• The Best Ways to Identify Any Wildflower You See

    These apps, online identification tools, and pocket field guides can help you identify the wildflowers growing near your home.

  • New apartment complex in the works for north Topeka

    New affordable housing units are on the way for north Topeka.

  • Kodak Black Drops New Visuals For “Stressed Out”

    Combining street vignettes with the soul of a world-weary blues singer, Kodak Black is rap’s most indelible innovator. Since releasing “No Flockin” in 2014, the 26-year-old has turned pain, and mortal danger into block boy scripture. He’s earned 42 Billboard Hot 100 chart placements, billions of streams, over 30 platinum and gold RIAA-certified records, and […] The post Kodak Black Drops New Visuals For “Stressed Out” first appeared on The Source.

    • WIRED

    Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

    Last Friday, a health alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pinged its way across the inboxes of clinicians and state health departments all over the US. The message described how a dairy farm worker in Texas had contracted H5N1, the highly infectious strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, that’s currently circling worldwide. The dairy worker had caught the virus, apparently, from cattle. The CDC’s alert urged doctors to be vigilant and consider H5N1 a possibility in any...

  • Having a stressful job could stave off dementia, according to new analysis

    Researchers in Oslo University Hospital in Norway have discovered that the harder your brain works at your job, the less likely you may be to have memory and thinking problems in later life.

  • Yellen Says New Sanctions for Iran Regime are on the Way

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told reporters on Tuesday that Tehran will be facing new sanctions because of its Saturday attack on Israel. While speaking to reporters at an International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, the secretary said that "I fully expect that we will take additional sanctions action against Iran in the coming days."

  • Genetic underpinnings of environmental stress identified in model plant

    Plants can be temperamental. Even weeds along the side of highways or pushing their way up in the cracks of concrete sidewalks can get stressed out by dehydration, cold, excess salt and more. Researchers at Hiroshima University have identified 14 genes that thale cress—a plant commonly used in genetic investigations since its genome is well documented—express more when responding to five specific stressors, as well as eight genes that the plant suppresses.

  • New method achieves 4D imaging of fluids in pores

    A method based on CT (computed tomography)—a type of imaging that is widely used in hospitals—can help improve our understanding of CO2 storage, batteries, and processes in the body such as nutrient uptake.

    • ZDNet

    Got a new MacBook? Here's the fastest way to transfer your data over

    If transferring your data to a new laptop over Wi-Fi is taking an eternity, this clever method could save you hours.

  • San Francisco Has a Cool New Way to Stick It to the Poor

    Retailers can't get enough of leaving their hearts in San Francisco, or at least just leaving. Everybody from higher-end retailers like Nordstrom and Saks Off 5th, to global brands Uniqlo, Gap, and H&M, to corner Walgreens and CVS outlets have called it quits on The City That Knows How to Make Everything Worse.

  • New benzofuran synthesis method enables complex molecule creation

    In the field of organic chemistry, scientists are always looking out for new types of reactions to unlock synthesis routes for challenging compounds. Most of the progress that we have witnessed in pharmaceutics and agrochemicals over the past few decades can be traced back to the discovery of novel practical reaction pathways. Such pathways often involve the selective replacement of a functional group with another, the formation of aromatic rings, or the strategic cleaving of parts of a...

  • There’s a new way to stay overnight at Gunlock State Park

    ST. GEORGE — Visitors to Gunlock State Park will see something new near the reservoir’s shoreline: three cottages, which are now open for reservations. “The cottages are already a hit with visitors coming from all over looking to experience Gunlock State Park in a new and exciting way,” Devan Chavez, spokesman for the Utah Department […]