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Nintendo Drops Surprise Trailer for New ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’

Mario is returning to the big screen. Following the massive success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which made more than $1.3 billion worldwide in 2023, animation studio Illumination and Nintendo are releasing a sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, in April 2026. Nintendo dropped a teaser trailer during its Direct presentation on Friday. The […]

How do AI models generate videos?

But you don’t want any image—you want the image you specified, typically with a text prompt. And so the diffusion model is paired with a second model—such as a large language model (LLM) trained to match images with text descriptions—that guides each step of the cleanup process, pushing the diffusion model toward images that the […]

Our hottest takes on AI's wild summer

One thing you should know about the iPhone launch is that there’s… not usually a lot of other tech news around the iPhone launch. So David and Jake start this episode with some more information about the iPhone launch, including some controversial details we missed about the AirPods Pro 3 and the argument in favor […]

Over 100K Nepali citizens gathered on Discord to help nominate an interim leader after protests sparked by a social media ban led to the government’s collapse (Pranav Baskar/New York Times)

Over 100K Nepali citizens gathered on Discord to help nominate an interim leader after protests sparked by a social media ban led to the government’s collapse (Pranav Baskar/New York Times)

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nuclear fusion will soon power the world

nuclear fusion will soon power the world

Justin RowlattClimate Editor BBC/Pol Reygaerts US Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke to BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt dureing an interview in Brussels Don’t worry too much about planet-warming emissions, the US Energy Secretary has told the BBC, because within five years AI will have enabled the harnessing of nuclear fusion – the energy that powers […]

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and seek new partnerships for growing infrastructure needs. “Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of […]

Undisclosed Synthetic Psychedelics Found in Magic Mushroom Edibles Instead of Psilocybin

Undisclosed Synthetic Psychedelics Found in Magic Mushroom Edibles Instead of Psilocybin

Magic mushrooms have shown potential to extend treatment options for depression, PTSD, and substance use disorders, leading to easier access to a Schedule I controlled substance. Walking into convenience stores in Oregon or Colorado might lead you to products labeled as “Magic Mushroom” edibles, banking not just on consumer curiosity but also on the attention […]

AI Hallucinations In L&D: What Are They And What Causes Them?

AI Hallucinations In L&D: What Are They And What Causes Them?

Are There AI Hallucinations In Your L&D Strategy? More and more often, businesses are turning to Artificial Intelligence to meet the complex needs of their Learning and Development strategies. There is no wonder why they are doing that, considering the amount of content that needs to be created for an audience that keeps becoming more […]

Polar Geoengineering Debate Rages as Climate Change Melts Ice

Polar Geoengineering Debate Rages as Climate Change Melts Ice

September 11, 2025 6 min read Scientists Clash over whether Polar Geoengineering Is a Dangerous Gamble Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as pumping up seawater or launching aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet’s surface By Alec Luhn edited […]

Seminole Gaming’s COO speaks out against rise in illegal gambling in Florida

Seminole Gaming’s COO speaks out against rise in illegal gambling in Florida

Seminole Gaming’s COO, David Hoenemeyer, has released a statement as Florida wrestles with a rising illegal gambling industry. In recent months, the state has been host to several busts and stings, weeding out illegal gambling rings. As we’ve previously reported, Florida has had a series of cases involving illegal gambling. Most recently, a raid found […]

Magic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain No Psilocybin

Magic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain No Psilocybin

September 11, 2025 4 min read Magic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain Undisclosed Ingredients—And No Psilocybin Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, including synthetic drugs whose safety hasn’t been tested in humans By Allison Parshall edited by Dean Visser Magic mushrooms (Psilocybe cubensis). Researchers tested 12 “magic […]

Big Oil Companies Caused about 25 Percent of Heat Waves since 2000

Big Oil Companies Caused about 25 Percent of Heat Waves since 2000

September 11, 2025 4 min read Big Oil’s Emissions Caused about 25 Percent of Heat Waves since 2000 A new study finds that one quarter of heat waves between 2000 and 2023 would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming—and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers By Jeff Tollefson & Nature […]

New research highlights the importance and challenges of K-12 student engagement

This press release originally appeared online. Key points: While there is wide agreement that student engagement plays a vital role in learning, educators continue to face uncertainty about what engagement looks like, how best to measure it, and how to sustain it, according to a new study from Discovery Education.  Education Insights 2025–2026: Fueling Learning […]

Critical Thinking Is A Mindset

Critical Thinking Is A Mindset

by Terry Heick Every few months, I see an article making the rounds that critical thinking isn’t a skill and therefore can’t be taught. And because it’s also difficult to measure and modern public education is driven by measurement, as an idea it kind of sits in the corner, aloof and mute. Often, these articles […]

Early Experiments Show Fast-Acting Antidote Targets Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Early Experiments Show Fast-Acting Antidote Targets Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

September 11, 2025 2 min read Early Experiments Show Fast-Acting Antidote Targets Carbon Monoxide Poisoning A study in mice and on human blood uses a new protein to snag carbon monoxide before it latches onto blood cells By Sara Novak edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier A new antidote is designed to rapidly address carbon monoxide […]

Hawking’s Bold Theory Confirmed by Loudest-Ever Black Hole Collision : ScienceAlert

Hawking’s Bold Theory Confirmed by Loudest-Ever Black Hole Collision : ScienceAlert

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and began a new era of astronomy. Now, a new gravitational-wave discovery marks the anniversary of this major breakthrough. Published today in Physical Review Letters, it […]

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Postcode lottery for new cancer treatments, doctors warn

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter and Jim ReedHealth reporter Getty Images Advances in radiotherapy and other forms of cancer treatment are driving up survival rates of the disease Senior cancer doctors are warning that excessive red tape means some patients in England are struggling to access the latest cancer treatments. The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) says […]

‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

“You could be next,” influencer and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X. “The Left are terrorists.” Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who popularized the demonization of critical race theory, suggested in a post on X that the “radical left” was responsible for the shooting, and urged the US government “to infiltrate, disrupt, arrest, […]

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‘Dark DNA’ may explain dancing spiders’ extraordinary diversity

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent Watch: Dazzling dancing spiders strut their stuff. What’s behind their extraodinary diversity? It’s not just the dazzling colours and slick moves of Australia’s dancing spiders that make them special. There are more than 100 different species of the peacock spider, whereas most animals have only five or ten. Researchers believe that’s partly […]

Abbott moves to ban THC sales to minors in Texas

Abbott moves to ban THC sales to minors in Texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued an executive order on Wednesday directing state agencies to ban the sale of THC products to minors, after state lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on restrictions this year. “Texas will not wait when it comes to protecting children and families,” Abbott said in a statement. “While these products […]

DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded

DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded

The DNA cassette resembles music cassette tapes Jiankai Li et al. 2025 Retro cassette tapes may be making a comeback, with a DNA twist. While DNA has been used as an information storage medium before, researchers have now combined this with the convenience and look of a 1980s cassette tape, creating what they are calling […]

Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Growing dependency on AI coding tools The speed at which news of the outage spread shows how deeply embedded AI coding assistants have already become in modern software development. Claude Code, announced in February and widely launched in May, is Anthropic’s terminal-based coding agent that can perform multi-step coding tasks across an existing code base. […]

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the “right balance”, after exiting Mississippi  —  After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach … Source link Please enable JavaScript to view […]

EstrelaBet partners with Stats Perform to expand live soccer betting

EstrelaBet partners with Stats Perform to expand live soccer betting

EstrelaBet, a Brazilian gaming technology company, has signed a multi-year deal with Stats Perform, a leader in sports data and artificial intelligence. Through this partnership, EstrelaBet customers are expected to get access to a much wider range of live soccer streaming and betting options. This follows EstrelaBet’s partnership with Inspired Entertainment last month, expanding its […]

How to Send Your Name to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II Mission

How to Send Your Name to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II Mission

September 10, 2025 2 min read Your Name Could Orbit the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II The public can submit names to travel along with four astronauts on an orbital journey to the moon next year By Clara Moskowitz edited by Dean Visser The Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft sit […]

