Key Takeaways In-store shopping offers instant gratification and sometimes exclusive deals not available online, but you risk dealing with crowds and low stock. Online shopping is convenient, but watch out for crashing websites and fake products. Black Friday and Cyber Monday often offer the best technology deals of the year, and it’s sometimes worth putting … Read more
Getty Images The number of monitored bathing waters in England rated as poor and unfit for swimming has more than doubled, from 18 to 37. 450 sites were regularly monitored this summer with 92% of them reaching the minimum standards for bathing, a slight fall from 96% last year. The Environment Agency – which carried … Read more
If you look at a map, it would appear obvious that the neighboring Norse folks settled both Iceland and the Faroe Islands. After all, Norway is the closest country to Iceland at around 900 miles, while it is also the nearest neighbor to the Faroe Islands — an archipelago of 18 islands in the North … Read more
The tumor microenvironment (TME) contains a number of immune-suppressive cells such as T helper 1–polarized regulatory T cells (TH1-Treg cells). However, little is known about the mechanism behind the abundant presence of TH1-Treg cells in the TME. We …
Los Angeles is teeming with beautiful places to walk, but for many of us, our favorite paths are those that are closest to home. These are the walks we do again and again, when we need to shake out our blues, get a new perspective or just enjoy some of our city’s famous sunshine. So … Read more
Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their thoughts. “We’re excited to announce the approval and launch of a new feasibility trial to extend BCI control using the N1 … Read more
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of quetzalcoatline azhdarchid pterosaur, Nipponopterus mifunensis, from the Late Cretaceous of Japan. Life restoration of a group of giant azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie. Image credit: Mark Witton / Darren Naish. Pterosaurs were highly successful flying reptiles (not dinosaurs, as they’re commonly … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace — celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz — recently held broad investments in health care, tech, and food companies that would pose significant conflicts of interest. Oz’s holdings, some shared with family, included a stake in UnitedHealth … Read more
When COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev stepped to the podium at the closing meeting of the Baku climate summit on Sunday morning, hoping to clinch a hard-fought agreement on global climate finance, he carried with him two speeches. One was crafted around a hoped-for deal being struck, while the other for the possibility of a summit-collapsing … Read more
Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a “mini moon,” a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger gravitational pull. First spotted in August, the asteroid began its brief gravitational interaction with Earth in late September. After its departure, … Read more