Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It was then that the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an attempt by a citizen journalist to revive her civil rights claim after she was arrested for soliciting information from a police officer. At issue in the case brought by reporter Priscilla Villarreal was whether the officials in Laredo could claim the legal defense of “qualified immunity,”…
Sheinelle Jones is gearing up for the release of her debut book and her first-ever book tour this spring. “Through Mom’s Eyes,” out officially on April 14, is a collection of life lessons shared by women who raised extraordinary people and encouraged by her late husband, Uche Ojeh. “‘Through Mom’s Eyes’ celebrates the quiet, everyday…
MLB Opening Day 2026 is just around the corner as the San Francisco Giants host the New York Yankees in a standalone matchup on Wednesday evening. New York is coming off a 94-68 campaign in 2025. The Yankees lost in the divisional round to the Blue Jays. The Giants, meanwhile, went 81-81 and missed the…
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Today’s top story The Ala Wai Golf Course is seen inundated with water from Hawaii’s worst flooding in decades. (Image credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) The world’s climate is more out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN’s weather agency said in a dire warning today. We already…
As we told you last night, there’s been another tragic example of the consequences from the previous administration’s open border policies combined with Democrat sanctuary city insanity. The results have been disastrous and, sadly, these kinds of stories keep coming. Here’s the latest: This appears to be Laken Riley…
EXCLUSIVE: Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, who launched their hit podcast Las Culturistas in March 2016, are celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new deal. The pair have struck an exclusive renewal deal with iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players. Terms of the multiyear deal were not disclosed, but it’s likely to have been…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It’s the Dodgers, and everyone else, in the National League West this season. The two-time defending World Series champions ponied up a combined $309 million to sign two free agents, world-class closer Edwin Díaz and four-time All-Star corner outfielder Kyle Tucker. The second-place San Diego Padres continued to cut payroll, bidding farewell to…
Colonies of bacterial cells under a microscope. The blue colony is expressing the synthetic genome; the white colonies are Mycoplasma capricolum cells that survived the mitomycin C treatment Nacyra Assad-Garcia A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help…
