Sudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan
Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.
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A newly discovered gene helped this moss defy gravity
Mosses may appear simple, but they’re far from fragile. They thrive in some of the harshest places on Earth — Antarctica, arid deserts, high mountain peaks and more. “We’ve long wondered about the molecular mechanisms that allow moss to endure such extreme conditions,” says Tomomichi Fujita, a plant physiologist at Hokkaido University in Japan. Fujita…
Final call: Disrupt 2025 ticket savings end tonight
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of shaping the startup world — and tonight’s your last chance to save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Disrupt returns to Moscone West in San Francisco. Join 10,000+ tech innovators, founders, VCs, and ecosystem builders for three days of high-impact programming, networking, and startup energy….
bitchy | Duchess Meghan celebrated her 44th birthday at Funke, an LA restaurant
The Duchess of Sussex’s 44th birthday was on Monday, August 4. She didn’t post anything on her Instagram on the day, but she posted this on Tuesday – she was blowing out the candles on her cake at an LA restaurant, Funke. Funke is yet another Italian restaurant, which must be her favorite (and probably…
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2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship picks, odds, field: Surprising predictions from model that’s called 16 majors
The 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship is set to tee off Thursday at 8:20 a.m. ET, which marks the beginning of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 70 golfers are eligible for the first of three tournaments to claim the FedEx Cup trophy, as well as the $10 million bonus that comes with it, but…
Alec Luhn, Missing American Hiker, Is Found Alive in Norway
Rescue workers found Mr. Luhn, a journalist who had not been heard from for days after setting off alone in a Norwegian national park.
NASA Budget Cuts Could Halt Space Missions, Climate Research, Experts Warn
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s overall funding to just three quarters of what it received last year. When adjusted for inflation the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget would be NASA’s lowest since the…
Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips
Nvidia’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs “do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.” It comes amid pressure from both sides of the Pacific, with some US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to grant the government backdoors to AI chips, while Chinese officials have alleged that they already…
Statue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown
An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered.