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High school football: Here's who was named to the Deseret News 2025 1A 8-player all-state team
If you lose a pet in Morristown, pretty soon it'll be easier to find them.
Streaking in this case, wasn’t a faddish 1970s-style, it’s too-late-Ethel-done-got-mooned, buck-naked dash through a parking lot.
MOBILE, Ala. — Jo Silver ran for 116 yards, including a 61-yard touchdown, and Delaware wrapped up its first year in the FBS with a 20-13 victory over Louisiana in the 68 Ventures Bowl on Wednesday night.
Charlie Baker's statement comes as Kalshi had taken steps to offer users the chance to bet on if an athlete would enter the transfer portal.
FuelCell Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:FCEL) stock rose Thursday after the company reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 results, marked by double-digit revenue growth and a sharply narrower loss.Revenue rose 12% year over year to $55.0 million, while net loss per share narrowed to 85 cents from $2.21. Adjusted net loss per share improved to 83 cents from $1.85.FuelCell Energy’s adjusted EPS loss of 83 cents beat an estimate for a loss of $1.04, and sales of $55.016 million topped an estimate of $44.752 million.Also Read: FuelCell Energy (FCEL) Stock Soars 150% On AI Data Center Demand: What Investors Need To KnowGross loss dropped to $6.6 million from $10.9 million. Operating loss improved to $28.3 million from $41.0 million.Net loss shrank to $30.7 million from $42.2 million, ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
The typical We Energies bill is expected to total around $117 per month during the winter, up $15 from last year.
Spotlighting key buy-low targets, emerging sleepers and potential fades to monitor heading into 2026 from our dynasty outfielder rankings.The post 2026 Dynasty Outfielders: Top Targets, Sleepers & Fades appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America.
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what Snicko is, why it is being used during the Ashes and why other technology is not being used.
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There’s something about Paradise that makes someone fall in love. Over 10 seasons of Bachelor in Paradise, the spinoff has become the show with the most success in the franchise. Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul were the first “successful” BiP couple after he popped the question during the 2014 finale of season 1. While the [...]
Micron Technology, Inc. reports 56% revenue growth and strong Q2 guidance, projecting booming HBM market and DRAM/NAND gains. Click for this MU earnings update.
Dr. Marie Feagins, former Memphis-Shelby County Schools superintendent, announced her run for Shelby County Mayor, despite her ongoing lawsuit with MSCS.
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:WTS – Get Free Report) CAO Virginia Halloran sold 605 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $276.78, for a total transaction of $167,451.90. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 13,412 [...]
Biglari Holdings Inc. (NYSE:BH – Get Free Report) CEO Sardar Biglari purchased 3,452 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 17th. The stock was bought at an average cost of $463.34 per share, with a total value of $1,599,449.68. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief executive officer owned 1,335,713 shares [...]
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB – Get Free Report) had its price target boosted by equities research analysts at Robert W. Baird from $50.00 to $55.00 in a report issued on Wednesday,MarketScreener reports. Robert W. Baird’s price target indicates a potential upside of 14.79% from the stock’s previous close. Several other equities research analysts have also [...]
Alger Concentrated Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:CNEQ – Get Free Report) announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.18 per share on Wednesday, December 31st. This represents a dividend yield of 54.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 18th. Alger [...]
Elutia Inc. (NASDAQ:ELUT – Get Free Report) CFO Matthew Ferguson purchased 60,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 17th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of $0.53 per share, with a total value of $31,800.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the chief financial officer owned 447,110 shares [...]
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE:LVS – Get Free Report) major shareholder Miriam Adelson sold 77,991 shares of Las Vegas Sands stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $67.56, for a total value of $5,269,071.96. Following the transaction, the insider owned 23,333,441 shares of the company’s [...]
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ:ADPT – Get Free Report) insider Francis Lo sold 113,890 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $15.57, for a total value of $1,773,267.30. Following the sale, the insider owned 315,978 shares of the company’s stock, valued at [...]
Sprott Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:SGDM – Get Free Report) declared an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be given a dividend of 0.727 per share on Monday, December 22nd. This represents a yield of 104.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 18th. Sprott Gold [...]
