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The biggest event on the sky map this week is the Full Moon in Scorpio on May 1, and it means business. Scorpio Full Moons don’t do surface-level—they root around in the places you’ve been avoiding and drag whatever they find into the open. Paired with a Moon square Pluto earlier that same day, this lunation has teeth. Whatever you’ve been postponing emotionally, financially, or relationally is about to stop waiting for your permission to surface. This is not a week for half-measures, stargazer. The rest of the week builds toward that peak in interesting ways. Venus makes a string of meaningful moves—sextiling Neptune, trining Pluto, and closing out with a grounding sextile to Saturn—while Mercury squares Jupiter early on before escaping into steady Taurus by May 2. The sky this week pulls you between big feelings and bigger ambitions, between dreams and the discipline it actually takes to realize them. Pay attention to what comes up. It’s trying to tell you something. How will your ...

Embark Studios has revealed that the Arc Raiders Trials system is being changed in a really big way . Instead of points being tied to specific map conditions, players will now have new ways to earn progress. The Arc Raiders Trials Season 4 start date will now launch during the Expedition window and will have a new Recon Outfit. Arc Raiders Trials Season 4 Changes Explained Screenshot: Embark Studios Major changes keep coming to the extraction shooter. Last week, we reported that Arc Raiders Expedition feature was being overhauled, with rewards no longer being tied to stash value. Now, Embark Studios has announced that the Arc Raiders Trials system is also getting some major changes implemented to it as well. Specifically, Arc Raiders Trials Season 4 progress points will no longer be rewarded based on specific map condition s. As a trade-off, double progress points have also been removed. However, players will now be able to earn points on any map condition without any rest...

Kanye West and Jamie Foxx wrote the definitive gold digger anthem back in 2005, and for the last two decades, the cultural assumption has largely held: women chase rich men, men get played, everybody loses. A new study out of Vienna would like to challenge that narrative. Researchers at the Behavioral and Social Sciences Institute, led by psychologist Lennart Freyth, published findings this year confirming what many people have probably suspected. “Gold digging, often stereotyped as female behavior, is in fact not limited to women,” the study authors wrote. The team even cited West and Foxx’s track directly in their analysis, pulling the lyric “she takes my money when I’m in need” to outline what they describe as the three core public assumptions about gold diggers: that they exploit money, avoid broke partners, and are always women. Two out of three, it turns out, have held up. The third one didn’t. The researchers polled 351 participants, all around age 30 and representing a rang...

Alex Birch has a problem most farmers don’t anticipate. His cows are too damn cute for their own good.  Birch’s Highland cattle, with their thick shaggy coats and Instagram-ready faces , have become a destination. People drive to his 300-acre farm in Baslow Edge, Derbyshire, to hug them, film yoga videos beside them, yank their tails, and leave bags of vegetables as unsolicited snacks. A group of 30 tourists once cornered his entire herd with flashing cameras. “My cows don’t get any peace,” Birch told the BBC . His solution, arrived at after exhausting his patience and presumably every other option, is to make the cows less attractive. Birch, 39, plans to crossbreed his Highland cattle with the whitebred shorthorn, a breed he described as a “good, hardy cow” that lacks both the photogenic fluff and the horns that keep drawing crowds. The de-beautification process, he estimates, will take about six years. “The intention is to make them less photogenic,” he said. Crazy solution t...

The gym is supposed to make you a better version of yourself. Stronger back, bigger arms, better heart. Nobody signs up for deadlifts expecting to develop erectile dysfunction . And yet, here we are. Personal trainer Toby King told the New York Post that the muscles surrounding the pelvic floor play a direct role in erections and arousal—and hammering them with heavy, high-tension lifts without adequate recovery can strangle the blood flow and compress the nerves that make all of that work. “If they are constantly tight or overloaded, then they can restrict the blood flow and compress nerves that are essential for healthy sexual function,” King said. The exercises doing the damage are the ones already in your rotation. Squats, deadlifts, ab rollouts, hanging leg raises, planks, leg presses. Every time you brace under load, the pelvic floor fires with you. Do that five days a week, pile on stress, and skip recovery—and that muscle group eventually stops cooperating. King used this ex...

It’s been a while since scientists began to reach a consensus that whatever’s going on in your gut microbiome is vital, as it plays a major role in both physical and mental well-being. Those billions of microbes are sensitive, constantly shifting in response to diet and lifestyle. Now, a team of researchers says that one of the most common daily habits among billions of people worldwide can radically reshape your gut microbiome: drinking coffee . A study published in Nature Communications tracked 62 adults through phases of normal coffee use, a forced two-week break, and a controlled reintroduction of either caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. The goal was to understand how coffee interacts with the gut-brain axis, the communication network linking digestive microbes and the brain. They found that habitual drinkers had distinct gut microbiomes compared to nondrinkers, with certain bacterial strains more abundant than others. When the study participants stopped drinking coffee, the ...