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You don t want to wait until you have an accident or an emergency to buy the right gear for your car. Wolfbox makes a wide variety auto accessories, including dash cam mirrors, tire inflators, and even air blowers to clean the surfaces in your interior. Right now, just about everything Wolfbox offer...
NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that powers NASA’s Artemis campaign, future lunar missions, and human exploration of...
People who tend to put things off, even things they really want to do or achieve, are often plagued with a host of unhelpful thought patterns. "Once this happens, then I'll start…" "When I become more XYZ, then I'll really lock in…" "If only this and that were different, I'd be able to start…" Those...
The world’s largest distributed AI computing pool has been activated in China, according to a report. The 1,243-mile-wide computing power pool could achieve 98% of the efficiency of a single data centre.After the distant computing centers were connected, the systems work together almost as efficient...
Age is nothing but a number, yet as we get older, some of us feel as if we can’t compete with our younger counterparts. Whether it’s in love, career, or beauty, some worry that age makes them inferior. This can be particularly true in Hollywood. Stars spend their entire careers under a superficial l...
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Toads can lay between 2,000 and 20,000 eggs in a season. But only one in 50 will typically survive the leap from egg to tadpole to "frog-hood."“They lay those eggs, and they develop into teeny, tiny tadpoles, of which only a fraction ever make it out of the pond,” Dr. Mark D. Scherz, the curator of ...
When Jackson Farmer was in kindergarten at Red Cross Elementary School in Glasgow, Kentucky, one of his teachers noticed that he would often come to school wearing a rubber hand. Farmer was born without a right hand, and the rubber device didn’t give him any functionality, but it did provide the app...
At a Heritage Auctions sale of Hollywood memorabilia in Dallas on Wednesday, a Star Wars painting sold for $3.88 million, breaking the record for an object associated with the series. The work, a painting by illustrator Tom Jung, served as the original half-sheet poster for Star Wars: Episode IV A N...
La Linterna is a traditional printing press/graphic workshop located in the San Antonio neighborhood of Cali. It is not just an old printing press: it is a cultural beacon that resists the digital age with old machines, ink, lead type, rollers, linoleum, engravings, and the soul of several master pr...
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Little girls often dream about what their wedding will be like someday. They imagine a white gown, beautiful flowers, and maybe even the perfect venue. Sometimes they dream really big. Even though some of their most secret wishes may never come true, it’s still fun to fantasize. Emily Emby married h...
Health The problem with the school smartphone debate Study finds most districts already regulate devices. Is the real issue enforcement? Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer December 10, 2025 4 min read Hao Yu.File photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Amid concern about student screen...
On Nov. 8, the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (MIT PKG Center) collaborated with the MIT Club of Princeton, New Jersey, and the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) to prototype tech-driven interventions to the growing challenge of food insecurity in the Trenton, New Jersey region. Twelve...
December 10, 2025 – The Trump administration will direct $700 million into a voluntary regenerative agriculture pilot program that builds on existing conservation programs, top health and agriculture officials announced Wednesday. The funds will be split between existing conservation programs under ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic workaround that helps cells cope with Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare and devastating disorder....
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Sometimes Gen-Xers just want to feel seen, something that doesn't always happen for us. So when a YouTube account called Null Parade created a Gen X–themed ad inspired by Dos Equis, many in this latchkey sandwich generation truly showed their love. In a video titled "The Most Gen X Man in the World ...
‘We are working with government ministries to make sure that our support reflects the scale of current threats’Originally published on Global VoicesVisit of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, to Angola. Image by European Union on the EU website (CC BY 4.0). When an investiga...
Popular GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic may carry an unexpected link to a lower risk of epilepsy in people with type 2 diabetes....
Obesity accelerates the rise of Alzheimer’s-related blood biomarkers far more rapidly than previously recognized. Long-term imaging and plasma data show that obese individuals experience much faster increases in proteins linked to neurodegeneration and amyloid buildup. Surprisingly, blood tests dete...
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk. It is known t...
