A threatening letter from one of the world’s largest telecom companies found its way into Daniel Schreiber’s mailbox one summer day in 2019. — It accuses Schreiber’s startup, Lemonade, of trademark infringement in its letter to Deutsche Telekom AG (the parent company of T-Mobile). The name T-Mobile hadn’t been used by Schreiber. The logo and tagline of the company hadn’t been appropriated by him. His business wasn’t even cell phones.

Our columnist says you can prosper in the long run by investing in low-cost funds that track the entire market. — Financial markets are long overdue for a party. Hot stocks and cryptocurrencies and NFTs have been whispered about for a while now. There is a lot of buzz these days about recessions and bear markets. It is clear that investors are not in the happiest of times at the moment…

In prehistory, humans have practiced trepanation: drilling, cutting, or scraping away layers of bone with a sharp instrument to form a hole in the skull of a living person. — There have been thousands of skulls unearthed at archaeological sites throughout the world that show signs of trepanation. Although trepanation seems to have been important to our ancestors, scientists are still unsure as to why they performed it.

Infrared images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are now the highest resolution ever taken from space, as the telescope’s main mirror segments are perfectly aligned. A picture of the star 2MASS J17554042+6551277, taken by NASA on Wednesday, was released. James Webb’s view of the star is superior to…

The dark object weighs in at seven times the mass of the sun, making it one of the best candidates for a free-floating black hole of stellar mass to date — Black hole hunters are enjoying a boom time. In most galaxies, black holes weighing billions of suns can be found at their cores, and they have even been imaged. In the meantime, scientists routinely detect gravitational waves from merging black holes. Our own galaxy’s supermassive black hole and its more…

A more precise estimate of the particle’s upper limit has been determined after the latest attempt to weigh it. — Neutrinos, perhaps the most mysterious elementary particle, have been weighed for the first time. Neutrinos have a mass of approximately 0.8 electron volts, according to the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment in Germany. Scientists have known for years that the particles should be lighter than 1 eV, but this is the…

To return samples from the Red Planet to Earth, NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle will attempt a wildly unconventional launch. — The rover will pick up rock samples left by a previous mission on Mars within a decade. The rocket will be mounted on a flat piece of Earth’s surface and loaded with the explorers. After the rocket’s hatch shuts, the platform will then throw it upward on its side, similar…

Being mauled by a bear is about as extreme as it gets when it comes to radical interventions. There are few events that are so blatantly obvious, so borderline cheesy; metaphors are embarrased by lack of subtlety and remain at a distance. It adds insult to (devastating) injury according to…

Is it possible for the president to change the narrative and bring back democracy? — Only a year ago, President Obama was led by a man who craved the approval of Fox News host Tucker Carlson and considered imposing martial law. Having a president who doesn’t threaten neighbouring countries or corporations using Twitter would be great after Donald Trump. Unfortunately, this is not the case…