Gold hits highest since May after cooling US jobs data

(Bloomberg) — Gold rose to a six-week high after U.S. employment data pointed to a gradual cooling in the labor market, bolstering expectations for lower interest rates in the months ahead. Most read from Bloomberg The price of precious metals rose 1.4% to $2,389.35 an ounce as of 1:30 p.m. in New York on Friday, … Read more

This is the hardest maze, according to physicists

A team of physicists have created what they claim is the most difficult maze ever created, using a chess pattern to create its structure. To the untrained eye, the maze looks like the most complicated snowflake. But for the puzzle enthusiasts among us, it probably looks like a challenge. The maze is constructed from a … Read more

US job growth remains solid

July 5, 2024, 7:03 AM ET July 5, 2024, 7:03 AM ET Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell said this week that officials would like to see more data on cooling inflation “like we’ve seen recently” before cutting rates.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times The labor market has remained surprisingly strong over the past … Read more

Human-sized salamander with fangs offers evolutionary clues

Tusks for the memories. The Tyrannosaurus rex was not the first toothy predator on Earth. Forty million years before dinosaurs became the world’s largest predators, a human-sized salamander with four-inch-long tusks existed, according to a revealing study published in the journal Nature. A fossilized skeleton of the amphibian was excavated in Namibia by scientists from … Read more