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Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. Conference tournaments around the college basketball landscape are heating up, and new punters can get in on the action by signing up for Kalshi, one of the leading prediction markets in the industry. Kalshi is giving new users a bonus worth $10 to sign up with the Kalshi promo code NYPMAX. The offer stands for any market, including trades on any of the 31 conference tournaments underway or still to come. How to use the Kalshi referral…

Highly contagious virus with no treatment is taking the West Coast by storm

Cold, flu and COVID may get the most attention, but a lesser-known, highly contagious virus is taking the West Coast by storm. Wastewater SCAN data show that human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is rampant in Northern California — specifically San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Napa, Novato, Santa Rosa, Sacramento and Davis, per reports. The virus…

How Anthropic’s safety-first ethos collided with the Pentagon

On February 5 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful artificial intelligence model. Among the model’s new features is the ability to coordinate teams of autonomous agents — multiple AIs that divide up the work and complete it in parallel. Twelve days after Opus 4.6’s release, the company dropped…

Science news this week: Cannibal orcas in Russia, oracle bones that reveal climate disaster in ancient China, humming black holes and a barefoot volcanologist

Science news this week was full of bizarre and baffling animal behavior, with news of chewed-up orca fins washing up on a Russian beach pointing to cannibalism among the apex predators.There are several orca subspecies, and scientists initially thought these groups kept mainly to themselves. But genetic evidence alongside distinct…

Why is mercury a liquid?

​​We tend to think of metals as hard, strong and resistant to high temperatures — just look at iron, aluminum and steel. While this is generally true, there’s one key exception: mercury. With a melting point of minus 37.9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 38.8 degrees Celsius), mercury is one of only…

Knicks’ Pacome Dadiet nets career high in points during garbage time

DENVER — Pacôme Dadiet, the 2024 first-round pick who has spent much of this season in the G-League, finally took advantage of his NBA opportunity in Friday’s 142-103 Knicks win over the Nuggets. The 20-year-old Frenchman went off for 11 points in just nine minutes of garbage time, helping send…

Yankees’ Trent Grisham gets key hit after slow start to spring training

Observations from Yankees spring training Friday: Single file Trent Grisham had been quiet at the plate through his first six games, but delivered a two-run single to get the scoring going in Friday’s 3-0 win over the Rays. Challenge accepted Catcher Payton Henry, who should provide some depth at Triple-A,…

Ruben Prey gives St. John’s big lift off bench in win

It felt like St. John’s was in trouble. Zuby Ejiofor had picked up his second foul with 4:55 left in the first half. Then, he was called for his third a few minutes into the second half. Both times, Ruben Prey was there to fill the void left by the…

Exclusive | Nutty professor who held machete to Post reporter’s neck rambles about ‘violent fascists’  in defense of her 7K taxpayer-funded artwork

The unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to the neck of a Post reporter went on a rambling tirade after being called out last week for her new $407,000 taxpayer-funded monument critics ripped as “junk.” Tone-deaf Shellyne Rodriguez painted herself as a victim, whining in a Hyperallergic.com column…

Giant string of organic molecules on Mars may be one of the best signs of life yet

Organic molecules discovered within a stone on Mars cannot be fully explained by nonbiological processes, and it’s “reasonable to hypothesize” that living things could have formed these odd organic molecules, a NASA-led team reports in a new study. However, this doesn’t mean scientists have found definitive proof of life on…

Trump claims he improved ‘sex life’ of ‘big, tough’ NYPD cop

President Trump claimed Friday that his economic policies and the roaring stock market saved the “sex life” of an NYPD officer whose wife previously treated him “like a dog.” “This wonderful, tough policeman from New York — he’s taking good care of us — and he said, ‘Sir, it’s so good. My married…

Paleolithic humans invented an ‘early predecessor to writing’ at least 40,000 years ago, carved signs suggest

Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform scripts. But new research suggests the precursors to writing can be found on sculptures and tools made by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in Central Europe tens of thousands of years earlier.When modern…

Yoshinobu Yamamoto returning to WBC  as Japan’s ace

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The best he can recall, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in a classroom when he made his first World Baseball Classic memory. Yamamoto was a fifth grader at Inbe Elementary School in the Japanese countryside town of Bizen. One afternoon in March, his teacher turned on the television for…

Did the Vikings reach Maine?

In 1957, an amateur archaeologist working at a Native American site in Maine discovered a perplexing treasure: a 900-year-old silver Norse coin that dated to the late Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066).The artifact, sometimes called the “Maine Penny,” is now in the Maine State Museum. Its discovery has raised…

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