Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern. After he died in the Ötztal Alps, the Copper Age man now known as Ötzi lay alone and forgotten for 5,300 years, until a group of hikers stumbled on his freeze-dried remains in 1991. Since then, he’s received a lot of attention from sc...
Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern. After he died in the Ötztal Alps, the Copper Age man now known as Ötzi lay alone and forgotten for 5,300 years, until a group of hikers stumbled on his freeze-dried remains in 1991. Since then, he’s received a lot of attention from scientists, who have sequenced his DNA , pored over his last meal and the remains of his gut microbes, and examined his clothes and his broken tools . Today, Ötzi lies in a high-tech resting place at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy, where, it turns out, his body is still home to a handful of cold-adapted yeast species that have probably been with him since just after he died. Slightly morbid souvenirs from the Alps Microbiologist Mohamed S. Sarhan (of the Institute of Mummy Studies at the private Eurac Research center) and his colleagues recently sampled material from Ötzi’s stomach and meltwater from inside his body, swabbed his skin, and even sampled airborne microbes from his frozen storage room and the lab outside it. They also took samples from a block of frozen alpine soil taken from next to Ötzi’s body back in 1991. Read full article Comments
KentWeakley/iStock via Getty Images Rental properties are often promoted online as the best investments in the world: They can generate significant passive income. They can be leveraged with the bank's money. They protect against inflation. They provide major tax benefits. They are safe, as everyone will always need a roof over their head. Finally, they have the potential to earn higher total retu...
KentWeakley/iStock via Getty Images Rental properties are often promoted online as the best investments in the world: They can generate significant passive income. They can be leveraged with the bank's money. They protect against inflation. They provide major tax benefits. They are safe, as everyone will always need a roof over their head. Finally, they have the potential to earn higher total returns than the stock market and most other investments. But this only tells you one side of the story. The people promoting real estate as the sure way to riches are often gurus selling courses or fund managers pitching their funds. They have a clear vested interest in spreading these misleading claims to earn your business. I fell for it early in my investing career and went on this path, but never again. Here are the three main reasons why I don't expect to ever buy a rental property again. In the end, I will also discuss a better alternative. Invitation Homes Reason No. 1: The Value of Your Time and Labor This is the biggest reason, which, in my opinion, makes most real estate investments unworthy of my attention. My time has value, and real estate just consumes too much of it. Rental properties are pitched as passive investments, but that's a lie. The time commitment is more similar to that of starting a business than a typical passive stock market investment. You first need to research your own market to get familiar with the different neighborhoods and what is selling for what. That alone can easily require 100-plus hours. After that, you need to look for the right opportunity, meet with brokers, tour properties, prepare models, get estimates from contractors, make offers, negotiate, get financing, close the deal, do renovations, market the property, meet tenants, do background checks, monitor the tenant, do repairs, manage legal battles, look for the next deal, etc. It's more than a full-time job if you really want to do it right. Most real estate investors will assume...
The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) pays a 3.64% distribution funded by the dividends of its underlying REITs, and that yield is the entire reason most income investors are looking at it. CRED is a small, rules-based fund that has paid quarterly since its April 28, 2023 inception, and the question worth answering ... Four REITs Fund 45% of This Income ETF’s Distributions...
The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) pays a 3.64% distribution funded by the dividends of its underlying REITs, and that yield is the entire reason most income investors are looking at it. CRED is a small, rules-based fund that has paid quarterly since its April 28, 2023 inception, and the question worth answering ... Four REITs Fund 45% of This Income ETF’s Distributions Right Now
Mainland China has equipped frontline troops facing Taiwan with a new missile, state media reported. The missile is believed to be an HQ-16F, which has comparable qualities to the US Patriot PAC2 and 3 systems. On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of the 73rd Group Army’s first operational and live-fire assessment of the missile in the Gobi Desert. The unit, which forms part of the Peop...
Mainland China has equipped frontline troops facing Taiwan with a new missile, state media reported. The missile is believed to be an HQ-16F, which has comparable qualities to the US Patriot PAC2 and 3 systems. On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of the 73rd Group Army’s first operational and live-fire assessment of the missile in the Gobi Desert. The unit, which forms part of the People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command, had travelled thousands of kilometres from its base in...
Heri Harmono/iStock via Getty Images The last time I spoke about ADC Therapeutics ( ADCT ) it was with a Seeking Alpha article entitled " ADC Therapeutics 'Strong Buy' With 2 Shots On Goal For ZYNLONTA In R/R DLBCL ." With respect to this article, I mentioned that the company was gearing up to release results from its phase 3 LOTIS-5 confirmatory study of its drug ZYNLONTA [loncastuximab tesirine-...
