Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers have been hungering for better detectors. But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy, and that will always limit the effectiveness of Earth-based detectors.
Benny Gantz and Bezalel Smotrich, two key ministers currently allied with Benjamin Netanyahu, have publicly opposed any ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza.
If the prospective sale goes through, the new owners might attempt to convert the building to apartments as several other downtown owners are in the process of doing.
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Uranium fever continues unabated.
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk met with a top government leader in the Chinese capital Sunday, just as the nation’s carmakers are showing off their latest electric vehicle models at the Beijing auto show. Chinese Premier Li Qiang told Musk that he hopes the U.S. will work more
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Almost a month after seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, the group is resuming humanitarian operations there.
With governments on pace to adopt more technology, it’s imperative that any new tools are thoroughly evaluated and tested before they are released into the world.
Democratic senators are calling on the Biden administration to push for an ambitious deal at the pivotal United Nations talks on plastic pollution now unfolding in Ottawa, Canada. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told The Hill that the world needs the United States to stand for
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said she was arrested on Saturday while protesting the Israel-Hamas war on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. More than 80 individuals were arrested on Saturday after they “refused to leave after being asked multiple
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he is not pushing for anything at the federal level for an abortion ban. NBC's Kristen Welker asked McConnell on "Meet the Press" whether he would support a 15-week federal ban on abortions, like what Sen. Lindsey Graham
Western businesses are learning to live with volatile electoral politics around the world
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Eric Trump defended his father’s stamina, in a Sunday interview, even as the former president remains stuck in a New York courtroom instead of on the campaign trail. In an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Maria Bartiromo noted that former President Trump – who
Beyoncé did not show up. Reba did. And it was enough. At least it was for the 70,000 in Indio watching the Stagecoach festival live, if not necessarily all of the probably hundreds of thousands more tuned in at home strictly in hopes of a Bey sighting. As single ladies doubling
Pier 57, the urban playground and commercial complex in the Hudson River off West 15th Street, is now almost fully leased. A just-signed deal for City Winery added 14,600 square feet to its current space -- bringing its total to 52,000 square feet.
Students who desperately want to learn are becoming frightened to go to class, despite the police's best efforts.
Former President Trump received higher ratings than President Biden regarding Americans' perceptions of their presidencies, according to a new poll. In a poll from CNN and SSRS, published Thursday, 55 percent of surveyed Americans said they now see Trump's presidency as a
Displaced Gazans showed their appreciation for students in the US who have been protesting against their universities' links to Israel.
European powerhouse Mediawan has acquired Leonine, a leading production and distribution group active in German-speaking markets. With the acquisition of Leonine, Mediawan will boast a portfolio of 85 labels, a catalogue spanning 30,000 hours of premium content and revenues
The US expects its floating pier in Gaza to become operational in the next two to three weeks, as Israel's war and siege continue to starve the enclave.
Knocked Loose performed at Sick New World in Las Vegas yesterday. They gave their recent single “ Suffocate ” its live debut, and they brought featured guest Poppy along for the ride. “Suffocate” will appear on the band’s new album You Won’t Go To Sleep Before You’re Supposed
System Of A Down headlined Sick New World, the nu-metal festival that took place yesterday on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. They trotted out some songs they hadn’t performed in a while, doing “Bubbles” and “CUBErt” for the first time since 2015, “Kill Rock ‘n Roll” for the
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Saudi Arabia's top diplomat told attendees at the World Economic Forum summit which it is hosting that the world had failed war-battered Gaza.
Vampire Weekend performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, and they broke out two covers they’ve never done before. First they did a bit of Bruce Springsteen’s The River song “Hungry Heart” after an audience member requested a Springsteen song for their
Kingom of the Planet of the Apes is one of this summer’s big blockbusters, and with its release in a few weeks, that means its time to up its promo game. We’ve gotten plenty of trailers and posters , and there are standees in theaters, but that’s apparently not enough. 20th
Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink.
The impact of human activities—such as greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation—on Earth's surface have been well-studied. Now, hydrology researchers from the University of Arizona have investigated how humans impact Earth's deep subsurface, a zone that lies hundreds of
There are plenty of apps you can turn to to generate pictures using artificial intelligence. Still, Midjourney remains one of the best and one of the most popular options, having launched in beta form in July 2022. Read more...
35 people have been taken to hospital, with most in intensive care, following a food poisoning outbreak linked to a restaurant chain in Riyadh
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President Biden and former President Trump are again neck and neck in tight races across several battleground states, with voters' lingering economic concerns weighing heavily on Biden. A new CBS News poll conducted in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin found that Biden and
I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called "Placet is a Crazy Place" by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown.
In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon emissions budget.
