A new comprehensive database of registered medical doctors in India has gone live. The National Medical Register replaces the old Indian Medical Register (IMR). A unique feature of this online portal, according to a media release, is its ability to authenticat... More »
What happened when Pieter Mulier brought the Alaïa show to the Guggenheim.It takes a lot to distract from Rihanna. Especially when she enters a room wearing a cleavage-spilling corset underneath a cream net gown with hundreds of seed pearls caught in its web, ... More »
You watched Apple's keynote, read WIRED's comprehensive coverage, and made a decision: you're upgrading to the iPhone 16. Now the question is … which of the four iPhone 16 models should you buy? There's the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone ... More »
BBCThere’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced. More »
During the first billion years after the Big Bang, as the first stars and galaxies switched on and filled the darkness with new light, they also caused another transformation: ionizing the neutral hydrogen gas filling the universe. Until recently, astronomers ... More »
“Beni River” (2024), ceramic, glaze, glass fragments, 24 x 22 x 21 inches. All images © Brian Rochefort, courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles, shared with permissionVolcanic Ash and Lush Tropics Inspire Brian Rochefort’s Unearthly Cer... More »
Vice President Kamala Harris has been balancing the challenges of defending “Bidenomics” and charting her own course on the economy.As Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled her economic plans in recent weeks, former President Donald J. Trump has accused her of... More »
Wildfires in California spread rapidly on Tuesday as firefighters faced strong winds, dry conditions and a heat wave that sent temperatures soaring into the triple-digits in the Los Angeles area. Cooler weather in the forecast may soon offer some respite, howe... More »
/ It’ll pay startup Holocene to take CO2 out of the air at a bargain price. Illustration: The VergeGoogle just landed a deal to capture planet-heating pollution at a huge bargain: $100 per ton of CO2, the price climate tech startups around the world are racing... More »
Chief information officers and other IT leaders at hospitals and health systems are being bombarded with a wide array of AI technologies and are trying to navigate a burgeoning marketplace with more than its share of hype. In fact, advice on procuring artifici... More »
A neurologist in Colombia, he worked with the world’s largest extended family with Alzheimer’s and helped fuel research to prevent or delay dementia symptoms.Dr. Francisco Lopera, a trailblazing neurologist who identified the world’s largest extended family wi... More »
Paleontologists have found the fossilized seeds of gymnosperm trees — relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgos — in stomachs of two specimens of Longipteryx chaoyangensis, one of the earliest known birds and one of the strangest. The discovery shows that thes... More »