Alden GonzalezApr 25, 2026, 02:56 AM ET CloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Multiple Authors LOS ANGELES — The characters keep changing, the injuries keep mounting and yet, for the 2026 Chicago Cubs, the outcomes don’t change. On…
One of my favourite pieces of scientific equipment is something called a retrospectroscope. I admit that it only exists in my imagination, but it has turned out to be a very useful bit of kit. It allows me to look back through the years of my life and analyse the journey so far. And what…
The Green Bay Packers started Day 2 of the 2026 NFL draft by staying put at No. 52 and taking cornerback Brandon Cisse and ended the night by attempting to trade back into the third round after trading up earlier in the third round to get defensive lineman Chris McClellan. Despite not having a first-round…
Science advances by proposing ideas and then trying to prove them wrong. This process becomes especially challenging when dealing with the Universe on its largest scales. Dark energy and dark matter are among the most difficult concepts to test. Observations across vast regions of space clearly suggest that something is influencing gravity in ways Einstein’s…
If there’s a lesson about projecting the quarterback position for the NFL draft in recent years, it’s that any long-term predictions could quickly look outdated. Consider the past two NFL drafts. Both Cam Ward and Fernando Mendoza weren’t in the conversation for the top pick until well into their final seasons at Miami and Indiana,…
Foo Fighters have had a lot of ups and downs during their three-decade run, but their last album – 2023’s ‘But Here We Are’ – was a late career highlight. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It was the rockers’ first release since the sudden death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl’s mother, leading the remaining Fighters…
NASA follows international guidelines called the Planetary Protection protocol, aimed at making sure Earth’s biology doesn’t taint celestial bodies, and vice versa. The agency also has a dedicated team, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s biotechnology and planetary protection group, or B.P.P.G., that oversees efforts to avoid cross-contamination on missions. Several scientists behind the new research, including…
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a gene therapy that can cure a rare, inherited form of deafness. The treatment is the first to restore normal hearing in children who were born deaf. The maker of the therapy, Regeneron, plans to provide it free to any child who needs it. “We wanted to…
A pirate radio station is a clever subject for a jukebox musical. And there’s none more famous than Radio Caroline, whose revolutionary broadcasts from a boat off the Essex coast launched a culture war with the British government. Writer Vikki Stone has partly fictionalised the story of that ship, with characters only tangentially based on…
House Republicans investigating the liberal fund-raising organization ActBlue have asked its chief executive to testify next month to explain how the group vets its donors, a significant escalation in public pressure on the Democratic Party’s biggest financial engine. Hours after the Republican request on Thursday, ActBlue pushed back in a letter dismissing the inquiry as…