The orange iPhone stole the show

Fresh off a day filled with new Apple products, The Verge’s ground team reports back on everything they’ve seen — and touched. Allison Johnson walks us through the new iPhone Air, iPhone 17, and iPhone 17 Pro lineups, making sense of all the new camera features and wondering just how thin a phone really can […]

Inclusive Classrooms in 2025: Community Despite Restrictions

Inclusive Classrooms in 2025: Community Despite Restrictions

Creating safe, inclusive classrooms feels more challenging in some places across the United States—but it’s far from impossible. Here’s how real teachers are ensuring that every student and family feels safe, seen, and welcome in 2025. Teaching in 2025: The Challenges of a Divided Country Ten Commandments posters in classrooms. Bans on signs that say […]

Is There Life on Mars? This Rock May Hold the Answer

Is There Life on Mars? This Rock May Hold the Answer

September 9, 2025 4 min read This Rock May Hold Proof of Life on Mars The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once inhabited the Red Planet By Humberto Basilio edited by Lee Billings NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up […]

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Nasa rover finds rocks on Mars with potential signs of past life

Rebecca MorelleScience editor NASA/JPL The rocks are covered with unusual markings that look like leopard spots Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. The mudstones, found in a dusty riverbed by Nasa’s Perseverance Rover, are dotted with intriguing markings nicknamed leopard spots and […]

The Download: AI’s energy future

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six months researching the climate and energy burden of AI, we came to see one number in particular as our white whale: how much energy the leading AI models, like ChatGPT […]

Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children. Being raised by “refrigerator mothers,” the researchers explained, was what caused autistic people’s difficulties with social communication and sensory processing and their repetitive behaviors and […]

Discovery Education Unveils New Resource Collection to Boost Student Engagement in Career Exploration During Workforce Development Month

Charlotte, NC (Wednesday, September 10, 2025) – Discovery Education is now offering a new collection of high-quality digital content, immersive learning resources, and virtual field trips to boost student engagement in career exploration during Workforce Development Month and beyond. Discovery Education is the creator of essential PreK-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world.  […]

Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Gone Quiet. Here’s Why

Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Gone Quiet. Here’s Why

September 10, 2025 3 min read At the Peak of Hurricane Season, the Atlantic Is Quiet. Here’s Why Hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin is historically at its peak on September 10—but not this year By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson In May, as Atlantic hurricane season loomed, meteorologists worried that above-average tropical activity, […]

What Is Alpha-Gal Syndrome? Symptoms, Causes and Way to Get Tested

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Imagine suddenly becoming allergic to a hamburger—or a steak or bacon or even certain cosmetics and medications. It’s happening to a growing number of people across the U.S. and around the world. And the culprit is a tiny tick bite. Alpha-gal syndrome is one of […]

Researchers Create 3D-Printed Artificial Skin That Allows Blood Circulation

Researchers Create 3D-Printed Artificial Skin That Allows Blood Circulation

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from elsewhere on the body. However, this method not only leaves large scars, it also does not restore the skin to its […]

The Art And Science Of Attribution In Learning Measurement

The Art And Science Of Attribution In Learning Measurement

The Attribution Challenge: More Than Just Timing If you’ve ever presented training results to leadership only to hear “But how do you know the training actually caused that improvement?” – you’re not alone. This question haunts L&D departments worldwide, and for good reason. The business wants proof, not just promising numbers that happened to occur […]

Critical Thinking Questions Stems For Any Content Area

Critical Thinking Questions Stems For Any Content Area

by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking isn’t a skill, nor is it content knowledge or even evidence of understanding. While it involves and requires these ideas, critical thinking is also very much a state of mind — a willingness and tendency to sit with an idea and ‘struggle wonderfully’ with it. In critical thinking, there is […]

Australia approves vaccine to curb killer epidemic

Australia approves vaccine to curb killer epidemic

Watch: Researchers ‘hopeful’ after koala chlamydia vaccine approval A vaccine which could save Australia’s endangered koala population from a rampant chlamydia epidemic has been approved for rollout for the first time. University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) scientists have spent more than a decade developing a jab to curb the spread of the disease, which […]

