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Full Intel Larrabee GPU development system has been found in storage unit, reportedly runs Crysis
A rare Intel Larrabee development system was discovered at a storage-unit auction and restored to working condition. Its owner claims Crysis runs at 720p.
Fortnite Bullied Into Divulging The Drop Rate Of The Pirate Shop Token
The token that gives you free stuff in the item shop isn't even the rarest loot in the event
Rare fifth-century burials of Germanic chieftains with dazzling weapons and warhorses discovered in France
Archaeologists found a small cemetery full of high-status burials, two of which may be the graves of Germanic chieftains.
Phoenix Tailings prepares to open rare earth separation facility at Eastman Business Park
Greece, N.Y. — Phoenix Tailings is preparing to open a rare earth separation facility in the Rochester area.
The huge stakes of an unusually momentous midterm election
Midterm elections are always a verdict on a sitting president. But the 2026 edition could become something rarer and more significant — a catalyst that points the way to a new political era.
Scientists Catch a Rare Glimpse of a Fish With a See-Through Head
A barreleye’s peepers watch from inside its head
Soleo Health Selected as a Specialty Pharmacy Partner for Pasatru™, a New Treatment in Adults with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
FRISCO, Texas, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Soleo Health, an innovative leader and national provider of complex specialty pharmacy services, announced today that it was selected as a specialty pharmacy partner for Pasatru™ (garetosmab-grts), Regeneron’s FDA-approved product to reduce formation of new heterotopic ossification (HO) lesions and clinician-assessed flare-ups in adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), an ultra-rare genetic disorder. Approved August 19, 2026, Pasa
Jessie Bates Jaguars trade comes with potentially rarely-seen twist
The Jessie Bates trade to the Jaguars might mean something very rare for the star safety.
Rare bipartisan idea gains ground: U.S.-Israel tie needs a break
Democrats and Republicans may be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end.
Iran war led to rare carbon dioxide emissions drop this year, scientists say
Carbon dioxide emissions around the world declined for only the third time this century, but researchers are not crediting environmental efforts. Instead, they attribute the drop to the Iran war.
‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Star, 72, Makes Rare Appearance After Health Scare
The 1980s sex symbol was hospitalized last year for an urgent medical issue.
Why Trying to Outrun Grief Through Exercise Rarely Works
When catastrophic loss collides with triathlon training, the instinct is often to push harder and outrun the pain. But grief isn’t just mental - it manifests physically, too, derailing bodies and minds.
Scientists find evidence of rarest particle decay after 42-years | Science and Technology Facilities Council
UK physicists have found the first evidence of an extremely rare particle decay at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), after a 42-year hunt.
No. 6 Texas at No. 21 LSU gamethread
The Horns face off against the Tigers in a rare road game wearing burnt orange.
BIRD NERDS: What a citizen science program in Pottawattamie County can teach us about the environment
🦅 When our reporter was a kid, bald eagles were a rare sight in Iowa. Not anymore! See how HawkWatch is tracking their comeback along with other migration trends. What birds do you spot near you?
Xeris adds longtime biotech exec to its board
The move to bring Menassie Taddese on comes amid reports that the Chicago-based rare disease and endocrinology drug company is being considered for acquisition.
What to do if your flight is delayed or canceled by airlines, ATC
US airlines are canceling thousands of flights amid a rare air traffic control ground stop affecting the US.
Tom Hardy's Best MobLand Scenes So Far, Ranked
From Russian roulette to a rare moment of tenderness, Hardy has made Harry da Souza must-watch TV.
‘Health and the home are inseparable’: Duke Health gives historic $1M to Durham homelessness fund
The gift is among the first private donations to Durham’s 5-year strategic initiative to make homelessness ‘rare and brief.’
From 20 seizures a day to more time for play: How personalized epilepsy care helped young patient
Advanced genetic testing and a detailed diagnosis revealed infant’s rare epilepsy, leading to a non-conventional therapy.
Intel "Larrabee" GPU System Surfaces with Working Drivers
Recovered drivers have reportedly restored 3D acceleration to an Intel "Larrabee" prototype, offering the community a rare chance to test the company's abandoned graphics project. Reddit user "pkellythompson" discovered the hardware in equipment purchased at a storage auction, along with two USB...
Could LeBron James Get Fined After 76ers-Bulls Game?
