The handwriting was round and bubbly, the hallmark of a teenage girl. The paper was unremarkable, a lined sheet that could have come from anywhere. Tiffany Simpson had written and rewritten this letter, trying to get it right. She was 19 years old, a ...

A man in the UK said his puppy saved his leg after chewing the big toe "to the bone" while he was asleep. According to The New York Post, David Lindsay was taking a nap on the sofa with his bulldog Harley nearby. He was woken up by his wife ...

“Book more sustainably” — that was the message German airline Lufthansa marketed to travelers when it launched its new “Green Fares” in February. Lufthansa’s new program gives passengers the option to spend a little more money to purportedly reduce t ...

Minneapolis officials have approved loudspeaker broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all times – making it the first major American city to do so. The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday unanimously agreed to amend the city’s noise ordinance, ...

Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.

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Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware, says USC Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joshua Yang, that has become ...

Florence Pugh has released her first performances as a singer-songwriter, which are included on the soundtrack to her new film A Good Person. The British actor has written and performed two songs: the slow ambient ballad The Best Part, and the self-l ...

His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors.

A push by EU fishing nations including France and Spain to weaken how fish catches are reported could see massive overfishing of endangered species and even “call into question” the whole point of setting quotas, according to confidential EU document ...

More Americans now favor legal cannabis than legal tobacco, surveys show, signaling a sharp societal shift from an era when cigarette-smoking was legal pretty much everywhere and pot-smoking was legal absolutely nowhere. Fifty-seven percent of Americ ...

President Joe Biden unveiled his 2023 budget proposal on Thursday.

A series of three studies in Germany found that people living in poverty frequently experience exclusion from different aspects of society and devaluation leading to the feeling of shame. Such shame, in turn, increases their support for authoritarian ...

Mayor Reed Gusciora joined John Dockery and Tahir Johnson outside of Simply Pure Downtown, Tuesday morning to celebrate the business being awarded a Class 5 Cannabis Dispensary license. According to NJ.gov, this license allows Dockery to purchase rec ...

Officials in Michigan and Texas said they were only informed about the plan to send contaminated soil and water from the Ohio train derailment would be sent to them after the plan was already set. "We were not given a heads up on this reported a ...

Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91%—significantly more than previously believed—while the mortality risk of being slightly underweight has likely been overestimated, according to new CU Boulder research. The find ...

The oil washed ashore every day, globs of tarlike ooze blighting sugar-white sand beaches. Rodney Boblitt’s job was to report it. A special agent for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, he was assigned to patrol 14 miles of Panhandle ...

NASA confirmed a meteor that was about 2 feet wide and weighed roughly 1,000 pounds fell in South Texas. Experts believe the space rock broke into several pieces before hitting the ground around 6 p.m. Wednesday near McAllen, Texas.

Construction is a major carbon emitter. The manufacture of cement alone accounts for eight percent of the world’s emissions. But humanity certainly isn’t about to stop building things—in fact, fixing the housing shortage should be near the top of our ...

Synchron's BCI is implanted through the blood vessels and allows patients to operate technology using only their minds.