It is well documented that burning hydrogen, either as a gas or a liquid, to power racecars produces minimal emissions at the tailpipe, and that the emissions that are produced are less harmful to the environment than those from fossil fuels. What is less clear is how to create that hydrogen, the environmental impact of doing so, and then storing it safely and cheaply in order to be able to use it in a vehicle. Even ignoring all the impact of creating hydrogen in the first place, storing it as a gas in a chamber suitable for cars requires extreme levels of pressure, which then need to be contained. Put a high-pressure gas tank in a racecar and immediately there are some obvious concerns. Hang any such tanks outside…

IN CHINA, it is known as “the lonely disease”. The Japanese term translates as “intentionally shut”. Across the world, there is a perception of autistic people as aloof, socially awkward and isolated, seeming to not only lack the kind of automatic social instinct that enables successful interaction, but also the desire to achieve it. There is also a perception that autistic people tend to be men. For decades, researchers – myself included – have thought of autism as a predominantly male condition. The more we studied boys and men, the clearer the picture of autism that emerged – or so we thought. Today, we have come to realise that we were missing a huge piece of the puzzle all along. Not only have we been failing to recognise autism in…

Becoming a teacher was all Daisy Brockwell* ever wanted to do. But since the start of her teaching position in 2021, she has experienced such distressing encounters at the hands of some male pupils that she is now considering quitting the profession. Daisy, 31, who lives in London, is certain that the rise in this behaviour is linked to social media influencers such as Andrew Tate, who express extreme misogynistic views and have contributed to the rise of incel culture. In the new Netflix show Adolescence, a four-part series starring Stephen Graham, a family's world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. The motive behind the murder seems unclear, but throughout the series,…

Kishani Perera has made a career out of designing environmentally healthy homes that are good to live in and to look at. The California designer, who herself practiced veganism for decades, considers reading the “ingredients” lists for paint, textiles, furniture, and finishes as important as reading the labels on foods. So when she set out to design this new Los Angeles home for an eco-conscious family, she studied every word on every label of every piece she brought in so that her clients could be sure their house is 100-percent vegan. “Something may look good from the outside, and then you’ll discover wool strapping on a sofa or a milk product in a paint color,” Perera says. “It was my job to be thorough and not miss a single surprising detail.” It…

“Do you know where your children are?” Once, that was among the most chilling things you could ask a parent, said Sarah Ditum on UnHerd. Now, “parents know exactly where their children are: at home, probably in their bedrooms”. The after-school time that previous generations spent being anti-social in the park, at a youth club, or lost in books, is now spent on screens. Teenagers typically spend almost five hours a day on social media. So parents know where their children are; but they are anxious, because they have very little idea of what they are doing – whose cruel or unsavoury opinions they may be reading, what misinformation they may be absorbing, and what horrific images they may be seeing. That abiding fear – that our children are living…

Picture this: the deep blue expanse of the Pacific stretching endlessly before you, the sun climbing above the horizon, and a reel screaming as a monster Yellowfin Tuna makes a break for it. This is the thrill that awaits with Hidden Gem Boats, one of Fiji’s premier sportfishing charter operators. With two top-tier vessels-Momo Gem II and Looney Tunes-Hidden Gem offers everything from halfday reef fishing excursions to week-long explorations of the region’s most pristine and untouched fishing grounds. Their home base? Port Denarau Marina, just outside Nadi and a quick hop from the international airport, making access to this angling paradise as easy as stepping off the plane. The Fishing: Big, Bold, and Unforgettable Whether you’re an experienced angler chasing the fight of a lifetime or a first-timer looking…

CYGNET BAY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Perched on the rugged tip of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome, lies Cygnet Bay, with azure waters that are home to some of the most dramatic tidal movements on the planet. Here, you can see the awe-inspiring Giant Tides; a natural phenomenon that creates whirlpools and cascading water formations, and even a waterfall in the middle of the ocean. This is also a place of deep cultural significance. The waterfall-reef experience celebrates the Bardi Jawi people, the traditional owners of the land and sea surrounding Cygnet Bay, whose rich traditions, knowledge of the land, and ancient pearling practices will add an invaluable dimension to your visit. The area is also home to the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm, a business which has been run by…

