Wizards star Trae Young plans to decline his $48.97 million player option for the 2026-27 season, although Washington remains the front-runner, sources said.
Read Full Story →Kendrick Perkins has agreed to become the men's basketball general manager at Jackson State, he told ESPN.
Read article →The Atlanta Hawks are finalizing a deal to acquire Aaron Wiggins from the Oklahoma City Thunder for two second-round draft picks, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania on Sunday.
Read article →Veteran guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is exercising his $21.6 million player option with the Grizzlies for the 2026-27 season, sources told ESPN.
Read article →Jalen Brunson finally hit back at his skeptics as the Knicks and millions of fans celebrated the franchise's first NBA championship in 53 years with a parade Thursday.
Read article →Hawks guard CJ McCollum has agreed to a one-year, $21 million contract extension with the franchise, his agent told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Read article →Giannis Antetokounmpo is expected to be traded before the start of the NBA draft Tuesday, with the Celtics and Heat emerging as finalists to land the Bucks superstar, sources told ESPN.
Read article →The Suns have reached a second deal this weekend, as free agent guard Jordan Goodwin intends to join Collin Gillespie in re-signing in Phoenix, sources told ESPN.
Read article →From LeBron to Kyrie to Timofey Mozgov, here's where those 2016 Cavaliers are now -- a decade after the most epic comeback ever.
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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