Category: News

  • A Powerful El Niño Could Transform Winter Across The US

    A Powerful El Niño Could Transform Winter Across The US

    Something unusual is building over the Pacific, and its effects could stretch across much of the United States as fall gives way to winter. Forecasters expect the developing El Niño to strengthen significantly, potentially becoming one of the strongest events seen in decades. That could mean a very different winter depending on where you live.…

  • Karoline Leavitt Reveals Where She Is Heading After Leaving White House

    Karoline Leavitt Reveals Where She Is Heading After Leaving White House

    Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House briefing room, but her political career is far from over. The 28-year-old press secretary has revealed that she plans to return to MAGA Inc., the Trump-aligned super PAC where she previously worked, after stepping down from her administration role at the end of August. Leavitt made the announcement…

  • She Went In For A Heart Checkup. Months Later, She Was Learning How To Live Without All Four Limbs

    She Went In For A Heart Checkup. Months Later, She Was Learning How To Live Without All Four Limbs

    Leslie Caoili went to a doctor expecting a routine heart checkup in May. Instead, the 41-year-old San Diego mother was diagnosed with a life-threatening Type A aortic dissection, a catastrophic tear in the main artery leading away from the heart. Doctors told her family that she needed emergency surgery immediately, turning an ordinary medical appointment…

  • Shirtless Stranger Steals The Spotlight At California Wedding

    Shirtless Stranger Steals The Spotlight At California Wedding

    A California couple had plenty of guests watching as they exchanged vows, but one unexpected spectator quickly became impossible to ignore. A shirtless man standing on a hotel balcony across from the ceremony had a perfect view of the aisle, and wedding guests had an equally perfect view of him. The mystery spectator stayed in…

  • Scientists Found a Cellular Mechanism That Could Help Explain How Aging Takes Hold

    Scientists Found a Cellular Mechanism That Could Help Explain How Aging Takes Hold

    Scientists may have found a surprisingly specific weak point in the aging process. A new study suggests that a molecule inside our cells helps keep mitochondria working properly, and its decline with age may contribute to cellular deterioration. Even more striking, researchers were able to restore younger-looking mitochondrial function in laboratory worms by supplying either…

  • Flock Safety’s New AI Could Track Drivers By How They Move

    Flock Safety’s New AI Could Track Drivers By How They Move

    A surveillance company that spent years insisting its technology could not identify or track people is now testing an AI system that appears capable of doing exactly that. Flock Safety has built a tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles based on patterns of movement. The system can reportedly search for vehicles…

  • Scientists May Have Found A Way To Make More Kidneys Compatible With Patients

    Scientists May Have Found A Way To Make More Kidneys Compatible With Patients

    A kidney transplant can come down to a microscopic detail that patients have no control over: blood type. Now, researchers have successfully transplanted a human kidney after changing its blood-type markers, potentially opening a much larger pool of organs to people who have spent years waiting. The experimental kidney was converted from blood type A…

  • The Chinese Cartoon Everyone Called Terrible Is Now A Box Office Sensation

    The Chinese Cartoon Everyone Called Terrible Is Now A Box Office Sensation

    A Chinese animated film that looked destined to disappear has pulled off one of the strangest box-office turnarounds of the summer. After viewers mocked its crude animation and confusing storyline online, thousands are now buying tickets specifically to experience the movie everyone was calling terrible. Niu Lai has gone from earning only a few thousand…

  • FBI Arrests Albany Woman Accused Of Plotting Attack On New York Capitol

    FBI Arrests Albany Woman Accused Of Plotting Attack On New York Capitol

    A federal investigation into an alleged ISIS-inspired attack on New York’s State Capitol has ended with the arrest of an Albany woman accused of planning to kill lawmakers and flee the country. Jessica Bowie, 35, was arrested Aug. 19 after investigators say she took possession of what she believed was an explosive device and a…

  • Switzerland Found A Wild Way To Repair Highways Without Stopping Traffic

    Switzerland Found A Wild Way To Repair Highways Without Stopping Traffic

    Road construction usually comes with one unavoidable promise: slow down, change lanes, or prepare to sit in traffic. Switzerland has found a way around that problem, and the solution looks so strange that people online have started joking that the country is already living in 2050. The machine behind the reaction is the ASTRA Bridge,…