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Microscopy image of SpudCell the first synthetic cell built from non-living chemicals at the University of Minnesota

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Scientists at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, the first synthetic structure assembled entirely from non-living chemicals to complete a full biological life cycle including division. The preprint has not been peer-reviewed

July 3, 2026

News·Science

Director Carl Rinsch leaves a federal courthouse in New York after being sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million

Carl Rinsch Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Defrauding Netflix Out of $11 Million

Hollywood director Carl Rinsch received a 2.5-year federal prison sentence Monday for diverting $11 million of Netflix production money to a personal spending spree that included five Rolls-Royces and two mattresses costing

July 3, 2026

Entertainment·Movies·News

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo at NYSE debut as company tokenizes $295 million in shares on Solana and Avalanche blockchains

Securitize Lists on NYSE and Tokenizes $295M of Its Own Stock on Solana and Avalanche

BlackRock-backed Securitize debuted on NYSE Thursday and tokenized $295 million of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche, making it the first public company to put real listed equity on a blockchain.

July 3, 2026

Business·Crypto·News·Technology

Medical illustration showing hemodialysis treatment for patients with kidney failure

Study Reveals Why Half of Kidney Transplant Candidates Never Make It to the Waitlist

A nationwide study tracking 720,348 patients referred for kidney transplantation found that 48 percent never began their evaluation and only 19 percent reached the waitlist. NYU researchers found that geography income language

July 3, 2026

Health·News

Tim Hardaway Sr. during his Miami Heat career

Tim Hardaway Sr. Says His Retired Heat No. 10 Stays Retired, Even for His Son

Tim Hardaway Jr. signed with the Miami Heat this week, returning to the franchise his father helped define, only to find the one number that most connects the family to Miami history

July 3, 2026

News·Sports

Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude oil storage tanks at Sunoco Terminal in Nederland Texas

US Strategic Oil Reserve at 1983 Low, Quarter Locked Out by Equipment Failures

America's emergency oil reserve sits at a 43-year low, and over a quarter of its crude cannot be pumped out due to equipment failures and cavern deformation. GAO documents reveal the SPR's

July 3, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Jaylen Brown in a Boston Celtics uniform during a game

Jaylen Brown Speaks After Celtics Trade: ‘Excited and Disappointed at Same Time’

Jaylen Brown never asked to be traded and was not told until it was done. His five-sentence statement Wednesday night, saying he is 'excited and disappointed at the same time,' said everything

July 3, 2026

News·Sports

A researcher adjusts instruments on an optics table in a quantum physics laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

Physicists at McGill University generated controllable quantum phonon bursts by pushing electrons through a 2D crystal at near-absolute-zero, defying existing theory. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, points toward future communications

July 3, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever during a 2026 WNBA game

Indiana Fever Land Three WNBA All-Star Starters, but Player Voters Ranked Clark 11th

Indiana became the first franchise in recent memory to place three players in the 2026 WNBA All-Star starting lineup. The voting breakdown, however, showed Clark's peers ranked her eleventh among guards while

July 3, 2026

News·Sports

Department of Homeland Security headquarters building, Washington DC

Hackers Breached the DHS Intelligence Network Used for World Cup Security

A cross-agency intelligence platform used to coordinate security for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the Reagan National Airport crash response was silently breached between late May and early June, the Department

July 3, 2026

Government and Politics·News·Technology

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Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Carl Rinsch Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Defrauding Netflix Out of $11 Million

Securitize Lists on NYSE and Tokenizes $295M of Its Own Stock on Solana and Avalanche

Study Reveals Why Half of Kidney Transplant Candidates Never Make It to the Waitlist

Tim Hardaway Sr. Says His Retired Heat No. 10 Stays Retired, Even for His Son

US Strategic Oil Reserve at 1983 Low, Quarter Locked Out by Equipment Failures

Jaylen Brown Speaks After Celtics Trade: ‘Excited and Disappointed at Same Time’

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

Indiana Fever Land Three WNBA All-Star Starters, but Player Voters Ranked Clark 11th

Hackers Breached the DHS Intelligence Network Used for World Cup Security

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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