Ray Jayawardhana begins his tenure today as the 10th president of the California Institute of Technology. His selection as Caltech’s president, and as the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of astronomy, was announced Jan. 6. Jayawardhana succeeds Thomas Rosenbaum, who had served as Caltech’s president since 2014.…
Trump account’s well-timed stock buys… including a stake in Taser firm now poised to arm ICE
Donald Trump’s brokerage accounts made a string of well-timed stock purchases in his first year back in the White House, including a stake in the Taser maker now in line to arm his ICE deportation force, financial disclosures show. The President bought into some of the most familiar names on…
Stabbing pain sent her to the doctor. The underlying cause is getting more common everywhere. » Yale Climate Connections
by Sanket Jain, Yale Climate Connections July 1, 2026 Sharp abdominal pain stabbed at Suvarna Dange after she spent a long day in April 2026 working the sugarcane fields in India in extreme heat over 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 F). Four hours later, the pain was unbearable, and the 50-year-old…
Trump takes maiden flight on Qatar’s gold-trimmed jet as fury grows over ‘gift’ with security risks and strings attached
President Donald Trump boarded his very first flight on the self-dubbed ‘world’s most luxurious plane’ this morning, departing for North Dakota to attend an America 250 celebration. Delivering his classic fist bump at the top of a personal red carpet, Trump dashed into the $400 million Qatari-gifted aircraft after fielding…
NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way
For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples in space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star. “When TESS launched, no one expected…
Why this 98-qubit quantum computer is a big deal
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields and cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero. Each atom is far smaller than anything the naked eye could ever see, yet each carries information in a form that has no counterpart…
Drugs, shootouts and trips to M&S: Forget the Costa del Sol – how the NETHERLANDS became the new playground for British gangsters
Knife in hand, Paul Parker bursts into a garage and is confronted by two men. He stabs them, but one manages to draw a gun and shoot him, inflicting a fatal wound. The 52-year-old’s death last month was sudden and violent. Given he was a veteran of Liverpool’s vicious gang…
BrewDog CEO steps down three months after £33million takeover by US cannabis giant
By JAKE HOLDEN, UK NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:47 BST, 1 July 2026 | Updated: 14:01 BST, 1 July 2026 The CEO of the beer giant BrewDog has stepped down just three months after the company folded and was bought by the US cannabis giant Tilray Brands for £33million. James Taylor was…
New NASA space telescope images reveal the universe in stunning red, white and blue for America 250
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue to coincide with the United States’ 250th anniversary on July 4. The four images reveal superheated gas in a distant galaxy cluster, the swirling spiral galaxy known as Messier 94, a glowing…
The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026
Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf – which fans can revisit in a new novel out this month Nobby Clark/Popperfoto via Getty Images I am on holiday later this month, so I’m pleased to find there’s a really wide range of intriguing new science fiction to take with…