It is common knowledge that the human gut is home to hordes of bacteria, most of which seem essential for good health. But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses.Wherever there are bacteria, viruses...
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — A group of Texas nuns engaged in a yearlong dispute with Catholic Church leadership has been dismissed from religious life and “reverted to the lay state,” according to their Vatican-appointed overseer. Mother Marie of the...
The good news is, you’re unlikely to encounter the same shipping delays you did in recent years, due to the pandemic and supply chain issues. But retailers still have shipping-cutoffs. Retailers are starting to confirm their 2024 holiday shipping deadlines....
The festival of Diwali commemorates Lord Shri Ram's return to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile. Celebrated with rows of lamps, it signifies leading from darkness to light. Diwali is marked by worshiping deities like Lord Ganesha, Goddess Lakshmi, and...
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain more charge than was stored in the battery to begin with Source link...
Waymo self driving taxi driving in downtown San FranciscoShutterstock/Iv-olga I took my first ride in a Waymo robotaxi last month, and now I’m obsessed. I have taken five autonomous car rides since, and even convinced two reluctant friends to do...
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's speaker, enabling an AI model to transcribe the conversation, even at a distance in a noisy room Source link...
A skeleton from a Gallo-Roman grave in Belgium is made up of bones from at least seven individualsPhotograph courtesy of Paumen, Wargnies, and Demory; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles A complete skeleton found in a Gallo-Roman grave in western Belgium is not a...
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes - the longest flight recorded yet - before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said.The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and...
Evictions suck—for everyone. They’re bad for the property owner, the tenant, and America as a whole. On the lowest end of the spectrum, evictions cost Americans over $14,000,000,000 (that’s BILLION) per year. With this massive sum spent on court fees,...
