The vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites, with both male and female reproductive parts. Oaks, some orchids, the potted spider plant in your office — they’re all capable of reproducing without a member of another sex nearby. “It makes sense if you are an organism that can’t run around and find mates,” said Deborah Charlesworth, […]
Borussia Dortmund slumped to a 2-1 defeat to visitors VfB Stuttgart on Saturday in a disappointing debut for new coach Niko Kovac that dropped his team further away from the Champions League qualification spots. Kovac took over last week after Dortmund, who face Sporting in a Champions League playoff next week, sacked coach Nuri Sahin […]
We’ve got a whirlwind of news out of Washington — the carried interest tax exemption in the cross hairs, the latest on DOGE and an update on settlement talks between CBS and President Trump — but you should also pay attention to this news out of Washington State. Amazon said it planned to spend $100 […]
The Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it would soon cut more than 40 employees — between 10 and 13 percent of its work force — to alleviate the pressures of a financial deficit that is projected to reach $10 million by the end of its fiscal year in June. Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, said […]
Media lawyers scoffed last year when President Trump sued two news organizations for producing journalism that, he claimed, violated laws meant to protect consumers from things like deceptive advertising. They’re not laughing anymore. First Amendment experts still believe that Mr. Trump’s cases, against CBS News and The Des Moines Register, lack legal merit. But they […]
Emma Lynch/BBC Braving the 3.9C water on a winter morning at the west reservoir in London It is a cold morning in the depths of winter. And I feel like I’ve left my sanity as well as my warm clothes in the changing room as I stride out to the edge of a reservoir in […]
At a time when the documentary film business is atrophying, one of the world’s leading documentarians, Alex Gibney, has taken on a powerful partner: Wendy Schmidt, a billionaire philanthropist by way of Google. “We’ve been managing to make films on important social issues for a long time, but finding and getting those stories to audiences […]
Super-featherweight boxer John Cooney, 28, has died after his defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast last Saturday. The Irish boxer suffered an intracranial haemorrhage and had surgery to relieve pressure on his brain following the bout at the Ulster Hall. Galway man Cooney was assessed by the medical team in the ring before being […]
It began with a viral photo. There was Patrick Mahomes, standing victorious in a locker room, his arm raised in triumph, his torso shirtless, his gut exposed and … kind of flabby? Maybe it was the lighting. Or a bad angle. Mahomes blamed that. Still, the evidence seemed undeniable: Here was one of the greatest […]
The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, started working again on Saturday night after a 24-hour outage that left customers frustrated. “All services are up and running,” PlayStation announced on its website around 7 p.m. on Saturday. The problems, which prevented many […]