Some Archaea microorganisms can survive in extreme conditions STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Microbes isolated from Siberian permafrost appear to have remained alive for more than 100,000 years, based on an analysis of their DNA. Their genetic overlap with other species suggests such astonishingly long lifespans may be widespread among the closest living relatives of all…
TikToker Johnbo Stockwell says it’s part of his plan to ‘overthrow Amazon.com.’ Viewers aren’t convinced. An Illinois man keeps buying and returning 110-pound anvils on Amazon—until “someone does something about it,” he says.
25 August 2025 Gavin Rossdale is forever “grateful” to late Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds for talking him out of taking “fatally dangerous” Xanax again. Gavin Rossdale is ‘grateful’ to Brent Hinds for talking him out of taking Xanax again The Bush frontman has spoken candidly in the past about how he was addicted to the anxiety…
Also, a knockoff Starbucks in North Korea.
Months before a jury awarded a $242.5 million verdict against Tesla over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash, the automaker had a chance to settle for $60 million. Instead, Tesla rejected that offer, according to new legal filings that were first reported by Reuters. The settlement proposal, which was made in May, was disclosed…
On an unforgettable evening in New York, Venus Williams offered yet another demonstration of her perpetual greatness as she battled into the night with Karolína Muchová, making the 11th seed’s life difficult across an intense two hours before falling 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 in the first round of the US Open. As Williams took the familiar…
Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Dutt once made for an envious director-actor jodi. Both collaborated for the first time on Vaastav (1999). The film turned out to be a cult and is considered to be one of the most accomplished performances of the actor. Later, Mahesh Manjrekar directed Sanjay Dutt in Kurukshetra (2000), Hathyar (2002), Pitaah…
August 25, 2025 4 min read RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal…
With the start of the NFL season looming, it’s also a window where many TV contracts are up for renewal, and on Monday evening, YouTube TV and Fox sent out alerts indicating that their contract could come to an end as soon as August 27th, at 5PM ET. Google-owned YouTube TV says that “Fox is…
Marc Maron slammed fellow comedians Dave Chappelle and Bill Maher for their politics, critiquing Netflix for siding with the former amid backlash against his jokes about the trans community and the latter for his “desperate chasing of relevance.” In a sprawling interview with Pod Saves America host Jon Lovett, the podcaster and comic reflected on…
