ALMA reveals giant molecular clouds across Needle galaxy's full disk

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to perform ...

AI maps mammals' molecular 'dark matter' by predicting billions of missing metabolites

Invisible "dark matter"—what cosmologists call the mysterious glue that holds everything together—is estimated to make up ...
CNN

Pope’s Mass for more than 100,000 in Cameroon highlights Catholicism’s growth in Africa

Pope Leo XIV has presided over his largest Mass during his trip to Africa, with more than 100,000 people turning out for a liturgy in Douala, Cameroon. A sprawling crowd, which local authorities ...
Polygon

Gaming's most iconic space opera is on sale for only $6

It's no secret that video games are getting more expensive. Just last week, Sony raised prices for all three models of the PlayStation 5, as well as the PlayStation Portal. Last fall, Microsoft hiked ...
MassLive

Mass. House tees up nation’s toughest social media ban for kids, sweeping school cell phone crackdown

The state House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on sweeping legislation that would ban social media use for children aged 14 and younger without parental consent and restrict cell phone use at ...
IGN

Mass Effect Prime Video Series: Amazon TV Boss Reportedly Requested Rewrites to Make It 'More Appealing to Non-Gamers'

What’s going on with Prime Video's Mass Effect TV show? According to a new report, it’s on “the verge” of a series order, but the boss of Amazon TV has allegedly requested rewrites to make it “more ...
Crux

Pope Leo calls for French bishops to ‘generously include’ those attached to Traditional Latin Mass

Pope Leo XIV greets faithful as he arrives in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen Pope Leo XIV is ...
The New York Times

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again. Credit...Photographs by Tony Cenicola ...
PBS

U.S. mass killings are down in 2025, though experts say it's likely a return to typical levels

A shooting last weekend at a children's birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained ...
WBUR

How 'Mass. and Cass' spilled into new neighborhoods — and Boston's election

Needles picked up by the Newmarket Business Improvement District's Back2Work team. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's politics newsletter, Mass. Politics. If you like ...
America Magazine

Report: Pope Leo has given Cardinal Burke permission to celebrate traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2025, after his weekly general audience. The pope visited them at the conclusion of the audience to offer his ...