Ariana Grande sports her trademark high ponytail while performing at Wango Tango at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Can a ponytail be a headache to wear? Pony-tentially. Take a look at this Twitter exchange between singers Camila Cabello and Ariana Grande: well u actually have hair so that prolly makes

Plumes of smoke loom in the sky several miles away, seen behind a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., as a wind-driven wildfire known as the Hill fire threatens the area late Thursday afternoon, Nov. 8, 2018. This is a few miles from the scene of Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks.

FILE PHOTO: Fine-art handler Tom Richardson poses with a motorised wheelchair belonging to British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ahead of an auction of items from Hawkings’ personal estate at Christie’s in London, Britain October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – A motorized wheelchair used by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking sold at

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, and Elon Musk discuss progress with Musk’s Boring Co. at the National League of Cities conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 8, 2018.Alan Ohnsman via Forbes Elon Musk’s big ideas usually involve revolutions in clean power, electric cars, Mars colonies and high-speed tube travel, but the billionaire entrepreneur wants

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the

Doeller and his team combine individual threads of evidence to form a theory of human thinking.Ella Maru Studio & MPI CBS | © Doellerlab Think of a pink elephant riding a scooter. If your brain were scanned right now, neuroscientists would see a region of your spongy think organ lighting up. What they wouldn’t see

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists in Britain expressed concern on Thursday after at least 17 delegates from Africa and Asia wanting to attend a health conference in London were denied visas. Ebola virus discoverer Peter Piot addresses a news conference at the United Nations after an informal consultation at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva

The oldest known figurative cave art. The red pigment has faded but the image appears to be a cow-like animal facing rightLuc-Henri Fage The oldest known figurative cave art has been discovered on the island of Borneo, Indonesia. The finding adds to the evidence that simple art is an ancient ability, and may even predate

Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer and co-founder of DeepMind Technologies Ltd. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, has revealed how tough life was while running his previous company, Elixir Studios, in a candid podcast with entrepreneur Rohan Silva and BBC journalist Kamal Ahmed. Hassabis, a genius who raced through school and had to defer

Ellen Stofan, Ph.D., Director, Smithsonian National Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian National Air and Space Museum When Ellen Stofan made a deliberate decision to step back from her management-level career in aerospace to spend more time with her kids, she knew she may have derailed her career forever.  She was okay with that. Today, Dr. Stofan

Modern technologies, such as autonomous drones, are being developed to track critically endangered parrots as they scatter widely over challenging terrain A Critically Endangered swift parrot, Lathamus discolor, feeds on gum tree blossoms.(Credit: Lizardstomp, CC BY-NC-SA. NOTE: this image has been altered from the original: it has been cropped.)Lizardstomp via a Creative Commons license As

“We thus find that, while the inorganic world has been in a state of continual though very gradual change, the species of the organic world have also been slowly changing in form and in the localities they inhabit; and the records of these changes and these migrations are everywhere to be found, in the actual

How do military pilots aim guided weapons through clouds? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Tim Morgan, commercial pilot, on Quora: How do military pilots aim guided weapons through clouds?  It depends on how the weapon is

FILE PHOTO: General view of the centre stage of Web Summit, Europe’s biggest tech conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes/File Photo LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal plans to build an international launch pad for small satellites in the Azores and has agreed with China to set up a joint research center to make

It’s not too much to say that the movement of peoples across borders has been a pressing political concern recently, both in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. That conversation is so prevalent now that it’s easy to think of this conversation as inevitable, immutable. The idea of the “nation” is one that’s bounded –

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing a futuristic toilet that doesn’t need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer. Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks during an interview at the fringes of the Reinvented Toilet Expo showcasing sewerless sanitation technology in Beijing, China November

You’re assigned to create an exhibit for the seven-year ~$1 billion renovation of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum currently underway.  It’s the most visited museum in the United States, and the third most visited one in the world, with over 8.6 million visitors in 2017. So, what do you do? That’s the task

LONDON (Reuters) – The largest study to date of the genetic makeup of parasitic worms has found hundreds of new clues about how they invade the human body, evade its immune system and cause disease. FILE PHOTO: A giant 25m worm representing the parasitic worm of schistosomiasis, that causes significant suffering and death to thousands

This artist’s rendering made available by NASA in July 2016 shows the mapping of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft will spend a year surveying Bennu before collecting a sample that will be returned to Earth for analysis. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via AP) Two different spacecraft from NASA and JAXA (the

On 4 November 1922, a boy accidentally stumbled on a stone that turned out to be the top of a flight of steps cut into the bedrock of the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is a remote valley located in the desert west of the river Nile. In Pharaonic Egypt, this