Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It feels increasingly difficult to go a day without hearing about yet another outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease. In 2024 pertussis, also known as whooping cough, suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Last year the nation recorded the most measles cases since…
Block today unveiled Managerbot, a new AI agent embedded in the Square platform that proactively monitors a seller’s business, identifies emerging problems, and proposes actionable solutions — without the seller ever having to ask a question. The product marks the most tangible manifestation of CEO Jack Dorsey’s controversial bet that artificial intelligence can fundamentally reshape…
The Sheffield DocFest has announced the first part of its 2026 lineup. The festival runs from June 10 to 15. Maxine Peake will serve as the festival’s 2026 Guest of Honour, and she will travel to the festival for an in conversation session with filmmaker Paul Sng (Tish) about how working-class voices are represented in…
Some wells can be turned on in days or weeks, but bringing the Gulf’s energy system back to something akin to normal will take months.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contradicted an earlier statement from Pakistan that said the deal included Lebanon, where Israel is at war with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
It has been a bad week for baseball’s oldest players. First Verlander and Scherzer went down, and now Carlos Santana has joined them on the IL. Carlos has played approximately 30 seasons, and I’m pretty sure this is only his 2nd or 3rd time on the IL. Hopefully he’ll be back in less than two…
Here are more photos of Peter Phillips and his fiancee Harriet Sperling on Easter Sunday. Given how many royals and royal-adjacents skipped out, Peter and Harriet got some of the Easter spotlight. Just days earlier, they finally set the date for their wedding as well – they will marry on June 6th in the Cotswolds….
Markets reacted positively after the United States and Iran reached a last-minute cease-fire agreement.
President Trump, in vowing to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure and annihilate Iran’s entire civilization, appears to be creating evidence about his intentions.
Right now all eyes are on Artemis II, NASA’s historic mission that just sent astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. But, as detailed by NASA administrator Jared Isaacman at the space agency’s recent “Ignition” event in Washington, D.C., Artemis II is only the beginning of a larger U.S….
