Thiem, who had won four of the pair’s five previous meetings, again found himself in trouble at the start of the second set with Zverev once again breaking him in the first game. In his next service game, the 24-year-old Austrian dug deep to win four points in a row …

It took Bernhard Langer nine starts to pick up his first PGA Tour Champions victory of the year, and it was tougher than he imagined. He started with a one shot lead and before he could reach the turn, Langer fell as many as four shots behind. Langer won for …

He makes MLS look like a retirement league If you’re still using the “retirement league” cliche in any capacity other than trolling in which case, it might be time to come up with new material you’re either not paying attention to what’s happening in MLS or you simply don’t care …

A Bell test, named for the Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell, is a randomized trial that compares observations against the philosophical worldview of local realism, in which the properties of the physical world are independent of our observation of them and no signal travels faster than light. On November …

IBM, developers of the first hard drive, has declared that henceforth, all employees are banned from using removable storage of any kind, including CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, and portable hard drives. Presumably Zip drives, Jazz drives, 1.44-inch floppies, and portable tape recorders are also banned, though the company neglected to …

SpaceX is preparing to launch the final planned iteration of its Falcon 9 rocket. If the Block 5 launch and recovery are successful (the launch is currently scheduled for today, May 11), it’ll be a huge step forward for Musk’s reusable rockets — and clear the launch pad for later …

A team of archaeologists and philologists from the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, Germany, has identified the location of the ancient royal city of Mardama thanks to 3,250-year-old cuneiform tablets. 3,250-year-old cuneiform tablets were found inside a clay vessel at the archaeological site of Bassetki in the Kurdistan region of …

The discovery of Llanocetus denticrenatus — an ancient whale species that swam in Antarctic waters 34 million years ago, during a period called the Eocene — has paved the way for new knowledge about the evolution of baleen whales (Mysticeti). A life-like reconstruction of Llanocetus denticrenatus. Image credit: Carl Buell. …

Brett Gardner capped a slump-busting performance with a go-ahead, two-run triple off Craig Kimbrel in the eighth inning, Aaron Judge followed with a homer and the New York Yankees rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 9-6 Wednesday night for their 17th victory in 18 games. He had three hits …

Episode 8 of the NewRetirement podcast is an interview with Chris Mamula — a “Financial Independence Retirement Early” (FIRE) proponent and writer for both Can I Retire Yet? and Eat the Financial Elephant. Chris discusses his journey from a “normal” guy to becoming financially independent at 41 years old. In …