Fantastic Four’s Pedro Pascal Recalls Working With Trainer To Stretch Limbs 50 Feet.

Hurricane Katrina warned us. We haven’t learned.

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers.

Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time.

Trump’s retreat from the world has been great for China.

Israeli F-16I Navigator Opens Up About Striking Iran.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program. Moronic beyond words.

Purple Earth hypothesis.

Trisomic rescue via allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage using CRISPR-Cas9 in trisomy 21 cells. Whoa.

Against the Censorship of Adult Content By Payment Processors.

Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions.

What Keeps the Lights On.

Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas.

Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them? Many people will hurt themselves pretty badly if it also hurts someone they hate too.

Attacks on science are attacks on making and keeping America great. MAGAts really hate science.

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report.

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived. Pure evil.

France recognizing “Palestine” is as irrelevant as it gets. It doesn’t change a single fact on the ground. Palestine is a fake fantasy country.

I Hate, Therefore I Am.

Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say.

Intel is laying off 24,000 employees and retreating from some countries.

House Makes Moves to Block Pentagon from Canceling E-7 Wedgetail. Good. Satellites cannot replace that capability.

Institutional landlords see new competition from an unexpected source.

Superheated gold withstands ‘entropy catastrophe’: New method challenges established physics.

Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars. Degrowthers are crying now.

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers.

A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us.

Trump Guts State Department And Staff Warns People Should Be ‘Scared.’

You can’t outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds.

Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? We are not.

Rent Prices Are Falling Fast in America’s Most Pro-Housing Cities.

Medicaid cuts could have ‘far-reaching’ healthcare, economic impacts: study. MAGA: As long as the poor suffer, who cares?

Gender Relations Have Made Dating a Hostile Act.

It’s Obviously the Phones. Indeed. So just shut up clown-ass phone addicts. Your opinion is not needed nor wanted.

New Russian Drone Made Completely Of Chinese Components: Ukrainian Intelligence.

America in 2025 is a nation that is being dragged by malign political forces into a pit of fascism, oligarchy, and hatred.

New TV Novels.

Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe.

In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule.

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI.

If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them?

Fire, Brimstone, and Hegseth: Idaho Christian Nationalists Establish a DC Beachhead.

Trump’s insane war on renewable energy.

Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat.

The three-way battle for the Democratic Party.

Why doctors are finally taking IUD pain seriously.

How Social Housing Won in Seattle, Despite a Flood of Big Tech Money.

It’s time to rethink how we measure labor in the US.

The story of the Coldplay couple unfolded like a soap opera. But was the pile-on that followed a proportionate response? No. It was far more shameful than whatever they were doing.

GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says.

On Ukraine’s Front Line, a Sky Full of Killer Robots.

Opération Satanique would, in some respects, succeed: The Rainbow Warrior would never lead a flotilla to protest French nuclear testing. Instead, it would become the center of one of the most sensational crimes and investigations in the history of New Zealand.

YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others.

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable. Idiot MAGATs can try to pray the solar gay away, but it ain’t gonna work.

The Poker Game Between the US, China, and Europe.

Microdosing Willpower.

The Enshittification of American Power.

How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession.

Japan tells its companies in Taiwan ‘you’re on your own’ if China invades.

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company.

The US economy is more fragile than it appears.

How The Job Market Will Shift In The Second Half Of 2025.

After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials.

Hurricane risk in Florida is escalating. Home insurance is harder to get.

The Democratic Party Remains Committed to Learning Nothing From Its 2024 Defeat.

What is the most unusual design feature you’ve ever encountered in a home you listed or showed?

Trump administration shuts down EPA’s scientific research arm. More idiotic than words can express.

Trump’s Campaign to Crush the Media. Mussolini & Pinochet playbook.

The Painter of the Right. Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

Lessons From Singapore: Breaking Free Of The Impossible Trinity.

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down.

The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party.

The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals.

How the Housing Market For Young People Became ‘A Total Disaster.’

Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely. Agreed. The disaster was worsened by climate change denialism, which a (fucking idiotic) political anti-project.

Wall St. Firms Are Buying Utilities to Tap Into the A.I. Boom.

In recent layoffs, AI’s role may be bigger than companies are letting on. Sure is.

U.S. Reshuffles Arms Deliveries to Free Up More Patriots for Ukraine.

The Return of the “Elderly” Pop Star.

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows. Moronic. That hurts all of us.

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress. Sure will.

Ring Restores Police Video Access.

Eurofighter Typhoon Canopy-Shattering Bird Strike Captured In Amazing Images.

Brain injuries linked to criminal behavior highlight importance of white matter tract damage.

The tech that the US Post Office gave us. For 250 years, the agency quietly led the way for commercial aviation, optical character recognition, and more.

What Happens When You Throw a Paper Plane From Space? These Physicists Found Out.

All AI Models Might Be The Same.

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” 125,000 years ago on German lakeshore.

No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude.

America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life. More moronic actions.

They’re Literally Angry at Superman for Being Nice. How James Gunn’s comments about “basic human kindness” triggered a predictable right-wing media meltdown. Fascists gonna fascist.

In Texas, heroes saved lives. Climate realism and government action would have saved more. Yup.

Ground control to Major Trial.

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction.

Young Graduates Are Facing an Employment Crisis.

New Details in Air India Crash Probe Shift Focus to Senior Pilot.

Medical charlatans have existed through history. But AI has turbocharged them.

Trump Administration Injects Even More Bigotry Into The US Military.

A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem.

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds.

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune.

NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World.

On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came. Now that is a writer.

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts.

What Caused the ‘Baby Boom’? What Would It Take to Have Another?

The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge.

If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair. MAGA clowns really are gonna FAFO, aren’t they?

Is remote work only for the rich? Double standard ignites workplace tension.

The Democratic Party Can’t Go Back to the Clinton Era, as Much as “Experts” Claim It Should.

Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age.

Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum.

The scars of the flood: Navigating loss on the Guadalupe River.

How weather conspiracy theories moved from online fringes to state laws. The morons are in charge at every level now.

Computer sales have perked back up while we’re buying fewer smartphones and tablets every year, according to research firm IDC. A computer is the only actually-useful tool that does not brain-rot you.

Trump is enabling Chinese power.

No existing theory of political economy appears sufficient to explain the self-sabotage of Trumpism.

How we lost the ability to think.

Why Donald Trump is facing doubts in the ‘manosphere.’

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress.

The Grand Canyon Lodge was an elusive getaway for nearly a century. Now it’s gone.

Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce.

China Isn’t Playing The Same Game Anymore. And the West still doesn’t get it.

Inflation heats up in June as President Trump’s tariffs start to bite.

Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel. Alrighty then.

Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe.’

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step up.

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here’s how to stop it.

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance.

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations over funding shortfalls. Moronic, like all the MAGA shit.

Let me pay for Firefox!

The Great Splintering: How Digital Tech Shattered Cultural Control.

The first summer we all got staph.

Trump Reaches Deal to Send Weapons to Ukraine.

How the Tragedy at Camp Mystic Unfolded, Cabin by Cabin.

How China’s Military Is Flexing Its Power in the Pacific.

In America’s Return to the Office, Women Are Falling Behind. Evil stuff; RTO is pure evil.

We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.

Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs, thanks to Ken Griffin.

Canada, Japan and Australia: Swing States or Pawns for China?

US Naval Revival in the Indo-Pacific Ramps Up.

Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show.

In a First, Solar Was Europe’s Biggest Source of Power Last Month.

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding.

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus.

Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff.

World must be more wary than ever of China’s growing economic power.

The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations.

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere. I’ll take one.