The past few weeks have felt like a Cold War thriller in which an enemy agent somehow infiltrates the top of the United States government. Soldiers fighting for democracy have been abandoned to die in the field. The U.S. president […]
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, a toxic red substance. Cinnabar is a bright-red mineral that’s made of mercury and sulfur. Although it’s been
I walked into the Washington Post building for the first time in the summer of 1981. Past the red linotype machine that marked the entrance to the Post’s Fifteenth Street headquarters for so many years and up to the fifth-floor
Two individuals, each with plenty of issues and their own communication quirks, collide on opposite ends of a mental-health helpline in Jeremy Beiler’s short film “Happy to Help You.” Amy Sedaris plays Nora, who reluctantly calls in after losing her
3D-printed penises could be used to cure erectile dysfunction, scientists say. In a study published March 4 in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers 3D-printed a model penis using a special type of hydrogel that successfully became erect just like
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The patients: A 59-year-old man (patient one) and a 64-year-old man (patient two) in Rochester, New York The symptoms: Patient one was initially admitted to the hospital for respiratory failure after experiencing various symptoms, including a sore throat, difficulty swallowing
Debris from SpaceX Starship flight 8 explosion streaks across Bahamas night sky – YouTube Watch On SpaceX’s Starship has dramatically exploded mid-flight, leaving smears of confetti-like wreckage across the sky as its remains tumbled back to Earth. The fireball triggered
Elephants are Earth’s largest land mammals, and with their trunks, tusks and giant ears, they’re among the most recognizable and iconic animals alive today. Known for their extraordinary intelligence, elephants are recognized as some of the world’s most empathic creatures,
Scientists in Australia have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures created by the blast in the rock. Hidden away in the country’s outback, the crater is a whopping 3.47 billion years old, according to
