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Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest. It's an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. See the top 20 images.

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Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI. After a review process, MIT stated that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI

The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

Celebrating 50 years of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," which remains a significant cultural touchstone. Linus O'Brien (son of Rocky creator Richard O'Brien): "It's had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who've felt different and marginalized."

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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

It's had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who've felt different and marginalized."

LA’s delightfully quirky Museum of Jurassic Technology damaged by fire. The fire gutted the museum's gift shop and caused significant smoke damage to several exhibits. Donations to weather the damage welcome.

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LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology damaged by fire

The fire gutted the museum's gift shop and caused significant smoke damage to several exhibits.

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions. The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals "corrupt." [Translation: Science, stop telling me things I don't want to be true!]

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RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals "corrupt."

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago.

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New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory

Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago.

Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care. A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.

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Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50. Ars staffers reflect upon the things they love most about this masterpiece of absurdist comedy.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50

Ars staffers reflect upon the things they love most about this masterpiece of absurdist comedy.

Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring

New Scientist

Stunning image shows the closest ever Einstein ring

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has picked one up just 60...

Nazi demonstrators waving swastikas flee after fierce confrontation by Cincinnati locals

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Nazi demonstrators waving swastikas flee after fierce confrontation by Cincinnati locals

Nazis waving their Nazi flags flee an overpass, driven away by Cincinnati residents.