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Newsom says he'll weigh White House bid after 2026 midterms

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said this week that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t thinking about running for president in 2028. In an interview taped Thursday, CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Newsom about the prospect of running for president and whether it’s “fair to

Dinosaurs were thriving when the asteroid struck

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of dinosaurs existed until the very end. Their extinction was sudden, not gradual, and

Living computers powered by mushrooms

Scientists have found that mushrooms can act as organic memory devices, mimicking neural activity while consuming minimal power. The Ohio State team grew and trained shiitake fungi to perform like computer chips, capable of switching between electrical states thousands of times

Dark matter could color our view of the universe

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move through space at nearly the speed of light, making them a form of hot dark

Israel insists it calls shots in Gaza despite truce

Israel insisted on Sunday that it will maintain control of security inside Gaza despite signing up to a US-brokered ceasefire that foresees the deployment of an international security force. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers that Israel would decide for itself