In 1960, an 18-year-old Italian pianist, the youngest contestant, won the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years in Warsaw. “That boy,” the revered pianist Arthur Rubinstein, honorary chairman of a 37-member jury, famously an... More »
Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a ... More »
War is coming in Shōgun. It's not a secret. The exciting FX drama series, which is set in 17th-century feudal Japan, keeps foreshadowing bloodshed. At the end of episode 4, Mariko (Anna Sawai) flat-out states, "It is war." Now, if you're a history buff, you al... More »
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An experimental treatment rejuvenates the immune system of older mice, improving the animals’ ability to fight infections. If it works in humans, the therapy could reverse age-r... More »
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Physicists have been searching for gravitons, the hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity, for decades. These have never been detected in space, but graviton-like particles have now been seen in a se... More »
Scientists reversed some signs of immune aging in mice with a new treatment that could one day potentially be used in humans. The new immunotherapy works by disrupting a natural process by which the immune system becomes biased towards making one type of cell ... More »
Six home sellers in Missouri successfully argued that the powerful real estate trade group’s rules on commissions forced them to pay inflated fees. When Rhonda Burnett went to sell a home in 2016, she knew she would have to pay a commission to her real estate ... More »
One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the Earth’s rotation and changes time itself.The hou... More »
Google clearly wants to make switching between apps when you get the urge to search for something a problem of the past. The company announced that the Circle to Search feature it launched in January will soon be coming to a slew of additional Pixel devices, i... More »
Ötzi the Iceman's many tattoos were made by "hand-poking" — a manual version of the tattooing technique usually used today — and not by cutting his skin as some researchers have suggested, according to a new study.Ötzi died in Europe's Alps about 5,300 years a... More »
Climate change is messing with time itself.The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.The planet is not about to... More »
/ Maps is getting curated recommendations while Search is adding generative AI itineraries and easier translation.By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering ... More »