Finding Sustainable Funding for Early Learning: How Khan Academy Kids Can Help

Finding Sustainable Funding for Early Learning: How Khan Academy Kids Can Help

We know many district leaders are navigating a difficult moment. With ESSER funds ending and budgets stretched thin, you’re still working to meet ambitious literacy and math goals for your youngest learners. It can feel like a balancing act—supporting students and teachers while keeping costs predictable for the long term. Affordable Early Learning Programs That […]

‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest than we had thought

‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest than we had thought

The wildebeest migration of the Serengeti involves fewer animals than we had thought Nicholas Tinelli / Alamy East Africa’s “Great Migration” is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each year, according to an AI analysis […]

JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an intelligent civilization beaming a message in our direction, evidence for aliens will most likely come from scrutinizing nearby rocky worlds by using giant telescopes to study their atmospheres for gases that could […]

MAHA strategy released: Targets vaccines, chronic disease, childhood nutrition

MAHA strategy released: Targets vaccines, chronic disease, childhood nutrition

The highly anticipated second report by the Make America Healthy Again Commission lays out the Trump administration’s planned health strategy around priorities including vaccines, childhood nutrition, water fluoridation and exposure to chemicals.  The report, which tracks with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stated priorities, sets in motion various initiatives but lacks […]

A ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy on the Food Industry

A ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy on the Food Industry

September 9, 2025 3 min read A ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy on the Food Industry A childhood health report led by RFK, Jr., links poor diet, chemicals, inactivity and “overmedicalization” to worsening U.S. pediatric health By Dan Vergano edited by Jeanna Bryner Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Criticisms of the food industry have gone […]

Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only 4 at Walmart

Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only $264 at Walmart

Don’t want to shell out big bucks on a new television? Walmart is offering an $86 discount on our favorite budget TV. This 55-inch 4K panel from Vizio comes in well under $300, a downright steal for the features on offer here, which includes Dolby Vision, Variable Refresh Rate, and a great smart interface. Photograph: […]

Australia approves vaccine to curb killer epidemic

Mitchum apologises after deodorant left users with itchy, burning armpits

Faarea Masud & Connie BowkerBBC News Mitchum Mitchum has apologised after customers were left with “burning armpits” A well-known deodorant brand has apologised after some of its roll-on products reportedly left customers with itchy, burning armpits. Consumers of Mitchum’s 48-hour roll-on anti-perspirant and deodorant complained on social media of having “agonising weeping spots”, redness and […]

Trump’s Health Cuts Make States Struggle to Spot Disease Outbreaks

Trump’s Health Cuts Make States Struggle to Spot Disease Outbreaks

September 8, 2025 4 min read Trump’s Health Cuts Leave States with Gaping Holes in Disease Surveillance AI now scans for bird flu and measles news, but public health officials say outbreaks can go undetected as the U.S. guts national and global tracking By Charles Schmidt edited by Josh Fischman Dead birds infected with bird […]

Australia approves vaccine to curb killer epidemic

Protect Arctic from ‘dangerous’ climate engineering, scientists warn

Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists have warned. These polar “geoengineering” techniques aim to cool the planet in unconventional ways, such […]

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility

Chemicals in marijuana may affect women’s fertility

When Canada legalized cannabis in 2018, its effects on human health were all over the news. Cyntia Duval, a women’s health researcher at the University of Toronto at the time, wondered how its consumption might affect female fertility. To her surprise, there was almost no information on the subject — though there was plenty of […]

Empower Your Students with Our Python Course for High School Teachers

Empower Your Students with Our Python Course for High School Teachers

Introducing Khan Academy’s complete Introduction to Computer Science – Python course Educators, we’re excited to unveil the newly completed Introduction to Computer Science – Python course from Khan Academy—a rigorous, engaging, and classroom-ready resource built to help students develop real-world programming skills while saving you valuable prep and grading time. Whether you’re teaching a full-year […]

U.S. ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Is Short on Details—but Not on Cash

