If the approximately 3.7 million EU citizens currently living freely in the UK want to remain after Brexit, they will face a series of bureaucratic hurdles as they apply for “settled status.”
Some underwater snapping sounds are obvious—the jaws of a shark, the movements of a pistol shrimp, maybe even a parrotfish having a snack. Now scientists are adding a more surprising culprit to the list: plants. Incredibly, photosynthesis seems to have a snap all of its own.
FGV Holdings Berhad isn’t having a great week.
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, pled guilty today to yet another criminal charge: lying about Trump’s business dealings in Russia. The charges were issued by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
Unemployment is the lowest it’s been in 50 years, at a national average of 3.7%, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Hawaii, it’s even lower: 2.3%. More incredibly, that’s actually an increase on the state’s April and May low of 2%.
As our access to knowledge has expanded, so have our outlandish predictions for how we will learn in the future. Few educational experts would have scored an A+ when it came to their starry-eyed prophecies about the classrooms of tomorrow: We still haven’t worked out how to beam books into our brains, but at least electrical-stimulation therapy hasn’t become commonplace in classrooms.
Ladies, if he never calls you back, stands six-foot-four, weighs over 3,000 pounds, and answers to Knickers, he’s not your man—he’s one of Australia’s largest castrated bulls.
She’s the daughter, advisor, and representative to a US president who wants to place a 10% tariff on iPhones. He’s the CEO of Apple. Rarely do Ivanka Trump and Tim Cook run in the same circles, but on Tuesday (Nov. 27) both found themselves in Wilder, Idaho.
Once upon a time, about 36,000 years ago, colossal unicorns frolicked across the Siberian plains. They were huge—3.5 metric tons apiece—with a single horn protruding majestically from between their ears. They were also exceptionally ugly. Forget Lisa Frank pictures or Starbucks’ unicorn-themed Frappuccinos; Elasmotherium sibiricum, or the Siberian unicorn, as it’s sometimes called, looked much like today’s living rhinos, but larger, shaggier, and with a decidedly larger horn.
You’ve grown weary of the physical page, yet you love reading as much as you ever did. This year may be the one you finally get an e-reader.
When more than 140 pilot whales beached themselves on the coast of New Zealand’s Stewart Island over the weekend, conservation workers came as quickly as they could—but much less quickly than they needed to.
Sometime around 1650, the Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, now known mononymously, was at work on a sketch of a young man. His sloe-eyed model adopted a clasped-handed pose, while Rembrandt worked quickly in burnt umber and vermillion paint. He applied layer after layer, piling on more pigment even before the underlay was dry.
There was a time in the US before the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade—a time before festive football and falling asleep on the sofa to the soothing sounds of the dishwasher or Charlie Brown.
It’s being called the jar wars.
The West Bank is a territory roughly the size of Delaware that stretches between Israel and Jordan. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, it has been occupied by Israel; in the decades since, around 500,000 Israelis have moved in, many of them in settlements widely considered to be illegal under international law. (Close to 3 million Palestinians also call the area home.)
Some of the world’s most restricted women have found a subtle way to speak out about yet another limitation in their lives: not having the right to choose their clothing.
Philosopher Peter Singer has no time for the strange, deeply American tradition of a presidential turkey pardon.
As of today (Nov. 16), the kilogram is dead. The International Prototype “king” Kilogram, held in sanctitude in Paris, has been stripped of its title; a new system for deciding the weight of a kilogram, based on electric current, now takes its crown.
It may have been the seductive call of museum-grade air conditioning. It may, as the museum’s curator suggests, have been a glimpse through the windows of friendly-looking black cats in a photo exhibition. It may simply have been feline curiosity.
Who killed journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi? The Saudi public prosecutor indicates he’s got a pretty good idea.
In a letter dated more than 10 years before the Nazis came to power, Nobel prize–winning physicist Albert Einstein warned his sister Maja of grave dangers ahead. That letter has now sold for $39,350 at an auction in Jerusalem, almost doubling the house’s estimate of $20,000.
Canopy Growth Corporation, the Canadian-based marijuana producer that is one of the world’s largest, was expected to have had a bounteous quarter. Instead, as investors learned today (Nov. 14), second-quarter revenue was lower than the previous quarter, with the biggest loss in the company’s history. The share price tumbled in response, closing down more than 10 percent at $34.30.
It’s 585 pages of legalese—and an awful lot of it is still to be determined. Yet now, after nearly 20 months of negotiating and renegotiating, hand-wringing and back-stabbing, plotting and scheming, UK prime minister Theresa May and the EU have finally reached a draft agreement about how Brexit could roll out.
The 1929 Edward Hopper painting Chop Suey sold for a record-breaking, drink-spitting, eyebrow-yanking $92 million at auction last night (Nov. 13) at Christie’s. It’s more than double his previous high ($40.5 million for East Wind Over Weehawken in 2013) and far beyond the expectations of many gallerists ahead of the auction.
