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Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Catalysis (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c03512 Compared with the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, renewable energy-driven electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction (NO3−RR) provides a low-carbon route for ammonia synthesis under mild conditions. Using nitrate from wastewater as the nitrogen source and water as the hydrogen source, this route has the potential to produce ammonia sustainably while mitigating water pollution. Copper (Cu)-based catalysts show a good performance for NO3−RR to ammonia. However, they suffer from issues including high overpotential, competing nitrite (NO2–) formation, and low overall energy efficiency. In a study published in ACS Catalysis, a team led by Prof. Bao Xinhe…

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Harley Quinn almost went up against a very different villain in her film Birds of Prey.In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Birds of Prey star and producer Margot Robbie revealed the film’s main villain was originally going to be the Penguin, not Black Mask.“The first draft that Christina [Hodson] wrote of Birds of Prey, the villain was the Penguin. And then Matt Reeves said, ‘Don’t use the Penguin. I’m going to use him in my thing [The Batman].’ And so we swapped it to Black Mask,” Robbie explained.Robbie’s chat was a joint interview with her A Big Bold Beautiful…

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Ice-T has opened up about the losses of his close friends Coolio and actor Michael K. Williams, who passed away in 2022 and 2021, respectively, due to drug overdoses. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “I don’t do drugs, but I never expected it,” Ice-T told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Friday (Aug. 22). “When it hit Coolio and it hit Mike, that was the nail in the coffin. That’s when you go, ‘Yo, this s‑‑t is real.’ You know what I’m saying? It’s real.” He continued: “[I] didn’t know that it could kill people so easily ……

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While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here.Amid a week of near-arctic temperatures in the city that never sleeps, New York Fashion Week brought vibrance and energy that kicked off Fashion Month with a bang. Strong Fall 2025 trends have already begun to emerge that carry with them a maximalist spirit, be it in silhouette, color, or detail. From oversized wrap coats to beautifully embellished detailing, monochromatic looks in bright cherry red and fringe…

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Featured Podcasts Tech Brew Ride Home: Now Meta Has Frozen AI Hiring Tech news headlines every day. 15 minutes and you’re up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew’s tech hub. Subscribe to Tech Brew Ride Home. Decoder with Nilay Patel: Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race A show from the Verge about big ideas – and other problems. Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel. Lenny’s Podcast: How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fewer Americans Are Reading for Fun Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey, researchers at University College London and the University of Florida have found that the number of Americans who reported reading for pleasure dropped from a high of 28% in 2004 to 16% in 2023. Put another way: over a period of twenty years, the number of Americans who…

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Two of the solar system’s most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, may be fragments of a single massive “parent” asteroid that was smashed to pieces billions of years ago, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals.If true, the sibling space rocks — which have both recently been visited by spacecraft that successfully returned samples of them to Earth — could shed light on how asteroid families are created and dispersed throughout our cosmic neighborhood.Bennu is a roughly 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid recently visited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which touched down on the space rock in 2022 and…

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Chances are if you’re a fan of the cinema you’ll have been to The Prince Charles Cinema in London’s Leicester Square. Just off Chinatown, it’s an oasis for film lovers around the country, a truly independent cinema that’s doin’ it for the people. It’s surprising, then, that the writer, director, editor of The Regulars, Fil Freitas, who himself worked at the cinema rising from front of house to manager, seems to really hate the general public. Shot by cinematographer Ben Rolph almost entirely in the cinema itself in timeless and impressively-sharp black and white, the film plays out like Clerks by way of Dazed and Confused through funny and lackadaisical…

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A couple of nights before the release of their 10th studio album, Private Music, the majority of the Deftones joined Loudwire Nights (Aug. 20) to celebrate getting to this point in their career.Frontman Chino Moreno, drummer Abe Cunningham, keyboardist Frank Delgado and bassist Fred Sablan came together to reflect on their career, unpack Private Music and much more. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article.”It feels awesome,” Moreno answered when Loudwire Nights’ Chuck Armstrong asked him how he’s feeling.”It’s time to drop this puppy, we’ve sort of been with our heads down, noses…

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Call it an obsession or a hobby or just my job, but not a day goes by that I don’t look at a handful of retailers’ new arrivals—and that’s been the case for as long as I can remember. I’ve been a Who What Wear editor for over eleven years, and at this point, I can predict which new pieces are going to sell out with very little hesitation. As a shopper, it’s a useful special skill to have, but even more importantly, I see it as my duty to warn my fellow shoppers about the pieces you should snag…

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The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under the Biden era CHIPS Act, according to comments US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick made in an interview with CNBC. The move is part of the government’s efforts to boost US chip manufacturing.“We should get an equity stake for our money, so we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick said. “We’ll get equity in return for it.” Previously, the government was discussing taking a 10 percent stake in Intel, according to…

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An artwork in Geneva, Switzerland, where talks on a global plastic treaty took place last weekFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little sleep, to watch their hopes of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution evaporate. The talks, which ran for two weeks in Geneva, Switzerland, were the second attempt to thrash out an international deal to stem the tide of this form of pollution. But at the eleventh hour, they fell apart, with countries divided on whether the treaty should not only…

