Astrophysicists have gained precious new insights into how distant “exoplanets” form and what their atmospheres can look like, after using the James Webb Telescope to image two young exoplanets in extraordinary detail. Among the headline findings were the presence of silicate clouds in one of the planet’s atmospheres, and a circumplanetary disk thought to feed…
Getty Images Baltimore Orioles minor leaguer Luis Guevara, 19, died this week after he was involved in a jet ski crash, the organization confirmed Tuesday night. Guevara was part of a head-on collision on a jet ski in Sarasota, Florida, on Sunday, per MLB.com. Guevara, a native of Venezuela, was most recently playing for the…
As a dabbler in the digital arts, I rely on a decent drawing tablet. A mouse and poorly calibrated laptop screen really is no substitute for the accurate color and precision illustration a tablet can offer. Having tested a broad chunk of mid-range drawing tablets in recent months, there’s been one that’s impressed me more…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. BYD has launched its cheapest and smallest electric vehicle in the UK, as it takes Chinese carmakers’ battle to win on price in Europe into the compact car segment. The Dolphin Surf, with a starting…
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disc of gas and dust around its star. These insights stem from the detection of multiple key molecules: water vapour, carbon monoxide, silicon monoxide, and methane. With these…
One honourable exception to the roster of tech billionaires standing behind Donald Trump at the president’s inauguration on January 20th was Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia. He took a quieter approach, instead meeting Mr Trump at the White House just over ten days later. Earlier that week his company, the dominant supplier of…
This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high scores on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), a test given to the top 5% of US high school math students. At the same time, a…
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been arrested by ICE and is facing deportation on charges of being in the U.S. illegally as a fugitive from justice in Mexico, where officials say he has an active arrest warrant for his involvement in organized crime as an…
Jun 19, 2025, 05:01 PM ET Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the expanded Club World Cup on Thursday with a patented free kick, giving Inter Miami a historic 2-1 win over two-time European champion FC Porto on Thursday. Messi, one of the biggest stars in the 32-team tournament, was taken down just outside…
Could you run for 100 hours this year? How about just doing a little more than 15 minutes each day? In fact, these goals are essentially equivalent, but one certainly sounds more ambitious than the other. The correct framing, then, is important when setting a goal. Take averting a sixth mass extinction. It definitely sounds…
