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Cannabis is widely considered to be a stress reliever – at least for some – but there's new evidence that it might actually have the opposite effect when used regularly.
A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat, paired with a short cold shower, increased every type of white blood cell circulating in the bloodstream, including key infection fi…
The blood-brain barrier surrounds the blood vessels that run through the brain, letting in oxygen and nutrients while keeping out toxins and pathogens.
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President Donald Trump has expressed some frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting Tuesday. It will be their first meeting since they launched a joint war against Iran. It's a chance for Netanyahu to smooth…
Even before the US enacted a national shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci pondered whether he might have testified before Congress more than any other official.
Publicly and privately, the president has been musing about aging and fate after his friend’s sudden death. He is set to deliver a eulogy for Graham today.
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) clashed on Monday over the idea of canceling the Senate’s August recess to debate the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, Trump’s No. 1 legislative priority.
In fact, experts recommend it because it can keep you off the hamster wheel of debt. Here's how to find the money in your budget to put toward savings and credit card payments.
Magic 2012 introduced a revolutionary new term, but its other major innovation proved too powerful for its own good.
Even SIE's former president, Shuhei Yoshida, thinks its 'unbelievable' that the company chose to shut down Japan Studio
Dying Light! Power Rangers!…
Master Chief and Red finally have something in common
Despite the president’s comments, patients say these medications have been life-changing, and their effectiveness cannot be ignored.
Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Ancient plants were capable of producing resin to protect themselves 65 million years earlier than previously thought, study finds.
UEFA has rejected a FIFA plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors as a "line that football's governing institutions should never cross" and that the World Cup is "not FIFA's to sell."
A sell-off in semiconductor stocks deepened on Tuesday.
"These are among the best moments in science: seeing something new, unexpected."
Savannah Guthrie's emotional Instagram video may signal a new line of communication as she appears to appeal directly to her mother's kidnapper.
The film has won rave reviews from film critics but a translator of Homer's work was less than impressed.
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The Duxbury father of three children killed in 2023 offered anguished testimony during the first full day of his ex-wife's trial, describing growing concerns in days and weeks before she killed her kids and jumped out a second-floor window.
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Shein disclosed the FTC is investigating its U.S. business, but the nature of the probe is unclear.
Marvell, Lumentum, AXT and Coherent were down double digits following the Corning print.
Ford posts its second-quarter earnings report on Tuesday. Wall Street is looking for operating profit of $2.1 billion from sales of $47.2 billion.
PayPal stock cratered earlier this year. Now, the fintech seeks to prove that its ‘strategic reorganization’ is yielding results.
GSK has unveiled an ambitious three-year plan to divert resources to its late-stage R&D programs and shift its research headquarters—but CEO Luke Miels is being tight-lipped about the extent of | GSK has unveiled an ambitious three-year plan to divert resourc…
Here's what to know about the recent bacon recall, including affected products and reasoning behind it.
Apple's market cap reached $5 trillion.
S&P 500 futures drop. Investors are bracing for a big week of mega-cap earnings and a Federal Reserve meeting.
is eliminating about 2,600 jobs as Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney seeks to make the firm more efficient as it competes in an increasingly tough payments industry.
Major stock indexes were mixed on a busy Tuesday featuring a flurry of corporate earnings reports and the start of a Federal Reserve interest-rate meeting, with shares of chipmakers weighing on the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500.
AI companies use tokens to track usage and bill customers. Now economists are using them to track the spread of AI through the economy.
The Levothyroxine Sodium Tablets were recalled because they aren't fully effective, said the FDA.
UPS beat Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year guidance in its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday.
Stocks are beginning to feel the pressure from rising bond yields.
Investors are looking for the bottom in SpaceX stock.
The public is fed up with the high cost of living, and the Federal Reserve is once again under pressure to act.
"The pace of layoffs is accelerating faster than our models initially predicted"
According to the latest quarterly report from Capcom, Pragmata has sold over 2.5m copies, while Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 8m.
Nioh 3 downloadable content “Hell Rising” will launch on August 19, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team NINJA announced. It is included with the Season Pass, which also includes the…
Pitch Black has just released and it will be showcased for the first time at the upcoming World Championships. Personally, I think this set is one of the
Several online services, including playing digital games, are affected.