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Ahead of the theatrical release of Predator: Badlands on November 7, Marvel Comics has announced that the upcoming action sci-fi movie will receive a tie-in prequel comic. Described as a prelude to the movie’s story, the one-shot comic is written by Ethan Sacks (Star Wars: Bounty Hunters), with director Dan Trachtenberg also set to write the foreword for the issue. It is set to be published on November 12. “For a writer who grew up a lifelong fan of the Predator franchise, there is no bigger game than the chance to hunt with the Yautja,” Sacks shared. “Working hand in…

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The rise of ’90s grunge and alternative rock can be traced back to a handful of significant moments, but one date in particular stands out: August 21st, 1990. On that same day, Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction released Facelift and Ritual de lo habitual, respectively, signaling a new shift toward textural, artful, heavy music. The albums parallel one another in myriad ways — from sonic congruencies to shared influences — a point best illustrated by mutual producer Dave Jerden, who worked on both LPs successively. The addictive ethereal vocals of Perry Farrell and the group’s eclectic blend of metal,…

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Featured Podcasts Great Chat: Is AI a job killer or job creator? A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer. Subscribe to Great Chat. Tech Brew Ride Home: The Pixel 10 Smartphone Unveiling Tech news headlines every day. 15 minutes and you’re up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew’s tech hub. Subscribe to Tech Brew Ride Home. Spotlight On: Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building. Subscribe to Spotlight…

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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Multiverse Mayhem? At age nine, I was enchanted by The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. As I held the last book in the Narnia series in my young hands, I realized that writers are wizards. With nothing but black dots of ink on a white page, C. S. Lewis cast a spell on me and transported me into a magical realm where love could conquer death itself. Lewis changed my life. The scene where Aslan sacrifices himself to save the deeply flawed Edmund—who had…

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Student Audreanna Johnson views her cell phone near a cell phone locker at Ronald McNair Sr. High School, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Atlanta. Credit: AP Photo/Mike Stewart Jamel Bishop is seeing a big change in his classrooms as he begins his senior year at Doss High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where cellphones are now banned during instructional time. In previous years, students often weren’t paying attention and wasted class time by repeating questions, the teenager said. Now, teachers can provide “more one-on-one time for the students who actually need it.” Kentucky is one of 17 states and the District…

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James Gunn doesn’t think the new DC Universe is anything like the MCU.In a new chat with Interview magazine, Gunn explained the DCU isn’t like the MCU because the DCU will be focusing more on “telling individual stories” from a greater shared cinematic universe, among other reasons that set the two comic book movie and media franchises apart.“People say, ‘Oh, the DCU is doing what MCU is.’ But I think it really is a lot more to me what the Game of Thrones world is like or what Star Wars is like, because we’re building a universe and then picking…

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FKA twigs is going to be releasing more new music very soon. The singer just finished her tour in support of Eusexua with a performance at Lowlands, and she told the crowd at the Dutch festival about a project called Eusexua Afterglow. “I am full and abundant and ready to give birth, FKA twigs said. “Her name is Afterglow, and my labor shall commence next month.” Representatives for FKA twigs confirmed to Pitchfork that Eusexua Afterglow is “not a deluxe version, but rather a whole new album.”FKA twigs released Eusexua in January. She more recently shared the single “Perfectly.” View…

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Welcome to The Who What Wear Podcast. Think of it as your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the fashion-and-beauty world. Subscribe to The Who What Wear Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.When you’re known for creating “the Rachel” haircut, you really don’t need an introduction. While Chris McMillan may be known for inventing Jennifer Aniston’s iconic haircut, he’s venturing out to try something new: launching his first haircare line, Chris McMillan Hair.McMillan realized that his clients were always asking how they could re-create his signature looks at home. “Every time I…

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During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same?Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that.Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compute,” the agents decide what information to store in its long-term memory vault and what might be needed for faster recall.“We can make a single update…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Polari Book Prize Canceled After Authors Withdraw in Protest Organizers of the Polari Prize, which confers the only book awards honoring LGBTQ+ authors in the UK, have canceled this year’s prizes after more than a dozen nominees and two judges withdrew to protest the inclusion of John Boyne. Boyne, who has publicly expressed anti-trans ideas and come out in support of J.K. Rowling’s…

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In a series of “victory” celebrations more than 6,000 years ago in northeastern France, a group of defenders severed the left arms of their conquered enemies and buried them in pits, archaeologists have found.The discovery provides a glimpse into a time when warfare was rampant in the region and when invaders pushed into northeastern France from the area around Paris.The “lower limbs were [fractured] in order to prevent the victims from escaping, the entire body shows blunt force traumas and, what it is more, in some skeletons there are some marks — piercing holes — that may indicate that the…

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Eva Victor’s first brush with celebrity came through viral comedy videos, most famously one on Straight Pride, which earned them a writing gig for the satirical website Reductress. Taking the road less travelled, their next step was to write, direct and star in Sorry, Baby a rare work of traumedy (trauma + comedy) that stands as an antidote to cinema’s glib and exploitative history of sensationalising sexual abuse and simplifying its impact. There is no lurid depiction of a violation by a college lecturer, instead the film shows how it seeps into every part of grad student Agnes’s life, affecting her in ways that…

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