I’m not someone who cries when I watch a highly emotive movie or TV series. Sure, I get teary-eyed but, in the vast majority of cases, I never find myself reaching for a box of tissues to stem the flow of tears cascading down my face after a particularly devastating scene or sequence. So far…
We have confirmation that a strange plant is orbiting between two stars Aaron Alien/Shutterstock After years of observation, researchers finally understand how a pair of stars can maintain a stable orbital dance with an elusive planet. In 2004, David Ramm at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand spotted a mysterious repeating signal while observing…
Brady HendersonJun 19, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation and covers the Seattle Seahawks for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2017 after covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM. RENTON, Wash. — One month before he stepped onto the practice field for the first time as a member…
Alice Figueiredo’s family have said it would “astound” people if they saw how families could be treated by hospital trusts in the wake of a loved one’s death. It comes after the North East London Foundation NHS Trust and a ward manager were found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of the…
Vanessa Clarke Education reporter Getty Images Play experts want to ban “no ball games” signs and protect playtime during school breaks, to reduce the time children spend on screens. They are being forced “indoors on to digital devices”, according to the Raising the Nation Play Commission, whose year-long inquiry calls for an end to “anti-play…
Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social media Tada Images/Shutterstock The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well. “It is nearly – if not…
Although Iowa State fell short in the Big 12 Championship Game for the second time in five years, coach Matt Campbell still guided the Cyclones to a historic milestone in 2024 with the program’s first-ever double-digit win season. After several key contributors departed from that team, Iowa State faces a critical challenge — reloading for…
An illustration shows how the WindRunner aircraft will be able to carry smaller planes as cargo Windrunner / Radia The US military is exploring uses for a proposed aircraft that will be the largest plane ever built – even though the flyer is primarily designed to carry giant wind turbine blades. The WindRunner, currently under…
Are machines about to become smarter than humans? Chan2545/iStockphoto/Getty Images If you take the leaders of artificial intelligence companies at their word, their products mean that the coming decade will be quite unlike any in human history: a golden era of “radical abundance”, where high-energy physics is “solved” and we see the beginning of space…
