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Mueller Announces Parkinson's Diagnosis, Will Not Testify In Epstein Investigation Former FBI Director and Trump special counsel Robert Mueller claims he has Parkinson's disease, and "cannot comply with a request to testify this week before a congressional committee investigating the government's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations," the NY Times originally reported Sunday evening before stealth-editing their article to lead with the committee having withdrawn their request. It's a little unclear how it went down since the Times never issued a correction.Anyway, this sudden Parkinsons' diagnosis came shortly after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena Mueller to testify on Tuesday over the FBI's handling of Jeffrey Epstein while he was director of the FBI. Of note, committee chair James Comer (R-KY) wrote in a letter to Mueller; Because you were F.B.I. director during the time when Mr. Epstein was under investigation by the F.B.I., the committee believes that you possess knowledge and information relevant to its investigation."In 2008, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, negotiated a so-called nonprosecution agreement with Mr. Epstein’s lawyers. Under the deal, federal prosecutors declined to charge Mr. Epstein but he pleaded guilty to a lesser state charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution. As part of that agreement, Mr. Epstein served 13 months at a local prison, where he was allowed to leave custody and work out of his office six days a week.After federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Epstein in 2019, the deal reached in 2008 was widely criticized, as it was seen as far too favorable to Mr. Epstein, who, according to court documents, continued to abuse underage girls in the years that followed. It is not clear how much involvement Mr. Mueller had in the Epstein investigation. -NYTThe Times then spends a considerable portion of the article 'selling' the notion that Mueller's too sick to testify over Jeffrey Epstein - with people such as former AG Bill Barr (also linked to Epstein) having noted Mueller's relatively recent frailty in his memoir. During a key meeting to discuss the findings of Mr. Mueller’s investigation in 2019, Mr. Mueller’s hands “were trembling” and his voice was “tremulous,” Mr. Barr wrote in a memoir published in 2022.“I knew he wasn’t nervous, and I wondered if he might have an illness,” Mr. Barr wrote.Mr. Barr wrote that after the meeting, he and the deputy attorney general at the time, Mr. Rosenstein, discussed Mr. Mueller’s condition.“Wow,” Mr. Barr said he said to Mr. Rosenstein. “Bob has lost a step.”Indeed. Others in Comer's crosshairs include; James Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Hillary and Bill Clinton; and Eric H. Holder Jr., Merrick B. Garland, Alberto R. Gonzales, Jeff Sessions and Mr. Barr, all former attorneys general.Did you catch that Bill Clinton's been seen walking around with a defibrillator? Poor guy might not be able to testify either! These things happen. SATISFACTION GUARANTEE - if you don't like it, return shipping's on us... (Thousands sold, zero returns) Tyler DurdenSun, 08/31/2025 - 22:45
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South Korean companies are racing to cancel treasury shares ahead of a looming corporate law overhaul, with lawmakers are set to weigh mandatory cancellations in September to bolster shareholder value. Listed Korean firms have unveiled 214 share cancellation plans so far this year, nearly double the 109 announced in 2023, according to the Financial Supervisory Service. The tally, which already exceeds last year’s 184 by 16%, includes LG Corp.'s decision to retire about 3.03 million shares, or 1.92% of its total issued shares. The upswing in Korean Inc.’s share retirements comes amid rising expectations that the country’s ruling Democratic Party–controlled parliament will pass another amendment to the Commercial Act mandating the cancellation of treasury shares. The party has flagged its intent to push the bill during the September regular session, which would mark the third corporate law revision this year.The first, passed in early July, expanded boards’ fiduciary duties beyond company interests to those of shareholders. A second reform, approved late last month, strengthened minority shareholders’ power in proxy battles and bolstered the independence of outside directors. Market analysts say firms are accelerating share cancellations to avoid potential disruption once the new rules take effect. Lawmakers have so far floated five separate bills, each with different provisions. “Each bill proposes different cancellation methods or retirement schedules after buybacks,” said an analyst at a local brokerage. “In anticipation of confusion, companies are rushing to cut treasury share holdings.”RETIREMENT PLANS VARYCompanies are taking different approaches, from straightforward retirements to share swaps and exchangeable bond (EB) deals.Last week, Kosdaq-listed Sam Chun Dang Pharm Co. said it would issue EBs backed by 150,000 treasury shares valued at 29.5 billion won ($21.2 million). Analysts saw the move as a last-minute bid to raise cash without selling the shares outright before the law tightens.In August, HyVISION System Inc. and Sebang Co., both Kosdaq-listed, swapped treasury shares worth 4.5 billion won in what was widely viewed as an effort to secure the so-called white knights, or friendly shareholders. ANALYSTS SEE MORE CANCELLATIONS AHEADWith more cancellations expected, analysts say investors should look for companies with heavy treasury shareholdings, relatively low price-to-book ratios (PBRs) and low ownership by their largest shareholders. Canceling shares reduces the total number outstanding, lifting earnings per share (EPS), a key profitability metric.The upcoming corporate reform could also spur controlling shareholders to buy more stock to safeguard their grip.