Amazing Sports
Foie Gras That Skips the Force-Feeding Is Developed by Physicists
Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras for a quarter century. The luxurious delicacy is a pâté or mousse made from the rich, fattened livers of ducks or geese. “It’s something really extraordinary,” Dr. Vilgis said, recalling his early encounters […]
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White House Says Russia and Ukraine Agree to Stop Fighting in Black Sea
The White House said Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to cease fighting in the Black Sea and to hash out the details for halting strikes on energy facilities. It would be the first significant step toward the full cease-fire the Trump Administration had been pushing, but it still would fall short of that […]
Gaza’s Return to War – The New York Times
Last week, the Israeli Air Force restarted intense strikes on the Gaza Strip, ending a two-month cease-fire that some had hoped would evolve into a more stable truce. Israeli troops have slowly begun to recapture ground just inside Gaza’s borders. In today’s newsletter, I’ll explain how the cease-fire collapsed and what might happen next. Why […]
Online Harm Groups Pose ‘Unprecedented Risk’ to Teens, Says U.K. Crime Agency
Britain’s National Crime Agency has warned of an “unprecedented risk” to young people from online groups that encourage teenagers to share sadistic and misogynistic material and to coerce others into sexual abuse, self-harm or violence. The agency, which is responsible for combating serious and organized crime in Britain, said Tuesday in an annual assessment of […]
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Health
Why didn’t Arsenal or Man Utd sign a forward? Have Spurs done enough? Key transfer window questions answered
The transfer window might have closed on Monday night, but the question marks remain. As you sit here on Tuesday morning, you might be left wondering about the business your team did — or in a lot of cases, didn’t do. Why have they not brought in that extra player? Why did they let one […]
Luka Dončić, Kareem, Shaq and others: Ranking the NBA’s all-time greatest trades
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline. The Los Angeles Lakers have been involved in some of the biggest trades in NBA history, but Saturday night’s deal might be the biggest of all time. Yes, there’s recency bias, and there’s no way of knowing how the deal will pan out. But […]
How Tom Brady became the Super Bowl’s $375 million star
The winter of 2022 was the greatest frenzy of sports broadcasting talent in history, with hundreds of millions doled out for NFL commentators. ESPN poached Fox’s top team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, for a combined total of $165 million. Newcomer to the NFL, Amazon Prime Video signed Al Michaels — who had been discarded […]
New Technology
Trump to Nominate Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.
President Trump has selected Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency permanently. The president withdrew his first nominee, Dr. Dave Weldon, just hours before his confirmation hearing. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Monarez, an infectious-disease researcher, will be the first nonphysician to lead the […]
FDA-Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Stirs Concerns
When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study to see if its lab-grown blood vessel worked, it decided to measure whether blood was flowing freely through the high-tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person. As those days passed, some of the 54 patients in the study ran into trouble. Doctors lost […]
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health was preparing to give an invited talk at a scientific meeting when an urgent call came in from an administrative assistant. There is a total communications ban, the scientist was told, and you cannot give the speech. As […]
Dementia May Not Always Be the Threat It Is Now. Here’s Why.
Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too. “I’m 100 percent convinced that this is in my future,” said Ms. Presky, 70, a retired attorney in Thornton, Colo. Last year, she spent almost a full […]
Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say
As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country’s hard-fought victory over the virus, according to Texas health officials. As of Friday, the outbreak had sickened more than 300 people in Texas since January; 40 have been hospitalized. One child has […]