Month: June 2025

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a set of dramatic, intimate portraits of research from all over the globe.

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The crackdown on the video game and its users is just the latest in what democracy and human rights advocates say is an erosion of Hong Kong’s civil rights and freedoms.

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In 2019, Darren Wayman was about to become a new father. He was terrified. Then, a doctor came into the delivery room and said something that changed his perspective on parenthood.

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Despite its fishy name, the bacterium salmonella has no connection to the underwater creature.

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An Edinburgh police detective and a team of misfits search for a woman who vanished several years earlier. Critic John Powers says the byplay of characters makes Dept. Q worth watching.

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In her new memoir, Jong-Fast writes that her mother, Erica Jong — who penned the 1973 feminist novel Fear of Flying — had become addicted to fame and couldn’t bear losing it.

Man, this parking lot sure is a nightmare, isn’t it?: I hit your car.

Sometimes all it takes to make your day a little brighter is to remind yourself just how dark life can get. Here are four dark novels and a true crime tale.

BTS has been on a break since June 2022 to focus on solo projects and serve in the South Korean military. All of the group’s members are scheduled to finish mandatory enlistment by the end of June.

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Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the Jackal.

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