Innholdsfortegnelse for March 24, 2025 i Time Magazine International Edition

The 2025 Women of the Year Gala was held in Los Angeles on Feb. 25 to celebrate TIME’s list of women fighting for equality. Below, clockwise, from left: Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fontenot called for ending world hunger; actor Nicole Kidman gave a toast to hope; Avery Colbert accepted an award for L.A. wildfire-relief efforts; actor Olivia Munn, who is raising awareness about breast cancer, led a toast to health; honorees including Anna Sawai, Raquel Willis, Jordan Chiles, Laura Modi, Laufey, Fatou Baldeh, Purnima Devi Barman, and Amanda Zurawski posed onstage with TIME CEO Jessica Sibley; A’ja Wilson called for equity in sports. Jazz musician Laufey, above, performed. Read more at time.com/woty On the covers Photographs and composite by Scandebergs for TIME Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton strikes a…

Clarksburg, W.Va., has lead pipes scattered throughout the city, which has caused elevated levels of lead in some children’s blood, resulting in health issues like developmental delays. In 2023, the environmental-justice division of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a new program designed to increase lead testing for local children and families so that officials could catch elevated lead levels early and prevent long-term health complications. Partnering with cash-strapped state agencies, the EPA bought kits that could measure lead levels in children with just a finger prick, gave out gift cards to incentivize testing, and offered testing opportunities in offices where families picked up benefits and received breastfeeding support. The program invested $150,000 in lead-testing kits for Harrison County, where Clarksburg is located, which raised testing rates in children from…

The giant, 40-ft. space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust particles clinging to your clothing. So before you enter the room, you stand in a chamber that blows high-powered, compressed air at you from head to toe, sweeping you clean. Next you dress up in surgical scrubs—booties, head covering, mask, blouse, and pants—and pass through a series of doors that take you into successively more sterile anterooms. Only then, when your dust can pose no danger to the delicate machine in the center of the room, can you join the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on the factory floor. There, technicians are busy completing its assembly in preparation for its launch…

The unveiling of DeepSeek R1, China’s most advanced AI model to date, signals a dangerous inflection point in the global AI race. As President Donald Trump warned in response, this development represents a wake-up call for American leadership. What’s at stake isn’t merely economic competitiveness but also the most geopolitically precarious technology since the nuclear age. After the creation of the atomic bomb, America’s technological monopoly lasted only four years before Soviet scientists achieved parity. This balance of terror, combined with the unprecedented destructive potential of these new weapons, gave rise to mutual assured destruction (MAD)—a deterrence framework that, despite its flaws, prevented catastrophic conflict for decades. Today’s AI competition has the potential to be even more complex, in part because AI touches nearly everything from medicine to finance to…

ON VALENTINE’S DAY, LEWIS HAMILTON ENTERS A SPRAWLING STUDIO SPACE IN NORTHWEST LONDON AND INTENTLY STARES AT THE MAGNIFICENT CREATURE STANDING OFF IN THE DISTANCE. “Sh-t,” says Hamilton to no one in particular. “I’m nervous.” Soon enough, however, the seven-time Formula One world champion overcomes his anxiety and is standing face-to-face with a shiny black stallion named Aroma. He pets his nose, massages his neck, generally spreads his hands all over Aroma’s thick coat. He is doing his allergies, the source of his initial fear, no favors. But Hamilton, a literal knight, is enamored, peppering the horse master with questions. Where’s Aroma from? (Portugal.) Can he sleep lying down? (Yes.) How much does he weigh? (About 1,300 lb. Only a few hundred less than Hamilton’s race car.) He’s throwing health…

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, many states have moved to protect the right to abortion, and several have turned to a new tool to do so: abortion shield laws. Enacted in 18 states and Washington, D.C., abortion shield laws are “novel protections,” according to Lizzy Hinkley, senior state legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which helped draft some of them. The laws are meant to protect providers practicing in states where abortion is legal, from civil and criminal actions taken by states with bans or restrictions on abortion. The laws also cover patients and people who help a patient access abortion. The protections vary by state, but can include the shield state’s refusal to comply with another state’s…

Netflix has been producing and distributing original stand-up specials for well over a decade, and shows no sign of slowing down. The streaming behemoth released more than 40 original specials in 2024 and is moving at a similar clip this year, premiering a half dozen since Jan. 1. It’s a lot to take in, and though there’s (thankfully) no comedy equivalent to the USDA nutritional recommendations, the most fulfilling laughs surely involve some mix of sampling the unfamiliar and revisiting old favorites. Winter drags on, and the news overwhelms, which is why it pays to seek out the people who know what in the world is so funny. 3 IN THE MORNING Sam Jay Some comics are so adept at making us feel like we’re in a private conversation that…

Extinction is typically for good; When it comes to the woolly mammoth, however, that rule has now been bent. It’s been 4,000 years since the elephant-like beast walked the earth, but part of its DNA now operates inside several litters of mice created by scientists at the Dallas-based Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences. The mice don’t have their characteristic short, gray-brown coat, but rather the long, wavy, woolly hair of the mammoth. They also have the beast’s accelerated fat metabolism, which helped it survive earth’s last ice age. Both traits are the result of gene editing that Colossal’s scientists hope will hasten the reappearance of the mammoth itself as early as 2028. Colossal has been working on restoring the mammoth ever since the company’s founding in 2021. The animal’s relatively recent…

Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term, his Administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public-lands agencies. The effects of this are vast: it’s going to cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places and devastate the economies built around them. After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I’m convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. It might be the only way to save our wildlands from corporate privatization and destruction—and preserve public access to them. There is more than sufficient evidence that the land, and all those who value and depend on its well-being, would benefit immensely from its return. I’ve seen it personally as an enrolled tribal member of the…

Every time I picked up my son at day care last year, our reunion was punctuated by the same questions from the other 3-year-olds: “Why are you in that wheelchair? What happened?” I am used to questions. I’ve answered them all my life with little fanfare. But these interactions started to feel different with my son there to bear witness. So this fall, as Otto started preschool and we prepared for this fresh start with a new group of people, it felt like a chance to reset the terms with intention. I wanted a better approach, but I struggled to imagine what that might look like. What would it take to shift a dynamic that felt so inevitable? Was it even possible for me to call the shots in a…

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. The Lowell Observatory WRITTEN IN THE STARS Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ongoing, the observatory made history as the place where assistant Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. (If you’re still not over its dwarf-planet demotion, be sure to visit during the annual I Heart Pluto Festival, which started in 2020.) Last fall the observatory expanded to welcome visitors in the new $53 million Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center, where the central atrium is dominated by a suspended installation symbolizing the evolution of matter after the Big Bang. Other exhibits are much more down-to-earth, prioritizing all-ages interactivity. Families can catch a show on the two-story, 160-degree wraparound LED theater…

Familiarity breeds contempt, maybe especially in marriages. How do you keep a close partnership fresh? Perhaps married spies, like the ones in Steven Soderbergh’s silky spy caper Black Bag, have the answer. George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender), an experienced operative at Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, receives a list of five colleagues who are suspected of being moles, capable of activating a cyberworm designed to wreak nuclear havoc. No problem there—except his wife, fellow high-level spy Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett), to whom he’s devoted, is on the list. The trust between these two is unshakable; George isn’t too worried. His first move is to invite the other four suspects to the couple’s house for dinner, the better to ferret out the traitor. “Avoid the chana masala,” he casually informs his…