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On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Shawn Gorman and John Gilpatrick discuss how reality may have been missing an entire layer all along.
For over 30 years, scientists have wondered about one particular feature of Neptune: its auroras. Now, thanks to the telescope, the truth is out.
Both teams look to sprint out of the gates in Game 3 while San Antonio attempts to grab back home-court advantage.
Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections. Kay Ivey signed the measure into law Friday shortly after the legislature approved…
The finding is a major setback for Democrats in their effort to counter GOP-led redistricting in other states. The measure approved April 21 gave Democrats an edge in four districts.
President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners. Trump said Friday that such a halt to hostilities could be the “beginning of the end” of the long war between them…
Partial results from local elections in England show significant losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and gains for Reform UK. Starmer insists he won't resign after the votes, which are seen as an unofficial referendum on his leadership.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. was expecting a response from Iran on a peace proposal Friday, adding, "we'll see what the response entails" and that he hopes it's "a serious offer."
California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in America, and Gov. Gavin Newsom still refuses to suspend the state gas tax as critics warn Sacramento’s energy policies are pushing the crisis…
The Trump administration has sent mixed signals about how tough it intends to be in vetting powerful new computer models.
The space company's first-quarter revenue surged 63.5% year over year, and its forward guidance also topped analyst expectations
Ladder Season 14 begins on May 22. Glean the differences coming with Patch 3.2 based off your feedback from our recent PTR.
For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically. Scientists say they have figured...
Blue Moon MK1 is inching closer toward launch readiness.
Get real-time NBA Basketball coverage and scores as New York Knicks takes on Philadelphia 76ers. We bring you the latest game previews, live stats, expert picks and recaps on CBSSports.com
The San Francisco 49ers star and former Miss Universe announced that they are expecting their second child.
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The solid figures came despite rising gas prices and economic uncertainty sparked by the Iran war.
Lumentum’s stock performance ranks sixth in the S&P 500 this year. Now the optical company is set to join the Nasdaq-100.
The plan isn't final and could change, but his ouster would be no surprise.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rises Friday but lags the Nasdaq's jump. Chip stocks including Qualcomm spring higher.
The momentum trade — buy what’s winning, sell what isn’t — was already running red-hot heading into this week. Now a pause in the Iran war, strong US jobs data and another sharp rally in AI chips just piled on more fuel.
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Results cement prop firm as one of the most profitable on Wall Street
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By Nichola Groom May 8 (Reuters) - Top solar companies, banks and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S.
In his first earnings call as C.E.O., D’Amaro dropped a 3,000-word mission statement preaching A.I., a “One Disney” strategy, and a super-app to end all super-apps. But perhaps what’s most telling is what he glossed over: coming layoffs, the rising costs of s…
A belief in resilience underwritten by big lasting state support is keeping stocks high
Nvidia stock and IREN were both rising after the companies agreed to deploy five gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
AMD stock has new low and high price targets from analysts following the company’s latest earnings report.
Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) was one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar as he highlighted AI winners to buy for 2026. Cramer highlighted it as an AI...
Crimson Desert's next major update will be released in a few days' time, and will include new special mounts, features and bug fixes.
There are a ton of great Horadric Cube recipes in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, and these are the most important ones in the game.
Sorry ol' JRE has been quieter of late, Pokéfriends. Just been a very busy (and occasionally very stressful) couple of months as we approach the midway point of 2026 (already?!), and the time to write with now three high schoolers and all else going on has ju…
He most recently served as a producer for Super Mario Bros.
Helldivers 2 players have criticized Arrowhead Game Studios for some time. An official response from the devs promises many improvements.
"It's a bad decision and kind of funny."
The Japanese company behind Mario says "global market conditions" contributed to the decision.
Couldn't get hold of one of Valve's pricey (£85) but fancy new Steam Controllers before they sold out? There's possibly a solution for you.
Congratulations!…
The return of Aliens and Sinking City!
A study published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology has identified the earliest evidence of prehistoric occupation by island dwellers of northern Sri Lanka. Long thought to be unsuitable for human occupation due to its scarce stone resources an…
A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope. The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 galaxy 45 million light-years away. The galaxy's active nucleus is powered by a supermas…
Earth's atmosphere did a number on this spacecraft.
In hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we thought.
It should be possible, but getting there will require a greater understanding of subsurface physics.
It's like playing dodgeball! Except the ball is traveling at 17,000 mph!
Astronomers have found a breakthrough the "little red dots" mystery, suggesting they're an extreme object powered by supermassive black holes.
New research reveals that Dante Alighieri's Inferno wasn't just a masterpiece of literature: it was a gedankenexperiment in impact physics. From multi-ring craters to shockwaves that reshaped the globe, discover how a 14th-century poet modeled a planetary imp…
Over the past few decades, some physicists worldwide have been investigating unusual particle-like magnetic structures known as topological solitons. These structures could potentially be leveraged to develop new cutting-edge technologies, such as new magneti…
"Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3."
The deciding factor was what we felt like was the team’s impact to humanity."
Jupiter and Venus will appear in a line with the waning crescent Moon in mid-May, providing a perfect opportunity for some quality stargazing.
