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Polygon.comJimoto Saiko isn't like anything MAPPA has made before and could be its best series in years when it lands on Netflix.
Read Full Story →Jimoto Saiko isn't like anything MAPPA has made before and could be its best series in years when it lands on Netflix.
Read Full Story →It's the perfect time to take stock of which teams are set up for success and which might be tumbling out of the tournament earlier than expected.
Read article →Which teams added the most value this weekend? Who whiffed badly? We grade all 32 here.
Read article →In a 15-3 thrashing of the Padres, Dodgers outfielder Kyle Tucker broke out with his fifth three-hit game this season, including a home run during a nine-run sixth inning.
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Read article →We're grading the biggest NBA trades of the offseason, including the deal that sent Miles Bridges from Charlotte to Phoenix.
Read article →The Palm Springs International Shortfest has unveiled its winners for 2026. The winners were announced at Sunday’s award ceremony. Honorees receieved $30,000 dollars in cash prizes, and five films were presented with ...
Read article →Just days after signing a memorandum of understanding, the US and Iran have traded strikes.
Read article →Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”
Read article →Researchers published a landmark study in Nature Neuroscience demonstrating for the first time that chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals recorded in daily life rather than relying solely on patients' subjective reports. Using brain implants in four patients with chronic pain conditions, scientists identified biomarkers in low-frequency activity of the orbitofrontal cortex that reliably tracked each individual's reported pain intensity over months of normal activity outside a clinical setting. The breakthrough matters because chronic pain has historically been impossible to verify objectively, complicating diagnosis, treatment decisions, and clinical trials for new therapies. The findings are part of an effort to develop personalized brain stimulation treatments that could help the estimated 51.6 million Americans living with chronic pain conditions for whom existing treatments remain inadequate.
Read Full Story →An NCAA medical committee formally recommended removing cannabis from the organization's list of banned substances in June 2023, arguing that marijuana does not enhance athletic performance and that disciplinary enforcement belongs at the school level rather than through national testing. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports called for a harm-reduction approach emphasizing education and support over punitive suspensions for student-athletes who use cannabis.
Read article →The quest to calculate pi spans more than 4,000 years, beginning with crude approximations in ancient Babylon and Egypt before Archimedes developed his polygon-based method of exhaustion in the third century BCE, bounding pi between inscribed and circumscribed shapes to achieve accuracy to two decimal places. This geometric approach dominated for over a millennium until 17th-century mathematicians introduced infinite series that converged far faster, enabling calculations of dozens and then hundreds of digits by hand.
Read article →The American office has cycled through radically different organizing philosophies over the past century, from Frederick Taylor's factory-inspired surveillance floors designed for maximum output to the open campuses of Silicon Valley built around collaboration and employee satisfaction. A pivotal moment came in 1964 when Herman Miller's Action Office was introduced as a flexible humanist alternative to rigid rows of desks, only for corporations to reduce its principles to the cramped cubicle farm that came to define corporate life by the 1980s.
Read article →Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.
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