Sounding the alarm for a potential future crisis, scientists warn that the next pandemic might be caused by Disease X. Influenza, a familiar foe associated with seasonal illness, has emerged as a possible threat for this unpredictable and potentially devastating role. An international survey, to be published next weekend, will reveal that 57% of senior disease experts now believe a strain of influenza virus is the most likely cause of the next global outbreak of “deadly infectious...
Online sleuthing inspired by Netflix‘s Baby Reindeer has gotten wildly out of control, its creator and one of its stars say. The drama concerns the real-life stalking of Richard Gadd, a Scottish writer and actor who also stars in the show as Donny. Jessica Gunning plays Martha, the stalker. In the series, the characters’ names […]
Online daters may believe they are too smart to fall for one of the love scammers who swindle smitten Americans out of millions every year.They may need to think about it again.Scammers have done their best, hitting their targets with real-time deepfakes in shockingly convincing video calls.For the victim – often an unremarkable middle-aged couch potato – it is all too convincing.You meet an attractive candidate online, start chatting, and then do Zoom or WhatsApp video calls. The “Yahoo...
Real Madrid visit Real Sociedad in what’s expected to be the toughest game left on the team’s LaLiga schedule. Los Blancos have an 11-point lead over Barcelona in the table, so them clinching the title seems like a matter of time. Ancelotti’s men will have a very crucial game when they visit Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League Semifinals next Tuesday, so the Italian coach will make some rotations —Mendy and Rodrygo are out— in order to keep his starters fresh and ready for...
Ronald Grigor Suny As an American, I share the deep sorrow over my country’s complicity in this horrific crime against humanity.
Ultrashort pulses play a significant role in spectroscopic applications. Their broad spectral bandwidth enables simultaneous characterization of the sample at various frequencies, eliminating the need for repeated measurements or laser tuning. Moreover, their extreme temporal confinement allows for temporal isolation of the sample's response from the main excitation pulse.
Dr. John Venglarcik, III, 72, passed away suddenly on Sunday at his home, according to his obituary.
It’d be understandable to want to skip right past this story, which explores the bizarre speech Donald Trump gave in Wisconsin on Wednesday night, a rare day off from his criminal election interference trial in Manhattan. The politician Trump has been unavoidable for nine years now, and at every turn, he gets worse. And Wednesday night was no exception. Hot off nine contempt of court violations and a disastrous Time magazine interview that he surely thought went very well, Trump continues to...
Hapag-Lloyd has launched real-time container tracking on most of its nearly 3 million strong fleet, becoming the first container shipping line to introduce a fleet-wide dry container tracking product. With
A confirmed case of the potentially deadly Powassan virus has been reported for the first time this season in Massachusetts.
“Are you really speaking truth to power, or do you think you look cool in a keffiyeh?”
Because who wants to wait a whole five seconds for a chatbot to answer their question?