Webb Telescope Finds a New Asteroid Belt in Fomalhaut Star System
Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint light of other stars around it. Stargazers have...
Darren Waller Pursues Music Career in Addition to NFL Success
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — About 30 minutes into Darren Waller’s recording session, a music producer asked him to make a small tweak. Waller, the Pro...
Suns Owner Sells a Flop as Phoenix Evens Series With Denver
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic on Monday was fined $25,000, but not suspended, for making contact with the Suns owner Mat Ishbia while trying to...
More Ann and Gordon Getty Material Heads to Christie’s, Illustrator Bruce McCall Dies at 87, and More: Morning Links for May 8, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TROUBLE IN PARIS. On Sunday, a Miriam Cahn painting that has been the subject...
New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain
A new genus of butterfly, with dark, eye-like spots on its distinctive orange wings, has been named after Sauron, the arch-villain of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy...
Too Many Older Men Are Still Screened for Prostate Cancer
Last summer, Joe Loree made an appointment to see his urologist. He’d occasionally noticed blood in his urine and wanted to have that checked out....
Yogi Berra on the Field: The Case for Baseball Greatness
In the latest edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, there’s a sports figure who towers over the competition. Among the nine sayings attributed to one Lawrence...
Hollywood Writers Strike Is ‘Going to Be a While’
Writers, however, succeeded in making things difficult for studios over the first week. Apple TV+ was forced to postpone the premiere of “Still,” about Michael...
Expert Picks: Who Will Win the 2023 Kentucky Derby
The horses in the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby are listed in order of post position, with comments by Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert...
James Harden Finds His Old Groove and Gets the Sixers Back on Track
PHILADELPHIA — James Harden of the 76ers was on his way to Wells Fargo Center on Sunday morning when he received a text message from...
Twitter Criticized for Allowing Texas Shooting Images to Spread
Pat Holloway has seen her share of destruction during a 30-year career as a photojournalist: the 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas; the 1995 bombing of...
What Exactly Are the Dangers Posed by AI?
In late March, more than 1,000 technology leaders, researchers and other pundits working in and around artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning that A.I....
At Churchill Downs, Humans Failed the Horses Again
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The morning after the 2022 Kentucky Derby, horse racing took an exuberant and hopeful victory lap. Rich Strike had reintroduced the sport...
Controversial Work at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo Is Sprayed with Purple Paint by ‘Unhappy’ Visitor
A painting by Miriam Cahn at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo that stirred up right-wing rage made headlines in France once more after it was vandalized...