Several brokerages have updated their recommendations and price targets on shares of Plains All American Pipeline (NASDAQ: PAA) in the last few weeks: 12/16/2025 – Plains All American Pipeline had its “buy (b-)” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Weiss Ratings. 12/13/2025 – Plains All American Pipeline was downgraded by analysts at Wall Street Zen from [...]
Sprott Critical Materials ETF (NASDAQ:SETM – Get Free Report) announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.4527 per share on Monday, December 22nd. This represents a yield of 162.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 18th. Sprott Critical Materials ETF Price [...]
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) had its target price increased by research analysts at Truist Financial from $56.00 to $58.00 in a note issued to investors on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has a “buy” rating on the financial services provider’s stock. Truist Financial’s price objective indicates a potential upside of 5.74% from the company’s previous [...]
IES Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IESC – Get Free Report) insider Matthew Michael Allen sold 700 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $457.95, for a total transaction of $320,565.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 1,098 shares of the [...]
Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT – Get Free Report) had its price target upped by equities research analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods from $18.00 to $20.00 in a research report issued on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has a “market perform” rating on the stock. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods’ price target points to a potential upside [...]
Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK – Get Free Report) was upgraded by BTIG Research to a “strong-buy” rating in a note issued to investors on Tuesday,Zacks.com reports. Several other analysts also recently commented on ADSK. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c+)” rating on shares of Autodesk in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Robert W. Baird raised [...]
Beta Bionics (NASDAQ:BBNX – Get Free Report) had its price objective lifted by research analysts at Truist Financial from $32.00 to $37.00 in a research report issued on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Truist Financial’s target price would suggest a potential upside of 27.54% from the stock’s current [...]
SPDR SSGA My2029 Municipal Bond ETF (NASDAQ:MYMI – Get Free Report) declared a monthly dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be given a dividend of 0.0577 per share on Tuesday, December 23rd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.8%. The ex-dividend date of [...]
Cambria Foreign Shareholder Yield ETF (BATS:FYLD – Get Free Report) announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.4296 per share on Friday, December 19th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 5.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend [...]
Energy Services of America Co. (NASDAQ:ESOA – Get Free Report) Director Marshall Reynolds sold 100,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $8.37, for a total value of $837,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned [...]
Elutia Inc. (NASDAQ:ELUT – Get Free Report) Director Brigid Makes acquired 25,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 17th. The stock was purchased at an average price of $0.52 per share, with a total value of $13,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 27,000 shares of [...]
Sprott Nickel Miners ETF (NASDAQ:NIKL – Get Free Report) declared an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.3975 per share on Monday, December 22nd. This represents a dividend yield of 286.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 18th. Sprott Nickel Miners ETF [...]
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilmember John Lee is facing a steep fine for his notorious 2017 trip to Las Vegas, with the city's Ethics Commission saying he must pay $138,424 in a case involving pricey meals and expensive...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has resolved a maximum-severity security flaw in OneView Software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.The critical vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-37164, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. HPE OneView is an IT infrastructure management software that streamlines IT operations and controls all systems via a
“When people say horrible things about Rob right now, I find it, quite frankly, infuriating and distasteful,” the actor said.
The forward might be less untouchable than we previously thought.
Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire said Morton is no longer limited in live drills as he prepares for the program’s CFP debut.
Eagles fan still recovering from New Orleans terror attack is gifted Super Bowl ring - His close friend was killed in the French Quarter attack and he suffered a list of injuries
SPDR SSGA My2031 Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:MYCK – Get Free Report) announced a monthly dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 18th will be given a dividend of 0.0978 per share on Tuesday, December 23rd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 4.7%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, [...]
Alger Mid Cap 40 ETF (NYSEARCA:FRTY – Get Free Report) announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.041 per share on Wednesday, December 31st. This represents a dividend yield of 20.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 18th. Alger Mid Cap [...]
Sprott Critical Materials ETF (NASDAQ:SETM – Get Free Report) announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of 0.4527 per share on Monday, December 22nd. This represents a yield of 162.0%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 18th. Sprott Critical Materials ETF Trading [...]
