‘There’s Plenty Worse Out There’: How Sabrina Carpenter Built a Boyfriend Made of Pringles

The pop superstar talks her new Super Bowl ad and her incredible Grammys performance

Zayn Announces ‘The Konnakol Tour’ Dates

Zayn has announced his biggest solo tour yet in support of his upcoming fifth album “Konnakol.” “The Konnakol Tour,” produced by Live Nation, will span 31 dates and mark the singer’s first time headlining arenas and stadiums across the globe. The trek kicks off on May 12 at

Trump disapproval on economy hits new high: Survey

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that President Trump’s disapproval rating on the economy is at a new high dating back to his first term. The survey, released Thursday, found that 36 percent of respondents approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 59 percent

Dozens of Democrats call for halt to fuel efficiency standards rollback

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to halt the proposed rollback of vehicle mileage standards, warning that weakening the standards could have detrimental effects on fuel efficiency and Americans’ wallets, and worsen climate change. The

DHS standoff threatens bipartisan Munich delegation

Pokémon Accidentally Finds The Perfect Way To Troll Scalpers

If you tried to buy up all of today's Surging Sparks restock, you got an irritating extra The post Pokémon Accidentally Finds The Perfect Way To Troll Scalpers appeared first on Kotaku .

Indiana House GOP candidate withdraws from race, citing state's failure to redistrict

An Indiana Republican running for a competitive House seat announced on Thursday that she would be withdrawing from the race, citing the competitive nature of the district and the state’s failure to redistrict ahead of November. “Indiana's legislature sadly chose not to

Embark heard your feedback, so finishing Arc Raiders' second Expedition will be cheaper by the millions

Those who couldn't finish the first Expedition can also "catch up" by earning skill points on the cheap.

Seeds 'listen' to mom: Study finds mother plants send ABA hormone signals that set seed dormancy

Whatever challenges life throws, mothers often know best as they guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This scenario, familiar when applied to humans, turns out to be true for plants too, according to intriguing research from the John Innes Center and

Business leaders ousted longtime Partnership for NYC chief after she cozied up to Mamdani: report

Kathy Wylde, the head of the Partnership for New York City, lost the support of the high-powered CEOs who make up the organization’s board.

When Earth's magnetic field took its time flipping

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, and the record of these flips is preserved in rocks

Bad Bunny Promises to Bring ‘A Lot of My Culture’ to Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance

The Latin superstar will make history with the first Spanish-language halftime show

Range-resident logistic model connects animal movement and population dynamics

Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical bridge between these two disciplines. "Ecologists have been trying to establish this link since the 1950s, when they started to characterize animal movement

The compleximer: New type of plastic mixes glass-like shaping with impact resistance

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research have developed a new type of plastic that, according to materials theory, should not be able to exist. Its properties sit somewhere between those of glass and plastic: it is easy to (re)shape, yet resistant to impact. This unusual

‘Time Hoppers: The Silk Road’ Becomes First Muslim-Made Theatrical Animated Feature, Sells 35,000 Tickets in Pre-Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

Six years ago, a low-quality web animation on Muslim Kids TV sparked an idea that would become “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road,” the first theatrically released animated feature made by and for the Muslim community. The film opens Feb. 7 in over 660 U.S. theaters, marking a

'I don't want to shoot at a normal ass cat,' says Overwatch player who I might agree with

Overwatch's new feline hero presents a tough question: Should we be shooting cats just because they have jetpacks?

NFL CMO Tim Ellis on Football’s Campaign to Bring in More Fans: ‘You Have to Be Willing to Not Please Everyone’

Tim Ellis is the CMO for the force behind America’s annual marketing Olympics: the Super Bowl. The NFL’s executive VP and chief marketing officer is heading toward the summit of the league’s season as the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots at Levi’s Stadium in

Why Teflon Is Losing Its Sticking Power

The substance that revolutionized cookware and helped build the atomic bomb is facing a reckoning The post Why Teflon Is Losing Its Sticking Power appeared first on Nautilus .

World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn't called it Warcraft because 'it sounds intimidating,' and some fans are not taking it well

It wasn't a serious comment, but some folks are taking it way too seriously.

Apple Lands Sundance Mountain Climbing Doc ‘The Last First: Winter K2’

Amir Bar-Lev directs the doc about the “last great prize in mountaineering,” which has killed several climbers.

Apple Buys Sundance Mountain-Climbing Documentary ‘The Last First: Winter K2’

Apple Original Films has landed global rights to “The Last First: Winter K2,” a sports documentary that recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Amir Bar Lev, “The Last First” captures a 2021 extreme mountain climbing expedition to scale K2, the second-highest

Bad Bunny Says Super Bowl Halftime Show Will Be a ‘Huge Party’ and Viewers ‘Don’t Have to Learn Spanish’: ‘I Want People to Have Fun’

Following his big wins at the Grammy Awards this past weekend, Bad Bunny now has his sights set on this Sunday’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, teasing that his performance is going to be a “huge party” and that viewers “don’t have to learn Spanish” to enjoy it. The Puerto Rican

Treasury Sec Admits Americans Are on the Hook for Trump’s $10B Lawsuit

Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. That’s what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban

Flying Lotus Announces New EP Big Mama

Flying Lotus is now an auteur in every sense of the word. 2025 saw the release of Ash , the sci-fi movie that FlyLo directed. (Naturally, he also scored his own movie.) It takes a whole lot of work to put a movie together. When he finished with Ash , FlyLo immediately went to

