Houthis strike a Saudi refinery and a Red Sea port, deepening the fight over the world's oil chokepoints

World

Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi Arabia's Jazan refinery and the port of Mokha, reopening the Red Sea crisis while Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz shut - and few countries want to pay to guard the sea lanes everyone depends on.

Finance

As stocks sit at records before a key inflation reading, new Fed chair Kevin Warsh is dismantling the market's old assumption that the central bank will always step in to break its fall.

Tech

Tesla and SpaceX are building a chip factory in Texas meant to do everything under one roof, at the largest scale ever attempted, right as the industry pours record money into far more focused plants.

Mind & body

A spinal reflex acts in a few hundredths of a second, firing your muscles before the pain signal ever reaches the part of the brain that feels it.

Climate

Kenya capped how many carbon credits it will sell abroad, one of Africa's most detailed rulebooks yet - just as fresh research shows most forest offsets never cut the carbon they claim.

Space

Military demand and a run of deals are reshaping the small engines that let satellites move in orbit, and the whole market is organised around one physics tradeoff: shove hard and burn fuel fast, or push gently and stretch it for years.

Biotech

A 114,000-person study found one liver-enzyme gene predicts who gets sick on common antidepressants, sharpening a bigger truth this week: the same gene can help one person and harm another depending on the setting it sits in.

Money

We value rewards we can have now far above rewards we must wait for.

Sports

Mohamed Salah left Liverpool for Trabzonspor, the fourth-biggest club in Turkey, following Messi and Ronaldo into the tiny club of players who can cash in anywhere.

Gaming

A games-summit workgroup named the same crisis it has named for years - discoverability.

Food

US beef is up about 12% on the year as the cattle herd shrinks.

Cyber

A wave of fresh reporting shows the same shift - the fastest-growing break-ins skip the software and target the person, talking victims into pasting a command, approving a fake login, or trusting a familiar voice.