The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake
Rock climbers scaling a limestone cliff on Monte Conero on Italy’s Adriatic coast noticed something odd in the rock. Instead of smooth stone, one…..
China promises the “holy grail” of electric vehicles in 2026: an Exeed with a solid-state battery that would exceed 1,500 km and, according to the company, withstand temperatures as low as -30 °C
Most electric car drivers still plan long trips around charging stops and worry about how far the battery will really take them. Now a…..
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming a floating continent populated by marine creatures
Science
The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake
Rock climbers scaling a limestone cliff on Monte Conero on Italy’s Adriatic coast noticed something…..
Excavating beneath an Italian square, they finally uncover Vitruvius’ lost building: the basilica described in 19 BC comes to life in the 21st century
After more than five hundred years of searching, archaeologists in the coastal city of Fano…..
China is building a giant hypergravity centrifuge capable of accelerating processes that take centuries to complete in nature
What would you do with a machine that makes gravity nearly two thousand times stronger…..
Confirmed: a study of more than 2,400 genomes reveals that the first humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago… and that they may have coexisted with prehistoric “hobbits”
For years, scientists argued over timing. One camp favored a later arrival around 47,000 to…..
It wasn’t just a rare fruit: the humble molt that Nansen took to the North Pole in 1893 could be one of the most complex natural hybrids ever studied, with DNA from at least three extinct species and an evolutionary history written in eight chromosomes that still baffles geneticists
Cloudberries glow like tiny golden suns on Christmas desserts, topping rice puddings and cakes that…..
These 12 common preservatives could increase the risk of cancer and type 2 diabetes
For anyone who relies on ready meals, sliced bread, or that soda on a hot…..
A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons
At just twelve years old, Aiden McMillan has built a working nuclear fusion device in…..
Earthquakes could be behind the formation of giant gold nuggets
What if every big gold nugget began with a tiny electric jolt in the rock…..
The discovery of 4,000-year-old mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia could lead to the recovery of a lost ecosystem
Seven naturally mummified cheetahs discovered in caves in northern Saudi Arabia are offering an unexpected…..
NASA photographs a desert and finds mysterious circles in the heart of Saudi Arabia
From orbit, the northern desert of Saudi Arabia looks like an endless sheet of orange…..
Mobility
China promises the “holy grail” of electric vehicles in 2026: an Exeed with a solid-state battery that would exceed 1,500 km and, according to the company, withstand temperatures as low as -30 °C
Most electric car drivers still plan long trips around charging stops and worry about how far the…..
Toyota reigns supreme again in 2026 with a reliability score of 66, but the big surprise is who sneaks into the top five and breaks Japanese dominance
In 2026, drivers who want to avoid surprise repair bills have a pretty clear roadmap. A new…..
Goodbye to BMW, Mercedes, and Volkswagen: an economist warns that these brands could disappear before 2030
Energy
NASA conducts the first test of its nuclear engine for interstellar travel
Economy
China has just found a 1,444-ton gold “monster” valued at more than $150 billion, and the strangest thing is that they say it is the largest find since 1949
China has confirmed the largest gold discovery in its modern history in the northeastern province…..
China processes around 90% of the world’s rare earths, but Sweden has just pulled an “ace up its sleeve” with 2.2 million tons of oxides in Per Geijer
High above the Arctic Circle, a long-running iron mine in northern Sweden has quietly revealed…..
Millions of people could lose their food this month following the implementation of a controversial law requiring 80 hours of work to retain SNAP benefits
New work rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are starting to hit home in…..
A list reveals that three countries are among the most indebted in the world in 2025, with figures exceeding 120% of GDP
Public debt rarely makes front page news compared with inflation or jobs, yet it quietly…..
The longest tunnel in Latin America took more than 10 years to build and now connects two key regions that were previously isolated by mountains
High in the central Andes, a new piece of concrete and steel is changing how…..
The United States and Japan want to spend $550 billion on synthetic diamonds, which says a lot about the problem with China
For most people, diamonds mean engagement rings and glittering store windows, not chip factories and…..
An iconic Chicago candy factory with nearly 100 years of history has filed for bankruptcy and could close permanently after losing millions
One of Chicago’s oldest candy makers has landed in bankruptcy court. Primrose Candy Company, a…..
China directly threatens Panama for canceling historic port contracts signed in the 1990s and warns that it will pay a high political and economic price if it does not rectify the situation
At the center of the latest clash between China and Panama sits the Panama Canal,…..
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…..
Technology
Environment
Goodbye to mining in the heart of the jungle: Colombia makes history by declaring its entire Amazon region free of hydrocarbons and mega-mining
In a decision that could reshape the future of the rainforest, Colombia has moved to…..
In 2019, China did something that seems crazy: “cover” glaciers with giant blankets. Now, in 2026, data shows how much they actually slow down melting
Back in 2019, a group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences hiked up…..
They look like simple puddles of water, but every time it rains, they activate a prehistoric ecosystem whose lineage began more than 100 million years ago and which the European Union considers a priority
After weeks of heavy rain, the open plains around São Marcos da Ataboeira in the…..
At a depth of 3.2 km and next to a volcano, they have recorded the largest octopus nursery on the planet, the size of 233 soccer fields and full of incubating mothers
Two miles beneath the Pacific Ocean near an extinct volcano off California, the seafloor turns…..
They tried to slow down the advance of the Sahara with millions of bees… and they “melted” at over 70 °C. However, the solution that works is not biology, but geometry on the ground
In one of the harshest corners of the planet, the Sahara Desert has quietly put…..
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming a floating continent populated by marine creatures
When you picture the open Pacific Ocean, do you imagine endless blue water with nothing…..
Satellites detect megawaves up to 35 meters high in the Pacific, and the data is concerning because they appear even without “super hurricanes” involved
Imagine a cargo ship crossing the central Pacific on a calm, dark night while a…..
Fifteen years after the 2011 disaster, Fukushima continues to deliver strange surprises. Japan has found active bacteria in highly radioactive water, and what is most disturbing is that they appear “normal,” as if nothing had happened
Inside one of the most contaminated basements on Earth, scientists have found something unexpected. Common…..