IN recent years, there has been renewed interest in the Universal Rule, introduced by Nathaniel Herreshoff in the late 1890s. The rule aligned with letters of the alphabet, with I being the largest class, followed by the infamous J Class down to the S Class, a small open daysailer still actively raced in the US. European preservationists have long maintained many of these yachts and their history. The P Class is one of the Universal Rule era that has attracted the strong interest recently from Europe. Over the past 10 years, four of these classics have been found, restored and shipped off to Europe. The class was originally designed to ply New York’s Long Island Sound, Newport and water north of Boston, in the area of Marblehead. The yachts came…

Donald Trump won back the White House with a promise to transform the US economy. Millions of Americans, struggling with higher prices and bigger bills, elected a president who pledged to revive his country’s industrial heartlands – and leave the world to pick up the bill. On Wednesday this week – a day previously dubbed Liberation Day by the president and his aides – Trump had vowed to pull the trigger and impose a historic barrage of tariffs on goods from overseas he claimed would fund an extraordinary revival. Ten weeks after obtaining power, Trump said he would raise tariffs on all products from countries that charge tariffs on US exports; hit goods from Canada and Mexico with sweeping duties; introduce steep tariffs on foreign cars, computer chips and drugs;…

After every nasty break-up (or any other adverse event in my life), the people who have scooped my jelly-like remains off the bed and nursed me back to sanity – usually with a steady diet of check-in texts, cooked dinners, fresh flowers, mental-health walks and little treats – are my female friends. I’ve experienced more acts we traditionally categorise as ‘romantic’ within the container of these friendships than I ever have with an actual lover. I can count just one person I’ve dated who bought me flowers (and he ghosted me a few weeks later so I’d wager they were bought in an attack of pre-emptive guilt). Barely any men I’ve had intimate connections with have organised thoughtful dates or even just listened to me deeply enough to anticipate what…

9 STUFFED MUSHROOMS SERVES 8 45 MIN Cooking spray1½ lb. baby bella mushrooms, rinsed2 Tbsp. unsalted butter2 garlic cloves, minced¼ cup plain breadcrumbs Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper¼ cup finely grated Parmesan, plus more for topping4 oz. cream cheese, softened2 Tbsp. chopped fresh parsley, plus more for serving1 Tbsp. chopped fresh thyme 1. Arrange a rack in center of oven; preheat to 400°. Grease a baking sheet with cooking spray. Remove stems from mushrooms and finely chop. Arrange caps on prepared sheet. 2. In a medium skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Add chopped mushroom stems and cook, stirring frequently, until most of the moisture is evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Add breadcrumbs and cook, stirring frequently, until slightly toasted,…

Picture a sun-soaked stretch of Arizona desert, where a sprawling plant hums with the pulse of tomorrow’s tech, silicon wafers gleaming under the watchful eyes of engineers. Nvidia’s chief, Jensen Huang, let slip a blockbuster vision to the Financial Times, unveiling plans to pour hundreds of billions into U.S.-made silicon over the next four years. For tech buffs, gamers, and industry watchers, it’s a tale of a titan doubling down on American soil, betting big on a future where artificial intelligence drives everything from chatbots to self-steering autos. This isn’t a quiet pivot. Huang pegged Nvidia’s total electronics spending at half a trillion dollars through 2028, with a hefty chunk—potentially $250 billion to $300 billion—flowing to stateside plants. It’s a seismic shift for a company that’s leaned hard on Taiwan’s…

“WHAT fresh Hell is THIS?” Liz B. wondered during a four-mile run on a chilly December night five months after giving birth. She was 2.7 miles into an out-and-back route when she realized she’d leaked a little urine. “It happened on and off the rest of the way home,” says the 36-year-old from central Ohio, who prefers not to use her full name when talking about urinary incontinence, which affects 25 million adult Americans. This was not how she had envisioned her postpartum life. Liz, a physical therapist who works with stroke, brain injury, and spinal cord injury patients, had been a runner for nearly her whole life. Her father, who just ran his 91st marathon at the age of 77, had taken her out for jogs when she was a toddler,…