During the Philadelphia 76ers‘ matchup against the Chicago Bulls at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Monday night (November 2), LeBron James was spotted having a rare moment with a fan. Behind the basket, James grabbed a cup from a fan and reportedly took a sip. According to ESPN’s Kris Rhim, the fan, who was identified as […] The post Could LeBron James Get Fined After 76ers-Bulls Game? appeared first on HEAVY.
Sony’s Ramayana Opens No. 2 at Worldwide Box Office, but Only No. 5 Domestically
Ramayana: Rise of a Legend pulled off a split that rarely happens at the box office. Sony’s epic opened as a worldwide juggernaut but landed surprisingly low on the domestic charts, and the numbers te...
In rare GOP rebuke, congressman says Trump must ‘fire people’
Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, speaking on CNN, criticized Stephen Miller’s “tone” and his record on immigration.
Patriots vet calls trade deadline 'emotionally draining' for players
Patriots safety Kevin Byard shared rare insight into the trade deadline from a player's perspective.
Kanye West makes rare appearance with all 4 kids
West shares North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm with ex Kim Kardashian.
‘Mormon Wives’ star Jen Affleck explains why she decided to file for divorce from husband, Zac
‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ star Jen Affleck explained why she wanted to file for divorce before giving birth to her fourth child.
Bookwaves/Artwaves - November 12, 2026: Mary Roach, America’s Funniest Science Author, Part Two, 2026
Mary Roach, whose latest book is "Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy," now out in paperback, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded by computer September 15, 2026. The author of several non-fiction works that examine specific areas of life that are rarely covered elsewhere, Mary Roach brings a sharp eye and excellent research skills to explain how things work, how they don’t work, and the various things that happen in between.
Deep-Sea Scientists Capture Extraordinary 4K Footage of a Fish With a See-Through Head
MBARI’s first 4K footage of a barreleye fish offers a rare chance to study how its unusual eyes work in the ocean’s dim twilight zone.
What is thundersnow? Science behind rare winter lightning
Meteorologists have thundersnow on their weather bucket list for a reason. Here’s how it works and why it's so rare.
Sarah Michelle Gellar shares rare photo of look-alike daughter: ‘My built in bestie’
Sarah Michelle Gellar shares a rare photo of her look-alike daughter, 17-year-old Charlotte, a week after shocking fans with a glimpse of her son, who could be the twin of her husband Freddie Prinze Jr.
At $8,000, Could This 1977 Cadillac Seville Milan Get You To Go Short?
Coach built in the 1970s, this shortened version of a Cadillac Seville was already rare, but then there's the matter of the 6.2-liter V8 under the hood.
China eyes new grip on EV sector with high-performance rare-earth rubber
Commercial test looms as production scales up and data suggests it commands a higher price than conventional synthetic rubber.
FDA requires new safety warnings for GLP-1 drugs
The FDA is now requiring labeling updates for all GLP-1 medications due to a risk of NAION, a rare eye condition that can result in sudden, permanent vision loss.
Fortnite's Ultra-Rare Pirate Shop Token Hunt Sparks Wave of Profiteering and eBay Listings
Fortnite Players Are Doing Things Epic Would Probably Prefer They Didn't to Try to Get the Ultra Rare Pirate Shop Token.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Ex-Maine governor flips House seat in a rare midterm win for Republicans
Paul LePage defeated a progressive Democrat, Matt Dunlap, in the state’s rural Second Congressional District.
1,600-year-old burial holds remains of man infected with a 'very rare' strain of leprosy in Germany
A high-status burial surprised archaeologists when they discovered leprosy in a man's bones from the fifth century.
Brian Sabean Humbled by Hall Of Fame Bid
Brian Sabean admits he is the "least iconic" on his Hall of Fame ballot. His honest reaction to the 2027 vote is a rare moment of clarity in baseball.
How to Make Business Development Tolerable: Lessons from Four Decades of Coaching Lawyers
It is extraordinarily difficult to get people to do something they don't like. Simply telling lawyers they should do more business development rarely changes that. A better approach is to understand why they don't want to do it — and change the conditions that make business development distasteful in the first place. Over the years, we have identified several principles that can remove much of that resistance and make business development more comfortable.
Gaelic Park to present ‘Seafarer’
Theatergoers are in for a rare and special treat this month to kick off the holiday season.
