Logging laps at the hometown speedway could hardly be confused with a traditional classroom environment, but that doesn’t mean Jacob Mercer isn’t learning something every time he gets behind the wheel of his No. 81 Late Model racecar at Peterborough Speedway. Saturday, June 15th, the 18-year-old 3rd generation racer from Port Hope, Ontario went […]
Building reactors, especially plants using new technologies, comes with high costs and high risk, according to Briana Kobor, head of energy market innovation at Alphabet Inc.'s Google
US reporter's espionage trial in Russia to be held behind closed doors
After a months-long lapse, the food distributions at the Lansingburgh Boys and Girls Club are back.
HONG KONG - More government cash will be pumped into Hong Kong's film industry to help it break into international markets and promote the city's culture overseas, the finance chief has said.
More Americans may think President Joe Biden tried to sit on a nonexistent chair the other day than know the boring truth that there was, in fact, a chair.
Thanks to savvy millennials, Wells Fargo's partnership with Bilt Rewards — a renter-friendly credit card program — could be costing the bank millions.
The Electricity Authority’s low-key release of the big four electricity generator-retailers’ self-disclosed pricing data is a reminder that urgent action is needed to ensure competitive electricity markets for households and businesses, Octopus Energy Chief ...
Maryland's Katie Ledecky won her second race at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, and her best two events are still to come.
Residential developer Frasers Property Home (Thailand) (FPH) is focusing on high-priced segments for new launches and will adjust product prices at existing projects to cope with the market slowdown.
Gautam Gambhir is the sole candidate who would be interviewed for the job, which in other terms means that he is almost a certainty.
Marcus Chown, Science Focus
Our view of reality is severely limited. The reason for this is simple: we evolved on an African plain three million years ago. And so we have the senses...
Mark Johnson, Washington Post
Tiffany King had given birth to her daughter, Fern, a little more than a month earlier and was back at her job as a construction manager when the phone rang....
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam, Aeon
What has intelligence? Slime moulds, ants, fifth-graders, shrimp, neurons, ChatGPT, fish shoals, border collies, crowds, birds, you and me? All of the...
Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine
We learn in grade school that water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, but that's seldom true. In clouds, scientists have found supercooled water droplets as...
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, BT
On June 1, China's Chang'e-6 lander touched down in the South Pole-Atkin Basin — the largest, deepest, and...
Uku Tooming, iai
Drugs like Ozempic can target and erase our desire for food - and perhaps other cravings too. This pathologises desire as something that exists outside of us, to which we...
Andrew Beaton, WSJ
Before the final round of the U.S. Open, Bryson DeChambeau detailed one of his more peculiar habits: He dunks his golf balls in saltwater to test...
Jason Urbanus, Archaeology
Archaeologists didn't know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old Assyrian sculpture that had last been seen decades...
Two people died and 14 others were injured in the incident, sparked by a fight between two groups at the event at Old Settlers Park on Saturday night, Round Rock police said. Police are still searching for the shooting suspect.
The NSW Treasurer has unveiled the 2024 State Budget.
Manchester City are reportedly refusing to budge on their £25m asking price for defender Joao Cancelo, who is hoping to return to Barcelona this summer.