“The new corporate law reform could create opportunities to buy companies with large treasury shareholdings,” said Kim Jong-young, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities Co.According to the Korea Exchange, companies with high treasury share stakes include InfoVine Co. (53.70%), Shinyoung Securities Co. (53.10%), Chokwang Leather (46.57%) and Makus Inc. (46.23%). Their shares have rallied sharply as controlling shareholders’ ownership remains relatively low. InfoVine has more than doubled since June, while Makus has surged 80%.By Eun-hyeok Ryu and Jeong-Soo Hwang [email protected] Seo edited this article.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of RxSight, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXST) between November 7, 2024 and July 8, 2025, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period", of the important September 22, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline.SO WHAT: If you purchased RxSight securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the RxSight class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=42362 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for more information. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 22, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
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Bollywood, famed for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and vast production crews, now finds itself confronting a new kind of spectacle: artificial intelligence. From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India’s multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm for some, excitement for others. The debate first erupted when producers re-released the 2013 hit [...]The post Bollywood reels as AI reshapes Indian films appeared first on Digital Journal.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of PubMatic, Inc. (NASDAQ:PUBM) between February 27, 2025 and August 11, 2025, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 20, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline.SO WHAT: If you purchased PubMatic securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the PubMatic class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=43810 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 20, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
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Hong Kong stocks rose the most in more than two weeks on Monday, as Alibaba Group Holding surged after quarterly profits beat consensus estimates.The Hang Seng Index rallied 2 per cent to 25,588.12 as of 10.11am local time, heading for the biggest advance since August 13. The Hang Seng Tech Index...
Australian police arrested a man on Monday after a car was driven into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney. New South Wales Police said they were called to the Russian consulate after reports that an unauthorised vehicle was parked in the driveway. Officers attempted to speak to the driver, who then allegedly “drove [...]The post Australia police arrest man after Russian consulate car crash appeared first on Digital Journal.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE:NVO) between May 7, 2025 and July 28, 2025, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 30, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline.SO WHAT: If you purchased Novo Nordisk securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Novo Nordisk class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=34168 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for more information. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 30, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
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She Couldn't Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students but Fail Society Authored by Hannah Frankman Hood via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER),A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write.The student, Aleysha Ortiz, graduated from Hartford Public Schools in the spring of 2024 with honors.She earned a scholarship to attend the University of Connecticut, where she’s studying public policy. But while she was in high school, she had to use speech-to-text apps to help her read and write essays, and despite years of advocating for support for her literacy struggles, her school never addressed them.Her story is shocking, but unfortunately, it isn’t isolated. At 24 Illinois public schools, not a single student can read at grade level. Nationwide, 54 percent of the American adult population reads at or below a sixth grade level. Put a different way: only 46 percent of American adults gained even a middle-school level mastery of literacy—let alone high school or collegiate levels.In a first-world country where we spend nearly $16,000 per student per year to educate our children, that’s a horrifying statistic.Literacy is supposed to be the bedrock of a free and liberally educated society. As the Washington Post’s motto so aptly reminds us, “democracy dies in darkness.”Illiteracy is a form of darkness, and an illiterate populace is not one equipped to handle the demands of a world filled with forms and papers and words, let alone be the voting citizens of a democratic society.What Do Literacy Stats Actually Mean?Officially, the United States reports a basic literacy rate of 99 percent (which should perhaps be called into question, if students like Aleysha Ortiz can graduate with honors and still be illiterate).But “basic literacy” is a bit of a sales pitch. It sounds impressive, but in practice, “basic literacy skills” means a K-3 grade level of reading—things like Hop on Pop and Amelia Bedelia.