As the U.S. job market continues to crumble, Donald Trump’s White House is looking to hire a new batch of sycophant interns—but won’t pay them for their devotion or their time. The White House Internship Program offers young Americans full of vim and vigor a full-time, 10- to
In 2024, NASA's Perseverance rover found surprising levels of Nickel in the Martian bedrock of an ancient river channel, called Neretva Vallis, which flowed into the Jezero crater. A new study, published in Nature Communications, has taken a closer look at the data collected
In dryland ecosystems, increased environmental stress often triggers a change from a uniform vegetation cover to patchy vegetation patterns. Some theoretical studies suggest that this spatial self-organization of vegetation helps ecosystems delay and avoid desertification.
A new study from The University of New Mexico offers a nationwide look at how Americans discuss one of the most enduring forms of housing discrimination—redlining—using more than a decade of social media data. The study is published in the journal Computational Urban Science.
I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything . I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was going to suffer from a now-familiar myopia of the “tech” old guard.
Dean Majd captured images of his inner circle for a decade, deconstructing performances of masculinity in the process.
A new synthetic molecule switches between emitting green and blue light after application of a solvent or mild heat. The color-changing phosphor can be leveraged for a two-layered information encoding platform, according to a study led by University of Michigan Engineering and
Red Lobster is planning to revive the disastrous “Endless Shrimp” deal that helped push the seafood chain into bankruptcy, according to a report Wednesday.
While Reese's Cups weren't affected by the changes, other products reportedly tasted much worse
The U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) indicated President Trump is “reevaluating” the country’s membership in the international military alliance on Wednesday. “I think that it’s very clear right now that President Trump is evaluating and
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it had suspended diagnostic testing for a slew of viruses, including for rabies and a group of pox viruses that encompasses smallpox and mpox. The CDC has provided diagnostic testing for decades, offering
Unbound, the new studio from Shinji Mikami, is now owned by Stellar Blade developer Shift Up and has started teasing its debut horror game.
April 1 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a letter addressed to the American people that his country harbors no enmity towards ordinary Americans, Press TV reported on Wednesday. He said in his letter that portraying Iran as a threat was "neither
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to pull the United States out of NATO due to its European members' refusal to send ships to unblock the Strait of Hormuz near Iran, as he intensified his denunciations of the
A round-up of best gaming-related April Fool's Day jokes we could find.
Researchers from the University of Maine, in partnership with the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), are analyzing more than 20 years of fishery survey data from the Gulf of Maine to examine how environmental change is reshaping marine ecosystems. The work aims to
HR and people managers should proceed with caution if they want to use AI to improve efficiency and human capital in the workplace, and should take steps to ensure creativity and critical thinking are preserved, new research from the University of Bath School of Management shows.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s recent executive order cracking down on mail-in voting, calling the move “just the latest in a series of frantic efforts by Donald Trump to rig elections for Republicans.” “Donald Trump and his
A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran’s nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.
President Trump is voicing his support for golf superstar Tiger Woods after the five-time Masters champion announced this week he is stepping back from the game to focus on his health. Woods announced on Tuesday he was stepping away from golf "for a period of time to seek
The Cyberpunk TCG surpassed $15 million on Kickstarter, beating Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere RPG to become the biggest game campaign ever.
A more than two-year-old social media post by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in which he asserted that U.S. presidents should not be able to unilaterally pull out of NATO resurfaced Wednesday after President Trump said he would reconsider U.S. membership in the alliance once
Many insects have lived in close symbiosis with bacteria for millions of years, during which time the bacteria have provided them with vital nutrients, making the mutualistic relationship so close that neither partner can survive without the other. However, the mechanisms and
Iranian missile fire on Israel has slowed in the past two weeks to around 10-15 missiles a day, down from around 90 on the first day of the war.
Knowing how your eye optimizes vision could have big implications for the progression of nearsightedness
Automakers are facing a tougher US EV market but higher gasoline prices in recent weeks have spurred fresh interest.