Ew, get it off me.…
Experts say that because this strain of hantavirus typically requires prolonged or intimate contact, it is not as contagious as covid during the pandemic.
McIlroy fielded zero questions earlier this week related to LIV Golf and the recent news that the league was losing its Saudi-backed funding. After his second round Friday, the world No. 2 faced questions primarily centered around the topic.
'Mortal Kombat II' & 'Devil Wears Prada 2' In Smackdown At Weekend Box Office With $40M-$42M Apiece
'The Girls Next Door' alum Holly Madison breaks down 'weird' group sex with 'Playboy' founder Hugh Hefner in new interview with Kristin Cavallari: 'Nobody liked it.'
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The broadcast network's rebuke comes amid a broader fight with Chair Brendan Carr over the company’s TV station licenses.
Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Frid…
Anthropic now relies on a huge SpaceX data center for AI compute, tying Claude's rapid growth and reliability to Elon Musk.
Moderna ($MRNA) shares are surging 14% at the time of writing as investors react to the hantavirus and the biotech company’s early vaccine work. The virus has been back in
The Fitbit Air looks like a Whoop rival on paper, but its bigger significance may be what it says about growing consumer fatigue with smartwatches.
The Official Weights Of The Athletes Competing May 9 At Prudential Center In Newark, NJ
A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of the moon. The new details can help guide some of the planning…
The A20 Pro chip for this fall’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra sounds like it could be extra special. Here are its two big rumored upgrades.
Vitamin K shots, which help the blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for newborns, along with an antibiotic eye ointment and the hepatitis B vaccine.
The fitness tracker has new AI features coming too.
Micron Technology and Sandisk stock continued their historic rally this week, thanks to a flurry of AI headlines signaling overwhelming demand and limited supply for memory.
Cloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff. CEO Matthew Prince says because of AI efficiency gains, the company doesn't need as many support roles.
More than 500 people will be affected by the closures. “We must refocus on our core business,” Porsche CEO and executive chair Michael Leiters said in a statement. "This is the indispensable foundation for a successful strategic realignment.
In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a sudden, unexpected wheel separation, thanks to the wrong grease and loose nuts.
Anthropic PBC has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. to meet surging demand for its artificial intelligence software, according to people familiar with the matter.
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.
An independent probe found that high humidity levels inside the Mission substation sparked an outage that left 120,000 customers without power.
So. Much. Winning.…
Meta was hot during its early glory days, but it's starting to look as though it's entered a long, inexorable death spiral.
Prepare for liftoff this June
The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize
Looking good…
You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldn't be your problem.
The 1987 sequel deserves better than a reputation as an impossibly difficult failure of a game
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says that some games need to be cheaper to make or they won’t be made at all
In an earnings presentation, Sony called AI a “powerful tool” for making PlayStation games but said that it’s only meant to “augment” the capabilities of its creative teams.
Both versions managed to sell an impressive amount in the first month and a half on sale.
Full year operating income for Sony's Games and Network Services rises 12% while net sales remain flat
She's certainly committed to the cause
Google has introduced a Play Services requirement for passing its next-generation ReCAPTCHA system, which is bad news for de-Googled phones.
"We have not yet decided on at what timing we will launch the new console, or at what prices," says Sony CEO.
The Nürburgring may be heaven for the likes of the Porsche 911 GT3 and GT3 RS, but the Taycan electric
Dirty Frag exposes Linux systems to root escalation through chained kernel flaws, impacting Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, and others.
The much-discussed mini-game for Resident Evil Requiem has just been made available as part of a new update for the game, which is revealed to be Leon Must Die Forever. Nintendo Switch 2 players can access it now. The mode can be unlocked after finishing the …
A laboratory verified a measles case in a New York City resident, who potentially exposed the highly contagious disease to patrons who visited the 388 Italian Restaurant in Roslyn Heights on May 3.
“We were not well informed,” Cenet said.
A study from researchers at Loma Linda University in California suggests a specific nutrient-rich food — fairly frequently — could be linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease among older adults.
The Brazilian tree extract‘s ‘multitarget’ attack on covid could also foil future strains of the virus.
Testing shows rotor blades won't disintegrate when they spin at supersonic speed.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been on Mars for six years, and its wheels have taken a surprising hit.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has unveiled extraordinary spiderweb-like formations on Mars, providing compelling evidence that liquid water may have persisted on the planet far longer than expected.
NASA’s CHAPEA mission has reached 200 days of its simulated Mars mission, providing invaluable data for future human space exploration.
Suvarna Ramachandran and Jimin George won the Breakthrough Prize for their work on the Muon g-2 experiment, achieving an unprecedentedly precise measurement of the muon's magnetic moment.
You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific survival mechanism?
Told he had a disorder in grade school, Ian González Santos is now 15 and chasing a discovery that could change how the world handles its plastic waste.
Genetics and certain health conditions can cause someone to have flat feet. Experts explain when it can become a problem.
"It's extremely difficult to capture impact flashes with a camera, which is one of the benefits of sending trained crew to observe the moon."
Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s fundamental constants — the deep physical rules that govern everything from atoms to stars — appear to sit within an incredibly narrow “s…
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