BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns oil could hit $150 amid Iran‑US war, sparking a ‘global recession’/ Image: BBC Amid an escalating conflict involving Iran‑Israel‑US tensions, now more than three weeks in, with Washington deploying more than 4,000 Marines to the region and weighing further troop movements even as talk of a ceasefire surfaces, oil markets…

Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running since the 1970s, physicists have been chasing something they could not see, could not measure, and could not fully explain. It showed up only in the results: particles straying from their paths, beams degrading unexpectedly, experiments falling…

Most people picture a black hole forming the same way: a massive star runs out of fuel, collapses under its own gravity, and disappears behind an event horizon. But Einstein’s theory of general relativity has always allowed for something stranger. Under specific conditions, spacetime itself, with no star involved at all, can organise into a…

The Socotra archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been referred to as the most alien place on Earth because of its bizarre, long-lost, and otherworldly features. The Socotra archipelago has been separated from the African mainland for 18 million years and has evolved into an evolutionary laboratory due to its isolation. UNESCO reports that…

In the mid-1960s, inside a research laboratory run by DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek was searching for something fairly practical. The company wanted lightweight yet durable fibres that could eventually replace steel in vehicle tyres and reduce fuel consumption. Synthetic materials were already common in industry by then, but the challenge was finding one that could survive…