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s finances have slid further into the red. Finance Minister John Lohr announced this morning that the province’s deficit has grown to $1.29 billion. That’s $64.4 mill...
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s finance minister says spending cuts are coming next year but there won’t be any tax or fee increases as the province struggles with its worsening finances.
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Red Magic 11 Pro+ Global ROM is a high-performance gaming phone made for users who want speed, power, and long battery life. Although it is a Chinese edition, it comes flashed with the Global ROM, supporting Google Mobile Services, the Google Play Store, and OTA updates. This allows the phone to work smoothly in most [...]The post Red Magic 11 Pro+ Global ROM Gaming Phone Available at Giztop Starting at $899 appeared first on Gizmochina.
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In the packaging industry, compressed air has become indispensable for modern production lines. It’s often colloquially referred to as the “fourth utility” alongside electricity, gas and water, and with good reason, as it powers conveyor belts, robotic assemblies, and numerous other moving parts...
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737.Kevin Carter/Getty ImagesAn Alaska Airlines passenger tried to open a plane's door midflight, an affidavit says.Other passengers said they had heard the man talking to himself and moved away from him.After the plane landed safely, the man apologized to the crew,...
Major Wall Street stock market indexes opened higher on Thursday with economic data reports in focus. Annual inflation in the United States declined to 2.7% from September's 3%, while the Consumer Pri...
U.S. consumer inflation rose by less than expected in November; CPI gained 2.7%FRANKFURT, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank kept its policy rates steady on Thursday and took a more positive view on a euro zone economy that has shown resilience to global trade shocks.Following are...
KharaIn 2026, Neon Genesis Evangelion has quite a few things planned to help celebrate the anime franchise’s thirtieth anniversary. Alongside a live-action stage play in the kabuki style and a real-world exhibit honoring the franchise, the NERV pilots are planning something very special for next year as a part of the festivities. Earlier this week, [...]The post Evangelion Announces New Anime Movie For 2026 appeared first on ComicBook.com.
When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it reshaped urban ecosystems to such an extent that certain city-dwelling birds even began to develop longer, thinner beaks resembling those of their wild relatives.
Every year since 2010, I’ve posted an article about what trend I expect to dominate the next twelve months. Throughout the 2010s, these forecasts usually focused on emerging technologies or new currents in management thinking. But around 2020, that began to shift. The annual trends increasingly centered on how we cope with change rather than the change itself.Last year my trend was “The Coming Realignment.” History tends to propagate at a certain rhythm and then converge and cascade around certain points. Years like 1776, 1789, 1848, 1920, 1948, 1968, 1989—and, it seems, 2020—mark these inflection points. The years that follow are usually spent absorbing the shock and navigating the consequences. Today, everything is up for question. Will AI boom or bust? Will it take our jobs or bring new prosperity? What kind of economic system will we adopt for the future? We are in the midst of a great realignment. What we know from previous inflections is that what comes after will be profoundly different from before. What we most need to watch is our institutions.AI boom or bust?Today, the AI investment boom is without a doubt the single biggest factor propping up the US economy. Just this year, tech giants are expected to invest roughly $364 billion in the technology. And the spending won’t stop there. McKinsey projects that building AI data centers could add up to $5.2 trillion in investment by 2030.This boom is different from what we’ve seen in the past because the main investors aren’t speculators or startups, but some of the world’s most profitable companies, including Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft. Unlike in past cycles, if the industry hits a downturn, there will still be tens of billions of dollars in annual profits to cushion the blow. Still, as investor Paul Kedrosky points out, there are reasons to worry. Investment in data center infrastructure has already surpassed the peak of the dot-com boom and is beginning to approach levels last seen during the railroad frenzy of the 19th century. Also, 60% of the cost of those data centers goes to AI chips, which have a useful life of only about three years.That means this is not a boom that can wait decades to pay off. If today’s investments don’t generate returns in the near future, much of the infrastructure could fully depreciate before delivering meaningful profit. In practical terms, unless tech firms can earn more than $200 billion in profit—on these investments alone, not from their core businesses—they will be underwater. And as investment accelerates, that bar only rises.Kedrosky also notes signs of growing systemic risk. Increasingly, tech giants are choosing to finance their infrastructure build-outs with Enron-like special-purpose