ScienceDaily
Mathematicians finally found the donut-shaped counterexample they've been hunting for decades, proving you can't always judge a surface by its local curvature.
ScienceDaily
DNA from a tomb near Paris shows the original population was replaced by newcomers from the south around 3000 BC, likely due to a cheerful mix of plague, environmental stress, and societal collapse.
Ars Technica
Investors have lost billions on a presidential memecoin that's basically a ticket to a party, while insiders cash in and lawmakers ponder if this is, in fact, a terrible idea.
Ars Technica
The FBI is now investigating a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances of scientists, because several members of Congress read about it in the New York Post and decided it was definitely not a…
The Guardian
A tourist faces charges after climbing Florence's 16th-century Neptune fountain for a genital-touching pre-wedding dare, causing €5,000 in damage and continuing a proud tradition of visitors treating…
ScienceDaily
Your routine blood test might be quietly judging your future brain health, as a common immune cell ratio is linked to Alzheimer's risk years before symptoms.
TechCrunch
Rivian starts R2 production after a tornado rips the roof off its factory, because nothing says 'smooth launch' like literal structural damage and a $13,000 price hike.
ScienceDaily
Researchers find a new virus hiding in a common gut bacterium, and it seems to really enjoy the company of people with colorectal cancer.
MIT Technology Review
From microplastics in monkeys to geoengineering in the stratosphere, a new report confirms that the concept of 'untouched nature' is now a philosophical relic.
NASA
Curiosity finds a crater filled with inconvenient sand, passes on drilling, and sets its sights on a new, less problematic rock named 'Atacama.'
TechCrunch
Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown to list concerts, finally catching up to a feature its competitors have had for years.
NASA
NASA releases a photo from space proving that a place called Greenbelt is, indeed, quite green, featuring parks, a historic New Deal community, and a space flight center.
ScienceDaily
The James Webb Space Telescope has found unexpected water ice clouds on a Jupiter-like exoplanet, proving that even alien gas giants can have complicated, cloudy days.
MIT Technology Review
A critic's eclectic mix: a virtual K-pop group for the lonely, a teacher's documentary from the 'most toxic place on Earth,' and a comedian's brilliant Netflix special about forgetting himself.
TechCrunch
Battery recycler Redwood Materials lays off 10% of its staff months after a huge funding round, insisting this is just strategic focus, not a sign of trouble.
Foster City spends $1,300 per goose on lasers, drones, a border collie, and a terrifying pontoon boat called the Goosinator.
NASA's Artemis II crew went to the Moon, set a distance record, called the ISS, and experienced 'Moon joy' - all while testing a space toilet.
Gaza's graduates trade engineering and accounting dreams for spice stalls and detergent sales as war shatters ambitions and the economy contracts by 84%.
Phone tracking data reveals Colombian mercenaries backed by the UAE helped Sudan's RSF capture el-Fasher, with Wi-Fi network names providing the smoking gun.
ZDNet
Your TV's dazzling store display is a carefully engineered lie designed to win a brightness war; here's how to turn off the fakery and get a picture meant for human eyes.
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