Illuminating the Headlines
Around a third of people with major depressive disorder don't respond to standard treatments – but an alternative therapy may be hiding right under our noses.
If you're concerned that you act too aggressively at times, you might be able to regain your calm.
Nearly 1 billion people across the world are affected by sleep apnea – and that's not including the people sleeping next to those with the disorder.
A single dose of psilocybin eased symptoms of depression within days, with benefits lasting for more than three months compared to placebo, our new study has found.
Our love of sugar once helped our foraging ancestors get more bang for their buck from rare, high-energy foods.
As the Trump administration signals hope for a possible deal, Iran says obstacles linger, and "frequent changes" in U.S. positions aren't helping.
It comes after the Ukrainian capital suffered one of the biggest aerial assaults of the war overnight on Saturday.
President Donald Trump plans to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a medical and dental check-up, according to a White House official
Six things to know about the source of the funding and how it would be distributed to people who say the government wrongly investigated them.
President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks at Arlington National Cemetery as the U.S. pays tribute to fallen U.S. service members, with more ceremonies schedule in Washington, D.C., New York and across the country.
Shippers remain cautious and production facilities and inventories will take time to be restored
A top oil market expert warns traders are misreading Iran signals and that a major price spike is coming in July as the Strait of Hormuz closure grinds on.
Susie Lee (D-Nev.) and other Democrats are focusing on the dropoff of Canadian tourists heading into the midterms.
Cruz called Trump Accounts a secret path to privatizing Social Security. The economist who helped build the policy disagrees. Here’s who’s right — and why it...
Nancy Pelosi disclosed about $59 million in trades over three years, which inspired a Senate bill bearing her name. But President Donald Trump disclosed up...
AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban University of Technology and the...
An analysis found that Climate TRACE may substantially underestimate city vehicle CO2 emissions, raising concerns about data accuracy in climate policy.
An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago.
Researchers developed a biodegradable moisture-electric generator made from salt and gelatin that turns humidity into energy.
Ciara Miller is making one thing crystal clear ... her friendship with Amanda Batula is beyond saving after Amanda started dating her ex, West Wilson.
"The Mandalorian and Grogu" topped the box office in its Memorial Day weekend debut.
Mark reflects on what he learned from leading Murders at Karlov Manor and The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.
Consensus and genre labels aren't reliable predictors of what you'll enjoy.
While weighing concerns about regular-season game value and changing the sport’s calendar, commissioners are coalescing around the Big Ten’s push for 24 with the SEC representing the lone—and most important—holdout.
Elon Musk once said a small corner of desert could power the US with solar. Now xAI burns gas for Grok, sells compute to 'evil' Anthropic, and pitches solar in space ahead of SpaceX's IPO.
The companies that aren’t in the ‘Magnificent Seven’ are starting to contribute more to earnings growth
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?
Can XRP ever catch Bitcoin? Here's whether XRP could ever reach Bitcoin's level, and where its real upside actually lies.
An EasyJet flight bound for London was forced to divert to Rome after a passenger told crew they had left a device charging from a power bank in their hold luggage, the airline told CNN.
These stocks are must-buys on the dip.
Bond markets are betting that inflation is here to stay, elevating the stakes for policymakers steering an economy under mounting strain
Dissent within the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) appears to be far greater than initially believed.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges Super Micro (SMCI) to tighten trade compliance after AI server export probes.
Ferrari is hosting the world premiere of its first electric production car on YouTube. Watch the company make history as the Luce breaks cover live.
From the housing market to the corner office, America is paying the price for a generation that never learned to let go
Stick drift plagues countless Xbox and PC gamers, and it's not always an easy fix. That's hopefully changing now that DriftGuard has added full calibration support for ALL Xbox gamepads.
Square Enix has released a 10-minute inside look at the creation of Dragon Quest VII Reimagined.
All thanks to OmniDrive
Nintendo has broken its silence on the next Super Mario game, the first 3D Mario game since Super Mario Odyssey on Switch.
New Steam player record also set
*Hiccups/dev kits permitting
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes int…
In a bid to save Destiny, fans have rallied behind a Destiny 3 petition, and it's accrued more signatures than Marathon's peak player count.
Several Samsung Galaxy users are reporting that dark mode is broken on their devices since the One UI 8.5 update, but workarounds exist.