U.S. ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Is Short on Details—but Not on Cash

In January President Donald Trump made a bold pronouncement, calling for colossal investment in a missile defense shield called Iron Dome for America, later renamed the Golden Dome for America. It would coordinate missile interceptors that could be fired from the ground or from space, as well as radar arrays, lasers, electronic weapons and networks […]

Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues. The UK’s Department for Business and Trade recently released evaluation results from its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial showing that while overall satisfaction was […]

Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state (Associated Press)

Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's vast digital surveillance state (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Investigation: IBM, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China’s vast digital surveillance state  —  BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody … Source link Please […]

California sweepstakes ban bill heads to Senate vote amid tribal opposition

California sweepstakes ban bill heads to Senate vote amid tribal opposition

California’s bill to ban sweepstakes casinos has made it through to a Senate vote, even as tribal opposition ramps up. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to remove Assembly Bill 831 from the suspense file and advance it to its next phase, a vote in the Senate. The decision came despite mounting opposition from a number […]

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden

The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have it. We pestered Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, but each company refused to provide its figure. Researchers we spoke to who study AI’s impact on energy grids compared it to trying […]

Rising Temperatures Boost Sugar Consumption, Raising Health Concerns

Rising Temperatures Boost Sugar Consumption, Raising Health Concerns

September 8, 2025 3 min read Rising Temperatures Lead to A Spike in Sugar Consumption Warmer temperatures are associated with higher consumption of sugary beverages and frozen treats, raising concerns about long-term health effects By Andrea Thompson edited by Dean Visser Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images When the heat sets in, the siren song of the […]

Fossils of Extinct Coelacanths Faced a Case of Mistaken Identity for Over a Century

Fossils of Extinct Coelacanths Faced a Case of Mistaken Identity for Over a Century

Fossil hunting has led to countless cases of mistaken identity throughout the ages. Most recently, archaeologists have resolved a mystery involving extinct coelacanth specimens housed at several museums across the U.K. These fish, which lived during the end of the Triassic around 200 million years ago, have been mistaken for a different reptile species ever […]

This laser would shoot beams of neutrinos, not light

This laser would shoot beams of neutrinos, not light

The subatomic particles called neutrinos are famously elusive. But an unconventional trick could make a laser beam of the aloof particles. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

The Future Of Homework In The Era Of Generative AI

The Future Of Homework In The Era Of Generative AI

The Rising Concerns About Generative AI Changing The Way Students Do Homework Homework has always played a key role in learning. It helps reinforce what students learn in class and gives them a chance to practice skills on their own. For years, homework has been seen as a way to build discipline, improve problem-solving skills, […]

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?

“It has a huge, huge impact on almost every facet of life,” says Duncan Boak. “Not being able to breathe properly. Being bunged up all the time. Blowing your nose constantly, snot running out of your nose constantly, not being able to sleep, facial pain. And it is one of the biggest causes of smell […]

Barrett defends Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in new interview

Barrett defends Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in new interview

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning the federal right to an abortion and pushed back on the idea that the high court has a role to play in making medical judgments. In her first television interview since her confirmation five years ago, Barrett said Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s […]

Why Your Office Chair Should Have Lumbar Support

I also spoke to John Gallucci, a licensed physical therapist and athletic trainer who specializes in treating symptoms from poor office posture, and he confirmed much of what Egbert said. Closed case, right? Well, it’s certainly not just marketing speak so that office chair manufacturers can charge you extra. But there are some important factors […]

PredictIt wins approval to be full prediction market under CFTC

PredictIt wins approval to be full prediction market under CFTC

PredictIt is set to relaunch in the United States as a fully fledged and approved political prediction platform after Aristotle confirmed that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved its applications.  The company that services PredictIt has received the green light to operate as both a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and a Derivatives Clearing […]

Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with “MDMA” and “IBOGA.” Booths publicize organizations such as […]