Heri Harmono/iStock via Getty Images The last time I spoke about ADC Therapeutics ( ADCT ) it was with a Seeking Alpha article entitled " ADC Therapeutics 'Strong Buy' With 2 Shots On Goal For ZYNLONTA In R/R DLBCL ." With respect to this article, I mentioned that the company was gearing up to release results from its phase 3 LOTIS-5 confirmatory study of its drug ZYNLONTA [loncastuximab tesirine-lpyl] in combination with rituximab for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma [r/r DLBCL]. I had placed a "Strong Buy" rating on the basis of this upcoming data readout. Today, I'm downgrading the stock from a "Strong Buy" to a "Sell" rating. The reason why I'm doing so is because even though the primary endpoint of progression-free survival [PFS] was met in a statistically significant manner, along with improvement in overall response rate [ORR] and median duration of response [mDOR], the outcome was plagued with safety problems. More about these safety problems below, but the main thing to note is that the treatment arm saw a higher amount of serious adverse events [SAEs] and Grade 5 treatment-emergent adverse events [TEAEs]. Plus withdrawals as well. The company intends to meet with the FDA in a pre-Biologics License Application [pre-BLA] meeting in August of 2026 and prepare to file a supplemental BLA [sBLA] of ZYNLONTA + rituximab for the treatment of these patients with r/r [2nd-line] DLBCL. The point is that this confirmatory study was supposed to be used to convert both the Accelerated Approval of ZYNLONTA for 3rd-line DLBCL and expand the label towards 2nd-line DLBCL. This latest data puts into question whether or not the company can obtain full approval and expand its label. Plus, it puts into question whether the latest data makes ZYNLONTA viable to treat 2nd-line r/r DLBCL patients as an option. The final reason for my "Sell" rating is because the company is already looking at value-maximizing alternatives. Potential...
Iranians ride past a banner depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), his successor, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L), in Enghelab Square in Tehran on June 3, 2026. The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader on June 3, warned of more missile and drone strikes should the United States renew its attacks on Iran. The warning followed US strikes on an Iranian tanker a...
Iranians ride past a banner depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), his successor, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L), in Enghelab Square in Tehran on June 3, 2026. The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader on June 3, warned of more missile and drone strikes should the United States renew its attacks on Iran. The warning followed US strikes on an Iranian tanker and on Iran's Qeshm island, sparking retaliatory attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain. Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty Images U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest escalation complicating efforts to end the war between the two countries. The U.S. military believes the four Iranian drones were targeting regional maritime traffic, a U.S. official told Reuters. U.S. Central Command said in a post on X that the U.S. then struck Iran's surveillance sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island, which are both on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for U.S. strikes and fired on four tankers attempting to cross the strait without its permission. Kuwait's state media said air defenses were intercepting missile and drone attacks, while in Bahrain sirens sounded and residents were urged to seek shelter. Kuwait and Bahrain condemned the strikes. Kuwait's foreign ministry described the Iranian attacks, including the latest strike early on Saturday, as a "blatant act of aggression" that ignored international calls to halt such actions and posed a direct threat to citizens, residents, and regional security, a ministry statement said. Iran later said it had hit U.S. bases in both countries with ballistic missiles, but the U.S. military said six missiles were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its target. The U.S. and Iran have been engaged in largely indirect negotiations to secure an interim de...
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when he was hit in the incident in Hebron Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank and injured one of the child’s parents on Friday after opening fire on the family’s car, despite it having complied with an order to stop. Soldiers opened fire on a car carrying the infant and his parents in ...
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when he was hit in the incident in Hebron Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank and injured one of the child’s parents on Friday after opening fire on the family’s car, despite it having complied with an order to stop. Soldiers opened fire on a car carrying the infant and his parents in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron. The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was critically injured, evacuated in critical condition to a local hospital, where he later died. His parents were also injured. Continue reading...
Total number charged rises to 11 after protests that broke out following sentencing of man for murder of 18-year-old Six more people have been charged with violent disorder in Southampton after riots broke out following the sentencing of a man for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. It brings the total number of people charged after disorder in the city to 11. Kevin Reeves, 31, of Portswood Roa...
Total number charged rises to 11 after protests that broke out following sentencing of man for murder of 18-year-old Six more people have been charged with violent disorder in Southampton after riots broke out following the sentencing of a man for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. It brings the total number of people charged after disorder in the city to 11. Kevin Reeves, 31, of Portswood Road, Southampton; Andrew Riddett, 38, of Seacombe Green, Southampton; Harry Varney, 34, of Briarswood, Southampton; Taylor Grundy, 22, of Pavillion Way, Gosport; and Dillon Crawford, 29, of Wilton Avenue, Southampton, were charged with violent disorder, Hampshire constabulary said. Continue reading...
With 2,361 company stores and first-quarter annualized revenue of $167 billion, Home Depot (NYSE: HD) has a strong position in the home improvement market. But its shares currently trade 28% below their peak (as of June 4), which might prompt investors to want to buy the business. But you shouldn't consider adding this retail stock to your portfolio until you know this one metric. Image source: Th...
With 2,361 company stores and first-quarter annualized revenue of $167 billion, Home Depot (NYSE: HD) has a strong position in the home improvement market. But its shares currently trade 28% below their peak (as of June 4), which might prompt investors to want to buy the business. But you shouldn't consider adding this retail stock to your portfolio until you know this one metric. Image source: The Motley Fool. Continue reading
The New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani , briefly stepped away from City Hall to tackle the ultimate soccer challenge: predicting the entire World Cup bracket In the Guardian's exclusive interactive game. From shocking early exits to his definitive pick for the final, see how Mamdani maps out the world’s biggest tournament Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory Continue reading...
The New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani , briefly stepped away from City Hall to tackle the ultimate soccer challenge: predicting the entire World Cup bracket In the Guardian's exclusive interactive game. From shocking early exits to his definitive pick for the final, see how Mamdani maps out the world’s biggest tournament Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory Continue reading...