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Skip the probiotic with your antibiotics, and bolster your microbiome with these three strategies instead.
I feel bad about what I have to do.
To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from.
Cells called macrophages can devour living cancer cells – and may hold the key for successful treatment.
Trying to lower cholesterol? Experts share after-dinner habits to limit, from sitting too long to late night snacking.
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Some popular drinks may keep you dehydrated. Here’s what to avoid and what to sip instead.
An analysis of 85 dinosaur species shows that tiny forearms in meat-eating dinosaurs were the result of an evolutionary trade-off.
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS grazed the habitable zone of the Solar System on a path that was aligned to within 4.88 degrees with the…
Unlike previous attempts, the latest human-made version of silk keeps everything great about natural silk while ramping up its toughness and versatility.
Around 13 November in 2026, Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth. A light-day is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 24 hours.
The journals, written in a secret code, offer a glimpse of how Frank Hawking privately felt about his genius son
In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to stark …
Climate change is slowing Earth’s spin – and there’s nothing quite like it in 3.6 million years
From Isaac Asimov to Andy Weir, we've rounded up the best sci-fi books you have to read.
Sam Levinson unpacked his decision to kill off one of the show's main characters and explained that he had always known it was their fate in an interview with Esquire.
The estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has pleaded guilty to embezzling over 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party. Authorities say he used the money to buy a motorhome and two cars. Peter Murrell, who was the SNP's chief ex…
The pontiff also warned of a "new digital slaveries" in his first encyclical since becoming Pope last year.
Marlon Wayans opens up about reclaiming “Scary Movie” from the Weinsteins and how he negotiates having a trans son and being pals with Dave Chappelle.
Most retail stores will be open for business on Memorial Day, while post offices will be closed.
The FBI is warning about the Kali365 phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS) that is used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing OAuth device code authentication to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Antonio Gracias' Valor entities hold a massive SpaceX stake—and are on the other side of nearly $20 billion in AI hardware financing deals guaranteed by the company.
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Tom Aspinall ripped the referee and boxing for robbing Rico Verhoeven against Oleksandr Usyk
The NCAA baseball tournament bracket will be unveiled Monday. With all the postseason tournaments complete, here's our projection for the field of 64.
Tehran’s parliamentary speaker and lead negotiator travelled to Doha as mediators seek to thrash out final details
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two agencies to the development of a nuclear fission reactor on the lunar surface by 2030. The signing was the formalizati…
Toshifumi Suzuki, the Japanese businessman credited with creating the 7-Eleven convenience-chain global retail empire, has died. The company said Monday that Suzuki, an honorary adviser at Seven & i Holdings, died May 18 of heart failure at his Tok…
Even the state’s most celebrated restaurants are struggling to remain open as costs climb, with no relief in sight.
With discounts on everything from laptops and headphones to smart home gadgets and TV, these Memorial Day deals are the real deal.
Review of the Aman Nai Lert Bangkok. Here's what to expect from the location, rooms, restaurants and bars, amenities, service, and more.
The Meta boss just sacked 8,000 staff, but not before having AI spy on their skills
James Murdoch is taking over New York magazine and Vox, building a different media company than his father’s.
Find out the SSA’s May 2026 payment dates for Social Security and the Supplemental Security Income scheme.
In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: into the k…
Drive-through Cookie Butters and Bikini Bottoms have arrived in the metro, along with gridlock and hour-long lines.
Huang said some executives were blaming layoffs on AI "to sound smart."
Don't judge a granola bar by its wrapper.
European startups like Legora and Lovable are challenging US tech dominance, driven by AI advancements and better access to VC funding.
Let Me Solo Her's evil twin Bowie Knife99's is turning players' Forza Horizon 6 races into battlegrounds
A new report from Bloomberg suggests that iOS 27 might add Google Cast integration, among other third-party solutions, as Apple...
Tesla's VP of Engineering Lars Moravy reveals that he thinks "all the time" about putting carbon-sleeved motors into a tri-motor Model 3 Plaid.
Apple iOS 26.5.1 is on its way, it seems, and is likely to land in a matter of days, while iOS 26.6 may hit first beta soon.
Email surveys sent out to PS5, PS4 users
Fallout: Siege of New Vegas is probably the best example we'll get of what a full Fallout: New Vegas remaster would look like.