You can't buy the real-life Master Chief Lambo, but you might be able to win a model version, and in just a few days, you can drive the video-game version.
If you’re buying ‘physical’ copies of GTA 6 in Japan, you’d better act fast and download that code lickety-split, else it might expire while you’re not looking.
Only one state in the U.S. has seen more measles cases than Utah so far this year.
Science News: Tasmanian devils, dogs and shellfish are some of the only animals that are known to carry naturally occurring cancers that can pass between individual.
The new model released by the U.S. space agency distorts sea level to show variations in Earth's gravity, helping scientists improve navigation systems.
"That's the first time that's ever been done."
Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming.
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The ocean has long been home to giants, not just during the modern era but throughout prehistory…
How do tissues cope with being stretched for hours or even days? A study led by researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has uncovered an unexpected answer: Cells radically reorganize their internal scaffolding and, in the process, …
A new study using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years. Andromeda, a spiral galaxy comparable in size …
Scientists directly witnessed the birth of new ocean floor for the first time, revealing how Earth's crust forms.
A team of astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has observed an extremely rare "wandering" black hole located tens of thousands of light-years from the center of its galaxy. This finding could reshape scientists' understanding of how …
SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage will slam into the Moon near Einstein crater on August 5, 2026 at 5,400 mph, giving scientists rare impact data.
Let’s ignore physics, feasibility, and money and see where these brilliant astronomers would want to explore.
Grenadian police said Tuesday that their nearly week-old search for a missing North Carolina woman is still active, with hopes of finding the swimmer alive.
McConnell's absence is fueling speculation about his capacity to serve.
Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires in Gironde.
Apple Inc., after spending years as a laggard in the smart home market, is preparing a dramatic new push into the category with fresh devices and software.
Apple is announcing an iPhone lease option weeks after raising iPad and Mac prices due to the global memory shortage.
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been dealing with talc-related lawsuits for years, said in a statement that the settlement is conditione…
Families grieved on Monday as they remembered the three people killed in a shooting at a food festival.
Boeing took a $280 million charge on its long-delayed Air Force One program.
Fisher says critics misunderstand LeBron's career, insisting he creates contenders instead of jumping onto them.
The row sparked after the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending the term of the UN high commissioner for human rights.
Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot were discovered as being publicly accessible.
Tom Holland is earning rave first reactions for his fourth "Spider-Man" movie, which opens the door to his next era in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Nasdaq 100 Index is on track to enter a correction as worries about the eventual payoffs from artificial intelligence investments sour sentiment in the technology giants that have powered most of this year’s stock-market advance.
Concerns about financing, Chinese competition and hyperscaler spending pressured semiconductor shares.
Two of the MBTA's summer commuter rail discounts — including 50% off monthly passes — will continue through November, Gov. Maura Healey's office announced Tuesday. Additionally, the T will pilot three new fare discounts across the rest of the system.
Amazon reshapes its AI strategy by deprecating most Nova AI models and shifting resources to Pieter Abbeel's Frontier Model Research initiative.
As Amazon pours $200 billion into AI this year, Bezos says the company's next act will define the next decade.
As if we’ve not seen enough already, yet another leak is reiterating some Pixel 11 details, including the higher starting...
Just when you thought Pokémon GO Fest was over for another year, it turns out one more global adventure is still ahead! Mark your calendars for Pokémon GO Fest 2026: Mega Finale, happening September 5th and 6th, 2026. We don't know any details yet, but Scopel…
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The spin-off was in development between 2025 and 2026, before layoffs hit the retro-inspired developer famous for its beat 'em ups and platformers.
The Model Context Protocol’s biggest update yet makes MCP stateless, strengthens security and governance, and positions AI agents for large-scale enterprise deployment across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
While Meta and so many other companies are focused on smart glasses, smart rings make interacting with tech, and AI, much simpler.
Mother seals usually stay close to their pups and this polar bear tried to use that fact to its advantage.
Nintendo's fresh take receives a glowing reception
Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, routing up to 90% of tasks to the model while GPT-5.4 handles the hardest 10%.
Hard to argue with that
A shortage of memory chips has impacted the entire computer market, affecting Macs and PCs alike. Apple and other companies have raised prices, but...