Louisiana health officials urge precautions after rare amoeba infections
The Louisiana Department of Health is urging people to take precautions after discovering 10 rare amoeba infections in the state since 2024.
Sarah Michelle Gellar shares rare photo of look-alike daughter: ‘My built in bestie’
The “Buffy” star’s son Rocky is also the spitting image of his father, Freddie Prinze Jr.
You’ll Never Guess How Scalpers Are Reportedly Snagging Rare iPhone Duos
AI bots are apparently a factor.
Kate Middleton Opens up About Her Cancer Recovery In Rare Interview
“I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear. There will be good days and bad days, that it will take time. This is the same in nature.”
Dukes of Hazzard star Catherine Bach, 72, reveals 'very serious' health scare in rare appearance
Catherine Bach, 72, has opened up about her serious health scare and hospitalization as the former Daisy Duke actress makes a rare public appearance. See details.
Scientists spot elusive particle decay in search for 'Zeptoverse'
Scientists have found evidence for a rare particle decay occurring once in 10 billion particles at the LHCb experiment at CERN.
Ariana Grande makes rare appearance, crashes Jimmy Fallon's monologue
After months away from the spotlight, Ariana Grande – and her new bob – are back on TV.
Alessia Russo inspires struggling Arsenal to rare WSL win
England international Russo earned Arsenal just a third WSL win of the season against Liverpool, while Charlton remain without a point and London City Lionesses bounced back from last week’s disappointment.
Could you survive without Microsoft? Inside the costs of digital dependence
Digital choices have huge environmental costs but these are rarely counted up.
Nazca infant had rare, fatal birth defect that left her with one central eye 1,600 years ago
A DNA analysis has confirmed that a Nazca infant who lived in southern Peru 1,600 years ago had a rare congenital condition called trisomy 13.
Scientists Close In on Mysterious Zeptoverse After 40-Year Hunt for Rare Particle
Cambridge physicists detect evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay at CERN, opening new possibilities for exploring dark matter and the mysterious zeptoverse.
Garrett Hedlund makes rare comment about 5-year-old son with Emma Roberts
Garrett Hedlund shared an update on 5-year-old son Rhodes’ recent loves during an interview promoting his new movie ‘Heartland.’ The actor shares his only child with ex Emma Roberts.
What are sprites? NASA wants photos of these rare flashes
Sprites are brief red flashes of light high above thunderstorms. Learn what they are and how your photos can help NASA's Spritacular project study them.
7 Of The Rarest Fox Body Mustangs Ever Built And What They're Worth Today
The 1980 McLaren M81, 1985 Twister II at 90 units, and 1993 SVT Cobra R are among the rarest Fox Body Mustangs, but their values are still surprisingly modest.
Country music legend's massive California property hits the market
"A Rare Opportunity to Own a Piece of Bakersfield History!"
Kate Middleton Opens Up About Her Health Journey in a Rare New Interview
“I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear,” the Princess of Wales says, sharing new details about how she embraced the healing power of nature.
El Niño Is Warming Monterey Bay, Causing Trouble for Ocean Life
El Niño has pushed Monterey Bay’s ocean water temperatures to historic highs. One clear sign: warm-water species that are rarely seen offshore of the Central California Coast.
Tiny fish, big hope: The science bringing rare epilepsy research home
Latest press releases and corporate announcements from EdgeNewswire
Scientists Discovered An ‘Invisible’ Object In Space. It’s Challenging Our Understanding of the Cosmos
It's likely an ultra-rare supermassive neutron star.
‘My thought was always: he will be killed next’: Sonia Gandhi on marrying into an Indian political dynasty and her husband’s assassination
She came from humble Italian origins to join India’s ruling family. Then both her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv, were brutally murdered. In a rare interview, the politician talks about her reluctant rise to power, Narendra Modi’s repressive regime – and why youth protests give her hope for the future
Mass. Indian film series expands to theaters across the country
From beloved classics to rarely screened films, an Indian cinema series that started in Mass. is reaching audiences nationwide.
These 1,500-Year-Old Warriors Were Buried With Riches. Their Wounds Paint a Darker Picture.
The rare cemetery could finally shed light on a shadowy era after Rome’s collapse in what is now France.
Nintendo Reveals Its Black Friday Sale Plans, With Its Own Games Getting Rare $20 Discounts
Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4 will be be lots cheaper via retailers
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ kids are all grown up in rare outing with dad
The Oscar-winning actor was honored for his decades of humanitarian work at the Tibet House US Art of Freedom Gala.
‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star, 72, shares rare update on terrifying health scare, hospitalization
Scientists Determine Mysterious Pink Rock Found in Sahara Desert Is 4.1 Billion-Year-Old Piece of Mars
The rare discovery could help scientists unlock new clues about the Red Planet’s ancient history
Santa Cruz County business: Biotech company acquired; Joby lands more Air Force funding
Global immunology company Argenx is acquiring Unnatural Products, a Santa Cruz-headquartered company focused on developing new treatments for certain types of rare cancers and diseases, in a deal that could be worth upward of $1 billion, Jessica M. Pasko reports in her weekly roundup of local business. She's also got news on funding for Joby Aviation from the Air Force's innovation arm, the launch of this year's Lookout List and plenty more.
Lessing’s 5K raised hope for families facing rare disease
Lessing’s Hospitality Group’s 35th annual 5K in Babylon raised funds for the National MPS Society, celebrating the FDA approval of Ultragenyx's gene therapy for MPS IIIA. The event recognizes families affected by this rare disease and highlights decades of community support advancing treatment options.
Milo Ventimiglia makes rare comment about ‘being with’ “Gilmore Girls” costar and ex Alexis Bledel
The costars dated for several years after playing love interests on the CW drama.
Milo Ventimiglia makes rare comment about ‘being with’ his ‘Gilmore Girls’ costar and ex Alexis Bledel
Milo Ventimiglia makes a rare comment about ‘being with’ Alexis Bledel, his ‘Gilmore Girls’ costar. The two dated for several years while filming the drama.
Scientists uncover a 192-year-old mystery hidden in a mangled silver coin
A bizarrely deformed 1834 British silver coin found at a car boot sale may preserve evidence of a rare minting accident nearly 200 years ago. Advanced 3D scans and microscopic analysis revealed unusual metal distortions suggesting the coin was crushed under extreme pressure, potentially during its original production.
Scientists discovered an unknown baby right whale off Canada. They say it's a cause for joy
It would seem difficult to miss a 15,000-pound (6,804-kilogram) baby, but for months scientists who study rare whales did just that, and now they couldn't be happier.
After 40 Years, Scientists Finally Detect Evidence of an Almost Impossible Particle Decay
Evidence of a rare particle decay fits physics’ best theory, giving scientists a new way to test whether our understanding of matter leaves something out.
Suki Waterhouse makes rare comments on wedding plans with Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson’s fiancée, Suki Waterhouse, made a rare comment about the couple’s wedding plans after getting engaged in 2023.
Scientists discovered an unknown baby right whale off Canada. They say it's a cause for joy
Scientists who study whales are heartened by an unexpected discovery of a baby right whale off Canada. Researchers in Canada captured images of an unidentified baby North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest sea mammals in the world, off Anticosti Island in Quebec in September. Scientists with...
US scientists rediscover rare firefly species missing for 43 years
There are around 28 more from a total of 178 firefly species that remain lost, accounting for around 16 percent.
‘Zeptoverse’: CERN scientists uncover evidence of extraordinarily rare particle decay
Scientists at CERN have found evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay using the Large Hadron Collider. The process is predicted to occur just once in every 10 billion cases, offering resear...
Rare photos of Eminem
Rare Eminem photos have been released in conjunction with an EP featuring music from 1996's "Infinite" album.
Protalix BioTherapeutics to Announce Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Update on November 10, 2026
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, production, and commercialization of innovative therapeutics for rare diseases with significant unmet needs, today announced that it will release its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 and provide a business update on November 10, 2026.
Arsenal vs. Hull City match thread: back at home
Arsenal host Premier League surprise side Hull City in the final match before the November international break. It’s a rare home match in a sea of recent away contests, although once the season resumes, the Gunners will hardly have to leave London until the new year. A cautionary note: this time last season an unbeaten-streaking […]
Avram Glazer says Manchester United not reliant on sporting success for commercial power
United's co-owner was making a rare speaking appearance at Deutsche Bank’s inaugural Sports Investment Conference in London.
Ready, Set, Roman! Training Series Returns
The Roman Science Centers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Caltech’s Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC) are excited to announce the return of the Ready, Set, Roman! Training Series (RSRTS).
