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Adopted in 1958, the GRAS exemption was intended to cover the use of commonplace ingredients, explains Jensen Jose, regulatory counsel for the nonprofit watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington, DC. “It was so you wouldn’t require a new piece of legislation every time you added salt to a sandwich.”However, as the food industry’s appetite for additives grew over the following decades, the GRAS rule came to cover a widening array of ingredients—with the manufacturers of these additives left effectively to govern themselves. “The hope is that they conduct scientific studies of their own,” says Jennifer…

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BookTrib is honored to partner with Reedsy to present this week’s Reedsy Prompts contest! For those who are not already familiar, Reedsy.com is a super-useful platform for authors to find professional editors, designers and marketers who can take their books to the next level. Reedsy also provides a wide variety of support right on its site, from writing tools to publishing courses and insightful articles that address the needs of writers at every stage. Reedsy Prompts are a great way to get your creative juices flowing. And if you want a “right now” writing challenge, Reedsy publishes a new contest…

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The VaporID detector can find traces of fentanyl and other substances in the airElizabeth Denis/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The US Customs and Border Protection agency is testing technology that sniffs out illegal substances in the air, no contact required. The device could screen objects at the border within seconds to help combat the trafficking of drugs like fentanyl, which is driving the opioid crisis in the US. Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect because they release relatively few molecules into the ambient air, which is already filled with other vapours. To solve this problem, Robert Ewing and his…

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James Gunn says that Superman is an immigrant story about “America” and “human kindness.” The wait for Superman is nearly over, as the DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures movie finally releases in United States theaters this coming weekend. Written and directed by Gunn, the movie stars David Corenswet as the titular superhero, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. What did James Gunn say about Superman being an immigrant story? Speaking with The Times U.K. about the DCU movie, Gunn said, “Yes, it’s about politics. But on another level it’s about morality. Do you never…

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Suno has announced that Paul Sinclair, former general manager and executive vp at Atlantic Records, is joining the AI music company as its first chief music officer. In this newly created role, the New York-based executive, who has been advising Suno for months now, will guide how the company’s tools are developed to support music creators at all skill levels and to “unlock new experiences between artists and fans,” as stated in a company press release. Sinclair brings over two decades of music industry experience to his new role at Suno. First, he worked at Warner Music Group as director…

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Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s Podcast. Hard Fork: Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. Great Chat: AI is killing…

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04 Jul 2025 Stars, Secrets, and the End of Everything: Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads A dying galaxy. A mission no one expects to survive. These sweeping sci-fi stories blend cosmic stakes with raw human emotion because even at the edge of the universe, love and hope refuse to die quietly. Overmorrow (The Overmorrow Rites Book 1) by Lancelot Schaubert Release Date: June 24, 2025 A magical monster named Oblivion kidnaps Ellie’s elder brother. She believes Oblivion wants to use her brother as a backup memory, a backup hard drive. She encounters Overmorrow – a magical rain that wakes up…

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Artistic representation of a dark dwarf. Credit: Sissa Medialab Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the nature of one of the most mysterious and fundamental phenomena in contemporary cosmology: dark matter. A paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics by a team of researchers based in the UK and Hawaii describes these objects for the first time and proposes how to verify their existence using current observational tools such as the James Webb Space Telescope. The paper is titled “Dark Dwarfs:…

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Jared Harris has “no clue” what’s happening with the third Sherlock Holmes movie.The 63-year-old actor portrayed James Moriarty in the 2009 original and its 2011 sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and has now admitted “no one’s talking to [him]” about the third film, and is even taking down the IMDb page that says he is set to star in the next movie.When The Direct asked Harris for an update on the third Sherlock Holmes film, he said: “Yeah. I mean, I keep taking that down [on IMDb] and someone keeps putting it back up. I have no idea.“No…

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As you may know, Slaughter to Prevail frontman Alex Terrible is also a professional bare knuckle fighter who’s more than happy to share the gruesome aftermath of his confrontations. In particular, he just shared a photo and a video of his bruised and bloodied face following his latest bare knuckle fight (with Danil “Rugbist” Aleev, whose Instagram handle is @pitbuelll).What Alex Terrible Posted + Other FootagePer The PRP, Terrible’s “headlining . . . bout” against Aleev occurred yesterday (July 5) in Moscow, Russia “as part of Top Dog FC’s ‘Top Dog 37’ PPV [Pay Per View].” The publication also mentions…

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I don’t know about you, but when the butter yellow trend first made its way onto the scene earlier this season, I was sceptical. Sorbet shades have never been my strong suit, and I had no idea how to incorporate such a delicate hue into my wardrobe. Truthfully? That uncertain feeling never quite went away. I’ve grown accustomed to seeing it, sure, but it still doesn’t feel entirely natural for me to wear myself.So, I was grateful when, today, I spotted Olivia Dean stepping onto Centre Court for the 2025 Wimbledon Championships in the very shade I’ve struggled with, styled…

