As runners at the London Marathon increased their numbers this week, their hearts were – no doubt – beating a little faster than usual ahead of the big test. Among them was one notable heart: Olympian, world record holder and Boston Marathon winner Des Linden. But Linden is not running the race. Instead, his rapidly… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Saturday passed legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its shares within a year, but we don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon. House Republicans’ decision to include TikTok as part of a larger foreign… Read More »
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. As Earth Day approaches and the Wonder Theory newsletter celebrates its third anniversary in your inbox, I look to the future with hope. We all start somewhere. Encouragement and the… Read More »
Florist John Huiberts stands next to a flamingo made from thousands of organic pink hyacinths. The annual BloemenCorso, or flower parade, in which decorated floats parade through 26 miles of fields in bloom is a sign of changing times in the Netherlands. “It makes you proud,” said the co-owner of Huiberts Biologische Bloembollen, which went… Read More »
An underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of “coral IVF” and recordings of fish sounds could offer a “ray of hope” to scientists who fear the fragile ecosystem is on the brink of collapse. They claim the experiment, a global collaboration between two teams of scientists who independently developed innovative coral conservation… Read More »
More than two decades ago, an Arizona man traveled to Ariz. to report a unique and disturbing discovery. When he called sheriff’s deputies in Yavapai County: While going through his childhood rock collection, he found a human jawbone that was mistaken for a stone. . The county coroner’s office tried for years to find the… Read More »
Everyone loves fast Gen 5 SSDs, but not the prices attached to them. They still carry a lot of price advantages over Gen 4 drives. However, as supply increases, the gap gradually begins to close. The key word there is slowly. The Teamgroup Z540 2TB PCIe Gen 5 SSD is certainly a fast drive at… Read More »
AMD’s upcoming Strix Halo APU is one of the most exciting chips on the horizon, with its console-like features and the promise of more efficient and perhaps more affordable portable gaming. Now a new rumor has emerged that this could be a chiplet design that uses the same eight-core CPU CCDs as AMD’s next-generation Zen… Read More »
Cherry’s switches are reliable, unchanging, and the standard by which most of us evaluate all other switches. So what happens when Cherry changes these? You get the new MX2A Red switches inside the Cherry-made Xtrfy K5V2; This is a new and improved version of the Cherry MX Reds we have come to know well over… Read More »
There is good reason to believe that fish, amphibians, molluscs and insects are sensitive, according to a new declaration signed by three dozen scientists. The New York Declaration on Animal Awareness argues that current scientific research shows such widespread animal awareness is a “realistic possibility” and that scientists and policymakers should take it into account… Read More »