Viruses in the Gut Protect Us and Change with Age and Diet

Viruses in the Gut Protect Us and Change with Age and Diet

September 8, 2025 2 min read Little-Known ‘Gut Virome’ Protects Us—And Changes throughout Our Lives A new review study examines the “gut virome”: the microbiome’s mysterious viral population By Kate Graham-Shaw edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Viruses have an understandably bad reputation. But deep in our digestive system, a lot of them are quietly working […]

NASA’s InSight Lander Reveals Mars’s Lumpy Mantle in New Seismic Study

NASA’s InSight Lander Reveals Mars’s Lumpy Mantle in New Seismic Study

Marsquakes, Vaccine Politics and Mammoth Microbiomes A common nasal spray shows promise in reducing COVID risk, but vaccine access remains tangled in policy in the U.S. By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the […]

The Wizard of Oz’s revamp draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross B in its new run (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

The Wizard of Oz’s revamp draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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Disabled doctors consider leaving NHS over shift inflexibility

Jenny ReesHealth correspondent, BBC Wales British Medical Association Dr Alice Gatenby has been told “it’s too much hassle” to change shifts to accommodate her disability A disabled doctor, who believes the NHS sees it as “too difficult or inconvenient” to give her support, says she has considered leaving the profession. Dr Alice Gatenby said senior […]

Couples Are More Likely to Share Psychiatric Disorders, But Why? : ScienceAlert

Couples Are More Likely to Share Psychiatric Disorders, But Why? : ScienceAlert

For those partnered up in a long-term relationship, studies have shown that different health characteristics can sometimes be shared across the couple – and that extends to psychiatric disorders, according to new research. Based on an analysis of more than 6 million couples across Taiwan, Denmark, and Sweden, an international team of researchers found that […]

How AI Avatars And AI Chat Tutors Are Personalizing Education

How AI Avatars And AI Chat Tutors Are Personalizing Education

What Are AI Avatars And AI Chat Tutors? In recent years, education has changed massively, shifting from traditional classrooms to digital learning experiences and blended learning. This change is not just convenient for students but also more personalized. Students want to engage actively in their education, not just passively receive information. They seek learning that […]

Trump defends RFK Jr.: 'He’s a different kind of a guy'

Trump defends RFK Jr.: 'He’s a different kind of a guy'

President Trump on Sunday defended Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has come under increasing criticism from Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill over his handling of vaccines and other issues. Trump has given somewhat conflicting messages over the last several days about Kennedy, defending his Cabinet member while also defending […]

How to Add WIRED as a Preferred Source on Google (2025)

How to Add WIRED as a Preferred Source on Google (2025)

As you’ve probably noticed, Google has gotten … weird lately. Weirder? It can be hard to find the search results you’re looking for. Between AI summaries and algorithm changes resulting in unexpected sources, it can be tricky to navigate the most popular search engine in the world. (And publishers are feeling the strain, too.) Earlier […]

Survey Results Show People Prefer More Human Involvement in AI-driven Art

Survey Results Show People Prefer More Human Involvement in AI-driven Art

Think of your favorite piece of art—a painting, a song, a novel, a movie or even a video game—and try to remember why it made such a strong impression on you. Was it the color, the cadence of notes, the way the writer made you feel understood, the deep emotion of the actors? Now imagine […]

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach […]

Ant Queens Birth Hybrid Offspring Using Another Species’ Sperm

Ant Queens Birth Hybrid Offspring Using Another Species’ Sperm

September 7, 2025 3 min read These Ants Are Different Species but Share a Mother Ant queens of one species are sexual parasites that clone ants of another species to create hybrid workers that do their bidding By Max Kozlov & Nature magazine Queen Iberian harvester ants (Messor ibericus) can give birth to ants of […]

An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)

An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)

SemiAnalysis: An in-depth look at AWS’ underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence  —  Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS.  Today, the evidence has mounted. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered […]

AI Literacy Is The New Digital Literacy: What Schools Should Teach

AI Literacy Is The New Digital Literacy: What Schools Should Teach

Integrating AI Literacy In K-12 Schools Artificial Intelligence is a part of our daily lives in ways we barely notice, much like the internet once was when it first came out and completely changed the way we learned, communicated, and worked. Just as digital literacy became a must-have skill in the 2000s, AI literacy is […]