vehicles. These structures cost more but keep the debt off their balance sheets. That risk, in turn, is increasingly being passed to more traditional investors, including REITs.Will AI displace humans or enhance us? A 2023 report by the World Economic Forum, analyzing 673 million jobs, predicted structural job growth of 69 million jobs and a decline of 83 million, an overall decrease of 14 million jobs. An IMF analysis found that 40% of global employment is exposed. In an interview with Axios, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years.Yet more grounded economic analyses suggest a much more modest impact. A study by the St. Louis Fed suggests a 1.1% increase in aggregate worker productivity, with much of that increase concentrated in the tech sector. A paper by Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, which looks at total factor productivity (TFP), a measure which takes use of capital into account, sees a 0.66% increase over 10 years, translating to a 0.064% increase in annual TFP growth.A recent McKinsey report takes an optimistic view. While noting that many routine office and production jobs are likely to disappear, those that leverage technical, social and emotional skills are likely to flourish, just as Autor has predicted. However, there is reason to suspect that optimists may be merely extrapolating from historical trends that may no longer apply.There’s no guarantee that the future will look like the past. An analysis in Harvard Business Review suggested that AI could disrupt the non-routine creative work that, to this point, has been hard to automate. Meanwhile, research in Science has found that, although AI may enhance individual creative work, it diminishes the diversity of novel output, potentially stifling the very innovation it aims to support.What will be the economic system of the future? Before 1789 the world was ruled by the divine right of kings and the feudal system. Yet that year would prove to be an inflection point. The American Constitution, the French Revolution, and the first Industrial Revolution, already underway since the introduction of the steam engine in 1776, together created a fundamental realignment of power.These forces would build and clash for decades until things came to a head in the revolutionary year of 1848. Today, we seem to be in a similarly liminal space, as we decide what kind of future we want to live in. The next century and a half would be dominated by the tensions between socialism and capitalism. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the West was triumphant. Communism was exposed as a corrupt system bereft of any real legitimacy. Yet for anyone paying attention, communism had long been discredited. As far back as the 1930s, Stalin’s disastrous collectivization and industrialization campaigns had led to mass starvation. By the 1970s, Soviet total factor productivity growth had gone negative, meaning more investment actually brought less output. Yet today, it is capitalism that finds itself under siege from all sides. Leftist progressives like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani advocate for reining in the private sector and creating a bigger safety net. The mercantilist American president rails against free trade and nationalizes the means of production. Christian nationalists openly call for theocratic rule.At the same time, a new cadre of theorists has emerged whose ideas don’t fit the traditional right-left paradigm. New Right thinkers such as Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen call for wholesale reordering of society. On the more technocratic side, a new school of thought is emerging that is associated with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book Abundance.It’s the institutions, stupidIn Why Nations Fail, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson explain why the fate of nations rests less on innate factors such as geography, culture, or climate and more on the quality and types of institutions they build. In particular, they make the distinction between inclusive institutions and extractive institutions. Inclusive institutions protect property rights broadly across society, establish fair competition, and reward innovation. Extractive institutions, on the other hand, concentrate wealth in the hands of a small elite who exploit the broader population. These elite players control resources and use state power to enrich themselves at society’s expense.We are clearly in a liminal period in which we are struggling to adapt to shifts in technology, economics, and identity. Will AI oppress or empower regular people? Will we trade openly or retreat behind national barriers? Will we focus primarily on our local communities or see ourselves as citizens of a larger planet? As ever, there will be no shortage of pundits predicting the paths the future will take. Many of their narratives will be persuasive—but also mutually contradictory. The real tell will be what kinds of institutions we build and which ones we allow to decay or be destroyed outright. Are we creating institutions that strengthen rights and the rule of law, or those that serve the powerful?The outcome is still unclear, but the lines of battle have been drawn. If you want to know what to expect in the near to mid-term, pay less attention to predictions about technology, politics, or ideology and focus instead on institutions. Those are what create the norms and rituals that will shape the behaviors of the future.
