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6 People Who Actually Accomplished Their Health Goals Last Year Share Their Best Advice So You Can, Too
Whether they were learning to move again, processing a devastating loss or starting a fitness journey, these people all had one thing in common: They kept showing up.
Takeaways: Supreme Court signals it will defy Trump to keep Lisa Cook on Federal Reserve
The Supreme Court signaled deep skepticism Wednesday that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, with several conservative justices joining their liberal colleagues in posing pointed questions of the lawyer defending the president.
Sound and Hearing Studies, Earth Observations Fill Science Schedule
Sound and hearing studies as well as Earth observations kept the Expedition 74 trio busy on Wednesday. The International Space Station residents also worked on cargo transfers, downloaded radiation data, and kept up lab maintenance.
Lawsuit contests RFK Jr.’s new vaccine guidance for children
Several public health organizations accused the health secretary of packing a key advisory committee with vaccine skeptics, arguing its latest guidance should be voided.
The marijuana business grows up as Trump eases the rules
A new policy targets the specific financial chokepoints that have kept a $30 billion industry operating like a shadow economy
Where some of Trump's promises stand a year into his second term
“I’ve kept all my promises and much more,” Trump insisted during a speech this week in Detroit.
DHS Has Become What Its Critics Feared
Two decades after its founding, the Department of Homeland Security has become exactly what its critics feared.
Analysis: The GOP’s non-interventionist phase is over
We’re still waiting to find out whether President Donald Trump follows through and strikes Iran after the country violated his red line by killing lots of protesters. While Trump said he’s received assurances that “the killing has stopped,” he’s kept the possibility of military action on the table – which would mark a significant escalation even for the increasingly militaristic Trump.
VOTE: Has the cost of health care kept you or someone you know from getting medical care?
Has the cost of health care kept you or someone you know from getting medical care?
How I built a $1 million a year business - and helped my parents retire
When he was 15 years old, Tuan Le, vowed he would help his parents retire after his family emigrated from Vietnam to Toronto, Canada in 2015. 10 years later, his social video production company, ShortsCut is bringing in over $1 million USD a year in sales. Tuan kept his word and now pays for his parents' rent and living expenses so that they no long have to work full time.
Showing new optimism, Schumer says Democrats have a path to take back Senate majority this year
The upbeat take on the November Senate elections flies against past results in some states and skepticism from some non-partisan political analysts.
Trump’s Feel-My-Pain Economic Message
The president appears skeptical about Americans’ concerns. How will voters respond?
How Stars Like Jean Smart and Mark Ruffalo Got (Sort-Of) Political at Golden Globes 2026
Several celebrities on the 83rd Golden Globes red carpet wore anti-ICE pins, but winners and presenters kept it purposely vague onstage.
Packers vs. Bears: Caleb Williams leads another incredible comeback over rivals with 25-point fourth quarter in 31-27 victory
The Bears just kept plugging away and finally pulled off one of the most exciting and satisfying wins in their franchise’s long history.
A room full of flu patients and no one got sick
In a striking real-world experiment, flu patients spent days indoors with healthy volunteers, but the virus never spread. Researchers found that limited coughing and well-mixed indoor air kept virus levels low, even with close contact. Age may have helped too, since middle-aged adults are less likely to catch the flu than younger people. The results highlight ventilation, air movement, and masks as key defenses against infection.
Trump’s plan to strong-arm insurers into lower prices is met with skepticism
There are reasons to be skeptical that voluntary cuts by insurance companies could bring significant, lasting health care savings for Americans.
‘It’s uninvestible’: Trump’s Venezuela pitch met with skepticism from oil executives
‘It’s uninvestible’: Trump’s Venezuela pitch met with skepticism from oil executives
China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy.
China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean energy.
I lost my daughter and discovered a terrifying legal reality
Shawnee Baker's daughter had catastrophic brain injuries and was kept on life support. She didn't have a healthcare proxy allowing her to die.
