A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious discovery that metallic rocks at the bottom of the ocean are producing “dark oxygen.”If a previously unknown source of oxygen has always been lurking in Earth’s depths, it would rep
Lines between cop and criminal get murky in Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, a crime thriller set across one foggy Miami night, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.Damon and Affleck, of course, are so closely associated with Boston — most recently they produced the 2024 heist movie The Instigators there — th
The 68th annual Grammy Awards will take place Feb. 1 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. This year marks a return to normalcy after the award show last year was altered to focus on supporting relief efforts following the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires.“I think we will see some history-ma
Imagine hundreds of thousands of angry protesters filling the streets, shouting slogans to vent their fury. American diplomats holed up in the highly fortified American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) complex, each silently thanking their predecessors for having the foresight to build security from the gr
Today Taiwanese accept as legitimate government control of many aspects of land use. That legitimacy hides in plain sight the way the system of authoritarian land grabs that favored big firms in the developmentalist era has given way to a government land grab system that favors big developers in the
The murkiness of memory that has obscured Taiwan’s White Terror period was captured by A Foggy Tale (大濛), which scooped four gongs at the 62nd Golden Horse Awards in November. The film depicts a girl’s journey to claim the remains of her older brother — executed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT
Two former leaders of a Hong Kong pro-democracy group that for decades organized a vigil commemorating people killed during Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown are set to stand trial in a case brought under a national security law that has all but silenced dissent in the city.A third co-defendant is
Before DeepSeek shook up the tech world and put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map, Wu Chenglin’s own startup had nearly folded three times — but in the past year it has raised US$30 million.The release in January last year of a low-cost generative AI model from DeepSeek that performed at a
From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. “China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact,” Mao Zedong (毛澤東) said in 1957, shortl
There is no question that Tyrannosaurus rex got big. In fact, this fearsome dinosaur may have been Earth’s most massive land predator of all time. But the question of how quickly T. rex achieved its maximum size has been a matter of debate.A new study examining bone tissue microstructure in the leg
Sharks are the most feared predators in the sea, and their survival hinges on fearsome teeth that regrow throughout their lives. But changes in the ocean’s chemistry could put those weapons at risk.That is the takeaway from a study performed by a group of German scientists who tested the effects of
Francis William White, an Englishman who late in the 1860s served as Commissioner of the Imperial Customs Service in Tainan, published the tale of a jaunt he took one winter in 1868: A visit to the interior of south Formosa (1870). White’s journey took him into the mountains, where he mused on the d
Jan. 19 to Jan. 25In 1933, an all-star team of musicians and lyricists began shaping a new sound. The person who brought them together was Chen Chun-yu (陳君玉), head of Columbia Records’ arts department. Tasked with creating Taiwanese “pop music,” they released hit after hit that year, with Chen con
The 2018 nine-in-one local elections were a wild ride that no one saw coming. Entering that year, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was demoralized and in disarray — and fearing an existential crisis. By the end of the year, the party was riding high and swept most of the country in a landslide, i
Inside an ordinary-looking townhouse on a narrow road in central Kaohsiung, Tsai A-li (蔡阿李) raised her three children alone for 15 years. As far as the children knew, their father was away working in the US. They were kept in the dark for as long as possible by their mother, for the truth was perhap
Growing up in a rural, religious community in western Canada, Kyle McCarthy loved hockey, but once he came out at 19, he quit, convinced being openly gay and an active player was untenable.So the 32-year-old says he is “very surprised” by the runaway success of Heated Rivalry, a Canadian-made series
You know what zombie movies never seem to have enough of? Dancing. They’ve got gore and screaming and lots of guttural snarling, but no boogie. That all changes with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and the dancing here is to — naturally off-kilter — 1980s heroes Duran Duran.The fourth entry in an ev
Snoop Dogg arrived at Intuit Dome hours before tipoff, long before most fans filled the arena and even before some players.Dressed in a gray suit and black turtleneck, a diamond-encrusted Peacock pendant resting on his chest and purple Chuck Taylor sneakers with gold laces nodding to his lifelong Lo
Rest of World, which reports global tech stories, had a piece out this week on wind energy and farmers and fishers in the south that was widely passed around. The title didn’t mince words: “AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages.” The article summarized the situation, which
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