Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning drive to the family farm a few miles south in Auburn, Massachusetts. Along for the ride, the couple brought two work colleagues — and “Nell.” They may not have known…
Scott McTominay launches £2m High Court claim against ‘Ponzi scheme’ firm run by his fiancée’s father after it collapsed leaving him and celebrity investors millions out of pocket
Scotland football star Scott McTominay has launched a £2million High Court claim against a collapsed firm that was run by his WAG fiancée’s father. The Napoli and former Manchester United midfielder’s company SM Fortress is pursuing action against collapsed investment business Fortress Capital Partners over a loan to buy a property in…
More than 2,000 tiny dams are turning a Mexican ranch green » Yale Climate Connections
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series about climate-related water vulnerability in Mexico. Read the first story. On a January afternoon, one patch of foothills above San Bartolo in Baja California Sur looks extra lush. Butterflies flit through rays of sunshine. Green grass unfurls between a farmhouse…
Coin used to pay bus fare in Leeds was made by ancient civilisation more than 2,000 years ago
By JOE ROSSITER, REPORTER Published: 10:58 GMT, 9 March 2026 | Updated: 11:44 GMT, 9 March 2026 A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was made more than 2,000 years ago, researchers have found. James Edwards, chief cashier for Leeds Transport Company in the 1950s, put…
A clever math shortcut could reveal your problem-solving superpower
What is 29 + 14? Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is the same as 30 + 13, a much…
Now Saudi cuts oil production as Brits ‘face highest EVER petrol pump prices’… but Trump says spiralling energy bills are ‘small price to pay’ for taming Iran
Saudi Arabia is set to cut oil production amid fears the Middle East crisis will leave Brits facing the highest ever pump prices. The Kingdom – the biggest supplier in the region – is said to be curbing output at two major oilfields, although the extent of the reductions are…
A sacred Minnesota food is in decline » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Every year, Leanna Goose canoes into the shallow bays near her Minnesota home to harvest wild rice – or manoomin, as the region’s Indigenous Anishinaabe people call it. Goose: “It’s something that we have been doing for generations, and … it’s really central to who we are as Anishinaabe…
Iran’s new Supreme Leader ‘is wounded’: Ayatollah Khamenei’s son sustained mystery injury, claims state TV
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son has been wounded in the Iran war, it emerged today after he was named as the country’s new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba, 56, the second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was announced as his successor on Sunday after being appointed by the regime’s 88-person assembly – despite…
Congress wants the International Space Station to keep flying until 2032. Here’s why
The International Space Station could keep flying a bit longer than we thought. The orbiting lab, which has hosted rotating astronaut crews continuously since November 2000, is currently slated to be deorbited in late 2030. However, a newly advanced NASA Authorization bill pushes that retirement back by two years, to…
Stop wasting money on ‘failed’ consumption rooms and send addicts to rehab, SNP is told
Millions of pounds of funding for drug consumption rooms should be diverted to an expansion in the number of rehab and recovery places, according to the Scottish Conservatives. The party’s leader Russell Findlay will today (MON) launch a new policy paper which urges the SNP Government to change their approach…