Congress Moves Closer to Ending the Shutdown

Also, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to same-sex marriage. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

Habitable zone planets around red dwarfs aren't likely to host exomoons, simulations suggest

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

How Much Are Banks Exposed to Trade Policy Changes?

Banks may be indirectly exposed to trade policy through lending and through the broader effects of trade on the economy. Analysis finds that exposure to recent trade shocks was concentrated in large ...
Psychology Today

Anxiety, Depression, and the Power of Dirt

Gardening offers a sensory, rhythmic way to calm the nervous system, lift mood, and retrain the brain, helping us heal anxiety and depression from the ground up.
Health

What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Apple Cider Vinegar With Honey?

Apple cider vinegar and honey are both known for their health benefits, but mixing them together could produce an even more ...

How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread

Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single ...
The State

Late Chapin mayor’s family calls for write-in campaign. Opponent pushes back

The family of Chapin Mayor Al Koon, who died Oct. 17 in the middle of his re-election bid, is pushing a write-in campaign in support of the town’s Mayor Pro-Tem Gregg White. One of his opponents is ...
The Independent

Boris Johnson gushes over using ChatGPT while writing books: ‘I love that it calls me clever’

Boris Johnson has admitted he “loves” AI and ChatGPT, and revealed that he uses it while writing his books. The former prime minister praised the AI platform for answering his questions, and said he ...
Project Syndicate

How Today’s Developing Countries Can Drive Tomorrow’s Global Economy

From electric vehicles and generative AI to modular construction and obesity drugs, new industries are transforming economies and societies worldwide. To seize these opportunities, developing ...
PNAS

Reply to Bourguignon et al.: Convergence is a plausible hypothesis for Quina technology in East Asia

The claim by Bourguignon et al. that our study lacks a “techno-economic demonstration” is incorrect. The system we have documented is fully techno-economic, revealing interdependent behaviors across ...
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College Professor Criticizes Student’s Handwriting And Tells Him To Write His Math Answers In Roman Numerals, So The Student Takes Him Seriously And Follows Through

Some people have very neat and easy to read handwriting. Other people have messier handwriting. In today’s story, one man has very neat handwriting that is almost too perfect and easy to read, if that ...
GitHub

AS-Lab/Marthi-et-al-2025-MedVisionLlama-Pre-Trained-LLM-Layers-to-Enhance-Medical-Image-Segmentation

This repository contains the official implementation of "MedVisionLlama: Leveraging Pre-Trained Large Language Model Layers to Enhance Medical Image Segmentation" by Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar, ...