Superb fairy-wrens are facing "imminent danger," and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don't urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to an international team of scientists including researchers from The Australian
Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier says Newell didn't want to impose his ideas on designers, but being one of them wasn't an option.
Zendaya recently appeared on The New York Times’ “Modern Love” podcast alongside her “The Drama” co-star Robert Pattinson and spoke about her relationship with Tom Holland. There’s been heightened attention around the two A-list stars ever since Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach,
Thousands of Iranians gathered Wednesday in Tehran for the funeral of the Revolutionary Guards' naval commander, killed in an Israeli strike, with mourners vowing to fight to the end despite tough talk from Washington. The procession took place on the 47th anniversary of the
Mon Dieu! A free-ranging robotic Olaf, the lovable snowman character from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” movie franchise, evidently suffered a… brain freeze this week. In a video that has gone viral, the Olaf robot at Disneyland Paris is seen speaking to parkgoers
Experiments conducted in Brazil using laboratory rats have shown that graphene-based structures can act as a powerful ally in bone regeneration. These structures are made of sheets of the chemical element carbon that are just one atom thick. They can help heal fractures or bone
You can't keep a good man down.
Forbidden Fruits has elements of The Craft, Mean Girls, and Heathers, but this horror-comedy also comes with specifically up-to-the-moment anxieties.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case involving President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, putting the 14th Amendment back in the legal spotlight. The amendment, ratified in 1868 amid Reconstruction, states, “All persons born or
Learn how to get the Fallen Kingdom armor set in Crimson Desert and where to find each piece.
Donald Trump’s legal case against birthright citizenship is not being received well by conservative justices on the Supreme Court. During oral arguments Wednesday, Solicitor General John Sauer, whose job is to defend the government in the high court’s cases, ran into resistance
President Trump fired off a short TruthSocial post shortly after oral arguments wrapped up for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, slamming the challenge to one of his Day 1 executive orders. "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow
Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has hit some horrendous—and historic—new lows. Speaking on CNN’s The Odds Wednesday, chief data analyst Harry Enten reported damning numbers for the Trump administration’s handling of the economy. “This is no April Fools’ joke, this
Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new approach for reducing the errors that riddle today's rudimentary quantum
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday signed a statewide version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act into law that requires residents in the Sunshine State to show proof of citizenship before voting in elections. DeSantis said he’s “not anticipating”
The Supreme Court appears ready to reject Donald Trump’s war on birthright citizenship. During oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara on Wednesday, most of the justices—including at least two of the president’s own appointees—ranged from skeptical to hostile toward the government’s
The National Women’s Soccer League is bolstering its executive ranks with two key hires as the league continues its rapid growth. The NWSL announced Wednesday that Brian Kelly will join as chief commercial officer and Rachel Epstein as chief marketing officer. Kelly begins
“We grew up on Skrillex and 100 Gecs. It’s hard for me to think that something like Skrillex could be less valuable or less intellectual than something like Talking Heads.” That’s a quote from Jojo Lavina-Maldonado, one-half of the Philly-based sibling duo Cold Court, who are
NASA’s Artemis II test flight is set to launch later Wednesday, marking the first crewed mission to head toward the moon in more than five decades. The crew, including U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may have a conundrum on his hands.
President Trump on Wednesday endorsed funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the special budget reconciliation process that allows Republicans to fund the agencies without needing Democratic support, setting a June 1 deadline for the bill.
A COVID-19 variant with a catchy nickname is causing concern, despite making up a small fraction of current cases.
Creative Artists Agency has hired branding agent Courtney McHugh, naming her as an executive in its talent business ventures group. McHugh, who joins CAA after serving as founding agent at United Talent Agency’s ventures group, will work across film, television, music, sports
[Daba Finance] Mozambique has overtaken Senegal as Africa's most distressed sovereign borrower, as rising global energy costs add pressure to its finances.