The season of love is in the air once more, but a different anniversary is joining it this year: it’s been one year to the day since Madame Web‘s web dared to connect us all, often in spite of itself. In the last 12 months I have found myself embracing the camp period movie vibe that Madame
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Intersex individuals, born with physical or biological sex characteristics that do not fit typical definitions of male or female, continue to face numerous challenges, including non-consensual surgeries, lack of recognition, and misclassification as transgender or hijra. In India, the struggle of intersex individuals is particularly acute, with a lack of awareness, education, and recognition perpetuating
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Scientists have made an awe-inspiring finding beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet through thousands of ice quakes that were undetected before now. These weak seismic activities are somewhat comparable to earthquakes but occur deep within the ice streams, giving good information about the very complex movements of the frozen rivers on the island. This can completely
Author and computer scientist Sayash Kapoor, pictured on the left [File] | Photo Credit: Image Credit: Sayash Kapoor Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a theoretical concept to a transformative force in our world today. But with this progress has come a surge of misinformation and exaggerated claims. In an effort to cut through
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Beware the hospital sink drain. A new study out this week shows that these drains can be a common source of scary, drug-resistant pathogens, even after deep cleaning. Researchers at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain led the study, published Friday in Frontiers in Microbiology. They analyzed bacteria collected from drains around a
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io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand” by Lowry Poletti; this is part two of two—read part one here. Enjoy! “It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand”
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The presence of a twin inside the body of the other twin may go undetected for years. Rare foetus in foetus In January 2025, doctors at the Buldhana District Women’s Hospital in Maharashtra detected a rare case of “fetus in fetu” in a pregnant woman. This condition occurs when a malformed foetus develops inside another foetus. The
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House of the Dragon‘s second season may have not lit the proverbial dragonfire quite like its debut did, between its muted ending and its truncated runtime–and a bit of a public tiff between A Song of Ice and Fire architect George R.R. Martin and HBO probably didn’t help perception of the future of Game of Thrones on
A file photo of nurses and attendants treating patients at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Chest Diseases in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash Resistance to digitisation of patient health records by many healthcare providers is because they do not want to be accountable, said Indu Bhushan, former chairman of National Health Authority and former CEO
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Researchers conduct final inspections on a neutrino detection unit on a launcher vehicle aboard a research vessel to the seafloor in the Mediterranean Sea. Image released on February 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly subatomic particle called a
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