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The U.S. economy expanded at a much faster pace than initially estimated last quarter, according to new Commerce Department data released Thursday. Gross domestic product grew at a 3.8% annual rate in the April–June period, topping both the government’s previous 3.3% estimate and the initial 3% reading. It was the strongest showing since the fall of 2023, underscoring the economy’s …

The Dancing With the Stars Season 34 premiere was kind to the celebrity contestants, sparing them all from elimination, but Week 2 was when the competition got real. The judges’ scores and viewer votes from the first two weeks of competition were combined to determine which two couples got the boot. So what happened on “One-Hit Wonders Night,” which featured …

We may finally have Bruce Springsteen’s Electric Nebraska and Neil Young’s Homegrown, but artifacts by everyone from the Beatles to Bob Seger remain stubbornly unreleased Up until about a few years ago, the classic-rock vault was overflowing with audio and video treasures that fans had little reason to think would ever see the light of day. Some of them had leaked out in partial …

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early on Monday, waking up many people in the northern California region. The quake hit just east-south-east of Berkeley, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, and more than 22,000 people said they felt it. No injuries or major damage was reported, but some businesses said windows …

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“It’s such a fine line between stupid and, uh … ” opines David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) in Rob Reiner’s epochal 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. In a rare instance of being less slow-witted than his bandmate, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) steps in to supply the missing adjective: “clever.” Forty-one years later, the fictional hard-rock supergroup is back to toeing that …

NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffy was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on Mars. “This is exciting news,” said Duffy about an arrow-shaped rock on Mars found by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The rock contained chemical signatures and structures that could have …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the sample gathered there by Perseverance — ideally in labs on Earth — before reaching any conclusions. While acknowledging the latest analysis “certainly …

NASA rover finds potential sign of ancient life in Martian rocks  Reuters Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars  Nature Martian rock contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says  CNN NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year  NASA (.gov) Unusual compounds in rocks on Mars may be sign of ancient microbial life  The Guardian Source link

NASA‘s Perseverance rover has snapped an intriguing photo of a “turtle” appearing to poke its head out of its shell on the surface of Mars. The reptile-like structure is the latest in a long list of Martian rocks that look similar to living creatures or other Earth objects. Perseverance captured the new image on Aug. 31, on what was its …