Atari and Nightdive Studios have announced that, starting today, a new Nintendo Switch 2 version of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be available. The game previously landed on the original Nintendo Switch. The survival horror game features high…
I might just have to consign my Apple Watch to the great tech junkyard in the sky.
Stephane Ratel on new-breed of GT3 cars developed for the race track first...
See the opening act played on PS5
In news we didn't expect, a 13-year-old PS Vita RPG is coming to home consoles for the first time in the form of a PS5 remaster.
These platforms offer the best entertainment and bang for your buck.
If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.
AMD's next-gen Zen 7 Grimlock CPUs are rumored to utilize TSMC's 1.4nm (A14) process tech & new packaging innovations.
One of Samsung’s upcoming foldable phones seems to exist mainly as a counter to Apple’s rumored “iPhone Ultra” and, with...
Digital Foundry's PS5 emulation test exposes massive CPU bottlenecks, proving why native PS3 games must wait for PlayStation 6
BMW’s product planning specialist for the 3 Series has revealed the M3 will bow out after the 2027MY. A replacement won't come until the 2028 calendar year.
Recently, investigators have taken on questions about common skin lesions that probably don’t need to be removed, a widely used thyroid medication that many older patients can safely discontinue…
"I repeatedly said something was wrong, but my concerns were dismissed.”
Sitting all day may be killing us, but taking quick breaks may be the way to save ourselves — and become more productive.
Kaiser doxyPEP study is promising against STIs like syphilis and chlamydia, but wasn't effective against gonorrhea.
Before you take this as gospel, there’s more you should know.
Hospitals and government agencies have spent the last year preparing for infectious diseases, extreme heat and more.
One of the most powerful health boosters isn't found at your local pharmacy or through a high-end website. It comes straight from nature: high-quality, raw honey.
A long-running study suggests that one of the simplest ways to support healthy aging may also be one of the most effective: eating slightly fewer calories.
The NB.1.8.1 strain has become the dominant Covid-19 variant in Thailand over the past year, although health authorities say there is no evidence it spreads faster or causes more severe illness.
A norovirus outbreak in the Wrightwood area of the Pacific Crest Trail in San Bernardino County has sickened dozens of hikers; public health urges strict hygiene.
She said the country has "a deep bench" even in federal agencies without a confirmed leader.
Kyle Busch’s family says the NASCAR superstar died after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, a dangerous condition that many people do not understand.
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974, watching the dedication of a remodeled radio telescope.For just under three minutes it warbles at the sky. The audience around you has just hear…
There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t seen before is …
On 26 September 1991, eight people were sealed inside Biosphere 2, a three-acre enclosure of glass and steel near Oracle, Arizona. They stayed for two years. And the oxygen in their sealed atmosphere did fall, slowly and persistently, until it reached a level…
This one is h/t Crimson Quillfeather, who will be our new Saturday diarist! I wasn’t expecting the spectrum to ride along, but I’m not objecting! Welcome to the small blue…
Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.
The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption. The assumption is that consciousness is something the brain produces, that the production occurs through the various e…
On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky over a remote stretch of Siberian forest split open. Eyewitnesses — and there were only a handful, because almost nobody lived there — described a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving across the …
Every satellite in the GPS constellation carries atomic clocks, and before launch those clocks are deliberately set to tick at the wrong rate. They are adjusted to run slightly slow. The offset is small and precise, and it is built in on the ground, on purpos…
The buildup of a protein called 𝛂-synuclein (ASN) into toxic clumps is a hallmark of synucleinopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that includes Parkinson's and multiple system atrophy (MSA). These aggregates are associated with cellular dysfuncti…
Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialized knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must combine deep analysis with broad reasoning strategies.
Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel prize winner—that first posed the problem didn't believe it would ever be solved. The solution provides insight into high-dimensional r…
On 14 February 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its cameras back toward the inner solar system and photographed the planets it had left behind. Among the 60 frames was one that caught Earth: a point of light less than a single pixel across, sitting in a …
Scientists are uncovering why some dietary fats may worsen metabolic disease while others appear to help protect against it.
The country releases further details about how it is ‘combining experiences and expertise’ from its crewed and uncrewed lunar missions.
Photonic devices are hardware systems that can process information using light instead of electricity. These systems could potentially perform computations faster than electronic devices, while also consuming less energy.
Your brain can mentally time travel through memory replay, a hippocampus process that helps consolidate memories and may even rewrite them.
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