More than 40,000 college volleyball fans left Chicago’s Wrigley Field Sunday night without getting to watch the Nebraska-Missouri match due to weather delays, but it was still a win with players doing their best to keep the crowd entertained — with a dance competition., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face…Continue Reading
Microbes from space have fueled the plots of science fiction mainstays like “Project Hail Mary” and “The Andromeda Strain.” But with more space missions launching each year, finding extraterrestrial life in a microbial form is becoming more plausible. What will the response be back here on Earth if—or when—scientists discover extraterrestrial microbes? Will the international policy andContinue Reading
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on Aug. 6, 2026 (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç) Quick facts What it is: The Treasure Chest, a cometary globule in the Carina Nebula star-forming region Where it is: 7,500 light-yearsContinue Reading
Humanitarian official Athena Rayburn dissects the Israeli tactics making life ‘untenable’ for millions of Palestinians., Humanitarian official Athena Rayburn dissects the Israeli tactics making life ‘untenable’ for millions of Palestinians. In this episode, Athena Rayburn, the executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, describes what daily life hasContinue Reading
Two wrestlers have become the latest to flee while abroad, drawing a wave of sympathy as well as legal threats., Cairo, Egypt – Four days after he disappeared from the Egyptian team camp at the 2026 Under-20 World Wrestling Championships in Slovakia last month, 19-year-old wrestler Ziad Hajjaj Abu GabalContinue Reading
Manufacturing an EV battery requires much more than assembling cells. A gigafactory combines chemical processing, solvent recovery, vacuum drying, electrolyte filling, cell formation, cooling, and final battery assembly, all supported by an extensive network of piping and process equipment. During electrode production, solvents such as NMP must be transferred, contained,Continue Reading
Specialists at Schaeffler’s E-Mobility plant in Szombathely, Hungary have developed a process for recovering rare earth magnets from defective electric motor rotors and reusing them in new ones. Seven people in Szombathely and two in Germany worked on the project, which Schaeffler calls “Pioneering Sustainability.” The magnets are pressed outContinue Reading
It used to be that the president of the United States tried to persuade the public to go to war. Franklin Roosevelt’s speech asking Congress to enter World War II produced one of the most famous phrases in American history: “December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy.” LyndonContinue Reading
Traitor 47, who won reelection based on a promise to turn the economy around, now faces a reckoning in midterms centered largely on his economic record…Continue Reading
VIENNA (AP) — The Assad-era government in Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor that was configured to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. The “configuration” and the “technical features” of the nuclear reactor under construction inContinue Reading
Thousands attend Belgrade funeral of former Bosnian Serb army general convicted of orchestrating Srebrenica genocide., Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Belgrade, Serbia – Thousands of people have gathered in Belgrade for the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic, despite warnings against the “glorification” of the former Bosnian Serb army general. Mladic,Continue Reading
A new book uncovers the role the media played in whitewashing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza., The Listening Post Assal Rad built a reputation on social media as the “headline fixer” for her work correcting journalistic sins at major news outlets. The historian joins presenter Richard Gizbert to discuss herContinue Reading