The words we use to describe gender-based violence (GBV), such as "victim," "survivor" and "person with lived experience," aren't neutral. These labels are powerful. They can affirm dignity or reinforce stigma. They can mobilize movements or obscure systemic issues.
The Grinch is one of the holiday season's most familiar icons. The grumpy, green, fur-covered misanthrope who plotted to sabotage Christmas in Dr. Seuss's classic 1957 work has now become a quintessential part of the yearly festive ritual he so despised.
About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the coast of southern Jutland in modern-day Denmark. The armada carried around 80 warriors armed with spears and shields. Some of them were officers, and
Kathy Bates, Norman Lear, Paul Walter Hauser, Ben Stiller, Stephen King, Paul Feig, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more mourn the death of the acclaimed actor, director, and activist
Open your present a day earlier this year.
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.
[This Day] Moved by the understated labour of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) during the pandemic, Abiola Laseinde, a legal and business executive of over two decades, set out to give them a stage. Five years later, her vision has blossomed into a thriving tech ecosystem that
The European Space Agency's X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 3 December for around 20 hours. During that time, the comet was about 282–285 million km from the spacecraft.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of billions of stars and
Crystal Dynamics announced two new Lara Croft games, and they’re part of something bigger than themselves The post Tomb Raider Devs Explain Why They’re Making Two Games At Once appeared first on Kotaku .
Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly 10 million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence that an intermediate mass black hole hides within the cluster's core, revealed
The EU faces three key issues this week: Ukraine peace talks and making sure Europe gets a say at Trump's table, an unprecedented financial operation to issue a reparations loan facing retaliation from Moscow, and getting the Mercosur deal done. The end result of any of the
You trust the road beneath your tires. But what if that trust is misplaced? Sinkholes are increasingly turning ordinary streets into danger zones. And the cost of ignoring them is skyrocketing.
"So what is going to happen to the functionality of [my Roomba]? It's one of the smart ones that talk with a server," a Reddit user posted on Sunday.
"Would you like to donate $2 to charity today?"
Enjoy better speeds without overspending. The post TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Adapter Drops to an All-Time Low, Making the Upgrade From Wi-Fi 6 Cheaper Than Ever appeared first on Kotaku .
Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a long-running conflict.
DUBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, said they have launched a military operation in southern Abyan province. The STC has recently claimed broad control of Southern Yemen. (Reporting by Ahmed Elimam; Editing
Male bottlenose dolphins that form friendships age more slowly than loners, new research shows.
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Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 37 people in the Moroccan coastal city of Safi, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
A collaborative team has developed a new way to create magnetic optical materials, one that removes a long-standing design bottleneck and could boost the speed and efficiency of data-center communications. Using an ion beam sputtering technique, the team fabricated nanoscale,
Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century.
CBS has found some additional footage from its smash “Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion,” splicing it together to create a sequel special, “Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion Pt. 2.” That new bonus hour will air Monday, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS
The worst-reviewed games this year include Glover, Fast & Furious, and MindsEye The post The 10 Worst Games Of 2025 According To Metacritic appeared first on Kotaku .
The Sundance Film Festival will be held Jan. 22-Feb. 1, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City.
Geraldine Viswanathan has joined the cast of “Dig,” the upcoming comedy series Amy Poehler and Mike Schur created for Peacock. Per the official logline, the series follows “four women working at an archeological dig in Greece who are at wildly different crossroads in their
“Vanderpump Rules” alum Ariana Madix and “The Traitors” contestant Dylan Efron have signed on to co-host NBC’s live “The Voice” finale pre-show on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The special will air that evening at 8 p.m. ET (and the next day on Peacock) as Madix and Efron recap
Every year during December and January, in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, rural communities carry out traditional burning on steep hill slopes to regenerate grass. These carefully timed burns, which take place when fuel stocks are low, are needed to support
Ukraine’s Security Service said its underwater Sub Sea Baby drones attacked Russia’s Novorossiysk naval base and disabled a Project 636.3 Kilo-class submarine carrying Kalibr cruise missiles.
"We haven’t prioritized theatrical in the past because that wasn’t our business at Netflix. When this deal closes, we will be in that business."
A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.
Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short
A JetBlue pilot said a "midair collision" was avoided in an incident near Venezuela that the commercial pilot is blaming on the pilot of a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his
Microsoft talks about retreating from making The Outer Worlds 2 cost $80 The post Xbox Gets Philosophical About Trying To Raise The Price Of Games appeared first on Kotaku .
Please don't hurt my poor floppy-haired boy.
But the memory apocalypse may not rage as long as we fear.
On July 1st, 2025, the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected was seen making its way through our solar system. Shortly after being alerted by automated detection systems, astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) began using observatories in Hawaii, Chile, and
Amazon Games has sold its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game “March of Giants,” including the entire Montreal-based development team working on the upcoming project, to French gaming giant Ubisoft. “March of the Giants” is described as an “ambitious new entrant
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said U.S. officials foiled a planned terror attack in Los Angeles, arresting four individuals allegedly plotting to launch a series of bombings on New Year's Eve. Both Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel said they arrested members of the so-called