Dust storms on Mars are electric MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy Electrified whirlwinds on Mars can produce lightning-like discharges, which could pose a threat to the rovers trundling around on the Red Planet’s surface. Severe weather on Mars can sometimes create dust devils, whirlwinds of Martian soil that spin for a few minutes before vanishing. Dust…
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Getty Images Temperatures in the seas around the UK and Ireland have soared in the past week with some areas now 4C warmer than normal, with potential implications for marine life and people going swimming. The heatwave is most intense off the west coast of Ireland as well as…
It’s been five breakneck years since Apple unveiled Apple silicon during its first virtual WWDC keynote amid a global pandemic. Even without the visceral on-stage moment of CEO Tim Cook emerging from the shadows to unveil a huge helping of Apple platform excitement, this was momentous. As I wrote back then: “One world, one universe,…
The Houston Rockets are trading for Kevin Durant, CBS News has confirmed. The deal will send Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 pick in this week’s draft and five second-round picks to the Phoenix Suns in a blockbuster deal. Durant, entering his 18th NBA season, will now join his fifth NBA team after stints with the…
This year’s Wimbledon tennis championships is set to be the most interactive and exhaustive for sports fans thanks to a major AI upgrade. The iconic tournament, long a mainstay of the British summer, is introducing a range of AI-powered upgrades and services for fans through its Wimbledon.com website and app. This includes an all-new feature…
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Starting breast cancer screening in women’s early 40s will save more lives, a new study argues. Nearly 3 in 4 women (73%) in their 40s find out they have breast cancer only after they’ve developed symptoms, researchers reported May 30 in the journal…
For countries worried that their trade surpluses with America put them in the firing line for tariffs, Donald Trump has a solution: buy American fuel. This month Mr Trump declared that his country’s deficit with the European Union would “disappear easily and quickly” if the bloc did only that. He and his cabinet have pressed…
Israel’s bombing of Iran came so close to the home of Mahin, 80, that a massive explosion filled the air with smoke in her affluent neighbourhood of Tehran. Yet Mahin has remained among the millions of residents of the Iranian capital refusing to evacuate. “Where shall I go? I feel more comfortable at home,” she…
The Federal Reserve should focus on keeping the U.S. currency stable. (Photo by Alfred Gescheidt/Getty Images) Getty Images The Federal Reserve needs to be hit with the intellectual version of a B-2 bomber or a DOGE-like intervention. Our central bank is behaving badly. It won’t reduce interest rates, in no small part because it’s angry…
Topline Lawyers representing R. Kelly, the disgraced R&B singer serving decades in prison for racketeering and child sex crimes, have made multiple allegations in recent days that prison staff are attempting to kill him, which prosecutors slammed as “fanciful” and “deeply unserious,” as the singer pleads President Donald Trump for a pardon. Singer R. Kelly’s…
