23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin believes Corey Heim is one of NASCAR’s latest generational talents, and who’s to blame him?Heim, the defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion, has 25 Truck Series wins in only 93 starts, making for an absurd win percentage of 26.9 percent. The 23-year-old from Marietta, Ga., was announced as 23XI’s third full-time Cup Series driver for 2027 on Saturday, replacing Riley Herbst. “Generational drivers only come by every now and then,” Hamlin said Saturday. “I firmly believe we have one here. Really excited about what he’s going to bring our team and the performance that he’s going…
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This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I love new gadgets and gizmos, and I’m constantly trying new sites and apps. So I was intrigued by the title of Eric Athas’s upcoming book, Saying No to New. Athas is an editor at The New York Times, where he helps journalists make the most of new tools. He’s also a lifelong early adopter. He told me he used to wait in line for new iPhones. But his upcoming book argues for thinking twice about acquiring new stuff.…
Update: On May 28 the NSF’s OAM removed from its database the note “Future Awards to Organization on Hold” for Duke, Harvard and Yale. And a few grants for researchers at Harvard and Duke have been released, according to agency staff members who spoke to Nature.The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants to a group of elite universities, Nature has learnt.Internal agency documents obtained by Nature’s news team reveal that on 9 April, the NSF’s Office of Award Management (OAM), which finalizes grants and handles…
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn’t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic.To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wednesday night, his wife, Sally, would make a big pot of spaghetti, and the group would tinker with components…
Drama has already hit the “Love Island” villa—and the first episode hasn’t even aired yet! According to multiple outlets, Vasana Montgomery, a planned OG, has been booted from the series before the premiere. Montgomery’s removal from the program comes after two videos of her appearing to say the N-word in them resurfaced. It’s not the first time “Love Island” has punished a cast member over something like this. Last year, two cast members were removed from the show for similar reasons. Montgomery, 25, was announced as one of the main women to enter the “Love Island” villa for season 8.…
Recalling a “frank and fruitful discussion” with Chinese counterpart Dong Jun last year at the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus talks in Kuala Lumpur, Koizumi reiterated that Japan believes it is essential to have “persistent, candid dialogue and communication” without turning away from difficult issues.Koizumi added that the Japanese defence ministry would continue to use “every available opportunity to communicate firmly with the Chinese side”.“Please give my best regards to my counterpart Dong Jun,” he said, addressing Chinese delegates in the audience.At the summit a day earlier, Major General Meng criticised Japan’s efforts to revise its “pacifist constitution” and the…
Palestinian journalist Muhannad Qishta yearns to visit the graves of his sisters – Reem and Walaa – in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, but there is a problem: they no longer exist on a map.The Sheikh Mohammed cemetery in the Maan area of Khan Younis has been wiped from the map, and replaced by the tents and armoured vehicles of an Israeli military outpost, according to recently updated satellite imagery added to Google Earth.“Even the dead have not been spared from this war,” Qishta told Al Jazeera. “How will I feel if I go and find the place a desert,…
A young San Antonio Spurs fan reportedly suffered a catastrophic injury while celebrating the team’s win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals on Thursday night.A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized on Thursday night after he fell from a vehicle and hit his head during a celebration after the Spurs beat the Thunder 118-91 to extend the Western Conference Finals to a seventh game. Police in San Antonio said Friday that the boy was taken to the emergency room and in critical condition.Unfortunately, the fan is not expected to survive. The San Antonio Express-News reported…
If it ever gets built, the 7.5-gigawatt Stratos data center project in Utah would dwarf the artificial intelligence infrastructure that’s been built to date. Covering 10,000 acres of cattle-grazing land north of the Great Salt Lake, it would arguably be the largest data center in the world. That has many people in Utah concerned. The developer behind the project is Kevin O’Leary, the real estate investor familiar to many as a star of the ABC television show Shark Tank (and also the villain in the 2025 movie Marty Supreme). He says the increasingly competitive race for AI dominance among hyperscaler…
Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot explain, such as the existence of dark matter.But observations continue to confirm the model’s accuracy with ever greater precision. Even measurements that seemed to break the mould, such as a discrepancy in the mass of a particle called the W boson, have evaporated under further investigation.Now, an analysis from an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, suggests that evidence…