Cameron Boozer Delivers Rare Rookie Performance Against Nets
Cameron Boozer was impressive in the win over the Brooklyn Nets. StatMuse reported that he is the first rookie this season to put up at least 15 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks. This game displayed his all-around skills and two-way ability. In a class of rookies who are already looking […] The post Cameron Boozer Delivers Rare Rookie Performance Against Nets appeared first on HEAVY.
Male donkey is a bull’s willing partner in rare interspecies affair
Scientists recorded a bull mounting a male donkey dozens of times — and the donkey appeared to be a willing participant.
Political science professor explains why incumbents rarely lose
Trump Kept Out of Sight as F.A.A. Issued Flight Ground Stop
The F.A.A. called a rare halt on flights nationwide, but the president stayed away from cameras and issued social media posts on the entertainment industry and California’s Democratic governor.
Christopher Walken and wife of 57 years make rare red carpet appearance
The “Deer Hunter” star met his Emmy-winning wife Georgianne in 1963.
Stanford scientists have built a fingernail-sized chip that takes jumbled light from multiple sources and separates it into clean beams; the device could one day improve microscopes, telescopes and cameras
Light is something we rarely think twice about. It enters our homes through windows, illuminates the streets at night and helps us capture everything from a beautiful sunset to the tiniest details under a microscope.
Player Ratings: Valencia 0–3 Real Madrid
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Phantom Blade Zero made $223M on Steam and PS5 in five days
Phantom Blade Zero was always going to be a hit. We’ve been banging on about it for months now. Well, the results are in, and Phantom Blade Zero has indeed been a hit. Yesterday, S-Game reported that Phantom Blade Zero has sold 4M copies. As of this morning, our estimates show that Phantom Blade Zero has generated $223M via 4.3M copies sold across Steam (3.1M) and PlayStation (1.2M). This instantly makes Phantom Blade Zero this year’s #10 new 2026 game by premium revenue across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation – and without an Xbox release to boot. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Combined, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for 55% of Phantom Blade Zero’s copies sold – 56% of copies on Steam and 50% on PlayStation. But revenue is slightly different. Phantom Blade Zero actually made more revenue outside of China However, due to regional pricing, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for a lower share of revenue, 45%. The three countries account for 40% of Phantom Blade Zero’s revenue on PlayStation, and 47% on Steam. This is due to regional pricing, which you can easily check in our platform: Using the $59.99 USD base price as a starting point, we can see that Phantom Blade Zero costs the equivalent of $40.31 in China (-32.8% of the US price) and $41.80 in Hong Kong (-30.3%). So while Chinese culture is at the heart of Phantom Blade Zero (in terms of theme and player base), it’s actually making more money in non-China markets. In fact, markets outside of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan account for $123M in Phantom Blade Zero revenues via 2M copies. Even when we remove revenues from these markets from the analysis, Phantom Blade Zero remains a top 20 new 2026 title by revenue across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe In other words, Phantom Blade Zero is a global hit. It’s not all China – or even majority China, when it comes to revenues. The China spring board helped, but a successful State of Play and – more importantly – positive reviews helped this one land in other markets. Quality sells. China was hyped from the start, but Western players needed more convincing As we wrote back in August, China was always going to show up early for Phantom Blade Zero. Our daily Steam revenue data shows just that, and we can see when S-Game’s banging RPG won over players outside of China: On the day Phantom Blade Zero’s Steam pre-order button went live in mid-August, China accounted for nearly 70% of Phantom Blade Zero’s Steam revenue. The shares hovered around 68% throughout August. This is the hometown-hero effect we’ve covered in the past, with the home market committing first – almost sight unseen – on national pride and a lush-looking trailer alone. Then things get even more interesting. Following the State of Play on August 18, US daily revenue more than doubled (from $72K to $146K), China’s daily take nearly quadrupled ($237K to $892K), and the rest of the world’s revenues also more than doubled. As China spiked so much harder than the others, its share of revenue hardly moved, holding at around 68%. So the by-all-counts-awesome State of Play got non-China markets and the West interested (you can see daily spend jump), but it didn’t move the needle for