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Krysta Grasso, 27, is the owner of the crochet brand Unlikely Fox. Surrounded by a sea of colorful yarn, 27-year-old Krysta Grasso lounged on her bed in her West Adams apartment as she crocheted a custom order. With the yarn in one hand and a crochet hook in the other, she intricately worked in more of the neon pink, highlighter yellow and tortoise blue that she’d hand-dyed in her kitchen. When she was finished, she held up her creation: a fox-ear hat, one of her signature pieces. Grasso’s crochet…

Research led by Stanford University reveals that life can persist in extremely salty environments, a significant discovery for understanding habitability in our solar system and the effects of salinity on Earth’s ecosystems. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA Stanford study on microbes in extremely salty water suggests life may survive conditions previously thought to be uninhabitable. The research widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar system and shows how changes in salinity may affect life in…

Running a tech startup is a challenging endeavour under any circumstances. Imagine doing it under invasion with air raid sirens going off on average twice every 24 hours — and managing to grow 250% in the process.  This is the story of OBRIO, a Ukrainian startup behind the successful astrology app Nebula. Speaking to TNW from his apartment in Kyiv just before the turn of the year, founder and CEO Alex Fedorov says that running a company during wartime is not exactly something you learn in…

When a large earthquake shook Alaska's Aleutian Islands in 2014, scientists with the US government hurried to assess the damage on Amchitka Island. They were looking for leaking radiation from underground nuclear tests performed decades before.During the first half of the 20th century, the remote island had been a wildlife preserve, until the US government converted it into a nuclear test site.Three atomic weapons went off at Amchitka in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the largest underground detonation the US…

Hasbro is laying off 1,100 employees, according to an SEC filing. The company behind franchises like Dungeons & Dragons and Transformers, Hasbro already laid off 800 employees in January. While some employees will find out about the fate of their jobs on Tuesday, others will be cut in the coming year. By 2025, Hasbro told shareholders, the company hopes to save about $350 million to $400 million in costs. Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks wrote in a memo to employees — shared within its SEC filing — that he will direct the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The approaching holiday season will be the first post-split for Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire, who separated in summer 2023. It may also be the first for you. Welcome to co-parenting, an increasingly common social reality. Every year, there are about 50,000 divorces…

As life comes to an end, so too does life go on. This is true even in the benthic depths, where the bounty of a fallen whale carcass created and continues to support a mini ecosystem for decades after the whale's death.And the remains of a whale deep under the waters of the North Pacific are helping scientists understand how these remains allow ecosystems to thrive.These massive carcasses are known as "whale fall", and this one was discovered 1,250 meters (4,100 feet) deep off the coast of British Columbia at a site…

The big story China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown  June 2021 For generations, politicians and intellectuals have sought ways to build a strong China. Some imported tools and ideas from the West. Others left for a better education, but the homeland still beckoned. Yangyang Cheng, a particle physicist at Yale Law School, is a product of their complex legacy. She grew up in Hefei, then a humble, medium-sized city in central-eastern China, which is now a budding metropolis with…

As It Happens6:30Scientists discover rare, thriving octopus nursery — and maybe a new speciesBeth Orcutt will never forget the moment she witnessed a baby octopus hatch in the deepsea.The marine scientist was co-leading a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition to study the ocean's depths off Costa Rica using a remotely operated vehicle, when her team saw the little mollusk emerge.They weren't looking for baby octopuses. In fact, until that moment, scientists weren't sure if it was possible for an octopus embryo to survive in…

The human gut is teeming with trillions of microbes, but most studies of this vast community have focused on people living in urban regions. Now, a team of researchers has sequenced gut microbiomes from Hadza people — members of a hunter-gatherer society in northern Tanzania — and compared them with those from people in Nepal and California. The study has found not only that the Hadza tend to have more gut microorganisms than people in the other groups, but that a Western lifestyle seems to diminish the diversity of gut…