What we learned from Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated podcast interview
If there’s one thing male sports fans want, “it’s more of me,” the NFL footballer’s girlfriend joked.
Rebel or traitor? Trial of Hong Kong’s rebel mogul Jimmy Lai resumes
Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Chemistry on trial: How a professor tried to convince a court she didn’t kill her husband
While the accused mounted a self-argued defence using science, the court found her guilty of murder.
Putin reaffirms ‘friendship’ with North Korea before Trump talks
Kim Jong Un provides Moscow with artillery, missiles – and as a BBC investigation shows, labourers working in ‘slave-like’ condition.
Virginia school board votes to refuse to follow administration’s anti-trans order
A public school district in northern Virginia voted yesterday to keep its current pro-trans policies despite the administration’s orders to ban trans students from using
Curcumin activates SIRT3 to protect bone structure in diabetic mice
In a new Scientific Reports study, curcumin protected bone-forming cells from high-glucose damage by activating the SIRT3/FoxO3a/NRF2 antioxidant pathway and restoring mitochondrial health. In diabetic
ISSCR updates guidelines to address advances in stem cell-based embryo models
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) released an update of its 2021 Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation today.
Disrupting dopamine pathway stops threadworms from burrowing into the skin
Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best
Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?
In June, headlines read like science fiction: AI models “blackmailing” engineers and “sabotaging” shutdown commands. Simulations of these events did occur in highly contrived testing
New research sheds light on what makes the human brain unique
Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain
Polestar sets production car record for longest drive on a single charge
Ars recently reviewed the Polestar 3, the large electric SUV from the performance-oriented Volvo spinoff. There is a lot to like about the big Polestar
New mouse model reveals key role of osteocytes in osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) refers to a group of rare genetic bone disorders that results in the formation of fragile bones. In patients with OI, the
Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was a ‘bystander’ outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says
President Tweety McTreason’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a “bystander,”
Thieves have stolen millions in a string of armored car heists in the Philadelphia area, authorities say
Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating whether two suspects accused of stealing more than half a million dollars from an armored car this week are connected