Hidden in the Carpathian Mountains at an altitude of 1,300 meters is a gigantic hydroelectric power plant that was once called the greatest in Europe, yet almost no one knows about it
Deep inside Romania’s Parang Mountains, far from crowded highways and noisy cities, sits one of Europe’s most ambitious hydropower projects. The Lotru-Ciunget system was…..
Something huge and brown is crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America, and satellites can no longer ignore it
NASA has just awarded a $37 million contract for something that almost no one sees
Science
Hidden in the Carpathian Mountains at an altitude of 1,300 meters is a gigantic hydroelectric power plant that was once called the greatest in Europe, yet almost no one knows about it
Deep inside Romania’s Parang Mountains, far from crowded highways and noisy cities, sits one of…..
South Korea has just maintained a stable plasma inferno for six minutes, and scientists say this is a game changer
Scientists in South Korea have taken a new step toward turning star power into a…..
It looked like a quiet galaxy from afar, but upon closer inspection, a “cluster” of stars appeared that should not have existed so soon after the Big Bang
If you could rewind the universe to its first billion years and freeze the frame,…..
A cosmic jet looked like just a bright trail, but ALMA has discovered that it is actually a secret archive of a star’s violent childhood
High in the Perseus constellation, about 1,000 light years from Earth, a very young star…..
530 million years ago, the oceans filled with an invisible, lethal gas, and nearly half of all marine life disappeared with no escape
Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs walked on land, Earth’s oceans went through a…..
Two satellites the size of a refrigerator sought each other out in orbit, docked with pinpoint accuracy, and placed India in a very exclusive space club
India has quietly crossed a new frontier in orbit. With its SpaDeX mission, the country…..
Webb looked at old files and found something so strange that it could be showing the birth of a giant black hole in real time
Far out in the constellation Sextans, about 8.3 billion light years from Earth, astronomers have…..
After the major earthquake in Haiti, something continued to move underground for weeks, and scientists have just discovered what it was
When people think about earthquakes in Haiti, they usually picture a single big fault ripping…..
They pointed a radio telescope for less than three hours and, without even looking for them, ended up finding 49 new galaxies hidden in the data
In less than the time it takes to get through a long work afternoon, astronomers…..
The European mission aiming to find life on Mars now has a date and a key partner: NASA will provide a rocket and nuclear “heaters,” with launch planned for 2028 and landing in 2030
What if the clearest clues about life on Mars are not on the surface at…..
Mobility
A German physicist looked at the battle for 2035 and revealed a fact that changes everything: an electric car uses up to six times more energy than a gasoline car
When politicians in Brussels talk about “highly efficient combustion engines”, it can sound as if the old…..
If you’ve seen these new stripes on the highway and wondered why they look like that, the answer is smarter than it seems
On many new concrete highways, the familiar white lane stripe now travels with a thin black band…..
Energy
The largest project in history has begun: 52 billion solar panels to cover America
Goodbye to traditional batteries: this new solar system combines generation and storage in a single device
Fool’s gold could help power the green transition
Economy
Architecture and nursing lose official status in the US, and student loan cuts now have a date
Starting in July 2026, a quiet change in U.S. student loan policy could reshape who…..
Suspicious websites appear claiming a $2,000 deposit from the IRS, and many wonder if the income is real or a scam
As social media fills up with posts promising a $2,000 IRS direct deposit arriving in…..
A 55-year-old mechanic from Arkansas sat his children down for dinner and told them something that many parents don’t dare say out loud about college
When a pipe bursts or the family car refuses to start, most people reach for…..
In 2026, your Social Security check will increase, but the blow will come from another direction, and many will not see it coming until they look at this
In 2026, Social Security checks will go up while Medicare premiums climb and a new…..
The unexpected breakthrough for millions of retirees in Canada will come sooner than expected
As the year draws to a close, many Canadian seniors are counting the days until…..
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates and retirees fear the Social Security increase in 2027 may not be enough
The Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates again, trimming its key rate by a quarter…..
The 10-carat blue diamond valued at $20 million
Would you pay a fortune for a single stone? On May 13, 2025, a 10.03-carat…..
The wealthiest Americans are quietly withdrawing money from their checking accounts, and it’s not out of fear: something is happening with the money
Wealthy Americans are not leaving as much cash in their checking and savings accounts as…..
The Social Security increase is already scheduled for January 2026, and some will receive it before the end of 2025: official list of beneficiaries
Tens of millions of Americans are about to see a slightly bigger Social Security check,…..
After the chaos of November, thousands of SNAP beneficiaries in New York fear that aid will disappear again: the government shutdown left thousands of people without food, and now SNAP faces more obstacles
For thousands of New Yorkers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the first…..
Technology
Environment
In the middle of the Tibetan desert, China’s largest solar park is doing something unexpected that goes far beyond producing electricity
High on China’s Tibetan Plateau, rows of dark blue solar panels now cover what used…..
Something huge and brown is crossing the Atlantic from Africa to America, and satellites can no longer ignore it
For more than a decade, satellites have watched a brown streak grow across the Atlantic…..
The impossible photo from the Arctic: a polar bear is captured “riding” on a huge whale in the middle of an ice labyrinth, and no one knows how that body got there yet
From above, the scene looks almost unreal. A white polar bear lies across the back…..
The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869
In 1869, two Cornish miners prospecting in the dusty hills of Victoria, Australia, hit something…..
It is not a prediction for 2100; it is a “rewind” of five actual heat waves, and the result in today’s climate is much worse than you remember
Europeans know what a brutal heat wave feels like. Trains slow down, hospital waiting rooms…..
A mechanic bought an old Iraqi tank online, and when he reached inside it, he found $2.4 million worth of gold bars hidden inside
When British collector Nick Mead bought an old Iraqi Army Type 69 tank on eBay,…..
Climate change is now tugging on the world’s clocks
Climate change is not only reshaping coastlines and weather patterns. It is also nudging the…..
Faulty metal detector leads to record gold nugget find in England’s Shropshire Hills
A treasure hunter who arrived late to a group dig in England’s Shropshire Hills walked…..
