On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing
“ Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia .
As cities grow in population, they grow proportionally in terms of infrastructure—new buildings, paved streets and parking lots. Or so says conventional wisdom. However, a new study by a team of New York University researchers dispels this thinking.
Magic: The Gathering’s new Star Trek Secret Lair reprints Thrasios, Triton Hero as Lower Decks’ Tendi. Here’s every Drop revealed so far.
Recently, Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, warned that Pyongyang could take strong retaliatory measures if Seoul continues activities it considers provocative. To casual observers, this may appear to be just another routine exchange of verbal
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Antarctica's glaciers were changing long before satellites, weather stations or cameras captured their transformations, and they left behind clues. Along Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula, ridges of rocks and debris mark former glacier margins. For decades,
Since the production of graphene in 2004, two-dimensional materials have been sparking scientific and technological interest. As they are only a few atomic layers thick, or even just a single atomic layer, they can exhibit special electronic, magnetic or chemical
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University of Missouri researchers have created rice plants that resist bacterial blight, a devastating disease that threatens one of the world's most important food crops. The advance could help farmers in parts of Asia and Africa, where the disease can destroy harvests and
Ancient genomes from coastal Ecuador reveal 1,500 years of genetic continuity in an understudied part of the ancient world. John Lindo and colleagues sequenced four genomes from individuals excavated at Salango on Ecuador's central coast, dating to around 2,300 years ago, 1,900
The truce was originally planned for the stranded residents of Oleshky, and Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported.
The upcoming Pokémon promo brings back a McDonald's product that's been MIA from Happy Meals for nearly a decade
Netanyahu has spent much of the day calling on supporters to get out and vote, painting the election as a "matter of life and death."
Israeli voters headed to the polls Tuesday for a closely watched election that is widely regarded as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his administration. The election, which could endanger Netanyahu’s nearly 19 years leading the country, has seen record
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A white former Bank of America executive claims his bosses threatened to destroy his banking career and forced him out for relocating to care for his ailing mother.
Who would win: An entire Magic: The Gathering eternal format, or one Shrimp?
How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in new genes, but in how humans and non-human apes use the genes they share. Using brain organoids grown from stem cells, an international team led by
There is a problem in low Earth orbit, and it's growing. According to the European Space Agency, there are about 19,440 satellites on orbit, 3,540 of which are nonfunctioning and/or not emitting a signal to warn other spacecraft of their location. The need to service these
Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, who was fired from her role after five days following a rocky debut and scrutiny of her legal background, accused reporters of fueling “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in their coverage of President Trump. While Zacharia has
In some group-living animals, individuals other than the parents help care for offspring. This breeding system, known as cooperative breeding, is thought to have evolved from monogamous family groups in which offspring remain in their natal group and engage in various
According to Peacock, “Crystal Lake” is its fourth-most-watched scripted original series of all time. The “Friday the 13th” prequel series was watched for 1.3 billion minutes in its first 11 days of streaming. Divided by the series’ 398-minute runtime, that comes out to a total
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Meghan McCain, former Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) daughter, predicts that convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will get a pardon from President Trump. “One of my hottest, hot takes is that Elizabeth Holmes will eventually get a Trump pardon,” McCain wrote on the social
Polymarket is reportedly facing renewed scrutiny from federal regulators over whether it violated a 2022 settlement requiring the prediction market giant to block American traders from its offshore platform.
A show at the Getty demonstrates the way modernist approaches to photography shifted the visual culture of Mexico in the 20th century.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah to stop the state’s efforts to shut down CFTC-registered contract markets. The lawsuit follows a lengthy battle the state has been fighting against
Attorney General Todd Blanche’s July 2025 interviews with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell were reportedly a calculated effort to steer public blowback from the Epstein files away from Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-page report on
The current outbreak, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now counted 10,000 patients and has spread with great speed. How can it be stopped?
The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system has been down for hours on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson who confirmed the agency's IT teams are working to restore the service. According to the FEC's incident update page, the agency said Monday night it is
A study analyzing the effects of climate change on vascular plants in the United States finds that the fate of individual plant species tends to be a regional phenomenon.
John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).
As the legal dispute over the paintings’ ownership continues, no one seems to be asking: What were their names? Who may still be grieving their deaths? What decision would best honor them?
Dan Ayoub joined WotC in 2024 and previously served as the company's SVP of digital games.
The Television Academy Foundation is launching a 10-week production assistant training program for Los Angeles-area high school students in a partnership with consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. Through funding from Best Buy, the after-school program will be free for
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Making complex molecules often means joining smaller chemical building blocks together, a process facilitated by catalysts, compounds that make such reactions possible or speed them up without being consumed themselves. Many widely used reactions also require chemists to modify
New research from the University of Sydney expands the potential medicinal benefits of honey and propolis (the plant resin and beeswax mixture bees use to build their nests) produced by Australia's stingless bees. Building on earlier research, a study led by Ph.D. candidate
The burgeoning illicit activity comes as companies pour billions of dollars into efforts to quickly erect data centers that can power AI.
An appeals court has denied Danny Masterson’s appeal of his 2023 conviction on rape charges, upholding the verdict and his 30-year prison sentence. In an 89-page ruling, a three-judge panel rejected each of Masterson’s arguments in turn, including the claim that the trial judge
Jay-Z is taking the biggest sports stage in 2027. We look back at how his wife shifted the bar for the halftime show in 2013
Unlocking Lid's second limit burst in Final Fantasy Resonance works differently than the others. Here's how to get Lid's second limit burst
Fl á vio Bolsonaro has fled to the United States after losing Brazil’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil on Sunday, according to multiple outlets. Bolsonaro’s allies reported his escape to CNN Brasil , and Reuters also confirmed he is headed
The woman began her career at the park when she was 17 and had worked there on-and-off for four decades.
Syria condemned on Tuesday deadly strikes on the country's south a day earlier that Jordan said killed more than 20 jihadists as retaliation for a gun attack on a church. In the worst crisis between the neighbours since the ouster of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in
Marriott Bonvoy has recruited some of the NFL’s biggest names to plan travel guides in their home cities. Among the participating athletes are Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Cooper Kupp (Seattle), Eagles offensive lineman Jordan Mailata (Philadelphia), NFL legend Jerry Rice
Sam Greszes says that Jackbox Games went silent after requesting a demo of his board game Die on this Hill . A year later, it launches Debate and Switch .
Poland is now achieving formidable economic growth rates and fast rising living standards
Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink's terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was