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Burger King has faced multiple challenges in recent years, including a slowdown in consumer spending, rising operational and food costs, intensifying competition, and even a series of Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings by franchisees that resulted in restaurant closures across the U.S.To get its...
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Parnassus Investments, an investment management firm, released its “Parnassus Value Equity Fund” third-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund focuses on owning a concentrated portfolio of U.S. large-cap stocks. For the third quarter of 2025, the fund...
Lovable has seen its valuation more than triple just five months after the company's last funding round in July.
sorbetto/Getty ImagesCompanies can use artificial intelligence to enhance brand storytelling and attract talent.AI analyzes brand sentiment, employee feedback, and social media to inform recruitment strategies.This article is part of "How AI is Changing Talent", a series exploring how AI is...
The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a "climate conflict" and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular narrative is now debunked in a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
The HR executive who was caught on camera mid-canoodle with her married boss at a Coldplay concert
The Duffer Brothers recently guested on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they unveiled an exclusive clip from the upcoming Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 2. This clip revealed how Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers, who gained powers in Vol 1, could destroy Vecna. Notably, Will and Vecna’s conflict is one of the core plot [...]The post How Will Could End Vecna Detailed in New Stranger Things Season 5 Clip appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Kristin Cabot -- one half of the couple who went viral on social media this summer when they were caught getting cozy at a Coldplay concert -- has confirmed she and ex-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron are not dating ... and she blames the whole fiasco on... Permalink
The Bondi Beach shooting suspects' stay at the GV Hotel in Davao, the Philippines, is being probed by Australian authorities.A father and son checked into a low-key budget hotel in Davao, in the southern Philippines, on Nov.
Timothee Chalamet recently made some jokes about his “anemic frame” making it to the Wheaties cereal box. The Academy Award-nominated actor made a guest appearance in a new episode of the popular talk show, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” to promote his new movie, “Marty Supreme.” The episode aired on December 18 on YouTube. [...]The post Timothee Chalamet Talks His ‘Anemic Frame’ Making Wheaties Box appeared first on Mandatory.
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MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence director, Sergei Naryshkin, said that he had recently ...
Turning Point is beginning its annual Christian youth conference, the first event since the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. The four-day meeting in Phoenix kicking off Thursday gathers thousands of young supporters of the MAGA movement, which faces internal debates...
Back in July 2025, two co-workers from the company Astronomer were caught on the “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert, but made headlines after they awkwardly tried to hide from the cameras after being spotted together. It was later revealed that the two people were Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron and Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot. [...]
Russia will be paying for its invasion of Ukraine for years to come even if the fighting ended tomorrow, as the government plugs a widening gap in the military budget with increasingly costly borrowing.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new entertainment district was announced for downtown Tampa by Strategic Property Partners on Thursday. The new district will feature: According to Vinik Sports Group, the project is privately financed, supports the broader Water Street Tampa vision, and will create energy around the Benchmark International Arena. Strategic Property Partners is planning [...]
French lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalised in 1975, a moved praised by feminist groups as a stand for reproductive rights. A unanimous vote in parliament’s lower house, the National Assembly, finalised the adoption of a proposal that was accepted by the Senate in March [...]The post France exonerates women convicted over abortions before legalisation appeared first on Digital Journal.
The five-day festival, from Dec. 26–30, will feature music, dance, workshops and family activities celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York. Hicks, currently the bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Dolan, a prominent conservative figure, recently...
With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man’s Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally - but in astronomy that saying is more true than many other disciplines, as many discoveries are entirely dependent on the technology - the telescope, imager, or processing algorithm, used to collect data on them. A new piece of technology, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is exciting scientists enough that they are even starting to predict what kind of discoveries it might make. One such type of discovery, described in a pre-print paper on arXiv by Vito Saggese of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics and his co-authors on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team, is the discovery of many more multiplantery exoplanet systems an astronomical phenomena Roman is well placed to detect - microlensing.
