Author: Vidya Saras

A 30-second Super Bowl ad featuring boxing legend Mike Tyson and paid for by the nonprofit MAHA Center encourages viewers to avoid processed foods and visit Realfood.gov. The government website, which Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting, provides resources on the administration’s new dietary guidelines, released in January, and encourages people to use Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to “get real answers about real food.”I decided to see how Grok’s advice aligns with the administration’s recommendations, particularly around protein intake. The new guidelines say to get 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of…

The trucking industry is America’s arteries, hauling essential goods across the country to make our lives easier.

The signals that drive many of the brain and body’s most essential functions — consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate, and motion — course through bundles of “white matter” fibers in the brainstem, but imaging systems so far have been unable to finely resolve these crucial neural cables. That has left researchers and doctors with little capability to assess how they are affected by trauma or neurodegeneration. In a new study, a team of MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers unveil AI-powered software capable of automatically segmenting eight distinct bundles in any diffusion MRI sequence.In the open-access study, published Feb.…

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. Zero-day #1 this month is CVE-2026-21510, a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Shell wherein a single click on a malicious link can quietly bypass Windows protections and run attacker-controlled content without warning or consent dialogs. CVE-2026-21510 affects all currently supported versions of Windows. The zero-day flaw CVE-2026-21513 is a security bypass bug targeting MSHTML, the proprietary engine of the default Web browser in Windows. CVE-2026-21514 is…

On the heels of its controversial All-American Halftime Show during the 2026 Super Bowl, Turning Point USA has announced its plans for the future. Calling the 2026 show a “massive success,” TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said that the organization plans to put on a similar show during next year’s Super Bowl. “So I can tell you, that’s a shot across the bow,” he said during a Sunday, February 8 appearance on Fox News’ One Nation with Brian Kilmeade. “People are paying attention. And if you give us a year to plan this thing, I’m really excited to see what we…

Ed Miliband has approved a sweeping expansion of renewable energy projects across the UK, backing solar farms that could cover an area of farmland close to the size of Manchester, alongside dozens of new onshore wind developments. On Tuesday, the energy secretary awarded consumer-funded subsidies to 134 new solar farms across England and a further 23 in Wales and Scotland. He also approved 28 large onshore wind projects, mainly located on hillsides in Scotland and Wales. Among the schemes given the green light is the vast West Burton solar farm on prime agricultural land on the Lincolnshire–Nottinghamshire border, as well…

There are a handful of Nordic design characteristics that these homes share. Key is the use of natural materials, and the way these houses connect with and frame views of the landscape. Bradbury also cites their relative modesty of scale and subtlety. “These are sophisticated designs yet they sit gently and lightly upon the landscape,” he says.According to Bradbury, during the post-war period, these Nordic modern masters forged the ideal of “warm modernism”, or “soft modernism”. These ideals offered an enticing and more expressive alternative to the  International Style – the movement characterised by minimalism and functionalism that dominated design…

The Medically Vulnerable People (MVP) shelter in Sandy, Utah, is a remodeled two-story brick hotel. It serves people ages 62 and older, as well as people with health conditions that make it hard to live in a typical homeless shelter. Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio Just outside Salt Lake City, in Sandy, Utah, there’s an old, two-story brick hotel — now given new life as a homeless shelter for older adults. The Medically Vulnerable People shelter, or MVP shelter for short, is for people ages 62 and older. But it also serves younger…

Imagine a snake slithering across the screen, smoothly chasing your mouse along an organic path. Building that path is the challenge. Mouse input is noisy, motion must update in real time, and the curve can’t be precomputed or stored ahead of time. 1. Introduction This tutorial introduces a two-part curve system to solve it. CurveGenerator produces short cubic Bézier segments steered by behavioral rules, while EndlessCurve stitches them into a continuous, memory-bounded path. With that in place, we render a procedural snake on top. Inspiration While looking at retro Snake games, I wanted to reimagine the idea in 3D by…

Astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet, thanks to new insights into how giant worlds form.New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought too large to form like ordinary planets — may grow through the same basic process, shifting how scientists differentiate massive planets from brown dwarfs.The findings come from a close look at the HR 8799 system, a young, sun-like star about 133 light-years from Earth that hosts four enormous gas giants orbiting far from their parent star. Each world…