NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 25: The Aflac Duck rings the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on … More February 25, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) Getty Images When you hear the name Aflac, you, probably like me, hear the quacking duck from their commercials. Unfortunately, however the…
Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds. The findings appear in the June 19 issue of the journal Science. “It was just remarkable, with this evolutionary distance, that…
Car dashboards have an array of indicators that illuminate to warn of trouble. If the boardrooms of Europe’s carmakers had similar systems they would be lit up like a Christmas market. Volkswagen (VW), the largest of the lot by sales, is bracing for strikes beginning on December 1st in response to its plan to close…
Jun 20, 2025, 07:09 PM ET San Diego Padres closer Robert Suarez was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount Friday for intentionally hitting Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers with a pitch during the National League West rivals’ contentious meeting Thursday night. Suarez will appeal the suspension, keeping him eligible to…
I’ve been hoping for a long while that bad performing PC ports would become a thing of the past, but over the last few years, that hasn’t panned out. The biggest examples of recent games are Rise of the Ronin (which I’ve covered previously), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Monster Hunter Wilds, which all suffer…
Colorado State University researchers have published a paper in Science that describes a new and more efficient light-based process for transforming fossil fuels into useful modern chemicals. In it, they report that their organic photoredox catalysis system is effective even at room temperatures. That advantage could lower energy demands around chemical manufacturing in a variety…
This illustration photo taken on February 6, 2023 shows a phone screen displaying a story about scam … More ads promoting fake tax breaks for solar in front of a screen showing some of the Facebook archived fake ads luring people into the scam. – AFPs fact checkers have recently uncovered a slew of energy-related…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump spent his 22nd week back in the Oval Office participating in the G-7 Summit, while handling the conflict in the Middle East, after Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran after months of attempted and stalled nuclear negotiations amid renewed concern that Iran was advancing…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has freed jailed opposition leader Sergei Tsikhanouski and more than a dozen other political prisoners and journalists in a surprise move brokered by Doland Trump’s special envoy. The decision to free…
Even Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso couldn’t believe it. After watching Florian Wirtz dance through a crowd of SC Freiburg defenders in October 2023 to give his side a precious lead on their way to the Bundesliga title, the former Spain international simply raised his eyebrows on the touchline. It was a quiet acknowledgment of…