Humans aren’t the only ones who benefit from nepotism – female hyenas pass down their privilege to their children, whereas males do not
These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.
If you had to pick one spec on Samsung’s top-end flagship that doesn’t feel all that “Ultra,” it’d probably be...
We talked to Henri Stern Watch Agency chairman Hank Edelman about Patek Philippe's bet on mechanical watchmaking.
Experts say the adorable armored creatures may be the culprit behind a rising number of cases of an ancient disease.
Health officials are urging visitors to take extra precautions against chikungunya, particularly in one popular beach area.
Ancient DNA from the Medici brothers' remains revealed a novel malaria strain, offering scientific proof against longstanding poisoning rumors, researchers say.
Researchers have found that being multilingual may delay dementia diagnoses and that the brains of people who spoke two or three languages looked six years younger.
It’s tough to guess who’s having more fun here — the little boy or the pups surrounding him. In the video shared by @candra.burnett, three Golden Retriever p...
Heavy TV viewers had smaller brain volumes and white matter damage tied to cognitive decline.
New lipid-lowering therapy, administered subcutaneously just twice a year, offers significant and sustained reduction of LDL-C across a diverse group of patient populations.
A stray dog waited beneath the bushes until kind humans returned, replacing her makeshift shelter with a loving foster home.
While the results of the mouse study were promising, the benefits of rapamycin were only temporary.
With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems.
California is among a number of states seeing more COVID cases this summer. Is there a cause for alarm?
Evolution has engineered a creature that shouldn't exist—a fish that thrives in conditions that would pulverize almost any other organism on Earth.
“By the time you feel thirsty, your body is already dehydrated,” one expert warns.
It might be in your pantry right now.
A teenager who was swimming in a Maryland lake was bitten by a beaver that tested positive for the rabies virus.
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A new way for hard-to-treat cancer cells to protect themselves from being killed by anticancer drugs has been found. The novel method involves tumors hijacking specific defenses for repairing damaged DNA, which are easier to block than previously known mechan…
Health officials in Florida confirmed the state's first death from the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus. Vibrio infections have also been reported in Alabama and Connecticut this year.
The “MAHA” pseudoscience industry has made mold its latest obsession, but moldy, unsafe housing is too important of a political issue to leave to the grifters.
Evidence suggests collagen supplements may modestly improve muscle mass and strength, but experts say whey remains the better-supported option.
Every year, untreated tooth decay sends thousands of young U.S. children to emergency departments for dental problems doctors can't treat. Many eventually undergo surgery under general anesthesia, while others endure pain and infection.
Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.
Scientists confirmed that the crater dates back around 390 million years ago.
The longest-living animals on Earth are predominantly marine creatures that reside in the deep sea, which slows their metabolism and reduces disease
A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered charcoal inside black pigments once thought to contain only minerals, allowing them to use radiocarbon dating. The results show that a bison …
To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.
The mad scientist is a classic stereotype in cartoons and comic books. We've all watched a wild-haired character pour something into a beaker, only to have it blow up in their face. In reality, researchers follow strict safety guidelines during experiments.
Uranus doesn't just experience extreme seasons—its lopsided orbit traps each pole in decades of uninterrupted darkness or light, creating weather patterns unlike anything else in the solar system.
Low carbohydrate high fat diet restricts lipid availability and limits metabolic capabilities of glioblastoma stem cells to inhibit their contribution towards tumor recurrence.
Two essays ago, I showed here that a spacecraft accelerating at the Earth’s surface gravity, 1g=9.8 meters per second squared, can bring…
A young astronphotographer manages more than 500 loaned telescopes on 40 acres of gently rolling terrain outside of Rockwood.
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the evolutionary record of the genus Apis.
A spacecraft no thicker than a hardcover book keeps its instruments cool enough for humans while the sun tries to incinerate it at 1,400 degrees.
The Moon is slowly stealing Earth's rotational energy, making each day microscopically longer—a process that has been stretching time since the planet's formation and will continue long after humans are gone.
Sealed beneath Antarctic ice for millions of years, a hidden ocean-sized lake challenges our understanding of life's limits and Earth's hidden frontiers.
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