Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, according to a new study published on Monday in Nature Medicine. The findings could help explain the so-called placebo effect. Researchers trained 34 participants…
Trump has been clear about his pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, which the committee awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in 2025. U.S. Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt…
A role played by Timothy Busfield in the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios rom-com You Deserve Each Other has been edited out in the wake of sex abuse charges filed against the actor, sources have confirmed to Deadline. The news comes as Busfield last week was charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor…
The court is set to hear Ms. Cook’s case challenging her firing as the Justice Department investigates Jerome H. Powell, the central bank chair.
New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.
Veronika the cow is the first recorded non-primate mammal to demonstrate flexible, multi-purpose tool use Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for…
The AI industry entered 2025 with strong momentum. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger. The industry didn’t slow down in 2025. While less companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion, four — Anthropic raised…
MIAMI — Indiana is on the cusp of capping off one of the most dramatic program U-turns in the history of college football. Miami is on the verge of completing a generational revival, as it has mostly slogged through its existence in the ACC since joining in 2004. The No. 1 Hoosiers (15-0) have been…
The Prince and Princess of Wales had solo events on Thursday, which I’ve covered separately. William cosplayed a “lumberjack” (his words) by doing a little skit at a farm and orchard. Kate gawped and jazz-handed her way through a Windsor Castle reception for England’s women’s rugby team. You might say, hey, good for them, already…
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Memorial Lecture Series in Stanford, California, US, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell plans to attend oral arguments on Wednesday at the Supreme Court in a case challenging the…
