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A dying star 1,600 light-years from Earth is surrounded by two rings of gas and dust that astronomers believe are the remnants of the planetary bodies it once hosted.

Ben Ratliff, a music critic and avid runner, always ran in silence. Then he discovered how music opened up to him — while running. It changed his entire approach to criticism and listening. He calls it “running the song.” Today, for the New York City Marathon, Ben talks with...

Scene from the Life of Moses, 1482 #botticelli #sandrobotticelli

Honda has spent decades building one of the most dominant positions in the global motorcycle industry, selling millions of gasoline-powered two-wheelers each year. But in markets where electric motorcycles and scooters are becoming increasingly accessible, that dominance is starting to face a serious challenge.

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On his “Swing Around the Circle” in summer 1866 to drum up support for his party before that year’s midterms, President Andrew Johnson denounced Congress as an illegal body, called certain Republican members of Congress traitors who should be hanged, and compared himself both to his martyred predecessor Abraham Lincoln and to Jesus Christ.

A mysterious particle overlooked for decades may hold the key to why matter survived the Big Bang, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. Scientists believe this forgotten neutrino reshaped the early universe and may have left detectable gravitational wave signals that could help unlock the cosmos’s deepest mysteries.

Scientists have discovered that trees can sense their own shape and straighten their trunks using specialized wood that acts like opposing muscles. This remarkable ability helps trees maintain their posture and could lead to stronger forests, better timber, and more resilient crops.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mechanism that allows high-cholesterol diets to undermine the body's natural cholesterol defenses, and blocking it dramatically lowered harmful LDL cholesterol in mice. Even more promising, an experimental drug targeting this pathway has already passed an early human safety trial, potentially speeding the development of a new treatment for high cholesterol.

Nathan Fielder's hit doc follows Elizabeth Holmes in her own home and unexpectedly opened my eyes to the problems in my own.

AI that respects people and the planet is possible, but it will require a very different approach to the one being forced upon us.

Scott Jenson built a single page thread splitting interface, and I overcomplicated it

Debbie Notkin on sci-fi, public banking in the East Bay, and the voice that never stops hoping.

Dozens of academics become politicians after student group’s stunning victory

The carpet people 1971 When Terry Pratchett published his first novel in November 1971, he was a little-known journalist, aged just 23.

The labs lost a significant share of their staff last year, largely in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to thin the federal work force, the report found.

From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-nominated creator of East of West, The Manhattan Projects, Decorum, and more comes this ambitious science-fiction universe presented by comics titan Jonathan Hickman.A grand new sci-fi epic begins in a bold new univer...

#Executives tied to a data center utility investor with major public projects in the Arctic donated more than $50,000 to candidates supporting Dan Sullivan.

Lombardo PAC support: A conservative PAC spent thousands backing a Green candidate facing fraud investigations

Political movements the world over are creeping towards the fundamentalism of the republic in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

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