The chirp of the cicada, the sound of many summers, has received an electronic upgrade that turns the insects into cyborg loudspeakers playing anything from Pachelbel’s Canon to the theme from Top Gun. The researchers behind the work say it could be used to spread warning messages during an emergency. Naoto Nishida and his colleagues…
“Have you ever seen a fungus move in real life?” Episode 2 of the new season of The Last of Us HBO There was something I loved and something I hated in the first season of The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic TV show based on the hit video game of the same name, in…
A second suspect has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an upmarket Manhattan home for weeks in an effort to steal his cryptocurrency. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after his alleged accomplice was arrested last week. Their alleged victim told police he was hung off…
Tim Parker Political reporter, BBC Leicester Dan Martin BBC News, Leicester BBC A LGBTQ+ flag was flying outside County Hall during the meeting on Thursday Leicestershire County Council’s new Reform leadership has scrapped the authority’s flag flying policy in its first cabinet meeting. The move, approved at a meeting on Thursday, means a previously agreed…
Mathisworks | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images While the government cost-cutting initiative known as the Department of Government Efficiency, which resulted in thousands of federal job cuts, winds down, mass layoffs are still roiling corporate America. Companies are under increasing pressure to trim costs against the backdrop of global economic uncertainty brought on by President…
Stephen HolderJun 16, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest….
Latest Senior Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Add weed use to goofy jokes, outdated clothes, old music and other things Grandpa and Grandma enjoy that could potentially embarrass their kids and grandkids. Marijuana use has increased dramatically among seniors 65 and older in the…
Editor’s note: Ruth Porat recently spoke at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Below is an edited transcription of her remarks. We are living in an extraordinary time for technology, with AI and its application across so many areas being the latest — and by far — the greatest development. Today,…
I spent most of the weekend with my head buried in fantasy baseball rosters. A key deadline in my longtime keeper league is approaching. A bunch of big deals, many of them today-for-tomorrow swaps, have already gone down. And then MLB took over Sunday night and made a trade that dwarfs all of our make-believe…
The ethnicity of people involved in grooming gangs has been “shied away from” by authorities, according to a new report by Baroness Louise Casey. The finding comes after the peer was tasked with producing an audit on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse in England and Wales. The report said ethnicity data…
