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The pink lapacho tree is one of about 300,000 species of flowering plants Roberto Tetsuo Okamura/Shutterstock Botanists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants using genomic data from more than 9500 species. The newly compiled tree of life will help scientists piece together the origins of flowering plants and inform future conservation efforts. Around 90 per cent of land-dwelling …

Just over a year ago, lawmakers displayed a rare show of bipartisanship when they grilled Shou Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, about the video app’s ties to China. Their harsh questioning suggested that Washington was gearing up to force the company to sever ties with its Chinese owner — or even ban the app. Then came mostly silence. Little emerged from …

Carrefour SA (OTCPK:CRRFY) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 24, 2024 12:15 PM ET Company Participants Matthieu Malige – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Izabel Dobreva – Morgan StanleyViraj Brahmbhatt – CitiClément Genelot – Bryan Garnier & Co.Nicolas Champ – BarclaysFrederick Wild – JefferiesFrançois Digard – Kepler Cheuvreux Operator Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to …

Overmono have shared the remix of the Streets’ “Turn the Page” that has been a staple of their live sets since its debut at Lost Village in 2022. Check it out below. The remix will also be released as a 12″ single, via XL. Tom and Ed Russell released Good Lies, their debut LP as Overmono, last year, followed by …

President Biden seemed to suffer a verbal slip-up during a speech at a trade union conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Biden, reading off a teleprompter, appeared to incorporate script instructions in the middle of his speech, resulting in an awkward applause line. The moment came during a section of his remarks straight out of a campaign stump speech. “I …

Synchrony Bank offers several CD accounts with rates above 5.00% <img src=' alt=' Thomas Barwick / Getty Images ‘ title=”Businesswoman consulting with financial advisor in office”> Thomas Barwick / Getty Images Fact checked by Hans Daniel Jasperson Synchrony Bank CD Rates Synchrony Bank is an online bank that offers a wide variety of financial services, including certificates of deposit (CDs) …

“It’s an awfully exciting time,” says Andrew Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “There is a bright future in which all 100,000 patients on the kidney transplant wait list, and maybe even the 500,000 Americans on dialysis, are more routinely offered a pig kidney as one of their options,” Cameron adds. All the living patients who …

From the Florentine countryside, OOH-sounds is fighting the tide of algorithmic ambient with challenging new sounds

More than 150,000 registered Republicans voted for Nikki Haley in Pennsylvania’s presidential primary Tuesday, marking a conspicuous show of defiance against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. With the vast majority of votes tallied Wednesday morning, Trump won about 83 percent of the vote. But Haley, who ended her campaign March 6, carried more than 16 percent, sparking a debate among …

Just when you thought hot inflation had finally cooled off, out jumps some indication that the Federal Reserve may not have won the fight just yet. The Consumer Price Index, a broad measure of how average consumer prices change for a variety of goods and services, rose 3.5% year over year in March, a 0.3% increase from February (when it …

Throughout the five months of troubleshooting, Voyager’s ground team continued to receive signals indicating the spacecraft was still alive. But until Saturday, they lacked insight into specific details about the status of Voyager 1. “It’s pretty much just the way we left it,” Spilker said. “We’re still in the initial phases of analyzing all of the channels and looking at …

When you’re Kim Kardashian and start your own wildly successful underwear and shapewear company, you can pretty much create any product you want, whenever you want. (After all, SKIMS was born after Kardashian noticed a gap in the shapewear market based on her own experience customizing shapewear to suit her wardrobe.) That’s why it comes as no surprise that the brand’s instantly …

(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest bond market remained under pressure, with a jumbo-sized sale of Treasuries failing to assuage concerns on whether a turning point is in sight after this year’s selloff. Most Read from Bloomberg Treasuries stayed lower after a $70 billion auction of five-year notes “tailed slightly.” The auction was awarded at 4.659%, a bit higher than the …

Hezbollah dismisses Israeli claim that it has killed half of the group’s commanders in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military says it hit dozens of targets in southern Lebanon while the Lebabese armed group Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at an Israeli border village as fighting continues to escalate. The Israeli military said the strikes in the area of …

Between the Muppets, Sesame Street, and fantasy films like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, there’s a good chance Jim Henson played a key part in your childhood. Want to know more about the man behind the puppets? Check out the first trailer for the upcoming Disney+ documentary Jim Henson Idea Man, which dives deep into Henson’s storied life and career. …

Billie Eilish can’t get enough of sex. In a new, free-wheeling interview with Rolling Stone, the pop star got incredibly candid about her sex life, talking about everything from masturbation to the sexually charged lyrics of her new song “Lunch.” It seemed clear that the singer’s sexuality would be taking front stage of her forthcoming third album, Hit Me Hard …

According to the myth, Catherine II’s courtier Grigory Potemkin recruited peasants to populate fake villages erected along the Dnipro River, so the Russian empress, passing in her barge, might get a favourable impression of conditions in newly conquered Crimea. Historians doubt that it happened, but the idea of counterfeiting progress to appease the boss was plausible enough for the name …

Elon Musk doesn’t think Tesla should be viewed as just another auto company.  Musk told investors on Tuesday that Tesla’s Optimus robots are its most valuable asset. “We should be thought of as an AI or robotics company,” Musk said. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app …

Reddit is rolling out a few new updates to its iOS and Android apps to make it easier for people to locate and take part in conversations on the platform. The company announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new unified media player, along with instant comment loading and a direct shortcut to conversations. Given that a large part of …

A well-cut suit—whether single- or double-breasted—is a forever wardrobe staple. It’s particularly a popular piece for office settings, as the clean, sleek silhouette reads as both confident and professional. That being said, suiting up doesn’t only have to be confined to a fluorescent-lit boardroom. As Kendall Jenner showed this week, a smart two-piece can also be a fresh option for …