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FX’s “The Bear” Serves Another Course Of Dreamlike Intensity in Season Four
One of my favorite moments in Season 4 of “The Bear” is a kind of delicate ballet before the chaos—a dialogue-free sequence that lasts nearly three minutes. With the camera swooping in elegantly slow fashion about the kitchen, Ayo Edebiri’s Sydney prepares a seared scallop dish, with the hauntingly beautiful sounds of “Slow Disco” by…
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Taking the shine off BreachForums
ShinyHunters threat group members were arrested in a coordinated law enforcement action for their association with BreachForums
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How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.
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Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.
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Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
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Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
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Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
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What Is Great Hmong Food? These Chefs Have the Answer.
Yia Vang and Diane Moua have created a moment in the Twin Cities for the emergence of a cuisine virtually unknown outside its own immigrant community.
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The Best Croissants in New York City
From classics even the French would admire to more zany yet delicious interpretations.
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Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as the robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.