Music

Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks is a love story. Across five seasons, the personal and professional relationship of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) has been the beating heart of the show. So much so, their relationship may just be one of the greatest love...

TECH

Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business

A recent Indian court ruling against Google’s keyword advertising practices has gained fresh attention after founders said competitors have long used the system to siphon off customers and force companies to pay to protect their own brands. The ruling, delivered by the Delhi High Court on May 22 in a trademark dispute involving bathroom fittings maker Hindware, found Google liable...

TECH

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during testing in Florida

Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight Now. Blue Origin later confirmed the explosion. Jeff Bezos’ space company was performing a static fire test ahead of an anticipated fourth launch of the new rocket in the coming weeks, which was supposed to...

Nature

Gene therapies to fix failing hearts gain steam after years in the doldrums

Heart-muscle cells (in close-up, artificially coloured) do not normally proliferate in adult mammals, but scientists are trying to coax them into doing so. Credit: Medimage/SPLScientists are developing a new wave of gene therapies to regenerate the heart — offering hope for treating heart failure, a debilitating and common condition.The first clinical trial aimed at growing new heart-muscle cells is now...

Religion

These houses of worship are older than America. How they outlasted wars, schisms and lawsuits.

(RNS) — On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723. Two days later, a handful of worshippers took part in a Shabbat service at Newport, Rhode Island’s Touro Synagogue, dedicated in 1763.  Congregations participating in sacred rituals — it is something both houses of worship have been...

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DNA solves 250-year-old mystery of the Seychelles’ lost crocodiles

For more than 250 years, stories from early explorers described crocodiles as a common sight along the shores of the Seychelles. But after permanent settlers arrived in 1770, the island population disappeared rapidly. Within about 50 years, the crocodiles had been completely exterminated. Now, scientists have finally uncovered the true identity of these vanished reptiles through a new genetic analysis....

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