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Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, just joined an exclusive club. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, experts have detected gas above its surface. This is the second confirmed case of a trans-Neptunian object with gaseous material after Pluto. The culprit is methane, the same molecule that dominates Makemake’s frozen surface. Study lead author Sylvia …

Evergreen High School Shooter’s Online Activity Reveals Fascination with Mass Shootings, White Supremacy  Anti-Defamation League Denver-area high school shooting suspect was ‘radicalized,’ officials say  CNN Student Who Shot 2 Others at Colorado School Was ‘Radicalized,’ Officials Say  The New York Times Police say ‘extremist network’ may have influenced Colorado high school shooter  MSNBC News Jeffco students walk out to protest gun violence, support Evergreen …

Europe’s closest thing to a supervolcano has been stirring for the past 20 years, culminating in a significant spike in seismic activity since the beginning of 2022. Naturally, these developments have got people’s bottoms squeaking, although the likelihood of a full-blown eruption is something scientists are still trying to calculate. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please …

(Reuters) – Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm dismissed concerns that Elon Musk‘s political activity had depressed sales at the electric-vehicle maker and said the billionaire was “front and center” at the company after several months at the White House. “What he does from a political perspective in terms of his political motivations is up to him,” Denholm said in an …

The Writers Guild of America West has been accused of violating labor law by firing a staffer who helped organize guild employees. The Pacific Northwest Staff Union won voluntary recognition as the bargaining representative for 110 WGA staffers in April. The staff are now seeking greater job protections as part of their first contract. In August, the union lodged an …

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1, 2016, …

Most of us carry a small trace of Neanderthal ancestry and, in some cases, that legacy sits in our legs. A single change in a muscle enzyme can subtly throttle how hard muscles can work under pressure. People outside Africa typically carry about 2 percent Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, a result of ancient interbreeding between populations. That shared history …

European factories return to growth, Asia activity shrinks  Reuters Euro zone manufacturing expands for first time since early 2022  MSN European indexes rise as manufacturing PMI numbers for the region tick higher (EUR:USD:null)  Seeking Alpha Germany’s Manufacturing Resilience: A Strategic Buy Opportunity Amid Economic Headwinds?  AInvest Germany August final manufacturing PMI 49.8 vs 49.9 prelim  TradingView Source link

An employee packages garments for the online Chinese e-commerce company Temu at a clothing factory in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province on April 16, 2025. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly returned to growth in August on the back of a recovery in new orders and export business, a private survey showed Monday, helped …