GOP unease about RFK Jr. doesn't shake Trump's faith

GOP unease about RFK Jr. doesn't shake Trump's faith

A combative Senate hearing Thursday exposed growing cracks in Republican support for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has set off panic across the public health world with his moves to curb vaccine access, approval and research.  But despite the efforts of some key GOP senators to drive a wedge […]

The Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2025)

Enter the MagSafe Accessory World Joby GripTight Tripod Mount for MagSafe I have been testing MagSafe accessories for years, and you should totally take advantage of the vast ecosystem with your new Pixel. Whether you want a magnetic wallet or phone tripod, we have plenty of WIRED-tested recommendations in our guides. Most of them should […]

Scientists Sequence Bacterial DNA from Germs in Mammoth Teeth

Scientists Sequence Bacterial DNA from Germs in Mammoth Teeth

September 6, 2025 3 min read A Mammoth Toothache: Bacterial Community Discovered in Mouth of Ancient Mammoth Genetic-sequencing techniques have identified microorganisms that lived in the mouths of ancient mammoths By Katie Kavanagh & Nature magazine Ancient mammoth teeth, pictured here, contained DNA from 310 different species of bacteria. An analysis of the bones and […]

Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

“Hi there Gina, hope you’re having a great day,” said another exactly two weeks later. “My name is Christine, I am a land buyer. I’m reaching out to see if you have any plans to sell the lot.” The text was signed by “Twin Acres.” Twin Acres is not a registered real estate broker. Grist’s […]

Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)

Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan  —  BANGKOK — Some 60 kilometers north of Bangkok in the old capital of Ayutthaya, China’s Victory Giant Technology is in the hectic final stages … Source link […]

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Help! Should I Go Into School Leadership or Run the Other Way?

Help! Should I Go Into School Leadership or Run the Other Way?

Dear We Are Teachers, I’ve been teaching for nearly a decade, and lately, admin has been nudging me toward leadership roles—department chair, maybe even assistant principal down the line. I’m flattered but also skeptical. I’ve seen what leadership looks like at my school: nonstop meetings, no time with kids, and even less appreciation than teachers […]

Tips To Reduce Bias In AI-Powered Interviews

Tips To Reduce Bias In AI-Powered Interviews

Are AI Interviews Discriminating Against Candidates? Business leaders have been incorporating Artificial Intelligence into their hiring strategies, promising streamlined and fair processes. But is this really the case? Is it possible that the current use of AI in candidate sourcing, screening, and interviewing is not eliminating but actually perpetuating biases? And if that’s what’s really […]

Baby Pterosaur Fossils Show They Died in a Violent Storm

Baby Pterosaur Fossils Show They Died in a Violent Storm

September 5, 2025 3 min read Storm-Tossed Baby Pterosaurs Died with Broken Wings, Fossil Evidence Suggests About 150 million years ago storm winds snapped bones in the wings of baby pterosaurs, sending them tumbling to their deaths in a muddy lagoon in what is now Germany By Mindy Weisberger edited by Andrea Thompson An artist’s […]

Extreme Heat in U.S. Schools Disproportionately Affects Marginalized Students

Extreme Heat in U.S. Schools Disproportionately Affects Marginalized Students

September 4, 2025 5 min read Kids from Marginalized Communities Are Learning in the Hottest Classrooms The first national study of its kind shows that children from marginalized communities are more exposed to extreme heat events By Humberto Basilio edited by Andrea Thompson A fan moves air around in a third-grade classroom in Denver, Colo., […]

Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we’ve ever seen

Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we’ve ever seen

The possible galaxy in an image from the James Webb Space Telescope NASA, ESA, CSA, CEERS, G. Gandolfi Astronomers might have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, nearly 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they caution there could be other explanations too. Giovanni Gandolfi at the University of Padua […]

This Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex

This Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex

September 5, 2025 2 min read This Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for Sex Researchers have finally traced the origin of the spotted ratfish’s bizarre forehead teeth, which are used for mating By Kate Wong edited by Jeanna Bryner The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern […]

ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability. […]