A beautiful shot of the championship court at The Fort, host of this weekend’s Fort Lauderdale Open. APP Tour The first event of the 2025 season for the Association of Pickleball Players (APP) is in the books. The tour traveled to its new headquarters in Fort Lauderdale for the 2025 Humana Fort Lauderdale Open, located […]
Poppy seeds are known to cause false positives on drug tests; in one case, a new mother’s baby was taken away after she failed a drug test due to eating a poppy seed salad. Poppy seeds come from the Papaver somniferum plant, which is also used to make drugs like opium and morphine. In fact, […]
Blink and you might miss how quickly this squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) ejects its seeds. The mechanics behind this natural marvel have been a tough biological case to crack. Now, with a combination of experiments, sophisticated mathematical modeling, and high-speed cameras, a team from the the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester in […]
Cruel World Fest is back for another year, and New Order and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will headline 2025’s festival. It’s scheduled to take place May 17 at the Rose Bowl’s Brookside in Pasadena, California. The Go-Gos, Death Cult, Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Garbage, Madness, ‘Til Tuesday, She Wants Revenge, Alison […]