(MENAFN - PR Newswire)Fan- and industry-voted awards program honors the best in licensed merchandise, collectibles, and fan-first experiences.KPop Demon Hunters, Wicked, Stranger Things, and more ...
A Hollywood actress and author is back home in Tampa Bay discussing her latest Christmas project on Rooted in Progress. Watch today's episode in the player above.
President Donald Trump has affixed partisan plaques to the portraits of all U.S. commanders in chief, himself included, on his Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, describing Joe Biden as "sleepy," Barack Obama as "divisive" and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
TBR columnist Melissa Heckscher writes about Cosm screening "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Now divided between Romania and Ukraine, the region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.
The Marvel Rivals developer changed Deadpool's role with the latest update
A huge weekend of holiday happenings features Santa on water skis, holiday concerts from classical to carols, pop-up markets and seasonal film festivals.
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.
CheapInsurance.com reports on state rules for nonrenewal notices, emphasizing the importance of timely notifications for policyholders to secure new coverage.
Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy and efficiency.
An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami that devastated coastal communities.
While no one won the grand prize jackpot, two lucky winners each won $2 million, according to the Powerball website.
EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Hjelmeseth’s G&B Digital Management has signed lifestyle creators Eva Amurri, Kellie Brown, Eric Goldie, and Mark O’Brien for representation. Each of the four are looking to build their social media personas and personal brands through partnership collaborations and more strategic, long-term roadmaps for their businesses. O’Brien, known as TikTok’s ‘Brownstone Whisperer,’ has expertise in real estate, construction [...]
Whether you've been heading out to your local cineplex or staying home to enjoy flicks from the comfort of the couch, this year offered up a plentiful bounty of movie magic.
New research shows the Chesapeake Bay’s top invader is hard to control.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the company behind Truth Social, is getting into nuclear fusion.
Jane Dever, director of Clemson University’s Pee Dee Research and Education Center (REC) near Florence, South Carolina, has...The post Dever inducted into Cotton Research and Promotion Hall of Fame appeared first on Clemson News.
A recent NBER study, "Technology and the Innovation Shock," reveals that technological breakthroughs like AI boost GDP by 2-3% short-term and enhance productivity, but they widen income inequality by favoring capital owners and high-skilled workers while displacing routine jobs. Policymakers must implement retraining and progressive measures to ensure equitable benefits.
Gazing Into the Mind’s Eye With Mice – How Neuroscientists Are Seeing Human Vision More ClearlySuperadminThu, 12/18/2025 - 09:08 Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world.I am a neuroscientist who studies how brain cells drive visual perception and how these processes can fail in conditions such as autism. My lab “listens” to the electrical activity of neurons in the outermost part of the brain called the cerebral cortex, a large portion of which processes visual information. Injuries to the visual cortex can lead to blindness and other visual deficits, even when the eyes themselves are unhurt.Understanding the activity of individual neurons – and how they work together while the brain is actively using and processing information – is a long-standing goal of neuroscience. Researchers have moved much closer to achieving this goal thanks to new technologies aimed at the mouse visual system. And these findings will help scientists better see how the visual systems of people work.The Mind in the Blink of an EyeResearchers long thought that vision in mice appeared sluggish with low clarity. But it turns out visual cortex neurons in mice – just like those in humans, monkeys, cats and ferrets – require specific visual features to trigger activity and are particularly selective in alert and awake conditions.My colleagues and I and others have found that mice are especially sensitive to visual stimuli directly in front of them. This is surprising, because mouse eyes face outward rather than forward. Forward-facing eyes, like those of cats and primates, naturally have a larger area of focus straight ahead compared to outward-facing eyes.This image shows neurons in the mouse retina: cone photoreceptors (red), bipolar neurons (magenta), and a subtype of bipolar neuron (green). Brian Liu and Melanie Samuel/Baylor College of Medicine/NIH via FlickrThis finding suggests that the specialization of the visual system to highlight the frontal visual field appears to be shared between mice and humans. For mice, a visual focus on what’s straight ahead may help them be more responsive to shadows or edges in front of them, helping them avoid looming predators or better hunt and capture insects for food.Importantly, the center of view is most affected in aging and many visual diseases in people. Since mice also rely heavily on this part of the visual field, they may be particularly useful models to study and treat visual impairment.A Thousand Voices Drive Complicated