KeyGene’s new potato variety (centre) has the skin of Pimpernel (left) and the flesh of Bintje (right) Courtesy of KeyGene A new technique for creating fruit and vegetables with the skin of one variety and the flesh of another could make crops more resistant to pests and droughts. A lot of the fruit and vegetables…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In recent years, June Fridays have often been viewed by financiers as a good moment to work from home. Not now. As news spread about the Israeli air strikes on Iran, traders across Wall Street…
Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boom Chris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – and it faces a growing threat from artificial intelligence developers. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen…
Jun 13, 2025, 06:00 AM ET The reign of the Birmingham Stallions is over, and the UFL will crown a new champion on Saturday (8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN+) at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. The Stallions, who had won three consecutive spring football league titles (two in the USFL and the first…
A female bonobo at Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as the hallmark of our…
In the late 1940s, as the industrial capacity of Europe and Japan lay in tatters, America accounted for over half of global manufacturing output, with much of the world heavily reliant on its wares. Last year it accounted for little over a tenth, and imported $1.2trn more in merchandise than it exported—to the displeasure of…
Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it’s home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is…
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill showed up with little fanfare at a track meet in California on Friday and won the 100-meter dash with an impressive time of 10.15 seconds. That’s an incredibly fast race considering that Hill is 31 years old and hadn’t run track competitively since college, and shows that if Hill had…
Saturn now has a total of 274 moons NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A further 128 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet’s total to 274 – more than there are around all the other planets in our solar system combined. But as advances in telescope technology allow us to spot progressively smaller planetary objects,…
In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech champions worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to his inauguration. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, gushed that it was nice to have an administration that was “proud” of America’s tech…