overall revenue shares. Positive reviews were the Western tipping point. US daily revenue went from $106K on October 25 to $230K when the embargo lifted on the 26th, to $463K on the 27th, to $899K on the 28th. So nearly 8.5x more revenue in four days, boosted by the positive reviews and subsequent word of mouth. When Phantom Blade Zero launched on the 29th, things hit critical mass. On launch day, the US and the rest of the world combined out-earned China for the first time in Phantom Blade Zero’s whole pre-order history. You can see this unfolding pretty nicely in the revenue shifting shares, too. China’s lifetime revenue share sat at 68% in August and was still 65% as late as October 25th, but it dropped to 45% by November 2. Over that same period, the US nearly doubled its share from 10% to 18%, and the rest of the world climbed from 25% to 38%. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe That’s not to say that China sold less – far from it. The West and non-China markets just showed up later, won over by the reviews and word of mouth. However you look at it, Phantom Blade Zero has become one of this year’s highest-grossing premium games. Daily volume seems to be decelerating a bit (which is natural), so subscribe below for more updates on performance. Speaking of performance and deceleration… Gran Turismo 7 is one of PlayStation’s biggest earners While games like Ghost of Yotei, Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, Wolverine (2.7M now, by the way), and even Marathon and Saros tend to get all the headlines (we hold our hand up there, too!), there’s one PlayStation game from the past five years that’s earned more than all of these games: and it’s one that’s rarely talked about in enthusiast circles. Gran Turismo 7, which launched in March 2022, has sold 12.7M copies. This amounts to $840M in revenue, second only to Spider-Man 2’s $1.3B – if we’re talking PlayStation first-party for this generation. Gran Turismo 7 still brings in around 3M players every month (and between 400K and 700K active players per day). It’s also an evergreen seller every year. For example, Gran Turismo 7 generated: $189.7M in 2023 via 2.9M copies $161.3M in 2024 via 2.7M copies $119.1M in 2025 via 1.7M copies This year, Gran Turismo 7 has already sold 1.3M copies, generating $74.7M And there’s more laps to come Every December is comfortably GT7’s biggest month of the year (except launch), and the gap is widening there. December generated 2.1x a normal month in 2023, and by 2025 that had grown to 2.8x. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe As the typical months cool off with age, Christmas always holds strong, so the holiday period is becoming a bigger slice of Gran Turismo 7 yearly revenue. For Gran Turismo 7, the week around Christmas does 3x to 5x a typical week – three years running: Christmas week 2023: $14.7M (4.6x the year’s median week) Christmas week 2024: $9.3M (3.3x) Christmas week 2025: $8.5M (4.6x) These Christmas peaks happened at the full $59.99 (Gran Turismo 7 wasn’t discounted at all in December 2023 or December 2025). And although there was a discount late in December 2024, GT7’s peak week that year still happened at full price. You can really see why PlayStation hasn’t added this one to PlayStation Plus, eh? Say it after me: Subscriptions cannibalise premium revenue! On that note… Let’s take a quick look at how Gran Turismo 7 is doing versus its nearest competitor, Xbox console exclusive and long-running sim racer Forza Motorsport (released in 2023 as a reboot for the franchise, about 19 months after GT7). Forza Motorsport has sold around 1.3M copies across Xbox (75.4% for Xbox console and PC) and Steam (24.6%), grossing $89.9M across those platforms. Launch aligned, and on just PlayStation, Gran Turismo 7 had sold 10.2M copies, generating $676.1M, by that point. In other words, Gran Turismo 7 has sold the same number of copies this year as Forza Motorsport has sold since launch. When all is said and done, Gran Turismo 7’s 2026 revenues will have lapped Motorsport’s lifetime, too. It’s worth noting that Forza Motorsport was not released on last-gen consoles, and under a quarter of Gran Turismo 7’s revenue has come from PS4 consoles. Critically, Forza Motorsport is also on Game Pass, where nearly 7M players have accessed it. Meanwhile, the Forza Horizon series has been performing incredibly in terms of revenue. This year’s Forza Horizon 6 has generated $583.7M across Xbox and Steam despite Game Pass cannibalisation, and last year’s Forza Horizon 5 PlayStation port has generated $383.5M on PS5 alone. So two questions, then: How well is Forza Horizon 6 going to do when it launches on PS5 in January? Hit subscribe to get that in your inbox in January (which is in two months somehow!?) Subscribe 2. Open-world arcade Gran Turismo when? Also, if you like arcade racers, go and play Star Wars Galactic Racer. It rules. Like GOTY material, seriously. The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]