Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-2, a new AI model that achieved third place on the Arena.ai text-to-image generation leaderboard. PCWorld reports that the model excels at creating photorealistic images ...

Elaine Pinggal from Monash University, and colleagues assessed how sleep-like brain activity in awake adults influences sustained attention during a task. The researchers compared sleep-like brain ...

Salaries for fire chiefs across several Southern Illinois communities vary widely, even among departments serving cities of similar size. The issue drew attention this week after the West Frankfort ...

Scott Patterson is exiting the Canadian romantic drama “Sullivan’s Crossing” ahead of season 4 — and he’s not leaving on the best of terms. Patterson, 67, who rose to prominence as Luke Danes on ...

Google rolled out Nano Banana 2 on Thursday, an update to its viral AI image generator. The newest model will have increased speed, enhanced text renderings and follow instructions more precisely. The ...

Some sex differences in brain-connectivity patterns become more pronounced with age, according to new research. Researchers studying brain-imaging data from people aged between 8 and 100 found that ...

Stories about male dogs being chaotic goofballs and female dogs being calmer have floated around forever. What is new is actual data backing pieces of that idea. A 2025 Dog Aging Project survey looked ...

2022 Olympic Gold Medalist Nathan Chen breaks down the difference between ice dancing and pairs in figure skating. So both pairs and dance have two people skating on the ice at the same time. Dance is ...

Every four years, we all get a reminder about why still photography is an urgently important art form that must be preserved at any cost: the high-effort Olympic figure skater face, which is always ...

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DEAR ABBY: Two of my mom’s best friends ended their friendship with her after almost 50 years because of political differences. I grew up spending every holiday with these ladies and their families, ...

The warring Harrisburg mayor and city council reached a ceasefire Tuesday resolving budget disputes that defunded several top-level city government positions for the 2026 fiscal year. City council ...