60,000-year-old poisoned arrows discovered in South Africa reveal that early humans mastered lethal chemistry long before agriculture or writing
Sixty thousand years ago, long before farms, cities, or written language, people in southern Africa were already brewing a deadly poison from a local…..
Goodbye to chemical rockets: scientists propose an idea that would allow interstellar travel in just 40 years using beams of electrons traveling at close to the speed of light.
A new line of research says we may not need fantastical warp drives to reach another star within a single lifetime. Instead, we might…..
Science
60,000-year-old poisoned arrows discovered in South Africa reveal that early humans mastered lethal chemistry long before agriculture or writing
Sixty thousand years ago, long before farms, cities, or written language, people in southern Africa…..
The pill of the century: a single trip with LSD reduced anxiety for three months, according to a clinical study
What if relief from relentless worry did not mean another pill every morning, but one…..
Chimpanzees apply medicinal plants to their wounds… and also help others
Deep in Uganda’s Budongo Forest, wild chimpanzees are doing something that looks uncannily familiar. When…..
A star exploded, split in two, and then collided again within hours, leaving a double signature that has astronomers puzzled
That gold ring on your finger, the tiny metals inside your phone and even parts…..
Scientists discover that plants “scream” silently when they are stressed… and now even insects are beginning to hear them
If you grew up thinking plants are silent, think again. New research from Israel and…..
Something that “shouldn’t be there” appears beneath the Pacific, and a new high-resolution seismic model leaves geophysicists with a huge mystery
Deep below the Pacific Ocean, far beneath the seafloor and well out of reach of…..
Your brain may be accumulating microplastics, and the big question is no longer whether they are there, but what they might be doing
You expect plastic in a water bottle or a grocery bag. You probably do not…..
The 75-ton Argentinosaurus could not run at all, and the study states that they were slow and heavy and barely exceeded 6 miles per hour
Picture a herd of massive dinosaurs or woolly mammoths thundering across the landscape at high…..
At first, you feel a brutal impact… but 12 hours later, something changes: this is what really happens to your body after showering with ice-cold water, according to science
From ice baths on social media to that last brutal twist of the shower handle…..
A 508-million-year-old worm from the primordial ocean, invisible teeth, and an embarrassing mistake: in 1977, they believed it walked on spikes… in 2015, they discovered that it wasn’t even its head
For decades, one of the strangest animals in the fossil record was drawn literally upside…..
Mobility
What many people install to protect their cars can now result in fines of $1,000 or even arrests
Drivers in California now face jail time and fines if they are caught with certain high-tech devices…..
The TSA has just introduced a surprise fee that no one expected: this is what you will have to pay if you do not have a Real ID or passport
Starting February 1, 2026, air travelers in the United States who show up at security without a…..
Thousands of illegally issued truck licenses in North Carolina could cost the state $50 million
A DMV error forces thousands of Californians to renew their identification just before important trips
Energy
Wind farms in trouble: Sweden supplies electricity “as much as the lines can carry.”
Economy
A renowned airline just accidentally discovered that it had a Boeing plane abandoned at an airport since 2012 and no one at the company had noticed for over a decade
We all misplace our keys or forget an old subscription. But an entire jetliner slipping…..
All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat
Every American who has ever had a Social Security number may now be living with…..
Goodbye to loans for non-citizens: the 2026 measure that could change the landscape of entrepreneurship in the US (and it’s not the first time this has happened)
A rule change in Washington, D.C. is about to hit many of the people opening…..
Chinese geologists make history: they discover a deposit buried 3,000 meters underground with more gold than South Africa’s reserves, which could be worth more than a country’s total GDP
Deep under the hills of central China, geologists say they have located more than one…..
The U.S. government shuts down again and millions of people fear for their Social Security checks, but the agency responds with six words that bring immediate relief
Millions of Americans who rely on Social Security faced new worries as the federal government…..
Millions of people could face fines of up to $680 for failing to meet the most important tax deadline of the year, which expired on January 31
The most important IRS deadline for wage and contractor forms has already passed, and millions…..
Spain activates its largest naval plan since the Cold War: approximately $650 million, four high-tech submarines, and five F-110 frigates to address future threats.
In the middle of debates about energy bills and heatwaves, Spain has quietly launched its…..
If you have received this message, you may be entitled to receive up to $75 for each text message, and the deadline to file a claim is February 12, 2026
If your phone has ever buzzed again and again with marketing messages after you typed…..
A scientific “detective” from the United Kingdom has uncovered manipulated images in articles financed with public funds, and the United States is already recovering millions of dollars
A British biologist who spent his evenings scrutinizing cancer papers on a laptop has just…..
First he promised it with great fanfare, NOW he says it wasn’t him: Trump forgets his own plan to send $2,000 checks directly, leaving millions of people waiting
Americans hearing about $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks could be forgiven for feeling whiplash. In November…..
Technology
Environment
He created a lake to raise fish and installed cameras to monitor them, but ended up attracting eagles, deer, and owls to one of the continent’s most unexpected wildlife sanctuaries
It was supposed to be a straightforward farm project. Dig a five-acre lake, raise tiger…..
In 1940, a boy chased his dog through a hole in a tree and ended up finding a secret cave with more than 600 human paintings dating back 17,000 years that no one had ever seen before
In 1940, an eighteen year old and his dog squeezed into a hole beneath a…..
For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model of coexistence between nature and the law
In a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest, a tiny pollinator has just gained something…..
Alert in the forests: the unusual US plan to release 2,000 mice with paracetamol to curb a deadly plague
Picture 2,000 dead rodents, each carrying a small tablet of paracetamol, drifting into tropical treetops…..
2025 is expected to be the second or third hottest year on record, warns the UN
If 2024 felt unbearably hot, brace yourself. 2025 is not giving the planet much of…..
A biologist gets her fingers stained with berry juice… and accidentally discovers a species of bee that was believed to have been extinct in the region since 1904
Last summer, a scientist walking through a campus orchard in Syracuse noticed a small, plain…..
A giant tortoise, extinct for over a century, has reappeared alive after several failed expeditions, reviving a historic plan to save the species, a symbol of evolution
A giant tortoise that scientists once filed under “extinct for more than a century” has…..
Your continent could be feeding a volcano in the middle of the ocean… and you didn’t even know it
When a continent breaks apart, at the surface we see oceans that open very slowly……
