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In June 2024, the White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy published the National Aquatic eDNA Strategy, part of a larger effort to advance sustainable management of marine and freshwater resources. Members of the MBARI team lent their expertise to help advance and inform this strategy. This plan elevates eDNA as an important tool for mapping and monitoring biodiversity and calls for increased collaboration among public and private agencies to improve and advance eDNA research and operations. Expanding eDNA technology for monitoring and protecting aquatic ecosystems is critical to this strategy. The strategy aims to standardize eDNA practices, improve data…

QUICK FACTSName: Kneeling BullWhat it is: A silver human-animal hybrid statuetteWhere it is from: Ancient Elam, southwestern IranWhen it was made: 3100 to 2900 B.C.This 5,000-year-old silver figurine depicts a bull kneeling in a human-like pose and holding a spouted vessel. It was made in southern Mesopotamia by someone from the Proto-Elamite culture, the oldest civilization in Iran, and was likely used in a ritual or ceremony.The bull is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It stands 6.4 inches (16.3 centimeters) tall and was made from 98.5% pure silver, according to a 1970…

Sofia Ferreira SantosBBC NewsSecretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via ReutersAt the core of US President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy is his use of a 1798 wartime authority allowing presidents to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy country.While the Alien Enemies Act was enacted to prevent foreign espionage, the Trump administration has invoked it as the legal basis for the deportation of hundreds of alleged gang members.In March, the US deported 261 alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious jail in El Salvador. Of those,137 were removed under the act, the White House said.Trump has…

At the end of last year, someone on Twitter managed to perfectly sum up the appeal of the best character actor working today. “Love how if you put Walton Goggins in your thing you have a guaranteed instant additional 20% goodness factor,” they wrote. It’s a claim that stands up. Watch Goggins in The Shield or Justified or megachurch sitcom The Righteous Gemstones – even the second Ant-Man film – and you’ll see a man who knows exactly how to elevate the material by sheer force of charisma alone.There’s no such thing as a Walton Goggins type. At one point,…

NEED TO KNOW Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna told Joe Rogan about a strange “airspace incursion” while she was serving in the Oregon Air National Guard that she believes was an unidentified aerial phenomenonThe pilots who witnessed the incident allegedly refused to give her more information about it, other than to say they couldn’t identify what they sawLuna has been outspoken about UFO and UAP transparency during her time in Congress, leading a task force to push for the declassification of possible government intel Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna believes an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) penetrated the airspace at her former…

Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Infinity Engine, 2014. Multimedia installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco and Bridget Donahue, New York. Photo: Paris Tavitian Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. You probably don’t remember a minor interaction in Blade Runner (1982) when Harrison Ford admires a snake at the night market, and asks the seller if it’s artificial. She responds, “You think I’d be working in a place like this if I…

If you have been paying attention to the news about UFOs spreading across the media over the past few years and then took a look at recent polling, you could be forgiven for thinking that nearly half your fellow citizens of the United States believe that aliens might be regularly visiting our planet.After all, Ipsos reported just last month that 42% of Americans said that they believed in unidentified flying objects. At the end of July, Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch testified before Congress that the U.S. military is in possession of technology and “biologics” produced by nonhuman intelligence. And that…

The University of Würzburg and the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt are cooperating in researching unusual phenomena in airspace. Pilots can report relevant observations to the university. Some light phenomena in the atmosphere can also fall under the term Unidentifiable Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). (Image: pixel974 / Adobestock)There are many reports from pilots who have sighted unknown flying objects or strange light or weather phenomena in the atmosphere while flying. Science uses the generic term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) for such phenomena – a definition that goes further than the previously used term UFO (Unidentified Flying Object).UAPs are a global field of research. Despite numerous…

The future of business is not just about using AI, it’s about becoming “AI-native.” This represents a fundamental shift where artificial intelligence is not merely a tool but the core DNA of an enterprise, driving operations, strategy, and innovation. At AnyMind Group, we are pioneering this transformation, building the future of commerce on a foundation of intelligent, human-AI collaboration. Unlike businesses that simply add AI features to existing systems, an AI-native company is built with AI as its architectural blueprint. This is not about replacing humans but creating a powerful human-AI hybrid where each excels. In this model, AI is…

Alien: Earth The Fly Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** The show hits the “are the hybrids human?” theme extra-hard this week. Photo: Patrick Brown/FX What makes a being sentient? It’s an incredibly tricky question, one that has vexed philosophers (and science-fiction writers) for generations. And before Alien: Earth, it’s a question raised mainly just in passing in the Alien movies. There’s some idle speculation in the films about where the Xenomorphs sit on the evolutionary ladder, and nearly every Alien story at some point deals with the question of whether synthetic creations care about their makers.…