Steve Jobs’ billionaire widow, Laurene, who now spends summers sailing the high seas from the Mediterranean to Australia on her $120 million superyacht The early life of billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs was very different from the immense wealth she enjoys today. While she now spends her summers travelling from the Mediterranean to Australia aboard…

Roger Federer built an entire reputation on staying calm when everyone around him expected him to crack. Off the court, raising four children including two sets of twins, he admitted the calm has limits. “I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court,” he said. “It takes a lot for me to…

For decades, solar power has largely meant one thing: rigid silicon panels fixed to rooftops or spread across vast solar farms. Japan is pursuing a very different idea. Instead of heavy glass modules, researchers and manufacturers are developing ultra-thin, flexible solar cells that can be produced using high-speed printing techniques similar to those used for…

By day, many of New Zealand’s forest tracks appear unremarkable. Ferns crowd the undergrowth, damp rock faces line narrow paths and streams cut through thick vegetation. Yet after sunset, some of these same places take on an entirely different appearance. Tiny blue-green points of light begin to emerge from banks, cliffs and overhanging roots until…

A lake often appears permanent, as though it has always occupied the same stretch of landscape. Yet some lakes are surprisingly young. A river changes course, a mountainside collapses, lava blocks a valley, or a dam reshapes an entire region. When water arrives where woodland once stood, the trees do not always disappear immediately. In…

A new injectable beauty treatment made from fat harvested from donated dead bodies is becoming increasingly popular in the US, with more than 2,000 patients using it since May 2025, according to its manufacturer.The product, called alloClae (pronounced “allo-clay”), is a “lunchtime boob job” that takes under an hour to inject, requires no general anaesthesia…

Life on Earth has an expiry date, but it is probably not the dramatic disaster movie ending many people imagine. Instead of a sudden asteroid strike or a single catastrophic event, scientists think the planet’s final chapter will unfold slowly, quietly and over an almost unimaginable stretch of time. Trees, flowers, grass and eventually nearly…

Scientists say crushing deep-ocean pressure squeezes hidden nutrients out of sinking marine snow, feeding microbes and changing what we know about Earth’s carbon cycle (Representational AI image) Life in the deepest parts of the ocean may have access to more food than scientists once believed. A new study has found that the huge pressure found…

US judge scraps Trump’s IRS deal (File photo) A US federal judge on Monday voided President Donald Trump’s settlement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ruled that the lawsuit had been filed for an “improper purpose”, and recommended sanctions and disciplinary action against the lawyers involved.In a 56-page order, US District Judge Kathleen Williams said…