My instinct is still to say, “I’m fine. I got this. I don’t need anything.” But I’m slowly letting my village support me the way I always support them. The single-mastectomy surgery went well, and they put in a spacer to prepare for reconstruction, which will happen later. I left surgery feeling relieved and excited…
Testing the body’s stress response A chance conversation with neuroscientist colleague (and co-author) Kale Scatterty inspired this latest study. Scatterty co-authored a 2023 paper demonstrating an aversion in zebrafish to infrasound, specifically an anxiety response that caused the fish to avoid certain tank areas. This suggested a physiological response to infrasound, and Schmaltz wanted to see…
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy moves to repeal the vehicle “kill switch” mandate amid FISA renewal fight, aiming to reverse the Biden-era policy. The amendment targets funding tied to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and related highway safety programs, which support the implementation of Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act under the…
The suspect arrested for the shooting that shut down the 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner and saw Donald Trump evacuated could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison if found guilty, the Acting Attorney General declared today. “Today the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in the United States District Court…
A family is calling for wholesale reform of the gambling industry after an inquest heard details of the life and death of Ellen Mulvey, a “generous and caring” woman with a high-flying City job who also had a secret addiction. Mulvey’s family believe she lost hundreds of thousands of pounds gambling without their knowledge, first…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The average male Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) is about 10-feet-long and weighs around 1,200 pounds. But Chonkers is no average sea lion. At an estimated 2,000 pounds , the absurdly humongous, Redditor-nicknamed marine mammal has captivated onlookers and…
Nothing can ever happen to a Republican without Democrats and their defenders piping up about all the bad things that happened to them. They are always trying to one up violence against Republicans. They’ve resorted to making up plots against Obama that barely existed. I see people mention the…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s podcast is headed to Amazon. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Entertainment, struck a multiyear deal to give Amazon-owned Wondery exclusive distributing and advertising rights to “The Oprah Podcast,” the companies announced Monday. Under the agreement, Winfrey’s podcast will expand to two new episodes a week starting this…
At least 34 people in 13 states have been sickened with salmonella poisoning traced to contact with backyard poultry, including some with infections resistant to common antibiotics, federal health officials said. Backyard poultry include birds like chicken, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and turkeys. The animals can carry germs, including salmonella, that make people sick. Illnesses…
One idea given for the mysterious disappearance of Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago is a difference in brain power compared with early modern humans (Homo sapiens), who invaded their territory in Eurasia and outcompeted them. But a new study of brain variation reveals that Neanderthals and humans were much more alike than previously assumed. Neanderthal…