“Functional literacy” is what actually matters: the ability to read and understand things like forms, instructions, job applications, and other forms of text you’ll encounter in your day-to-day life. It measures both technical reading skill and comprehension—your ability to decipher the words, and your ability to discern their meaning.An estimated 21 percent of American adults (~43 million Americans) are functionally illiterate, meaning they have difficulty reading and comprehending instructions and filling out forms. A functionally illiterate American adult is unable to complete tasks like reading job descriptions or filling out paperwork for Social Security and Medicaid.Perhaps worse still is the statistic that 54 percent of the American adult population reads at or below a sixth-grade level. Most of us don’t think about reading in terms of grade level, so this statistic feels intuitively bad but practically meaningless. What is a sixth-grade level?Books written at the sixth-grade level are intended (in both literacy and comprehension skills) for eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Think of books like A Wrinkle in Time, Percy Jackson and The Olympians, and The Giver.They’re good stories, but they don’t require the same vocabulary and mental acuity as making sense of a tax form. This is an excerpt from The Giver:Garbriel’s breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn.More complex than Dick and Jane or Hop on Pop, obviously. But this isn’t an adult level of comprehension. If your reading abilities cap out here, you’re going to encounter a lot of text in your day-to-day life that’s difficult to decipher—often things that are important for you to be able to comprehend, like the terms of a lease agreement or the instructions on a medication.Has It Always Been Like This?Our public education system has been plagued by literacy struggles for decades. But American literacy was not always in such poor condition. Famous American historical texts are particularly interesting to study as an example.Second only to the Bible, the most popular work of the Colonial Era was John Bunyon’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It sold millions of copies, and Benjamin Franklin described it as being found in nearly every colonial home. As Harriet Beecher Stowe later wrote, “no book, save the Bible, has been more read by the common people.”Its language is not watered down for the literarily meek:“Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and works. If he mentions Christ, it is not as the Savior who took our place, but as a good example of an exemplary life. Do we need a good example to rescue us, or do we need a Savior?”This is, again, well above a sixth-grade level. Today, “heresy” is considered to be a college-level word. “Exemplary” is eleventh grade.Pilgrim’s Progress was used for both spiritual and literacy instruction, and Protestant early America (especially in New England) valued a literate population, one where every man could read his own Bible.Today, over half the American population cannot read and understand that passage. So what happened?America’s Literacy Woes: A Brief HistoryAlas, our literacy crisis has existed for nearly as long as our public education system. In the 1950s, mere decades after the public school system entrenched itself as part of American life, Rudolf Flesch wrote a scathing book titled Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pulled no punches about our already staggering literacy failings.At the time, official reports were that around 95 percent of American adults were literate. But Flesch, and other critics like him, were raising growing concerns about functional literacy and reading comprehension. Not “can Johnny see the words on the page and know what each one says,” but “can Johnny understand what he’s reading?”Flesch argued that the answer, in many cases, was no.We trundled on. In the 1980s, Reagan’s administration published the landmark paper titled A Nation at Risk, in which Americans were warned about our falling academic test scores—including our literacy—and that if the trend wasn’t corrected, it would lead to a national crisis.Fifty years later, the trend has not been corrected, and we are a nation in risky waters, especially considering the financial lengths we’ve gone to trying to improve it. As a nation, we spend nearly $16,000 per student per year on our public K-12 education. Nationwide, we spend $857.2 billion per year on public K-12 schools.If that isn’t buying literacy for all, then what exactly is it paying for?The issue, in part, is the approach. In the Sold a Story documentary podcast series published in 2022, Emily Hanford started a controversy by pulling back the curtain on how reading instruction is done in America. For decades, schools have been instructed to teach children to read using the whole-word method (or the look-say method), not phonics, despite the clear empirical evidence that whole-word methods do not create literacy.Phonics is the cheat code that allows readers to decode language: memorize 26 letters and their corresponding 44 sounds, and unlock the lifelong ability to sound out nearly any word you will ever encounter in every language using the Roman alphabet (about 3,000 languages, making it the most widely-used alphabet in the world).Children learn to read first by learning the alphabet and memorizing each letter’s sounds, then slowly stringing those sounds together into words: h-o-p o-n p-o-p. Over time, they build the muscle to decode longer and longer words, building their comprehension skills along the way.The whole-word method, on the other hand, bypasses phonics altogether.Children are taught to read by recognizing words, not by sounding them out, in what one critic calls ‘a psycho-linguistic guessing game.’ If they don’t recognize a word, they’re encouraged to guess its meaning by context clues—in the early years, by looking at the pictures in a picture book; in later years, by gleaning the context from the words around them. If you experienced Dick and Jane readers, you were exposed to early whole-word education. This approach to reading is mere word memorization, not true literacy mastery. The concept of phonics—prerequisite to meaning-making and accurate decoding—is never even introduced in many school systems.Once we learn to read, we often use the whole-word method as a shortcut—you’re likely reading this sentence by recognizing the words, not by sounding them out. But if you bypass the ability to sound out words you don’t know (and to phonetically write words you don’t know how to spell), you break the foundation of actual literacy. This is what many public school classrooms have been doing for decades—teaching from a long-disproven method we know puts students at risk of illiteracy.But even this is only part of the problem. The methods for tracking student progress and understanding their level of mastery are also broken. Some kids are fully conscious of their struggles to read, like Aleysha Ortiz. But other students come home with glowing report cards, and no one, students or parents alike, realizes that anything is wrong. This is why ACT scores are falling while high school GPAs are rising. Grade inflation has rendered report cards meaningless as a measure of overall academic performance.Some of the problem is nuanced—GPAs include things like diligence in homework and class participation as well as test results, while ACT scores measure only rote academic performance—but teachers are also often pressured to keep their pass rates high. Funding and policy are often tied to student performance and graduation rates, so schools are incentivized to keep students passing and moving through the system, even when they’re not learning.To many, it may be inconceivable that teachers would continue to teach in a way they know doesn’t work, bowing to political pressure over the needs of students. But to those familiar with the incentive structures of public education, it’s no surprise. Teachers unions and public district officials fiercely oppose accountability and merit-based evaluation for both students and teachers. Teachers’ unions consistently fight against alternatives that would give students in struggling districts more educational options. In attempts to improve ‘equity,’ some districts have ordered teachers to stop giving grades, taking attendance, or even offering instruction altogether.Grade inflation, social promotion, and a general disinterest in individual outcomes keep kids shuffling along the conveyor belt. Aleysha Ortiz used speech-to-text apps to help her write her high school essays, which were strong enough for her to graduate from Hartford Public School with honors. Like Ortiz, students keep getting passed through the system, passing tests and advancing from grade to grade without ever actually learning the core skills they need to survive in the world.Which is how we’ve ended up with a population where 54 percent of American adults don’t have the literacy skills to read this article, and with a country that will, very quickly, drop behind the world in its overall ability if we don’t turn things around. Tyler DurdenSun, 08/31/2025 - 22:10
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When Congress decided this summer to eliminate $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, it left some 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations, each with unique issues related to their communities and history, to figure out what that means.
He plays a conspiracy activist and beekeeper who kidnaps a Big Pharma executive (Emma Stone), convinced she is about to destroy the earth. He shaves her head and resorts to torture.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles in a weekend visit before he depar...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement permanently banning the operators of an alleged e-commerce business opportunity scheme and their affiliated companies from the industry. ...
Updated on September 1st, 2025Crusaders Heaven is one of the best Roblox combat games based on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. As you play, you'll see that the exciting skins, trading system, and accessories make Crusaders Heaven interesting not only for JoJo fans but also for those who like collectables. In this article, you will find every in-game skin sorted into an impressive Crusaders Heaven tier list. ... [MORE]
The cast of The Wizard of the Kremlin is looking stylish on the red carpet at the 2025 Venice Film Festival! The actors walked the red carpet for the premiere of their new movie on Sunday (August 31) in Venice, Italy. The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le Mage Du Kremlin) is based on the 2022 [...]
The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments — but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist content. Such AI slop — mass-produced content created by cheap artificial intelligence tools that turn simple text prompts into hyper-realistic visuals — [...]The post ‘Fueling sexism’: AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flood internet appeared first on Digital Journal.
Multiple investigations are underway after a Spanish tourist was filmed pouring beer into the trunk of a wild elephant in Kenya. "Just a tusker with a tusked...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Sunday that the war in Ukraine could still last for a long time and ending it quickly at the country's expense was not an option.
CAIRO (AP) — The Iran-backed Houthis raided offices of the United Nations’ food, health and children's agencies in Yemen’s capital Sunday, detaining at least 11 U.N. employees, officials said. The rebels tightened security across Sanaa after Israel killed their prime...