From sea slugs to sunflowers, California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species in 2025
Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, they described 72 new-to-science species from six continents — creatures living in unexplored ocean depths, in plain sight on the Galápagos Islands, and in a U.S. national park. The species include a bird, two worms, two lizards, […]
Americans have long been skeptical of ICE. That debate just became a lot more urgent.
One day – probably very soon – college psychology and political science lectures will be based on what happened Wednesday in Minneapolis.
Lenovo CEO addresses AI skeptics at CES: 'Nobody can avoid it.'
Mashable spoke to Yang following Lenovo's keynote CES event at The Sphere.
Foulkes builds her R.I. gubernatorial campaign team as the election year begins
Former CVS executive Helena Foulkes has kept a low profile since launching her second campaign for Rhode Island governor in September, but the Democrat is staffing up as the election year begins.
Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space
"In fact, at first I was skeptical about the signal as it was too strong to be real."
Philosophy to the Rescue of Science
The pessimistic meta-induction—the argument that since past scientific theories have been shown to be false, we should expect that today’s will turn out false, too—makes the New York Times. . Elay Shech, professor of philosophy at Auburn University, takes up the topic in the context of current political disputes about science and our government’s seemingly increasing disregard of expertise: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, made a version of this argument in August when defending his decision to halt hundreds of millions of dollars in mRNA vaccine development despite the objections of vaccine scientists. He said that “science is always evolving” and the experts could not always be trusted. Shech accepts that “many widely accepted [scientific] theories have been discarded” but that the question, “why should we trust the ones we have now?” is misleading. Why? It implies that the only possible attitudes toward science are naïve faith and wholesale pessimism. It assumes that science is a single global entity that rises or falls all at once, when in reality, science is an array of local domains of inquiry, each with its own standards of evidence and degrees of reliability. In place of skepticism, Shech recommends “disciplined trust.” The first step in the direction of disciplined trust is recognizing that “there is no single scientific method used in all of science.” Shech writes: Newton’s deduction from observed phenomena is very different from Darwin’s inference to the best explanation, which in turn differs radically from Einstein’s thought experiments with light beams, trains and elevators. What people call “the scientific method” is really many distinct ways of investigating the world—different strategies for representing, experimenting and classifying. Since different areas of science employ different methods and rely on different kinds of evidence, to make a case for skepticism “you need to look at the evidence and methods in a specific area of inquiry.” And that case will not be “a sweeping claim about all of science” but rather about that particular area of inquiry with, for example, what might turn out to be “well-understood methodological problems.” Shech’s piece is “Science Keeps Changing, So Why Should We Trust It?” (NYT gift link). Discussion welcome (readers are advised to keep in..
Jersey Bulls keep play-off hopes alive after Merstham win
Jersey Bulls boss Elliot Powell says they kept alive Isthmian League South East play-off hopes by beating Merstham 2-0.
Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim Struggles With Reform Politics in Unstable Coalition
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has kept Malaysia’s unity government intact since November 2022, but doing...
2026: Showtime for Android XR glasses
During my hands-on with Android XR glasses last month, I kept returning to the digital clock that was displayed over...
Meet the man who invites 1,000 people to his house every month
Once a month for 15 years, David Weiner has hosted a jazz party, inviting everyone he knows and many people he’s never met over to his D.C. rowhouse. Today, we revisit one of our favorite episodes of the year and go inside the wildly welcoming ritual to understand how he’s built this community — and kept it going.
‘ARC Raiders’ Has Kept 91% Of Its Playerbase, ‘Battlefield 6’ Has Lost 85%
ARC Raiders has absolutely wild player retention, while Battlefield 6, over the same time, has lost tons of players.
Political winners and losers of 2025
President Trump’s return to power dominated 2025. He began his second term with rapid moves aimed at shifting the nation’s political culture — and then just kept going. Trump’s approach cleav…
Assessing health and vaccine skepticism in the U.S. ahead of 2026
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood vaccination rates continued to decrease during the 2024-2025 school year, and measles cases in the U.S. in 2025 exceeded 2,000 for the first time in more than 30 years.
