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Humans are strange, sometimes unpredictable beings. Other times, they are extremely easy to figure out. There’s been a sense that a lot of potential electric car buyers have been sitting on the sidelines, either holding onto a current electric car or waiting to try one out for the first time. Now, it’s like Cortland Finnegan is in the game, because …

For decades, antidepressants have been the cornerstone of mental health treatment in Britain. For much of that time, they’ve been highly stigmatised – deemed to be symptomatic of weakness or dependency, or seen as a “zombie pill” that numbs emotions and drowns out personality. Now, more people are taking antidepressant medication than ever before: record numbers, in fact. In the …

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Astronomers have observed what may be the first known case of a massive star exploding while interacting with a black hole, marking a discovery that could reveal an entirely new class of stellar explosions. The event, named SN 2023zkd, was first spotted in July 2023 by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California. Located in a galaxy with little ongoing star …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. One awful spring day in 2025, Luís Amaral sat at his desk at Northwestern University after he had just finished “probably the most depressing project I’ve been involved with.” He had reason to be disheartened. His new study reveals an uncomfortable truth: scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few bad apples. It is …

While they are already glittering across the evening sky, the most popular meteor shower is about to reach its peak, with a chance of large fireballs exploding against the black backdrop of night. The Perseid meteor shower has already streaked across the sky since July 17 and will continue until Aug. 23, but they should reach peak speed and volume …

Lindsay Barad felt like she was in the best shape of her life. The 39-year-old New Yorker had just run her fourth 26.2-mile marathon, and was avoiding alcohol and even eating clean. She felt unstoppable. But just a month after the race in 2021, she was hit with a devastating diagnosis of stage four appendiceal cancer and told she had hundreds …

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears  The Wall Street Journal Perplexity CEO predicts the AI talent wars will become like NBA free agency  Business Insider You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?  vox.com Silicon Valley has entered its superstar engineer era  Freethink The Summer of Free AI-gency  The Ringer Source link