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When we asked the Galaxy S24 Ultra to use AI to summarize our Galaxy S23 Ultra review, it told us that the S23 Ultra only brought incremental upgrades but was still a solid choice, and we couldn't agree more. The Galaxy S23 Ultra didn't change a lot compared to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. Still, everything came together to make it the fastest, smoothest, and most premium-feeling Galaxy flagship ever, so expectations have naturally been high for its sequel, the Galaxy S24 Ultra. Samsung's advertising makes it seem like the…

Water is life. That’s why we need to take care of it. Even plentiful water supplies are moot if they are undrinkable. Climate change, pollution and growing populations only add to the urgency of maintaining adequate water supplies and water quality for humanity.After doing archaeology for 35 years in Belize, focusing on the ancestral Maya, I have learned a great deal about living sustainably with water. I've learned that they lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from…

Despite what a very vocal minority of internet users would try and have you believe, the glory years of the comic book adaptation did not begin and end with Zack Snyder‘s contributions to DC, even if there’s an alarming number of people out there struggling to reconcile with the fact the filmmaker is plenty content crafting original blockbusters for Netflix. In a medium that’s existed since long before the superhero movie boom, and will continue to endure long after the bubble bursts, there’s no law on which titles can…

CRISPR-Cas9 has been the household name of genetic engineering tools over the past decade, but there might be other, better ways. MIT scientists have now demonstrated an alternative called Fanzor, which is naturally found in animals so could be a better fit for human use.The CRISPR gene-editing system was originally isolated from bacteria, which use an enzyme called Cas9 to snip out a section of a virus’s DNA and store it for later, to help them fight off that infection in the future. In 2012, scientists made the Nobel…

Rachel Aaron, a 24-year-old who works in public relations in New York, recently dressed up for a work event at Bloomingdale’s. In the era of “get ready with me” videos on TikTok, it was a golden opportunity to create content. Aaron, who has just 3,300 followers on TikTok, filmed herself chatting to the camera while selecting a black Skims dress, a blazer and a belt. Her post garnered a few hundred views and some favorable comments like “Slay mamas.” Aaron is not a major social media star, nor is she a celebrity. At least…

Ever year, more than a million people in North America suffer some form of spinal cord injury (SCI), with an annual cost of more than $7 billion to treat and rehabilitate those patients. The medical community has made incredible gains toward mitigating, if not reversing, the effects of paralysis in the last quarter-century including advances in pharmacology, stem cell technologies, neuromodulation, and external prosthetics. Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord has already shown especially promising results in helping…

Gert-Jan Oskam lost the ability to walk in 2011 when he injured his spine in a cycling accident in China. Six years later, the Dutch man managed to take a few short steps thanks to a small array of electrodes implanted on top of his spinal cord that delivered nerve-stimulating pulses of electricity. The device allowed him to walk, but the process was stilted and sometimes frustrating. Today in Nature, an international team of researchers reports giving Oskam a…

Washington: Actor-comedian Rebel Wilson recently said that her first meeting with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, which happened on a recent trip to Santa Barbara, California "could not have been nicer," reported Fox News, a USA-based news outlet. According to the outlet, Rebel told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that Meghan was not very friendly with her. "Meghan was not as cool... She wasn't as naturally warm," she revealed, as fellow guest John Oliver cracked up while sitting next to her. She speculated that…

We live in a society obsessed with youth, fearful of death and allergic to wrinkles.But actress Mimi Rogers, who is 67, is having none of it.“This is me, this is my face,” Rogers says, “and I’m not going to show up with fish lips.”Rogers has a long-running television role in which she plays Honey Chandler, a high-powered and fearless attorney who is, in more ways than one, comfortable in her own skin. I’d never met Rogers, but I’ve seen her work in “Bosch” and “Bosch: Legacy,” which are based on the work of crime fiction…

Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images)Chemical flame retardants can make us safer by preventing or slowing fires, but they’re linked to a range of unsettling health effects. To get around that concern, researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have bred a new population of cotton that can self-extinguish after encountering a flame.The team of scientists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, led by Gregory N. Thyssen, bred 10 strains of cotton using alleles from 10 different parent cultivars. After creating…