An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday. The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday eveni...
As a U.S. federal judge blocked the deportation of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, the government of Guatemala says in a statement it suggested the U.S. return its children to their home country.
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An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday.
A man caught on video allegedly grabbing a tennis player's hat from a young boy at the US Open has been identified as a millionaire Polish CEO. Piotr Szczerek can allegedly be seen on a now-viral video standing near the child in the stands after Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak...
Watch this rare red aurora in astronaut’s dramatic ISS video Digital TrendsAstronaut shares space view of Earth’s auroras PressReader
General Atomics revealed that the Central Solenoid, which consists of six individual modules each weighing more than 270,000 pounds, will power fusion reactions at ITER.
NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand ScienceDailyThe Cosmic “Hand of God” Just Got Even Stranger SciTechDaily
Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At the center is pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron star only about 12 miles wide that powers a nebula stretching 150 light-years across. The strange hand-shaped structure continues to surprise researchers, revealing puzzling filaments, patchy remnants, and boundaries that defy expectations.
ACM Research's stock is rallying as investors recognize its key role in China's chip independence and its vastly increased long-term revenue targets.
1 September 2025 - Swedish research-based biopharma company BioArctic AB (STO:BIOA-B) and its Japanese partner Eisai Co Ltd (TYO:4523) announced on Friday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA...
ACM Research's stock is rallying as investors recognize its key role in China's chip independence and its vastly increased long-term revenue targets.
ACM Research's stock is rallying as investors recognize its key role in China's chip independence and its vastly increased long-term revenue targets.
Gecko Robotics, founded by Jake Loosararian, deploys AI-powered robots to inspect and maintain aging infrastructure in energy, manufacturing, and defense, collecting vital real-world data to fuel effective AI applications. Achieving unicorn status with a $1.25 billion valuation, the company bridges data gaps for predictive maintenance and efficiency gains. This positions Gecko as a leader in industrial AI innovation.
Deep in the constellation Scorpius, about 3,400 light years from Earth, a spectacular cosmic butterfly is revealing fundamental secrets about how worlds like our own came to exist. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into the heart of the Butterfly Nebula and discovered clues that could transform our understanding of rocky planet formation.
What role can the relationship between oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a recent study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated novel methods for identifying and analyzing Earth-like atmospheres. This study has the potential to help scientists develop new methods for identifying exoplanet biosignatures, and potentially life as we know it.
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned from its mission to asteroid Bennu in 2023, it brought back more than just ancient space rocks, it delivered answers to puzzles that have baffled astronomers for years. Among the most intriguing questions was why asteroids that should look identical through telescopes appear strikingly different colours from Earth.
Rewriting History: AI Unravels the Hidden Origins of Papua New Guineans SciTechDaily
These Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents Could Replace Your Night Light SciTechDailyIt’s a Night Light. It’s a Plant. It’s a Glowing Succulent. The New York TimesChinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlight Live ScienceGlow-in-the-dark plants to replace streetlights? Forget it New ScientistScientists Have Created Glow-in-The-Dark Succulents (And We Want One) ScienceAlert
Tiny fossil rewrites the giant arthropod family tree Earth.comScientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact Popular MechanicsAn ancient signpost: Minute fossils tell big story about arthropod evolution Phys.org
The analysis considered key energy factors, including average screen time, data usage per hour, battery usage, and average background activity hours.The post Power hungry: The apps most likely to drain your device’s battery appeared first on Digital Journal.
The Chicago Cubs agreed to a contract with veteran first baseman Carlos Santana, MLB Network reported Sunday morning.,Terms of the deal were not immed
American consumers are facing a new wave of pricing pressure as companies from food giants to hardware chains warn that tariffs are already making their way onto store shelves.Retailers like Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), and Best Buy (BBY) have all said in recent weeks that some tariff-related...
You wouldn’t normally hear Jim Cramer, of all people, admitting he missed one.However, on the latest "Mad Money" lightning round, he did exactly that, owning up to whiffing on an AI stock that has killed it this year. When a caller brought up the popular picks-and-shovels play, Cramer’s reaction...
After a protracted legal battle with President Donald Trump’s administration, AmeriCorps service and volunteer programs in Washington have been made financially whole again. The federal
A disturbance at a residence in Chesley has led to an increased police presence in the area.
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