James has informed the Lakers that the franchise can move on without him because he will play elsewhere, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN's Shams Charania on Tuesday.
Read Full Story →LeBron James informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he is leaving the franchise, prompting widespread reaction on social media.
Read article →The 'Burbs, an adaptation of Tom Hanks' 1989 movie, is one of the most highly recommended shows of the year and already has a season 2 in the works.
Read article →Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli has apologized for shouting "sit down, boy" at Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras while instigating a benches-clearing scrum.
Read article →Mets owner Steve Cohen said Wednesday that he is not considering dismissing president of baseball operations David Stearns, who is in the third year of a five-year contract, despite a second straight disappointing sea...
Read article →Rangers shortstop Corey Seager was placed on the 10-day injured list before Wednesday's game against the Guardians because of lower back inflammation.
Read article →Yankees captain Aaron Judge says he is awaiting another round of imaging on the stress fracture of his right rib before offering an update on his status.
Read article →Dave Roberts became the fastest manager in MLB history to reach 1,000 career wins after the Dodgers beat the Athletics 9-3 on Tuesday night.
Read article →Nationals shortstop Eli Willits, the top overall pick in last year's amateur draft, was among 50 players picked Wednesday for the All-Star Futures Game at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park on July 12.
Read article →Researchers published a landmark study in Nature Neuroscience demonstrating for the first time that chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals recorded in daily life rather than relying solely on patients' subjective reports. Using brain implants in four patients with chronic pain conditions, scientists identified biomarkers in low-frequency activity of the orbitofrontal cortex that reliably tracked each individual's reported pain intensity over months of normal activity outside a clinical setting. The breakthrough matters because chronic pain has historically been impossible to verify objectively, complicating diagnosis, treatment decisions, and clinical trials for new therapies. The findings are part of an effort to develop personalized brain stimulation treatments that could help the estimated 51.6 million Americans living with chronic pain conditions for whom existing treatments remain inadequate.
Read Full Story →An NCAA medical committee formally recommended removing cannabis from the organization's list of banned substances in June 2023, arguing that marijuana does not enhance athletic performance and that disciplinary enforcement belongs at the school level rather than through national testing. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports called for a harm-reduction approach emphasizing education and support over punitive suspensions for student-athletes who use cannabis.
Read article →The quest to calculate pi spans more than 4,000 years, beginning with crude approximations in ancient Babylon and Egypt before Archimedes developed his polygon-based method of exhaustion in the third century BCE, bounding pi between inscribed and circumscribed shapes to achieve accuracy to two decimal places. This geometric approach dominated for over a millennium until 17th-century mathematicians introduced infinite series that converged far faster, enabling calculations of dozens and then hundreds of digits by hand.
Read article →The American office has cycled through radically different organizing philosophies over the past century, from Frederick Taylor's factory-inspired surveillance floors designed for maximum output to the open campuses of Silicon Valley built around collaboration and employee satisfaction. A pivotal moment came in 1964 when Herman Miller's Action Office was introduced as a flexible humanist alternative to rigid rows of desks, only for corporations to reduce its principles to the cramped cubicle farm that came to define corporate life by the 1980s.
Read article →Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.
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