Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their…
A missing Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, a co-director and the star of the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” turned up on Friday after it failed to arrive with passengers’ checked luggage aboard a Lufthansa flight from New York to Frankfurt a day earlier, the airline said. Mr. Talankin, whose film won the Academy…
Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, is looking for his Oscar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The trophy has been lost after the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at New York’s JFK airport confiscated his award. In a social media post, Talankin’s co-director David Borenstein made a plea to help…
Over the last century, scientists have mapped several of the body’s sensory systems in microscopic detail, discovering that the cells that process sight, sound and touch are arranged in predictable spatial patterns. It has been much harder to navigate the complex landscape of the nose, with its enormous array of scent receptors. For years, many…
A few weeks ago, I set out to understand the breadth of scientific research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency’s nearly defunct Office of Research and Development. For more than a half-century, this prestigious scientific arm of the federal government did groundbreaking work aimed at saving American lives. About 125 scientists had recently been told…
Apr 25, 2026, 11:15 PM ET Even a 17-1 win couldn’t save Alex Cora and his coaching staff. Despite a rout of Baltimore earlier in the day, the 10-17 Boston Red Sox fired their longtime manager on Saturday, along with hitting coach Peter Fatse, third-base coach Kyle Hudson, bench coach Ramon Vazquez, assistant hitting coach…
A remarkably preserved fossil from Argentina is helping scientists sharpen the picture of how snakes evolved. The specimen belongs to Najash rionegrina, an ancient rear-limbed snake that lived nearly 100 million years ago. Its skull shows that these early snakes still had a cheekbone, also called the jugal bone, a feature that has almost completely…
A good leader never asks their people to do something they wouldn’t do themselves. Hold others to the highest standards, by all means, but only if you have equally high expectations of yourself: otherwise you may command obedience in politics but never respect, and over time even that grudging compliance may come laced with contempt….
Of all the world’s tribes, the B’nei Menashe are as lost as they come. A few thousand can be found in a far corner of India, at the kibbutz of Ma’oz Tzur, where a subtropical breeze blew past the mezuza at Shimon Ngamthenlal’s door recently. He shuffled about his bamboo hut, tending to a collection…
There’s something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture. Founded in 1990 in Bedford, Massachusetts by MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks and his former students Colin Angle and Helen Greiner, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, ending a 35-year run that took…
