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Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak

Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.

GLP-1 drugs linked to bigger jump in women’s employment than a college degree

A Harvard study found that women taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs experienced a 27-percentage-point increase in employment…

The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons

Nolan Lovett's paper introduces the "Cognitive Commons" framework to explain how AI adoption, while rational for…

Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years

Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck 5 kilometers south of San José del Palmar, Colombia.

One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight

If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program.

Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad

fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.

The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism

Since the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient.

Your running style changes when you’re short of sleep

There are measurable changes in the way we run when we are short of sleep, which give us a clearer picture of how a lack…

Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions

A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close…

Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.

Quantum voting trickery could make elections more secure

In an election, how can you make sure that everyone's votes are counted but also kept entirely secret?

World's oceans hit record-high July temperatures

Global oceans recorded their hottest July on record, partly fuelled by developing El Niño conditions, as wildfires…

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

The article appears to be a navigation page or index for a website rather than a traditional news article with…

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

A 2024 study found that taxi and ambulance drivers have significantly lower rates of Alzheimer's-related deaths compared…

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Tom Stanton has built a gravity-powered trebuchet that launched a 4-gram projectile at 776 miles per hour—breaking the…

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

A developer created an interactive globe visualization that shows today's cities and countries positioned on Earth's…

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

Researchers Faulhuber, Petersen, van Velthoven, and Voigtlaeller have disproven the Heil-Ramanathan-Topiwala (HRT)…

Ancient Roman shipwreck discovered off Sicily coast

Italy's culture minister says it is one of the most important underwater archaeological finds in years.

Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species

The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

Magic hexagons are hexagonal grids where numbers in straight lines across three directions all sum to the same value,…

Incentives Are for Losers

Research psychologist Adam Mastroianni argues that relying on external incentives to motivate behavior is fundamentally…

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults

Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

# Summary While the popular belief that knuckle cracking causes arthritis has persisted for decades, scientific…

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack