Move Over Barbie! Sony's New Film Will Bring Cult Toy Labubu and His Monster Friends to Life

Labubu is coming for the spotlight, and Sony Pictures wants to make sure the mischievous little monster gets it. The studio ...
CounterPunch

Anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing in Latin America w/ Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with anti-Zionist Jewish community organizers in Brazil and Argentina from Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina ...
Frontiers

Assembly mechanism of primary forest dominated by habitat filtering in karst degradation region

Introduction: The revelation of the assembly mechanism of plant communities in karst region has crucial implications for the restoration of degraded vegetation. Niche theory and neutral theory are the ...
CounterPunch

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: an Appeal in a Time of Darkness

So, here we are on the precipice. Not just CounterPunch, but the country, even the 30% who refuse to believe it. Indeed, we may well be off the precipice, suspended in air above the chasm, like Wile E ...
Texas Public Radio

La Llorona Barbie launched by Mattel, sells out within hours of release

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Mattel introduced a La Llorona Barbie doll earlier this ...
IEEE

Deep Sparse-to-Dense Inbetweening for Multi-View Light Fields

Abstract: Light field (LF) imaging, which captures both intensity and directional information of light rays, extends the capabilities of traditional imaging techniques. In this paper, we introduce a ...
IEEE

Semantic-Driven Global-Local Fusion Transformer for Image Super-Resolution

Abstract: Image Super-Resolution (SR) has seen remarkable progress with the emergence of transformer-based architectures. However, due to the high computational cost, many existing transformer-based ...
New York Magazine

On My Mind: Felted Barbie Heads and Stylish Cat Trees

“Strategist Brain” is a series in which staffers share the stores they’ve stopped into, the stuff they’ve spotted, and extra tidbits from stories they’ve worked on. You’ll hear from a different writer ...
C&EN

Engineering a Hydrogen Peroxide-Activated Hydrogen Sulfide Donor-Based Fluorescent Agent for Integrated Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Wounds

Department of Hand and Foot Microsurgery, The Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421002, China Department of Ultrasound Medicine, The First ...
C&EN

Trigonal-Pyramidal Coordination-Triggered Conformational Changes in Multiemission Carbon Dots Enable Highly Selective Arsenic Detection

College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and ...
PBS

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that each boat strike off Venezuela’s coast saves 25,000 lives

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on five Venezuelan boats have saved more than 100,000 lives because the maneuvers thwarted drug ...