A ceasefire with Iran unravels as the US and Tehran trade strikes across the Gulf

World

Three tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz triggered fresh US strikes on more than 80 targets in Iran; Tehran fired back at US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and each side now accuses the other of breaking the truce first.

Finance

Falling inflation used to mean cheaper loans.

Tech

Meta will now shut off its glasses' camera if you tamper with the recording light, Solos is selling a clip-on lens cover, and courts and cruise lines are banning the devices outright.

Mind & body

The stress response is two fast chemical waves built for brief physical danger.

Climate

Sodium-ion batteries — made from salt instead of scarce lithium — are cheap enough and good enough to reach the market, while a $400M storm bill and a Walmart nuclear deal show the grid's slower moving parts still grinding on.

Space

While the US marked its 250th birthday, Japan's Hayabusa2 flew past a peanut-shaped asteroid and China's Tianwen-2 arrived at Earth's quasi-moon.

Biotech

A run of deals — Vertex's $10bn Crinetics buyout, Novartis, Ipsen, United Therapeutics — shows the giants outsourcing early science to small firms and paying only for winners.

Money

The money is gone and can never come back.

Sports

Boston shipped Jaylen Brown to Philadelphia mostly to dodge the NBA's spending 'aprons', a penalty line that costs teams draft picks and roster tools, not just money.

Gaming

Microsoft cut 3,200 jobs and pushed four studios out the door this week.

Food

A Middle East war and a closed shipping lane sent nitrogen fertilizer prices soaring, and governments are scrambling.

Cyber

Adobe warned ColdFusion users to patch a maximum-severity bug that hackers began hitting hours after it went public.