New Mexico jockey Mike Smith — if he beats the early morning line odds, 15-1, and the rest of the field — will become the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, beating out Faben’s Willie Shoemaker.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When the late and great Times sports columnist Mike Downey decided years ago to write about jockey Billy Shoemaker ...

A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an "insane" "ultra-progressive" takeover. In an ...

Since iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, Apple has included Messages-like reactions in FaceTime that lighten up your video with visual effects. But rather than triggering them with words, you can trigger them ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...

Organophosphoryl compounds are important motifs, however regioselective phosphorylation of alkenes remains challenging. Here, the authors report a visible light driven triple catalytic strategy ...

We’re surrounded by metals like iron, silver, copper, gold and magnesium. Most metals go through a chemical reaction when they are combined with other substances, but some metals react more easily ...

Reaction kinetics and dynamics refers to the study of why, how and how fast chemical processes take place. Chemists seek to understand the details of change at the molecular and quantum level and how ...