In a Year of Violent Tumult, the Sports World Was Silent
When the country needed the sports world to speak out, most athletes kept mum—and a few openly embraced embraced Trumpism.
EPL GW-19 Rate My FPL Team
I used my free hit chip for Gameweek 18 and it delivered a mixed set of results for my squad, with a few positives but also some disappointing returns in key areas. In goal, my goalkeeper of the week, Jordan Pickford, justified the selection. He kept a clean sheet against Burnley and finished with 6 […]
Why AMC Entertainment (AMC) Stock Is Falling Today
Shares of theater company AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) fell 3.2% in the morning session after investor concerns about the company's underlying financial health overshadowed a report of strong moviegoer attendance over the final weekend of 2025. The company reported that 5.5 million people visited its theaters globally. Despite this positive attendance, the stock's decline reflected deep skepticism about the company's future. Financial data revealed significant challenges, including a substantial
Photographing Cosmic Rays With A Consumer Camera
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are generally kept in s…
When I made $1 million, friends and family kept asking for money. I had to cut some relationships out of my life.
Many people asked me for money when my company made a million dollars. I often gave in, but it was never enough — until I set boundaries.
4 Takeaways From the Ravens' Win Over the Packers
The Ravens kept their playoff hopes alive with a win over the Packers. Here are Ben Arthur's takeaways.
I struggled to make it to the office due to day care drop-off, so my boss lets me work from home. I sometimes feel guilty about it.
Georg Loewen kept missing his train to work after day care drop-off. After talking with his manager, he was able to work from home.
The 5 stories that defined San Francisco’s crazy politics in 2025
An Instagram-savvy mayor. A showdown with the feds. A 200-hour supervisor. In terms of political drama, 2025 was the gift that kept on giving.
A nutritionist cut out ultra-processed foods 2 years ago. Here are the habits he kept, and the ones he ditched.
Over the past year, the nutritionist Rob Hobson has made two helpful tweaks to the way he plans and prepares his meals to work better with his busy schedule.
Editorial: Greece, Israel and the Politics of Alignment
The shift is unmistakable. A country that once kept Israel at arm’s length now stands closer to it than almost any European nation.
Supreme Court won't let Trump deploy National Guard in Chicago
In a rare loss for Trump at the high court, the justices kept in place a temporary hold on the use of National Guard troops to quell protests in Chicago.
The $100 million investment that kept San Francisco tourism afloat
Unlike other parts of SF tourism, cruises excelled after the pandemic.
The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug
Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.
How a Year of Political Peril Could Unfold for Keir Starmer
Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his cabinet this week that 2026 would be the year Britain’s fortunes turn around and year Labour gains the upper hand. For his skeptical Members of Parliament the question is whether they oust him.
5 Trust-Building Strategies From Industries That Fight Consumer Skepticism Daily
These five trust-building tips turn skeptics into loyal advocates and give any business a durable competitive advantage.
Trump spent 2025 attacking science. That could set back his “Genesis Mission.”
Trump’s AI “Manhattan Project” will fail if DOGE cuts are kept, critics say.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks unveils plan to reduce health care premiums
Iowa District 1 Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and House Republicans are working on a bill aimed at reducing health care costs, but face skepticism from Democrats.
Judge expresses skepticism toward Epstein victim lawsuit against big banks alleging they facilitated sex-trafficking
The Jeffrey Epstein victims' lawsuits resembled two others, against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which settled for hundreds of millions.
Zach Orr's Ravens' defense stripped the stripes off the Bengals
Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Zach Orr kept the Bengals out of the end zone in week 14.
My tween kept asking to chat with her friends online. Now, in Australia, I can just say, 'it's against the law.'
