Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show. “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want.”

The slush fund manages to combine 3 of Trump’s most alarming behaviors: it is an obvious form of corruption, it continues his pattern of using the Justice Department as an enforcer to punish his enemies, it’s his latest attempt to rewrite history about the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021.

A wolf known as BEY03F seems intent on making history again. The 3-year-old, black-furred wolf has become the first of her kind known to venture into Sequoia National Park in more than a century. BEY03F had passed just south of Mt. Whitney, trekking over terrain rising at least 13,000 ft

What A.I. Did to My College Class An undergraduate at Stanford University tells it from his perspective

Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo

Volcanologist Erik Sturkell has documented the contributions of geologists to the silver screen. #geologists #geologyrocks 🧪

How Weight Lifting Took Over America—one word, Arnold

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The Astounding Discovery That Could Link Eastern and Western Medicine

After 43 Years, an Unproduced Larry David Script Surfaces Online In February, a Reddit user named Aromatic_Zebra_9601 had come across an unproduced Larry David screenplay on eBay called “Prognosis: Negative,” bought it, and now were uploading it for the world to see.

Recently, fossils found in the Silurian strata in Waukesha, Wisconsin have revealed that a long-lost ancestor of myriapods already had many unbranched legs while still living underwater. This contradicts the long held belief that legs were an adaptation to land for millipedes & centipedes. 🧪

In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers found that a simple expansion of existing neural pathways allowed these mice to broaden their vocal repertoire — the same mutation believed to have paved the way for the development of human language.🧪

Indigenous Andean populations have the world's highest prevalence of a gene tied to starch digestion—likely an adaptation to potato-rich diets—highlighting how diet can shape the human genome, proving again that evolution is a fact, not a theory. 🧪

A small solar system denizen farther from the sun than Pluto may be shrouded in a thin atmosphere. If confirmed, it would be the first object of its size known to host even a tenuous atmosphere. 🧪

I hope one of the guests at The Met Gala tonight wears a cardboard box and arrives in an Amazon delivery van, and then the driver throws them on the steps without ringing the doorbell.

This is the latest screwup in Trump’s attempt to create a national database of health providers. What nefarious reason does he have to want to do this?

If this doesn’t scare you about the safety of A.I., I don’t know what will. Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces.

Trump is such a little baby who gets his feelings hurt so easily. No sense of humor as a whole. No self-deprecating humor, for sure. Is it time to cancel my Disney+ subscription again to show support for The First Amendment and Jimmy Kimmel again?

The science behind the Adidas shoes that helped two marathoners break the two-hour mark

Beneath East Africa Rift Zone scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. Surprisingly, the same geological forces may also explain why the region holds such a rich fossil record. 🧪

Medical information of 500,000 participants of one of the UK's landmark scientific programmes, UK Biobank, were offered for sale online in China on the website Alibaba, the government has confirmed. This could easily happen in the USA

Neanderthals may have had a biological capacity for complex language, pushing back the timeline for speech development and suggesting Neanderthals were cognitively more similar to humans than long assumed 🧪

New research on fossils suggests that giant octopuses, named Nanaimoteuthis, measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length, were among the top ocean predators approximately 100 million years ago.🧪

Apple released IOS 26.4.2 today to patch a security hole that the FBI used to extract Signal messages from an iPhone after the app had been removed.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains, “The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. As you approach the speed of light, time stretches and slows down until it reaches the ultimate cosmic speed limit, where time completely stops.”

In another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have reached Iceland for the first time. 🧪

This rift valley in Iceland is a visible part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian Plate & the North American Plate are slowly moving apart at 2cm/year. This boundary passes through Thingvellir National Park. It is the only place on Earth where a plate boundary can be seen on land.

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to new research.🧪

How to Be Cultured I’m not very “cultured.” ☹️

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met yesterday with WH CoS Susie Wiles to discuss Mythos, an AI model designed to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Mythos has already uncovered 1000s of bugs in popular software, such as a 27-year-old bug in an OS widely incorporated into internet routers and firewalls

What happens when something that isn't human makes art? A series of bizarre court battles trying to answer that question centred around this image. Ultimately, it will influence what ends up on your screens and headphones forever.

An analysis of DNA from more than 15,000 ancient humans has revealed that human evolution has accelerated over the past 10,000 years.Accelerated evolution could reflect the intensification of lifestyle changes that started in the Neolithic period, such as new foods and pathogens. 🧪

"Bathtub Ring" is New Evidence for an Ancient Ocean on Mars 🧪

Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet's surface. Analogous features on Earth are signatures of our global oceans, and only form over long periods of time.

Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet's surface.Analogous features on Earth are signatures of our global oceans, and only form over long periods of time. 🧪

Fatou, the world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity, celebrated her 69th birthday with a feast Monday, munching on cherry tomatoes, beets, leeks and lettuce at the Berlin Zoo.

I spent all those hours learning to code…. Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Robert Plant at 77 walks on Stephen Colbert and sings Ramble On like he wrote it yesterday. Thanks for this wonderful music.

‘The Last of Us’ on Eight Legs A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.

Great explainer on the science of petroleum geology and why the Persian Gulf has so much oil and gas deposits 🧪

An illustrative explainer on why our bodies treat pollen like a parasite and what happens inside our immune system.

Mummified reptile that died in Oklahoma roughly 289 million years ago allows scientists to reconstruct the complete breathing system of one of the first species to venture from water onto land. 🧪

In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here’s the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.

Five psychedelic drugs have a strikingly similar effect on brain networks. Researchers saw this ‘signature’ pattern of brain activity in the brain scans of people who had taken mind-altering substances such as psilocybin, LSD and ayahuasca, despite these drugs having a different chemical make-up. 🧪

Fossilized ripples in Martian rocks suggest the red planet once had a thick, Earth-like atmosphere capable of sustaining heavy winds—further evidence Mars' climate may have once resembled Earth's. 🧪

Ronan Farrow new report on Sam Altman and OpenAI. Can Altman be trusted?

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of chelicerates before the group hit it big on land.

Interesting essay. What Were Bob Dylan and John Lennon Really Saying in the Back of That Limo?

I cannot believe this was being considered!! Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request

Mr. Espinosa, Apple’s longest-tenured employee. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak signed the documents to start Apple in 1976, Mr. Espinosa became employee No. 8 at the scrappy start-up that assembled computers by hand in Mr. Jobs’s childhood home.