different? Plus, the Justice Department increasingly eyes legal action against powerful individuals outside the bounds of U.S. borders. What's next as the focus
The Justice Department indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro on murder charges Wednesday, a move that coincides with Cuba's Independence Day and a threat from President Trump that he could invade the island. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche joined prosecutors in South
This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary.
Lara Croft still kicks ass and gets the job done even when she can only move left and right
Joining in on the fun is simple: Go to the section where the party is happening, take off your shirt and start twirling it above your head.
Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal life on Earth. Findings from the site represent life from the Ediacaran biota—soft-bodied
Cows show a visual preference for new human faces over a familiar one and can match a known handler's voice to their face, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Océane Amichaud of INRAE in Nouzilly, France, and colleagues.
Sea level rise is a direct consequence of human-induced climate change: global warming. It is relentless and very hard to stop. It arises from human-induced warming and the consequential expansion of the ocean, plus the addition of more and more water from melting glaciers and
Beekeepers and their honeybees can be invaluable participants in environmental surveys, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Jennifer Shelton of the UK Center for Ecology & Hydrology and colleagues.
Climate change is rapidly destroying cultural heritage sites across the Arctic, as exemplified in a 17th century "whalers' graveyard" which provides invaluable insights into early whalers' way of life, according to a study published in PLOS One by Lise Loktu of the Norwegian
Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building corals, which form colonies of thousands of tiny coral animals that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons, creating the reef's complex structure. While
The dark side of pollinators The post Why These Bees May Be Killing the Plants They Feed From appeared first on Nautilus .
New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea
JB Smoove has signed a multi-year, first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios for unscripted content. Under the pact, Smoove will serve as an executive producer and creative collaborator on a programming slate that will span formats and genres. Smoove’s banner Alternate
Neptune’s oddball moon Nereid may be the sole remnant of an earlier system, formed near the planet rather than being pulled in from afar.
Don't expect any "Christmas only comes once a year" cracks in this one.
The ‘Paper Tiger’ star still feels burned by a 2015 Esquire magazine story that accused him of looking to "charm the world with his dickishness."
Unknown Worlds has promised 'improvements to creature behavior and player mitigation tools,' but no knife
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) celebrated Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) defeat in the Kentucky GOP primary, calling the fellow GOP lawmaker a “thorn in my side for a long time.” “I have nothing personal against Thomas Massie, but he votes with the Democrats a lot of the time and
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The 2026 edition of Rio2C, the largest creativity gathering in Latin America, looks set to consolidate the event as a top international meeting, particularly of talents and execs from Spanish-speaking countries in the region, said Rafael Lazarini,
A new three-part Netflix series about the explosive 2005 Michael Jackson trial, “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” is set to premiere on June 3. The docuseries covers the pop icon’s 2003 charges of child molestation, the resulting trial and the media circus that revolved around
Marine Atlan’s “La Gradiva” claimed the top honor at the 65th edition of Critics Week, winning the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s “Alive” won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award. The section, which is curated by Ava Cahen and runs parallel to the
It's graduation season! All over these United States, fresh-faced college seniors are throwing their mortarboards up into the air and heading out into the real world! That real world is now a very uncertain place, thanks in large part to the vampiric billionaire class that's
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging former Cuban President Raúl Castro with murder Wednesday, a move that coincides with the country's independence day and a threat from President Trump to invade the island. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to
One of America’s once-dominant beer brands is being discontinued after more than 175 years.
The U.S. government indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro in federal court Wednesday for his alleged role in shooting down planes belonging to Cuban exiles in 1996. Castro, 94, and five others were charged in Miami with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, four counts of
Food prices in the UK have risen, but are supermarkets profiting from higher food prices? Ben Chu reports.
