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Isaac Brock is holed up in his Portland studio, Ice Cream Party, which is essentially a multi-level playground for musicians. Surrounded by a collection of guitars, an array of colorful pedals and a ...

Modest Mouse spent the weekend aboard the Ice Cream Floats, their four-night indie rock cruise from Miami to the Dominican Republic. Its lineup featured the likes of Portugal. The Man, Kurt Vile, ...

An indie rock band played its first concert in 24 years over the weekend. Ugly Casanova, a side project of Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, performed Saturday night at Ice Cream Floats, an indie ...

Even a modest amount of mental exercise appears to reduce the risk of dementia for decades. NPR's John Hamilton reports on a new study of people who did a specific type of cognitive training more than ...

Physics is filled with mysteries – and, believe it or not, gravity remains one of them. We rely on gravity to explain things large and small. But at a fundamental level, we still don’t fully ...

The Moon is far smaller than Earth, yet some of its mountains rise to astonishing heights. Lower gravity and a lack of active plate tectonics allow lunar peaks to grow in ways that aren’t possible on ...

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What just happened? Logitech introduced its new ultra-low click latency technology in September 2025, promising a significant leap forward in mouse performance. The first peripheral to feature this ...

Gravitational anomalies detected by NASA and the German Aerospace Center’s GRACE satellites confused scientists for years. These anomalies are fluctuations in gravity, and while they were suspected to ...

I didn’t come to zero-gravity sleeping out of need. It was more of a “why not?” My Bedgear adjustable bed frame, which I’ve owned for years, has a “zero gravity” preset. I’d used it occasionally to ...

No Man's Sky's next big update, Remnant, is here, introducing something developer Hello Games has "been wanting to give players since the very beginning": a gravity gun. Called the Gravitino Coil, the ...