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…
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….
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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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…
Rescue workers found Mr. Luhn, a journalist who had not been heard from for days after setting off alone in a Norwegian national park.
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’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…
An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered.
Mookie Betts offered a new perspective Tuesday afternoon on his season-long slump, which is that it wasn’t a season-long slump. In his view, it actually extended back to last season. “I really haven’t been right since I came back from my hand last year,” Betts said. Betts fractured his left hand in mid-June last season…
