In a comical turn of events, the U.S. figure skating team took to the diamond at Citi Field, but their first pitch attempts fell far short of the mark. Members of the team, including some from the gold medal-winning squad at the 2026 Winter Olympics, were on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch…
In a game where pitching prowess often takes center stage, Max Fried is making a compelling case for his standing among the Yankees’ elite pitchers, particularly for his exceptional pickoff skills. During Monday’s 4-2 victory against the Rangers, Fried showcased his talents by picking off Josh Jung in the fourth inning with a masterful delayed…
Irene Velez Torres and Stientje van Veldhoven, ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands, embrace at the end of the conference in Santa Marta, Colombia Ivan Valencia/Associated Press/Alamy When almost every country met in Brazil last November for the annual United Nations climate summit COP30, hopes were high they would draft a roadmap for the “transition…
A robot child goes missing in Silvia Park’s Luminous, the May read for the New Scientist Book Club d3sign/Getty Images In 2024, a joke became a headline: “Dog strollers outsell baby strollers in country with world’s lowest birth rate”. As our love for pets grows ever refined and luxurious, our ability to have children feels…
Seoul – the setting for Silvia Park’s Luminous – at night Sean Pavone/Shutterstock That summer was immortal. July was especially savage with sixty-two heat deaths in Seoul, punctuated by the spectacular fizzing breakdown of a GS-100 security android when it crumpled knees-first outside a United Korea Bank. A cleaner broomed away the remains. The head…
The Minnesota Wild made history on Thursday evening, breaking an eight-year playoff drought by advancing past the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2015. The Wild’s 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 6 was highlighted by standout performances from Quinn Hughes and Vladimir Tarasenko, both of whom…
The Edmonton Oilers faced a disappointing end to their season, bowing out in the first round of the playoffs against the Anaheim Ducks, a team that had just emerged from a seven-year postseason drought. After consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Final—including a heartbreaking Game 7 loss in 2024—the Oilers’ fall from grace was stark…
A view of Uranus from the Hubble Space Telescope NASA and Erich Karkoschka, U. of Arizona The rings that encircle Uranus may look similar in images, but their compositions are surprisingly different. Understanding the rings could help us unravel the many mysteries of this strange, dynamic system. The outer rings of Uranus – the mu…
A so-called pilot wave is key to David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics Courtesy of Daniel Harris and John Bush, MIT Sometime in the 1940s, US physicist David Bohm decided that the only way to understand quantum mechanics was to write a book about it. He wanted it to offer the reader something they could…
Chia is a cryptocurrency that relies on empty hard disk space Andrey Zhuravlev/Alamy A cryptocurrency marketed as a green alternative to bitcoin is actually consuming 18 times more energy than its makers originally claimed. Even management at the Chia Network admits the figures are “not wildly off”. Bitcoin requires miners to do vast amounts of…