Health
Bacon, ham, salami and sausages have long been under scrutiny because of their connection with colorectal cancer. Now one of Europe's largest long-term nutrition studies has added concerning evidence about two other cancers. Researchers following more than 450,000 people for an average of 14.1 years
Personalities
Some actors become inseparable from one character. Sir Ian Holm somehow became unforgettable as several people who could hardly have been more different. To millions of fantasy fans, he was Bilbo Baggins: warm, eccentric, slightly mischievous and carrying the lingering psychological weight of a ring he should never have found.
war
Imagine a battlefield where destroying the enemy's most advanced radar does not blind the opposing force. Another sensor immediately replaces it. A drone detects a target but carries no weapon. Its coordinates move through another aircraft, a satellite or a ground network. An artillery battery hundreds of kilometers
Movies
More than two decades after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man introduced Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn, one of his ugliest conversations has somehow become a viral relationship theory. The argument goes like this: Norman warned his son Harry that Mary Jane Watson was interested in him because he
Science
Elon Musk has started talking about humanity's future using a scale so enormous that today's global civilization barely registers. It is called the Kardashev Scale. The idea was introduced in 1964 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, who proposed classifying advanced technological civilizations according to the amount
Weird World
It sounds like the setup to a joke. Scientists take human fecal waste. Turn it into a black powder. Mix that powder into concrete. And somehow the concrete becomes stronger. But researchers in India and the United States have now demonstrated something remarkably close to that scenario. A team led
Science
What if your brain does not create your thoughts? What if it receives them? That is the startling possibility at the center of Neural Transduction Theory, or NTT, a speculative proposal championed by research psychologist Robert Epstein. The conventional neuroscientific approach treats consciousness as intimately dependent on processes occurring within
Hollywood
Fourteen years have passed since Hollywood lost a man whose physical presence could dominate a movie frame before he said a single word. Then Michael Clarke Duncan would speak. That extraordinary bass voice would arrive. And almost immediately, the intimidating first impression could disappear. On September 3, 2012, Michael Clarke
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has been sold to corporate leaders as almost everything at once. A productivity revolution. A cost-cutting machine. A new revenue engine. A threat to companies that move too slowly. And, increasingly, something executives feel they cannot afford not to buy. Yet after several years of aggressive enterprise
Medical Science
A pill approved only days ago for one of the deadliest forms of pancreatic cancer is now generating excitement for an entirely different disease. Daraxonrasib, sold under the brand name Rasonque, produced tumor responses in more than 30% of patients with previously treated, advanced RAS-mutant non-small cell lung
Spirituality
Look at your hand. The carbon in its cells, the oxygen moving through its blood, the calcium strengthening its bones and the iron helping carry oxygen around your body all have histories far older than humanity, Earth or even the Sun. Some of those elements were assembled inside stars. Others
Entertainment
It had Nicolas Cage playing a Depression-era Spider-Man. It let viewers choose between black-and-white and full color. Critics embraced its strange collision of hard-boiled detective fiction and superhero mythology. It earned 11 Emmy nominations—the most of any Prime Video program in 2026. And its