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What’s armored, covered in worms, and has a rasping tongue? If you said the stuff of nightmares, you’re not wrong. Luckily, however, the critter in question is pretty small—and now famous. Meet Ferreiraella populi, a very weird new species of deep-sea mollusk. It’s a kind of herbivorous mollusc called a chiton and sports an iron-covered radula (the aforementioned rasping tongue), eight armored shell plates, and poop-eating worms close to its tail. It received its first official scientific description on Friday, in a Biodiversity Data Journal study. Social media-famous critter A chiton’s “overall body plan is quite good at attaching to…

Kevin SeifertFeb 10, 2026, 06:00 AM ETCloseKevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for over 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Multiple AuthorsSuper Bowl LX is in the books. The Seattle Seahawks, who entered the season with a 1.1% chance to win the Super Bowl based on ESPN Analytics projections, beat the New England Patriots 29-13 to take home the Lombardi Trophy.Now begins the…

After a week vibe coding apps using Nothing’s Essential Apps Builder, I’m conflicted. I buy into the smartphone maker’s vision for software that adapts to you, not the other way around, but right now it doesn’t deliver. It’s hard to see how this goes from cool novelty to a reliable tool without serious refinement, and a level of consumer patience it may struggle to find.Nothing laid out its pitch for an “AI-native operating system” last year: something that would sit at the heart of its devices and make them feel more personal and more adaptable. While it’s not really an…

The House Judiciary Committee wants the US Department of Justice to turn over all its communications with both Apple and Google regarding the companies’ decisions to remove apps that shared information about sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.Several apps were removed from both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store in October. Politico reported that Raskin has contacted Attorney General Pam Bondi.“The coercion and censorship campaign, which ultimately targets the users of ICE-monitoring applications, is a clear effort to silence this Administration’s critics and suppress any evidence that would expose the Administration’s lies, including its Orwellian attempts to…

Inter Milan have established themselves as the leading Scudetto contenders in Cristian Chivu’s first season in charge.According to Corriere dello Sport via FCInter1908, Inter’s minimal investment in the summer transfer window has paid huge dividends.AdvertisementFormer manager Simone Inzaghi came agonizingly close to winning his second Scudetto in charge last term.However, Napoli beat the Nerazzurri to the punch, edging them by a single point.Therefore, Inzaghi finished his final season at San Siro empty-handed.How €20m Revolution Turned Inter Milan into Top Scudetto CandidatesMILAN, ITALY – JANUARY 23: Francesco Pio Esposito of FC Internazionale Milano celebrates scoring his team’s third goal during the…

Bidets are now, once again, having a moment. As international athletes and journalists descend on northern Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics, certain participants have wondered about the additional piece of equipment in their bathrooms. Europeans, quite familiar with the oval basins, have found themselves similarly perplexed by their confusion. Cultural exchange often has its hiccups.Last week, US broadcaster Alicia Lewis posted a TikTok asking if the Italian bidet in her room was, in fact, a bidet. An Associated Press report noted that “the fixture is de rigueur in Italian residences but often perplexes visitors—including some athletes whose room videos…

Cases of Coca-Cola brand soda are stacked at a Costco Wholesale store on November 13, 2025 in Simi Valley, California. Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesCoca-Cola is expected to report its fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday.Here’s what Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG are expecting the company to report:Earnings per share: 56 cents expectedRevenue: $12.03 billion expectedLike rival PepsiCo, Coke has seen demand for its drinks soften in recent quarters as low-income shoppers look to save on their grocery bills. But the beverage giant’s pricier brands, like Fairlife and Smartwater, have been bright spots for the company, showing that…

As you wrote in the book, this is not a “cradle to grave” biography, but one focused on an extraordinary period of time. Was the tipping point for this project the discovery of the OSS Report?Well, about one or two years before, there was an opportunity to do a documentary and my aunt Cristina, Emilio’s widow, was very open to do [it]. She said to me and to Terry, ‘I’m so worried about this time of war because we don’t know….’ In fact, we knew so little about it because everywhere in Italy, just after the war, nobody talked about…

Vapes are bad for your body and definitely bad for the planet; the world’s landfills are stuffed with disposable vape cartridges. But now there’s a way to give all that e-waste a more pleasant tune.The Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who break apart spent Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and hack them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker nestled amid an array of lights and buttons. To play it, you put your mouth on it and draw your breath…

Remember when the NFL made all those rule changes to help the offense, trying to drive up scoring and make the game more exciting?Well, well.They aren’t working now.Defenses have taken over the league. The Seattle Seahawks’ domination of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX was just the coronation of what has become a defensive-minded NFL.The Seahawks’ offense wasn’t great against a good New England defense, but it did enough as Seattle won 29-13 in a game that didn’t even seem that close. It kept the Seahawks in the top spot of my final Power Rankings for the season,…