US Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt over Covid hearing
The committee will now refer him for potential prosecution following his refusal to answer questions during a hearing focused on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Israel charges settler in Palestinian activist's killing, in rare indictment
By Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community leader last year in the occupied West Bank - the first indictment of a settler in a Palestinian's death in nearly three years. In an
Livestreamer's murder raises questions over relations between Mexico's creators and cartels
The murder of content creator César Gastélum on Tuesday raises questions about why influencers are coming under attack.
5 Things We Just Learned From Nintendo About How The Switch 2 Is Doing
Tomodachi Life is killing and people are still buying the original Switch
‘Operation Safed Sagar’: Inside Netflix’s High-Altitude Bet on the Untold Story of the India-Pakistan Kargil War
The most important prop in Netflix series “Operation Safed Sagar” isn’t a fighter jet. It’s a wing badge. When creator and showrunner Abhijeet Singh Parmar first sat down with Alka Ahuja – widow of Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, who was killed in the 1999 Kargil War – he and his
Martin McDonagh to Be Honored at Zurich Film Festival as ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Receives Gala Premiere
The Zurich Film Festival will pay tribute to filmmaker Martin McDonagh as it gives a gala premiere to his latest film, “Wild Horse Nine,” starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. The London-based director will receive the festival’s prestigious A Tribute To … Award in
Three state attorneys general subpoena Anthony Fauci
A trio of Republican attorneys general subpoenaed former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Wednesday, as part of a joint probe into the former health official’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) joined forces with
Coupled AI and physics model improves typhoon-wave height forecasting
Typhoons pose significant threats, with sudden, dangerous waves that endanger ships, offshore platforms and coastal infrastructure in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Current typhoon forecasting methods sometimes underestimate the largest waves during typhoons, but researchers in
Space kit for future 'away missions' tested in Scotland
Researchers from the University of Leicester and the University of Aberdeen have carried out a series of field demonstrations in Portsoy to test cutting-edge handheld analytical instruments. Designed for use by astronauts on the moon and, eventually, Mars, these instruments
A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the ’80s
Breton coastal residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
10¹⁷ (Colin Stetson, Stian Westerhus, & Erland Dahlen) Share Debut Single “End This Now”
Colin Stetson is a busy man. Earlier this year, the master of tense drone-moan-squawk baritone sax teamed up with fellow avant-garde OGs Greg Fox and Trevor Dunn to release the album Nethering . Next month, Stetson and experimental bagpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul will release their
How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure?
Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior. The post How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? first appeared on Quanta
India’s student movement shuns politics, stays pressure group
CJP says it instead plans to preserve its independence and press whichever party is in power for change.
The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the
Rome's Spin Time residents sleep outside after fire, amid heatwave
About 400 Spin Time residents sleep outside in Rome after a fire forced their evacuation, with volunteers helping during a heatwave.
Here’s Your Song Of The Summer 2026
You did it! You participated in the democratic process! Now that you've all cast your ballots and we've counted them, we at Stereogum are happy to reveal the results of our annual Song Of The Summer readers' poll. Below, check out the top 10 vote-getters, revealed, quite
Devolver Digital Wants To Go Private Again Following A 95 Percent Collapse In Its Share Price
The Skate Story and Serious Sam publisher blames the volatile gaming market
Tucker Carlson unveils vision for ‘what America should be’ amid third party talk
Former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson is fanning chatter he might consider a run for the White House with a new video laying out what he sees as wrong with the United States and outlining his plan to fix it. During the more than hourlong video, Carlson, who today owns his own
Large typhoon in Pacific to approach south-western Japan islands
Toyota Motor said it will halt operations at nine factories in the country from Aug 7.
Congress must stop the politicization of peer review and American science
American scientific leadership was built by allowing evidence to prevail over ideology.
El-Sayed responds to Trump: ‘The man can’t stay on focus’
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s Senate race, hit back at President Trump after the president criticized the progressive’s victory in the state’s Democratic primary this week. Trump called El-Sayed a “man of hate” and claimed that he “hates Jews and he
Larian gets briefly kicked off YouTube, TikTok for demonic smut reasons in Baldur's Gate 3
Hell, hell, hell has its laws. ToS, ToS, effects and the cause.
Why do so many hit songs sound alike? Meet the 'Gen Alpha melody'
What do Tiesto, Troye Sivan and The Strokes have in common? A Danish musicologist thinks he has the answer.
Spacecraft observations may conceal how particles really move through near-Earth space
High-energy particles in Earth's radiation belt can appear to spread out randomly, even when they are moving in a "predictable" way. This is because spacecraft observations naturally blur the fine-scale structure of the particle population, a new study reveals.
NASA's Perseverance captures Phobos and Earth
This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right, passing behind the Martian moon Phobos on July 2, 2026, the 1,907th Martian day, or sol, of the
