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Did you know that there’s only one lake in the world where you can find wild axolotls? Venture into the race to save them: buff.ly/noVVMWB

Indian-ish Baked Potatoes

This Indian-inspired dish takes almost no time to put together once the potatoes are baked, but looks very impressive as an appetizer or a small side. nyti.ms/47OVxIe

A bag of avocados with a picture of a woman holding two avocados in front of her breasts. The slogan says “don’t just check these, check yours”

Absolutely bonkers messaging from the avocado-breast cancer alliance

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

The Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated by at least 8 km in two months, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4nETBYJ ⚒️ 🧪

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A black cat rolls on its back on a shop counter.

The perfect way to close a business deal.

What explains India’s peculiar stability? In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm

South Asia’s largest economy is surprisingly stable. But it has not always been this way. As recently as 2013 the country was still at the mercy of global capital.

We explain how India changed course

Chelsea manager Maresca pleased with Estevao's impact Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca applauded Estevao for his performance after the winger came off the bench and inspired Chelsea to a 3-0 Premier League win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.Right back Malo Gusto put the hosts ahead with a header in the 51st minute, but the game was still in the balance whe

Chelsea manager Maresca pleased with Estevao's impact

A ginger cat making a surprised expression sitting on a bookshelf.

Please file under 'C' for Cat.
or ... 'O' or Orange.
Or maybe even 'S' for Startled.

📸 kagisuzu0531

Scale dependent temporal and spatial patterns of population change in anadromous sea trout (Salmo trutta) in Scotland over seven decades https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.07.687197v1

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#mah

Great white sharks are going north. Here's what the numbers say New data shows that great white sharks are spending more time in the chilly waters off New England and Atlantic Canada.

The northward migration of great white sharks, by the numbers | AP News

DNA from ancient bones reveals how Indigenous Americans got their mucus Neanderthals and Denisovans passed along gene that provides a sticky shield against germs

A genome sequenced from a Neanderthal jaw found in Siberia contains the same mucus gene variant found in Denisovans and many Indigenous Americans. https://scim.ag/3HLAjSP

5'' cap sequestration is required for sensing of unspliced HIV-1 RNA by MDA5 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671346v1

This gorgeously detailed piece shows a section of sea completely dominated by marine life of different types including fish, eels, and cephalopods. It was found in a house in Regio VIII.2.16 at Pompeii and is now held by the MAN Napoli (inv. 120177).

It’s #MosaicMonday and we’re taking a dip in the sea to freshen up with this marine life mosaic from Pompeii. It’s possible to identify the different species including the central tussle between an Octopus vulgaris (common octopus) and a Palinurus vulgaris (European spiny lobster).

#AncientRome

The Case for a Pragmatic America U.S. grand strategy traditionally imagined a world with America at its center—a unipolar power responsible for global order. But the rise of other countries, especially China, poses a serious…

For decades, U.S. grand strategy has imagined a world with America at its center—but the rise of China poses a serious challenge to this idea. Columnist @emmamashford.bsky.social joins FP Live on Aug. 27 to discuss her new book “First Among Equals” and the shifting global order.

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Dogs and humans share biomarkers of mortality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671317v1

British Columbia ends grizzly bear hunt, calls it ‘no longer socially acceptable’ "It's no longer socially acceptable to the vast majority of British Columbians to hunt grizzly bears," said Doug Donaldson, the Minister of ...

No more trophy hunting for big beautiful creatures says British Columbia

Science is so cool

Is X Down? Users Report Intermittent Outages Several waves of reported outages affected the social media site, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector.

New Editorial: "Loving the alien" rdcu.be/ea2fJ

Science is often characterized as advancing through the discovery of rare and improbable events. For almost 200 years the Galápagos islands have supplied many such ‘black swans’, both zoological and botanical.

On this day, January 23, 2025, Thailand has finally and officially implemented the Marriage Equality Act, allowing couples of all genders to legally register their marriages. Congratulations to all the lovely couples!🧡🧡🧡

Why Thailand became a haven for LGBT couples Thailand is set to legalise same-sex marriage - one of the few places in Asia to do so. Why is it an outlier?

Why Thailand became a haven for LGBT couples

Here's how the #PremierLeague table looks after the weekend's fixtures 20

Pollination in walnuts (such as this Persian walnut, Juglans regia) and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Two distinct morphs alternate their phases of male and female flowering across the season, promoting outcrossing that has maintained a stable equilibrium throughout tens of millions of years of evolution.

Check out Science's first issue of 2025: https://scim.ag/4j1ZYob

According to CDC's wastewater program, almost all wastewater sample sites in California, from San Diego in the south to Redding in the north, have tested positive for H5 bird flu.

turkey stuffed with octopus tentacles, sitting on top of crab legs

Why does nobody like the surf and turf turkey?