Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic multicellular or multinucleate fruiting bodies which may be formed through aggregation or fusion. Slime molds were formerly classified as fungi but are no longer considered part of that kingdom. Although not forming a single monophyletic clade, they are grouped within the paraphyletic group Protista. More than 900 species of slime mold occur globally. Their common name refers to part of some of these organisms' life cycles where they can appear as gelatinous "slime". This is mostly seen with the Myxogastria, which are the only macroscopic slime molds. Most slime molds are smaller than a few centimetres, but some species may reach sizes up to several square metres and masses up to 20 kilograms.They feed on microorganisms that live in any type of dead plant material. They contribute to the decomposition of dead vegetation, and feed on bacteria and fungi. For this reason, slime molds are usually found in soil, lawns, and...

Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux at the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other, with consumption of electrical energy, depending on the direction of the current. Such an instrument is also called a Peltier device, Peltier heat pump, solid state refrigerator, or thermoelectric cooler (TEC) and occasionally a thermoelectric battery. It can be used either for heating or for cooling, although in practice the main application is cooling. It can also be used as a temperature controller that either heats or cools. This technology is far less commonly applied to refrigeration than vapor-compression refrigeration is. The primary advantages of a Peltier cooler compared to a vapor-compression refrigerator are its lack of moving parts or circulating liquid, very long life, invulnerability to leaks, small size, and flexible shape. Its main disadvantages are high cost for a given cooling capacity and poor power efficiency (a low coefficient of performance...

The NXT Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. It is defended on the NXT brand division, the promotion's developmental territory. The current champion is Tiffany Stratton, who is in her first reign. She defeated Lyra Valkyria at NXT Battleground on May 28, 2023, to win the vacant title; previous champion Indi Hartwell relinquished the title due to a leg injury and being drafted to Raw. Introduced on April 5, 2013, the inaugural champion was Paige. In September 2019, the promotion began promoting NXT as its "third brand" when the NXT television program was moved to the USA Network. Two years later, however, NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand. In 2020, the NXT Women's Championship became the first and so far only NXT championship to be selected by a Royal Rumble match winner, subsequently being the first and so far only NXT championship to be defended at a WrestleMania at WrestleMania 36. In September 2022, the NXT UK Women's Championship was unified into the NXT Women's Championship. ...

The Eras Tour is the ongoing sixth headlining concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is Swift's first after she cancelled a planned concert tour in support of her seventh studio album, Lover (2019), due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She described the Eras Tour as a journey through all of her "musical eras" and embarked on it to support all of her albums, including her latest, Midnights (2022), and three that did not have a corresponding tour: Lover, Folklore (2020), and Evermore (2020). It is Swift's second all-stadium tour after the 2018 Reputation Stadium Tour. The U.S. leg commenced on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and is set to end on August 9, 2023, in Inglewood, California. An Eras Tour show lasts for over three hours; the set list consists of 44 songs divided into 10 acts that rely on worldbuilding using specific props, fashion, and aesthetics to each conceptually portray Swift's studio albums and their associated "eras". The tour received unanimous critical acclaim, with emphasis on the concept, production, and Swift's musicianship, vocals, charisma, stamina, and...