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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 428 for May 5.
Trump says he’s willing to delay TikTok ban again
President Donald Trump has already delayed a TikTok ban twice, and he said Sunday that he’s willing to do it again. Axios reports that during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said that if a deal isn’t made to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to American owners before the current June 19 deadline, he […]
Traditional forest medicinal plant ghost pipe used differently today
Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe, scientific name Monotropa uniflora, remains a mystery. Now, with social media and the internet driving a resurgence in the harvest and economic trade of the parasitic species — which appears strangely white because it is devoid of chlorophyl — a research team has taken the first step toward documenting its new status.
10 beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards
“It’s been over two decades since I first witnessed a dipper darting through a waterfall,” photographer Konrad Wothe says. “The small passerine bird was flying back and forth to a nest tucked away safely behind a dense curtain of water. Of course I attempted to capture the dipper on film, but my analogue camera gear did not allow me to freeze this split-second moment in sharp focus.”
Twenty years later and armed with a faster camera, Wothe captured the magical moment a white-throated dipper crashed through a waterfall. The image (seen below) earned Wothe top honors at the 2025 GDT (German Society for Nature Photography) Nature Photographer of the Year awards.
White-throated dipper flying through waterfall.
Credit: Konrad Wothe / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Konrad Wothe
More than 8,000 images were submitted for consideration at this year’s awards. Visit GDTfoto for a full gallery of the winners and scroll some of our favorites below.
Puffin courtship display during the mating season in Newfoundland.
Credit: Karsten Mosebach / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Karsten Mosebach
A flock of ostriches photographed on the way to De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa.
Credit: Peter Mrasek / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
The Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) lives in the wilderness of Mongolia where this photograph was taken at -35° Celsius.
Credit: Dr. Beate Oswald / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Beate_Oswald
While on the lookout for fallow deer and stonechats, I was surprise by this red fox.
Credit: Angelika Krikava / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
A stray dog from Rumbak in Hemis National Park (Ladakh) being attacked by a snow leopard.
Credit: Ulrich Heermann / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
Painted Cliffs on Maria Island (Tasmania, Australia)
Credit: Uwe Hasubek / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
The body of a melanistic viper is a risky spot for a wolf spider to warm up.
Location: Wurzacher Ried (one of the most important peatlands in southern Germany)
Credit: Ulrich Hopp / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
Dr. Ulrich Hopp
Photographed during a doors off helicopter flight over Iceland’s highlands at an altitude of approx. 300 metres – a rare spectacle.
Credit: Peter Schwager / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025
With this photograph, I tried to depict the familial interaction between two sea turtles off the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Credit: Joshi Nichell / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 Joshi Nichell
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Residents of SpaceX’s Starbase launch site vote to incorporate as a city
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is getting its own official company town. Residents of an area around SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to incorporate as a city — also named Starbase. According to results posted online by the Cameron County Elections Department, there were 212 votes in favor and only six […]
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models. Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in […]
‘The Last of Us’ Is On Tonight: When to Watch Season 2, Episode 4
We’ve hit the halfway point in this season of the popular video game series.
World Snooker Championship 2025 Final: How to Watch Live From Anywhere
Could Xintong become the first Chinese player to be crowned world champion?
Backstage access: Spotify’s dev tools side-hustle is growing legs
Spotify generates the vast bulk of its income from ads and subscriptions, but for the past few years the music-streaming giant has also been quietly building out a developer tooling business. Backstage, a project it open-sourced in 2020, has been adopted by more than 2 million developers across 3,400 organizations, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twilio, and […]