Today’s customers are overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information, so making any decision is a challenge. You may think this is important only to your marketing and sales teams, but in reality, no matter how great your product or technology might be, you won’t succeed if your whole company doesn’t understand your target customer’s decision process. Everyone on your team needs a regular update on the latest insights for salespeople, like those found in the classic book Heart and Sell, by sales training expert Shari Levitin. Its 10 best insights: 1| Success requires continuous learning and improvement. 2| Emotions drive customer decision making. Your business’s ability to uncover and capitalize on customers’ emotional motivators will dictate your success. 3| Every salesperson must have a repeatable process. So too must every business. Put…

In this series we will be covering the most popular roads to travel in the Kruger National Park (KNP). The popularity of certain roads has come about over the years thanks to the amazing wildlife sightings they produced. It is commonly known that wildlife has territories they roam, which then become home for these animals – and it is therefore not surprising that some of the big cats are named by frequent visitors to the Park. There are even WhatsApp groups for some of the leopards and sightings are posted there. This series will start with a map of the area/road we cover, so next time you book for a stay, maybe choose the road, then the rest camp or camps – which we will include in each article. Keep…

I’ve just arrived back from Brazil and wow, it’s as good as Africa for wildlife! Photographing birds like tanagers and hummingbirds have always pushed my skills, equipment and tools, but it’s not until you combine these subjects with low light shoots and fast shutter speeds, that they become a real challenge. And yet on this trip I was really reminded of how new camera technologies have advanced in the few years since I was last here. Our sensors are exponentially better than they were a few short years ago, and denoising technology makes what were previously unthinkable ISOs possible. Here are five key points to consider or help you when low light shooting. 1 A NEW CAMERA HELPS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS I use the Sony A1 and depending…

DON'T OBSESS ABOUT LOOKING ‘PUT TOGETHER’ It's a state of mind rather than a styling trick. I feel more put together when I feel good in what I'm wearing – it can be an off-duty look, a good workout outfit, fitted jeans or a structured but fluid blazer. I've recently been reaching for tailored trousers. Toteme has a beige cotton pair, which is the ideal hybrid between weekend and work pants. I pair them with a With Nothing Underneath blazer, knits and T-shirts. FALL BACK ON TRIED-AND-TESTED OUTFIT FORMULAS My whole life revolves around outfit formulas, between travel, my job, the kids and their drop-off/playground/school rhythm, I couldn't really function if I had to think twice before getting dressed. Here are some I wear on repeat: ■ High-waisted denim with…

“Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with Sotterranei di Roma, Undergrounds of Rome, a local group whose members explore the darkest recesses of the Eternal City. I ducked as the winged mammal swooped past my ear, then flitted beyond the beam of my headlamp and disappeared in the void ahead. “Don’t worry about those insects,” Messina added, nodding to walls hewn 2,300 years ago, and which I now saw were crawling with spider-like crickets called Dolichopoda. “They aren’t dangerous.” Messina and I were standing in a sepulchral stretch of the Aqua Anio Vetus, one of the superbly crafted aqueducts that once channeled water into ancient Rome, built beginning in 272 B.C. and dry for nearly 1,500 years. To some,…

Natalie Miller’s creative process begins in the understorey of the eucalyptus trees in East Kangaloon in the storybook hills of the Southern Highlands, New South Wales. After collecting fallen leaves and bark from the scribbly gums around her home, she then, like a grand alfresco cook, immerses unravelled skeins of 100 per cent Australian merino wool into vast metal pots containing her foraged matter and water. Next, she loops the yarn over fence posts to dry, like multicoloured spaghetti. The results of her hand-dyeing technique are varied – the foibles, or pleasant surprises, of working so directly with nature. “It is quite extraordinary how the colour can differ,” she says, pointing to a shocking hot pink she concocted from a potent dose of the madder root. “I thought, ‘Wow, amazing,’…

WE NEED TO TALK about death. Brits have long been diffident about mortality. Our coffins are not carried aloft in crowded streets. Our women don’t ululate. Our chaps don’t fire Kalashnikovs skywards. And open caskets are strictly for the morbid and superstitious Irish. We are similarly reluctant to confront the ephemeral nature of our businesses. I am referring here to our large corporations. (Most small business founders I know are in a constant existential battle against their creditors and the HMRC.) For some time, our mega-cap companies have been following strategies seemingly conjured by Hindu holy men. Capital markets days typically lead off with slides that resemble the great cycle of life. Instead of facing the awkward fact that their core business is in inexorable — though profitable — decline,…