ChoicesAdvances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now routinely record the activity of thousands of neurons at the same time and pair this data with real-time video of a mouse’s face, pupil and body movements. This method can show how behavior interacts with brain activity.It’s like spending years listening to a grainy recording of a symphony with one featured soloist, but now you have a pristine recording where you can hear every single musician with a note-by-note readout of every single finger movement.Using these improved methods, researchers like me are studying how specific types of neurons work together during complex visual behaviors. This involves analyzing how factors such as movement, alertness and the environment influence visual activity in the brain.For example, my lab and I found that the speed of visual signaling is highly sensitive to what actions are possible in the physical environment. If a mouse rests on a disc that permits running, visual signals travel to the cortex faster than if the mouse views the same images while resting in a stationary tube – even when the mouse is totally still in both conditions.In order to connect electrical activity to visual perception, researchers also have to ask a mouse what it thinks it sees. How have we done this?The last decade has seen researchers debunking long-standing myths about mouse learning and behavior. Like other rodents, mice are also surprisingly clever and can learn how to “tell” researchers about the visual events they perceive through their behavior.For example, mice can learn to release a lever to indicate they have detected that a pattern has brightened or tilted. They can rotate a Lego wheel left or right to move a visual stimulus to the center of a screen like a video game, and they can stop running on a wheel and lick a water spout when they detect the visual scene has suddenly changed.Mice can be trained to drink water as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something. felixmizioznikov/iStock via Getty Images PlusMice can also use visual cues to focus their visual processing to specific parts of the visual field. As a result, they can more quickly and accurately respond to visual stimuli that appear in those regions. For example, my team and I found that a faint visual image in the peripheral visual field is difficult for mice to detect. But once they do notice it – and tell us by licking a water spout – their subsequent responses are faster and more accurate.These improvements come at a cost: If the image unexpectedly appears in a different location, the mice are slower and less likely to respond to it. These findings resemble those found in studies on spatial attention in people.My lab has also found that particular types of inhibitory neurons – brain cells that prevent activity from spreading – strongly control the strength of visual signals. When we activated certain inhibitory neurons in the visual cortex of mice, we could effectively “erase” their perception of an image.These kinds of experiments are also revealing that the boundaries between perception and action in the brain are much less separate than once thought. This means that visual neurons will respond differently to the same image in ways that depend on behavioral circumstances – for example, visual responses differ if the image will be successfully detected, if it appears while the mouse is moving, or if it appears when the mouse is thirsty or hydrated.Understanding how different factors shape how cortical neurons rapidly respond to visual images will require advances in computational tools that can separate the contribution of these behavioral signals from the visual ones. Researchers also need technologies that can isolate how specific types of brain cells carry and communicate these signals.Data Clouds Encircling the GlobeThis surge of research on the mouse visual system has led to a significant increase in the amount of data that scientists can not only gather in a single experiment but also publicly share among each other.Major national and international research centers focused on unraveling the circuitry of the mouse visual system have been leading the charge in ushering in new optical, electrical and biological tools to measure large numbers of visual neurons in action. Moreover, they make all the data publicly available, inspiring similar efforts around the globe. This collaboration accelerates the ability of researchers to analyze data, replicate findings and make new discoveries.Technological advances in data collection and sharing can make the culture of scientific discovery more efficient and transparent – a major data informatics goal of neuroscience in the years ahead.If the past 10 years are anything to go by, I believe such discoveries are just the tip of the iceberg, and the mighty and not-so-blind mouse will play a leading role in the continuing quest to understand the mysteries of the human brain. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Subtitle Summary sentence Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world. Summary Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world. Dateline Tue, 12/16/2025 - 12:00 Contact Author:Bilal Haider, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMedia Contact:Shelley [email protected] Related links Read This Article on The Conversation Associated importer 1 Keywords go-resarchnews News room topics Science and Technology Mercury ID 686983 Source updated Thu, 12/18/2025 - 08:57
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