Leon Spencer, an Australian dad, wants his kids to meet up with friends in person, not become products for advertisers.
America Needs a Tech Skeptic in the 2028 Race
A long-shot 2028 run by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox could force tech and social media into the center of the presidential debate.
Commentary: Is Newsom blazing a path to the White House? Running a fool's errand? Let's discuss
Times columnist and Newsom skeptic Mark Z. Barabak doubts the California governor's chances in 2028. Veteran Democratic strategist Garry South believes Newsom has a strong shot. The two hash it out.
‘We are more successful than they wanted us to be’: Chloe Kelly on team squabbles, scoring that penalty and surviving sport’s gender wars
Women’s football is booming – but the bigger it’s got, the messier it’s become for players. Through it all, the hot tip for Sports Personality of the Year has kept a cool head
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Announced From Creative Assembly | The Game Awards 2025
Creative Assembly has finally confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in video games: Total War: Warhammer 40,000.
China's new 'condom tax' draws skepticism and worries over health risks
China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over 30 years.
Meet the 77-year-old Vietnam pilot still in love with lacrosse — and scoring on opponents 50 years younger (photos)
Jon Ryan was awarded a Purple Heart in Vietnam, has kept bees for nearly 50 years and never misses a week in a lacrosse league where many of the players are young enough to be his grandchildren.
Moderna Founder Warns US Doubts on Science Threaten Biotech Edge
The US risks falling behind in biotechnology as the government cuts funding and skepticism over vaccines grows, according to Moderna Inc.’s co-founder and Chairman Noubar Afeyan.
Crooks: 11-0 ISU 'battle-tested' after win vs. Iowa
Audi Crooks had another huge game in leading No. 10 Iowa State past in-state rival and No. 11 Iowa on Wednesday. After the win, which kept the Cyclones undefeated at 11-0, Crooks said, "I feel like now we're officially battle-tested."
Manlius pediatrician, who draws vaccine skeptics, faces felony over her kid’s vaccine records
New York put the doctor on its vaccine fraud awareness list. She’s now suing the state in federal court.
Political Shake-Up Hits Hedge-Fund Trade as Brazil Markets Swoon
As Brazil’s markets rallied, month after month, and global investors kept flooding in, the gains were big enough to overshadow the risks from a presidential election that’s still almost a year away.
Budget hearings day 4: Business Council in the hot seat, state prisoners and more
The Wyoming Business Council faced scrutiny from state Freedom Caucus lawmakers who were skeptical of the economic development agency and its budget goals.
Former NBA player calls out LeBron James for stat-padding
Los Angeles Lakers star forward LeBron James kept his streak of 10-plus point performances alive against the Phoenix Suns on Monday night. The Lakers lost the game, 125-108, but James scored 10 points to push his streak to an impressive 1,297 games. While James’ streak is staggering, not everyone is impressed with how he continued it against Phoenix.
Why the Best Health Brands Are Built on Trust, Not Marketing Gimmicks
For health and wellness founders, this skepticism isn’t a creative problem – it’s a trust problem.
I kept working as an RN even after my husband had made more than $30 million in the NFL. It gave me a sense of purpose.
Parker Henry reflects on settling in New England, raising her kids, and navigating the uncertainty that comes with her husband Hunter Henry's NFL career.
How Michigan universities' lobbying changed amid threats to higher education
Michigan's top universities are changing tactics and tapping alumni to push back against the rising skepticism about higher education's mission.
'Reconcile our resentment': Boy band Verivery faces its fears and 'han' after yearslong hiatus
During their two-and-a-half-year hiatus — practically an eternity in the K-pop world — the members of boy band Verivery kept busy, from acting in plays and musicals to one member even placing ninth in Mnet’s “Boys II Planet” audition program.
It’s ‘deepfake’ season. Here’s how to spot AI in political ads.
Review sources with skepticism, and consider whether a particular image or video confirms preexisting — potentially controversial — beliefs, experts advise.