Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Strain Found Preserved in 5,000-Year-Old Cave Ice
Scientists have isolated a new strain of the Psychrobacter cryohalolentis species from 5,000-year-old ice from Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania. The post Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Strain Found Preserved in 5,000-Year-Old Cave Ice appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
Remarkable Sense of Touch in Elephant’s Trunk Isn’t Just about Muscles or Nerves: Study
In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems aimed to characterize the geometry, porosity, and stiffness of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) whiskers. The post Remarkable Sense of Touch in Elephant’s Trunk Isn’t Just about Muscles or Nerves: Study appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…ReadContinue Reading
Ford refuses to shy away from EVs despite $19.5 billion cost
Naysayers have been taking a victory lap for weeks as the Detroit Big 3 has detailed exactly how many tens of billions they’ve lost on electric vehicles. Despite the hurdles, however, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, Ford gave more details about its plan to revolutionize the U.S…Continue Reading
Get a free storage upgrade with this M5 MacBook Pro deal
Image: Thomas Armbrüster Listen, we love MacBooks around here, but we hate paying Apple’s storage upgrade prices. That’s why today’s deal is so good: B&H Photo is selling the M5 MacBook Pro with 1TB of storage space for $1,599, the same price as the 512GB version. Now that’s a deal worth getting! So, the 14-inchContinue Reading
Artemis II Crew Trains on T-38
Monika Luabeya Feb 20, 2026 NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on Feb. 11, 2026, as a waning crescent Moon hovers above. Koch and Hansen, along with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, are part of NASA’s Artemis IIContinue Reading
How much Republican support does The Traitor’s tariff push have in Congress after Supreme Court ruling?
Traitor 47 is promising to use alternatives after the Supreme Court rejected his emergency tariffs. So what kind of support could he get from his party moving forward? Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Dispatch, joins to discuss…Continue Reading
‘It’s chronic disease, stupid!’ The central challenge facing health care
It’s the economy, stupid!” is an aphorism coined by James Carvill during Bill Clinton’s 1992 U.S. presidential campaign to keep workers focused on a key message. It has since been adapted countless times to refocus debates over challenging situations, and it can be applied to the central challenge facing health care: our ongoing failure toContinue Reading
Everything is gambling now: the latest news on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi
Prediction markets will let you bet on just about anything, from how many tweets Elon Musk will post this week to the next president of the United States, with predictions sometimes showing shockingly (or suspiciously) spot-on accuracy. Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Copland has even claimed that prediction markets are “the most accurate thing we have asContinue Reading
Supreme Court Strikes Down The Traitor Tariffs
Today, the Supreme Court drew a clear line, ruling that The Traitor’s tariffs were not within his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Food & Water Watch Senior Food Policy Analyst Rebecca Wolf issued the following statement: “The Traitor’s misguided tariff tantrum has caused an affordability crisis forContinue Reading
Scientists just mapped mysterious earthquakes deep inside Earth
Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, these elusive quakes turn out to cluster in regions like the Himalayas and near the Bering Strait. By developing a breakthroughContinue Reading
GNOME 49: Best New Features
Here’s a quick rundown of the best new features of the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment. GNOME 49, code named “Brescia” is released a while back on September 19, 2025. This release mostly focusses on the software stack updates, concentrated on the native applications and core updates. While it isContinue Reading
Jessie Ware Drops ‘Ride’ Ahead of Her Upcoming Album ‘Superbloom,’ A Sultry Club Anthem Two Years in the Making
Jessie Ware is back on the dance floor, and she’s not easing into it. The British singer-songwriter has released “Ride,” a simmering club track that signals the next chapter of her forthcoming album, Superbloom, due April 10 via Interscope Records. While fans are just getting the studio version, the songContinue Reading
The Politics of Love in Kabul
This year’s Berlin Film Festival opener, “No Good Men,” is, according to writer-director-actress Shahrbanoo Sadat, the first Afghan rom-com. Sadat began working on its script back in 2019, two years before the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul. The Taliban’s 2021 return to power factored in to the story as it developedContinue Reading