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Enlarge / Cinnamon buns. (credit: Getty | Christoph Schmidt) Consumer Reports on Thursday reported the concentration of lead it found in 36 ground cinnamon products, leading to a round of startling headlines. The testing is particularly nerve-racking given that it…
Tom Hardy returns for one more round as host of an alien symbiote, in Venom: The Last Dance. Tom Hardy is back for one last hurrah as investigative journalist Eddie Brock, host of an alien symbiote that imparts superhuman powers…
Racism steals time from people’s lives – possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was…
Enlarge / The Google Gemini logo. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google made Gemini Live, its voice-based AI chatbot feature, available for free to all Android users. The feature allows users to interact with Gemini through voice commands on their Android…
A recent study published in The Lancet Psychiatry indicates that many individuals who were hospitalized with COVID-19 continue to experience cognitive and psychiatric issues two to three years after their infection. The study sheds light on the long-term effects of…
Enlarge / Union members cheer during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg)…
Enlarge / According to the state of New York, this guy is the “assman,” not me. (credit: Seinfeld) According to my research, everyone has a butt. But that doesn’t mean, when I’m imbibing my morning cuppa and reading up on…
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of the state of the Earth during its global glaciations. (credit: NASA) Earth has gone through many geologic phases, but it did have one striking period of stasis: Our planet experienced a tropical environment where algae…
Researchers working in the field of agrivoltaics are studying how to combine solar farming with grazing, crop production or ecological restoration.
Enlarge / Sorry about all the black space in the lower-right corner. Nerdfetch does not make good use of the space it’s given—unlike the Asahi install on this MacBook. (credit: Kevin Purdy) Almost nobody truly needed Neofetch, but the people…