Slotkin rejects DOJ interview request over 'illegal orders' video

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said Thursday she declined to be interviewed by federal prosecutors, saying the Trump administration has embarked on a campaign of “physical and legal intimidation” in response to a video produced by her and other lawmakers. Slotkin was one of six

Keep the Meter Running With Mouhamadou Aliy & Zohran Mamdani

In addition to his great series Subway Takes , Kareem Rahma does another series called Keep the Meter Running where he hops into NYC cabs, interviews the drivers, and asks them to take him to their favorite places. In the run-up to the NYC mayoral election last year, Rahma

Philadelphia communities help AI machine learning get better at spotting gentrification

Over the last several decades, urban planners and municipalities have sought to identify and better manage the socioeconomic dynamics associated with rapid development in established neighborhoods. The term "gentrification" has been lingua franca for generations of urbanites

'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'

An AI generated banner turned up on GOG last week, and efforts to clean up the mess aren't going especially well.

Epic's free game program is vital to rivaling Steam

Epic Games Store shares 60% of its users with Steam, making finding new customers with free video games of utmost importance

Nationwide recall on Chips Ahoy! expanded

A previously issued nationwide recall on Chips Ahoy! Baked Bites Brookie is now being expanded.

Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercials Open New Tier for Marketers With Fewer Dollars for Big Game

While other Super Bowl sponsors like Instacart, Pringles and Bud Light will trot out famous faces like Ben Stiller, Sabrina Carpetner and Post Malone, Tecovas will do nothing of the sort. Instead, the small leather-apparel company will run a commercial that has already streamed

FBI 'aware of ransom letter' for Nancy Guthrie, offering 50K reward

The FBI says it is aware of a ransom letter sent to local media outlets in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, and the agency is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to her. During a news

Highguard's episode 2 patch adds ranked mode, new character Ekon

Highguard's Episode 2 update introduces new Warden Ekon, and finally adds ranked mode to the game

How Japan can function as Taiwan deterrence logistics hub

Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. In the early 1990s, President Lech Wałęsa envisioned Poland becoming a “second Japan” – an advanced economy with cutting-edge technology. Today, Polish observers note with irony that Japan may

Iran's foreign minister heads to Muscat for nuclear talks with US

Feb 5 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has departed for the Omani capital Muscat at the head of a diplomatic delegation for nuclear talks with the U.S. due to be held on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to

Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood ‘pretend’ objects

This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine

‘Stark warning’: pesticide harm to wildlife rising globally, study finds

Toxicity from farm chemicals increased for most species groups between 2013 and 2019, with insects worst affected Ecological harm from pesticides is growing globally, a study has found, with bugs, fish, pollinators and land-based plants among six species groups hit hardest.

Witkoff and Araghchi: the men leading US-Iran talks

US special envoy Steve Witkoff has spearheaded talks on Gaza and Ukraine, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is Iran's face abroad. On Friday, they meet in Muscat following a deadly crackdown on a mass protest movement against the Islamic republic that saw the United States

Global map catalogs 459 rare continental mantle earthquakes since 1990

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth's molten core. The new map will help scientists learn more about the

Increasing pesticide toxicity threatens global biodiversity protection goal: Only one country is currently on target

At the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, in 2022, nations committed to reducing the risks associated with pesticide use in agriculture by 50% by 2030. A new study by a research team from RPTUKaiserslautern-Landau, published in the journal Science,

Two-day-old babies show brain signs of rhythm prediction, study finds

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Roberta Bianco from the Italian Institute of Technology, and colleagues.

Scientists explain why methane spiked in the early 2020s

A combination of weakened atmospheric removal and increased emissions from warming wetlands, rivers, lakes, and agricultural land increased atmospheric methane at an unprecedented rate in the early 2020s, an international team of researchers report today in the journal Science.

Scientists threw a tea party for apes and discovered they can use their imagination and play pretend

Scientists sat across from a 43-year-old bonobo called Kanzi to have an imaginary tea party. Here’s what happened.

Could apes 'play pretend' like toddlers? A study tracks imaginary juice and grapes

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely human.

Babies brains’ can follow a beat as soon as they’re born

Brain scans and signals show babies can sort images and sense rhythm, offering new insight into how infant brains are wired from the start.

A bonobo’s imaginary tea party suggests apes can play pretend

Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

Sony’s New Live-Service Game Is Coming At Just The Worst Possible Time

Horizon Hunters Gathering looks neat, but not many people are excited about yet another live-service online multiplayer thing The post Sony’s New Live-Service Game Is Coming At Just The Worst Possible Time appeared first on Kotaku .

US, China opt out of joint declaration on AI use in military

A CORUNA, Spain, Feb 5 - Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. opted out.

Why this Iranian Revolution scholar won't encourage Iranians to topple the regime

Trump's threats strengthen Tehran's leadership, and a military strike would mean mass murder. In a new book, American Iranian scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that Iran has no intention of exterminating Israel and calls its nuclear program 'a manufactured crisis'

'They're incapable of overthrowing the regime': Why this Iranian Revolution scholar won't urge Iranians into the streets

Trump's threats strengthen Tehran's leadership, and a military strike would mean mass murder. In a new book, American Iranian scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that Iran has no intention of exterminating Israel and calls its nuclear program 'a manufactured crisis'