If there’s one new act poised to jolt the boyband landscape awake again, it’s Absnt Mind – a five-piece collective rewriting what it means to be a pop group in 2025. Blending razor-sharp melodies with emotive-driven alt-pop production, the band has built a reputation for turning teenage angst, late-night confessionals, and stadium-ready hooks into something…
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.
The trade war with the United States, bans on U.S. wine and liquor imports and a recent distributor strike in British Columbia have Canadians giving their homegrown wines another look.
November 25, 2025 3 min read This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land By Taylor Mitchell Brown edited by Andrea Thompson An artistic reconstruction of Spongiophyton during the…
“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.’” That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will respond to seeing the company’s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. The device is the result of the collaboration between OpenAI and Apple’s former chief designer Jony Ive. Not much…
A new report from Common Sense Media is raising major red flags for parents as two popular AI tools, ChatGPT’s updated chatbot and OpenAI’s new video-creation app, Sora. While ChatGPT is still rated “high risk” for children, the group’s latest assessment goes even further with Sora, calling the app “unacceptable” due to the potential dangers…
Lonzo Ball’s froze in confusion. The question – “What do you think about the NBA dress code?” – hung in the air for a second before he cracked a sheepish grin. “There’s a dress code?” he said, smiling. Twenty years after the introduction of a rule that once roiled the league and ignited a culture…
With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
Cereal farming produced excess food that could be stored and taxed LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The cultivation of cereal grains probably led to the emergence of the first states – which operated mafia-like protection rackets − and to the adoption of writing for the purposes of recording taxes. There is wide debate over how…
