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The White House’s social media posts are drawing scrutiny for messaging critics say appeals to far-right audiences amid an aggressive immigration crackdown, set against protests and federal actions in Minnesota, including confrontations between agents and demonstrators and a deadly ICE shooting.
With the 2025 season in the rear-view, the Philadelphia Eagles are gearing up for a busy 2026 offseason—eyeing as many as nine draft picks (four in the top 100, six in the top four rounds), a thorough talent evaluation, and an aggressive, smart plan to improve every facet of the roster in pursuit of another championship.
Researchers Budd and Mann propose the Covariant Evolutionary Tempo model, which allows evolutionary rates to vary and accelerate during major diversification, potentially resolving the mismatch between fossil records and genetic timelines. If correct, many modern species may descend from ancestors that evolved rapidly in bursts, challenging the idea of a steady molecular clock. The concept, which could explain a roughly 30-million-year discrepancy, is yet untested but prompts a major reevaluation of when key lifeforms appeared.
There isn’t a universal ‘down’ in space. The solar system lies in a flattened disk (the ecliptic) because the collapsing rotating solar nebula shaped planets to orbit in roughly the same plane. The Milky Way has its own galactic plane (tilted about 60° to the ecliptic), and the Local Group sits in a nearly perpendicular supergalactic plane (about 84.5° to the galactic plane). Orientation of these planes comes from the initial rotation of matter when clouds collapsed, so every star, planet, and galaxy can have its own plane and direction depending on where you’re looking.