Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC) in exchange for freedom. He returned home from Ukraine in 2023 and, within days, killed an 85-year-old woman in a nearby town. One week after beginning his new sentence in August 2024, he was redrafted and sent back…
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Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did. It started with a change in his scent—a musky, waxy odor she couldn’t place. Seventeen years later, when Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the pieces fell into place. Then, at a support group, she smelled it again: the same distinct fragrance…
In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began appearing in a suspicious number of science papers. It became a kind of calling card for AI-generated content — but it’s far from the weirdest one.
For years, the debate over cannabis and cancer has burned on—a haze of anecdotes, conflicting studies, and a stubborn federal classification that still ranks marijuana as dangerous and without medical use. But a new study, the largest of its kind, cuts through the smoke with surprising clarity.
Most ancient centers flexed their power with grand walls or temples. Tel Shiqmona did it with a stink. Perched on a rocky stretch of Israel’s Mediterranean coast, this unassuming outcrop was once steeped in the pungent scent of crushed mollusks—day in, day out. Though Tel Shiqmona rarely gets a mention in ancient texts, new research…
Researchers claim to have found the “strongest evidence” of biological activity outside the solar system. The findings are tantalizing, but we wouldn’t draw any conclusion just yet. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its gold-coated eye to the cosmos, we were all thinking it. Finding alien life wasn’t its main goal, but…
In the spring of 1971, an entomologist scooped a small insect from a seemingly pristine creek in the Netherlands and pinned it in a museum drawer. The larva—a species of caddisfly—had stitched together a casing from scraps it found in its freshwater world. It was a normal act of insect ingenuity, nothing that would raise…
See All Key Ideas On a cold February morning, the residents of Parong village in Arunachal Pradesh climbed up a hillslope and gathered in the village’s large community hall. An air of caution filled the room – the Additional District Commissioner from the nearby Pangin village would be holding a meeting on an issue considered…
Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse joins New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai to discuss how exploring America’s fringe movements is the key to understanding the modern United States. The post How America’s Margins Became the Mainstream appeared first on New Lines Magazine.
Researchers found that those who regularly smoke marijuana find it easier to recognize and understand how others feel. The post Why marijuana smokers may have more empathy appeared first on Talker.