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Top Kalshi trader Caleb Davies usually speaks to the press about how prediction markets help him rake in money. The Minneapolis-based IT worker estimates he’s made $1.2 million overall across different prediction platforms, with $414,000 in winnings from Kalshi’s culture …
While many bird species go from egg to adult in months, some seabirds spend years in a sort of awkward adolescent phase, sporting darker, drabber plumage than the adults. In American herring gulls, this immature coloring can function as a …
This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that’s delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and …
Lava. Ash. Horrifying death. All are known and expected outputs from an active volcano. But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum. On Ross Island in the …
Tracy Hutchinson has a rare mutation of the TP53 gene Tracy Hutchinson I started to wonder if something funky was going on when multiple people in my family got cancer around the same time. In 1990, my older sister Rebecca …
Many people notice a familiar change as they get older: the waistline gradually expands, even when overall body weight does not change dramatically. This increase in abdominal fat is more than a cosmetic concern. Excess belly fat has been linked …
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science. On this trip, there are none of the heightened colors, breathing or pulsing objects, nor geometrical patterns …
DC’s new “Supergirl” may or may not turn out to be a classic of the comic-book genre. It may or may not be a smash hit in theaters. But whatever else happens when Kara Zor-El flies into the unpredictable headwinds …
A razor blade dragged across a soft contact lens leaves a gouge about a third of the way through it, deep enough to scatter light and catch the eye. Shine ultraviolet light on that same lens for an hour, at …