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Florida Moves To Block Welfare Spending On Tattoos, Tanning, Tobacco And More
Florida is taking a tougher approach to how recipients of one of its cash assistance programs can spend their benefits, with Gov. Ron DeSantis backing restrictions that would block purchases ranging from tobacco and tattoos to tanning services, theme park tickets, and video games. The proposed changes would affect the state’s Temporary Cash Assistance program,…
Scientists Say They’ve Finally Found Where the Universe Hid Its Missing Matter
For decades, astronomers faced one of the strangest accounting problems in the universe. Scientists had a strong idea of how much ordinary matter should exist after the Big Bang, yet when they counted the stars, planets, galaxies and visible clouds of gas around them, a huge portion appeared to be missing. Ordinary matter makes up…
Wisconsin Cat With 29 Toes Takes Over Guinness World Records
A tiny Maine Coon kitten from Wisconsin had a frightening start to life before making history in a way few people could have predicted. Erebus Anomaly was born with an astonishing 29 toes, giving him 11 more than the usual number for a domestic cat and earning him a Guinness World Record. His unusual paws…
New SNAP Rules Cut Soda Purchases Across Multiple States
The fight over what Americans can buy with food stamps has produced its first major set of numbers, and they are giving Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement something to celebrate. A new study found that soda purchases fell by about 12% among SNAP recipients after several states restricted the use of…
Artist Creates Pencil Drawings That Appear To Glow Under Neon Lights
Enrique Bernal’s pencil portraits have travelled around the art and design internet because the people in them appear to be standing under a light nobody can find. The paper is white. The face on it is graphite, shaded in the patient grey of a portrait drawn by hand. Then a band of cold blue crosses…
Researchers Tested Cat Loyalty and The Results Were Hard to Ignore
Cats have a reputation for watching human chaos unfold without lifting a paw. Researchers decided to put that stereotype to the test by creating a situation where a person clearly needed help finding something. A dishwashing sponge goes into a hiding place, and the cat sees exactly where it went. Then the person that cat…
These Fake License Plate Clothes Were Designed To Confuse Surveillance Cameras
At DEF CON 27 in August 2019, one table stood out for a reason that had nothing to do with hacking laptops or cracking passwords. It was covered in cotton clothing printed with dozens of tiny license plates, each one designed to fool the same automated cameras that quietly track millions of vehicles every day.…
Scientists Put Two Leading Theories of Consciousness to the Test, and the Brain Refused to Cooperate
A face flashes across a screen for half a second, then disappears. A letter follows. Then comes a symbol designed to resemble a letter while carrying no meaning at all. Inside a scanner, a volunteer watches as machines track one of science’s deepest mysteries: the moment a brain becomes aware of what it sees. The…
Giant Pacific Virus Discovered With a Tail Longer Than Many Bacteria
What does it take for something too small to see to find the one cell in the ocean that can keep it alive? For a virus drifting through the open Pacific, the odds are brutally difficult. The water can appear almost empty across enormous distances, leaving a microscopic particle to drift until it either encounters…
Why Female Psychopathy Can Be So Difficult To Spot, According To Researchers
For more than 20 years, Fiona Girkin kept seeing a workplace pattern she could not easily explain. Certain colleagues could appear warm, charming and supportive when they first arrived, yet months later people around them described manipulation, isolation and serious psychological harm. The problem was that raising concerns could backfire. Without a clear framework for…