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Astronomers have discovered the third interstellar comet to pass through our solar system. Named 3I/ATLAS (initially A11pl3Z), it was first spotted July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile and confirmed the same day. Pre-discovery images show it in the sky as far back as mid-June. The object is racing toward the inner system at roughly 150,000 miles per hour on a near-straight trajectory, too fast for the Sun to capture. Estimates suggest its nucleus may be 10–20 km across. Now inside Jupiter’s orbit, 3I/ATLAS will swing closest to the Sun in October and should remain observable into late 2025.Discovery…

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The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields and armor — when people imagine ancient Rome, they often think of its sights and sounds. We know less, however, about the scents of ancient Rome.We cannot, of course, go back and sniff to find out. But the literary texts, physical remains of structures, objects, and environmental evidence (such as plants and animals) can offer clues.So what might ancient Rome have smelled like? You may like Honestly, often pretty rankIn describing the smells of plants, author and…

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With 55 years in the busi­ness and 23 films to his name, David Cro­nen­berg has made an indeli­ble mark on the face of cin­e­ma. Not only is it impos­si­ble to imag­ine hor­ror as a genre with­out him, his far-rang­ing inter­ests, tenac­i­ty as an inde­pen­dent film­mak­er and unmis­tak­able sense of humour have solid­i­fied him not only a favourite among crit­ics, but audi­ences and fel­low film­mak­ers as well. His lat­est film, The Shrouds, is his most per­son­al to date, inspired by Cro­nen­berg’s own process of mourn­ing after the death of his wife. To cel­e­brate the film final­ly reach­ing UK audi­ences via Ver­ti­go Releas­ing, we hopped…

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Not to be overlooked amid all the kick-ass performances at Black Sabbath’s “Back to the Beginning” farewell concert on Saturday — and there were many — was the surprise showing by Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Lest we forget that Aerosmith were forced to pull the plug on their own farewell tour last year due to a serious vocal injury suffered by Tyler a year earlier. But on Saturday, Tyler was front and center, fronting an all-star superjam also featuring Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo, and Chad Smith — and he sounding absolutely great in the process. Tyler…

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“The signal was out there that this is going to be a heavy, significant rainfall event,” says Vagasky. “But pinpointing exactly where that’s going to fall, you can’t do that.”Flash floods in this part of Texas are nothing new. Eight inches of rainfall in the state “could be on a day that ends in Y,” says Matt Lanza, also a certified digital meteorologist based in Houston. It’s a challenge, he says, to balance forecasts that often show extreme amounts of rainfall with how to adequately prepare the public for these rare but serious storms.“It’s so hard to warn on this—to…

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Fig trees may be especially good at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphereRaimund Linke/mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for forestry or their fruit could offer additional climate benefits through this carbon-sequestration process. All trees take up CO2 from the air, and most of that carbon typically ends up as structural molecules used to build the plant, such as cellulose. Some trees, however, convert CO2 into a crystal compound called…

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HBO Max’s new TV and movie release schedule for July 7 to July 13, 2025, includes 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Season 9, Wardens of the North Season 4, Celebrity IOU Season 10, and Rage (Furia.) On July 7, 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? Season 9 drops on HBO Max. The reality show catches up with the most popular couples from the 90 Day Fiancé series. It showcases the pair struggling to get along and build a stable and healthy relationship. Further, Wardens of the North Season 4 will be available on the streaming platform. The series follows…

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Drake has released a new song called “What Did I Miss?” On the track—co-produced by DJ Lewis, Elyas, FNZ, Gyz, London Cyr, O Lil Angel, Oz, Patron, and Tay Keith—the Toronto musician reflects on his beef with Kendrick Lamar and the people who did and did not stand by him in the feud. Listen to the song below.Drake opens “What Did I Miss?” by reflecting on the beef and the way it affected those around him: “Askin’ me, ‘How did it feel?’ Can’t say it didn’t surprise me/Last time I looked to my right, you n****s was standing beside me/How…

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Being an editor is the dream career path for beauty enthusiasts who like to stay on-the-go, practice smart shopping habits, and stay on top of new launches, and enjoy sifting through hundreds of sub-par products to find the stand-outs. It takes a keen eye for design, knowledge of specific formulations, and a journalistic fervor to communicate everything we know about a product into a story that can help cut out all the extra steps it takes to learn what you can about it, and then go in for the buy. Yes, Who What Wear Beauty Editors are pros out identifying…

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Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. Lenny’s Podcast: I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s Podcast. Great Chat:…

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04 Jul 2025 Between Silence and Surrender: 6 Literary Novels That Stay Some stories don’t need explosions to leave a mark. These literary novels explore the quiet fractures—marriages that can’t be saved, families that won’t forgive, and the moments when silence becomes its own kind of surrender. Life and Death in Venice by Victor Lana Release Date: June 16, 2025 Robert (Bobby) Valenti is a New Yorker who moves to Venice to start over. He begins dating Mireille, a French girl with emotional issues. Bobby meets Elena in a bar but discovers she is a prostitute with an abusive pimp.…

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Despite brief oases, Mars was likely doomed to be a desert planet, a new study suggests. Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while rivers once sporadically flowed on Mars, it was doomed to mostly be a desert planet. Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water. However, the red surface is carved out by ancient…

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