In a quiet South San Francisco office, a biotech outfit that once promised to unlock ancestry secrets through a spit tube has hit a financial wall, thrusting the genetic records of millions into an uncertain spotlight. This week, 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Missouri federal court, aiming to sell its assets—including a trove of DNA from 15 million customers—after years of cash struggles and a bruising data breach. For those who mailed in their saliva, it’s a sobering turn, as a firm once pegged at $6 billion now scrambles for a buyer amid a storm of privacy concerns. This filing isn’t a small blip. The firm’s collapse follows a 2023 hack that exposed nearly 7 million users’ records, a blow that dented trust and piled on…

Much as we all hope to find the home of our dreams when we are house hunting, in most cases, a compromise is called for. Some requirements, however, are non-negotiable. This was certainly the case when, in 2015, Amy Maynard and her former husband, Charlie, decided that with two young children in tow – Lottie and Theo, then three and 11 months respectively – it was finally time to move out of London after many hectic years. “We hoped to enjoy a slightly slower pace of life, and give our children the sort of rural childhood we’d enjoyed,” says Amy, an interior designer. “I grew up in Winchelsea in Sussex and we wanted to be closer to family, so it made sense to relocate there – it was finding the…

For years, Russia has been Europe’s greatest enemy, trying everything short of war to divide the continent, bring down democratic governments, and support Kremlin-friendly leaders. Using money, disinformation campaigns, and election meddling, Russia has backed and boosted illiberal, nationalist, pro-Russian, anti-European Union, and authoritarian forces for years. Now, the world’s most powerful leaderxs — U.S. President Donald Trump—and the world’s richest man—Elon Musk—are aligning the world’s greatest superpower with Europe’s greatest enemy by actively supporting the same farright movements, attacking the same democratic governments, and flooding the European information space with the same kind of disinformation, often including Kremlin talking points virtually word for word. It is unfathomable enough that Washington, Silicon Valley, and Moscow are now partnering to make Europe safe for the toxic mix of autocracy and oligarchy that has…

On the eve of the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship season, McLaren announced they’d be celebrating their World Constructors’ Championship in the 2024 season with the release of limited-edition versions of their Artura and 750S supercars. Recognising McLaren’s first F1 Constructors’ Championship in 26 years and the ninth in the storied team’s history, the special cars are dubbed the ‘MCL38 Celebration Edition’, in honour of the F1 chassis that achieved eight pole positions and six race wins last season in the hands of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. FROM 1998 TO 2024 Back in 1998, when McLaren won their last Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship, they also did the ‘double’, with Mika Hakkinen winning the Drivers’ Championship. Hakkinen was victorious in eight of sixteen races that season, which combined with a…

Katy Perry has commented on the outlandish rumour supposedly linking her to child beauty queen, JonBenét Ramsey. Some online conspiracy theorists firmly believe that the pop singer is actually JonBenét – and that the six-year-old’s 1996 murder was all a hoax. While the theory has existed for several years, a new AI-generated video shared to Instagram brought it back to the public conscious last week. The video showed JonBenét morphing into Katy, 40. Katy weighed in on the viral post, replying: “wait am I.” Her vague response only further fuelled conspiracy theorists, with one fan writing: “I’ve always thought this.” However, others felt the video was in “poor taste”. “Let her precious soul rest in peace people,” read one reply. JonBenét’s death has stumped investigators for almost 19 years. She…

There’s no doubt that the newly released Snow White film is a visual spectacle. Almost 2,000 costumes featured in the shoot, filling a space the size of an aircraft hangar at Pinewood Studios in Slough. But hidden away in a cupboard under lock and key was the film’s most important outfit: a blue and yellow dress – and 13 identical copies – worn by the titular heroine. Security around the live-action version of Disney’s famous animated movie was paramount – there were to be no sneaked peeks. Sandy Powell, the film’s Academy Awardwinning costume designer, knew she would have to pay homage to the iconic look of the original 1937 animation. “If you take on a Disney film, you know what you’re doing,” she says, and she should know –…