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It’s been less than a year since comedian Nate Bargatze made his debut hosting “Saturday Night Live,” but the appearance was so well received that he’s back already, alongside a stacked lineup of Season 50 hosts that include Jean Smart, John Mulaney and Michael Keaton.Was it as strong a showing as last time? Not exactly. The monologue was more scattershot and less finely crafted than last year’s and the sketches were less uniformly great, but there was still some strong material. Bargatze’s every-guy vibe still fits “SNL” nicely, particularly in sketches where he’s playing with language, such as a sequel…

A Rivian R1T owner from North Carolina has recently discovered something cool about his electric truck – it can be submerged in deep muddy waters and survive. In a Facebook video uploaded by Joshua Vincent Sauer, the owner of the affected truck explained how the incident happened. According to the owner, he parked his truck across a U-haul facility near the Swannanoa River in Asheville, North Carolina, just as Hurricane Helene started to wreak havoc in the southeast region of the US. With waters rising due to the hurricane, the owner expected his truck to be unusable when he returned.…

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.  Scientists disagree over the universe’s expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant. There are two main methods for measuring it — one based on exploding stars called supernovas and the other on the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background. The two techniques have been in conflict for a decade, in what’s known as the “Hubble tension” (SN: 3/21/14). If this tension is real, and not the result of an error in one of the measurements, it would demand a drastic shift in…

Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. Rather than reproducing by splitting itself in two, like most bacteria do, Corynebacterium matruchotii divides into as many as 14 cells simultaneously, researchers report in the Sept. 10 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This video shows one Corynebacterium matruchotii bacterium dividing into many daughter cells, which themselves immediately rapidly divide. No other known bacteria reproduces in this way, researchers say. The strategy may allow C. matruchotii to quickly monopolize the human mouth, where it typically resides.…

Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Previous computer simulation-based reconstructions of temperatures during this span reported a range of about 14° C to 26° C. These temperature shifts, surprisingly, also closely tracked shifts in atmospheric carbon dioxide, eclipsing other factors such as changing solar irradiance in driving Earth’s temperatures. Researchers with Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History began piecing together the timeline in 2018 for the museum’s new “Deep…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the leading candidate for his state’s Senate seat, said he would advise Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike Iranian ballistic missile factories. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Schiff said such a response would be “proportionate” after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles last week aimed at Israel. “If I were advising the Prime Minister of Israel, I would say, go after those ballistic missile factories storage areas,” Schiff said. “That would be proportionate, in my view,” Schiff continued. “But it would also help degrade Iran’s capacity.” President Biden said last…

In just his second race for Ineos Grenadiers, 20-year-old Artem Shmidt showed the WorldTour peloton his potential with an 185 km day in the breakaway at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.The American bridged across to a four-man group with 185 km to go in the Canadian one-day race alongside Frank van den Broek (DSM-Firmenich PostNL). The attack then stayed away until the 14.4km to go mark, when UAE Team Emirates reeled them back in.Shmidt revealed that it was the plan all along to get into the day’s move but being able to execute it is a different thing altogether,…

The October 5 episode of Saturday Night Live marked stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze’s second time hosting in a little less than a year. His return stint proved successful, with Bargatze kicking things off with a hilarious and self-deprecating seven-and-a-half minute stand-up monologue that touched on the native Alabamian’s inability to pronounce the word “oil,” his Alabama roots, and his obsession with DoorDash. How to WatchWatch Saturday Night Live Saturdays at 11:30/10:30c on NBC and next day on Peacock.  The historic Season 50’s second entry also brought a sequel to Bargatze’s “Washington’s Dream” sketch, with the Revolutionary War hero rallying his troops around America’s many inexplicable figures of…

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Excavations conducted over the month of September at Castro de San Vicenzo in Plane, Ourense, Spain, has led the uncovering of several well-preserved artifacts connected to the Castro culture from the Iberian Iron Age. These finds include a triskele, a swab, and other symbols that have deep ties to this ancient society, some of the best that have ever been found in this region. Celtic Symbols, Heavy Fortification: A Castro Way of Life The triskele, a Celtic symbol made up of spirals, and often found in Celtic decorative art, was the first artifact found,…

In Butler, Pennsylvania, a billboard read “In Musk We Trust.” A Tesla Cybertruck parked on the side of the road sported a TRUMP 2024 flag.With a month left in the presidential campaign, former president Donald Trump returned to Butler for a rally less than three months after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life that resulted in the death of one rally attendee. This time, Trump was joined by X owner Elon Musk and vice presidential candidate JD Vance.“Welcome Back to Butler, Mr. President,” read a message in Trump’s walk-on video.When Trump started speaking, the same chart about illegal immigration he…