The IRS begins imposing penalties: millions of people face fines of up to $680 for ignoring the IRS deadline
The end of January information return deadline has now passed, and the clock is already ticking on IRS penalties that can reach 680 dollars…..
China sold 11 million electric vehicles in one year, leaving less room for the oil it used to buy from Venezuela
Science
A metal detectorist heard a beep in a plowed field and walked up a hillside in ancient Norway and found seven gold medallions buried and abandoned in the 6th century
About 1,500 years ago, someone in what is now southeastern Norway walked up to a…..
Language is not only human: Bonobos surprise us by combining sounds into meaningful phrases
Most of us spend the day tossing out words without thinking about how they fit…..
Earth has an “inner core” that deforms in real time, and seismic waves have given it away
Far beneath our feet, in a place hotter than any furnace and under pressures that…..
A lake in Guatemala preserved 3,300 years of “evidence,” and now its sediments show that drought alone does not explain the Maya collapse
For decades, the story has sounded straightforward. The ancient Maya built powerful cities for more…..
Scientists are observing in real time how a cephalopod nervous system is built, and the pattern looks far too similar to that of vertebrates to ignore
Octopuses can solve puzzles, learn quickly, and sometimes act like they are just messing with…..
A team was excavating in Patagonia when they saw dark fragments inside a closed rock, and now they are talking about a predator that no one had put on the map
If you imagine the last days of the dinosaurs, you probably picture tyrannosaurs and other…..
Two researchers had been stuck on a Mayan number for years. They changed a single rule, and a pattern appeared that was impossible to ignore
For years, headlines about the “Mayan calendar” focused on end-of-the-world myths. Behind those stories sat…..
For 2,000 years, no one could fully explain why chameleons’ eyes seem to live separately, and the answer was coiled inside the skull in the form of an old telephone cable
Have you ever watched a chameleon in a nature video and wondered how each eye…..
The loudest gravitational wave ever heard comes from 2025 and tests Hawking’s rule with almost absurd precision
The universe has just sent its loudest gravitational whisper so far. In that tiny ripple…..
Archaeologists open a chamber sealed for 40,000 years, and what they find beneath the sand in Gibraltar changes what we thought we knew about Neanderthals: coastal hunters, glue makers, and Paleolithic artists
On the steep Mediterranean cliffs of Gibraltar, archaeologists have stepped into a room that no…..
Mobility
Say goodbye to security checks: the TSA simplifies airport security and your face becomes your pass to go through security checks at 50 terminals across the United States
Have you ever reached the front of an airport security line only to realize your ID is…..
Between 2021 and 2023, a coordinated group managed to steal at least 14 semi-trailers full of big-brand products, and now judges are handing down sentences that could change highway crime
When six men were sentenced in Indiana on January 16, 2026 for a sweeping cargo theft conspiracy,…..
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
China sold 11 million electric vehicles in one year, leaving less room for the oil it used to buy from Venezuela
Economy
The IRS begins imposing penalties: millions of people face fines of up to $680 for ignoring the IRS deadline
The end of January information return deadline has now passed, and the clock is already…..
What started as a favor between neighbors ended with a tax bill and an unexpected fiscal nightmare
The letter looked ordinary. A white envelope, the tax office logo, a few formal lines……
If you received text messages after saying “stop,” you can claim up to $75 per message before February 12
Americans whose phones kept buzzing with Kaiser marketing texts even after replying “stop” now have…..
This popular supermarket is running out of fresh food: the small store that saved the neighborhood is now struggling to survive, while large chains throw away tons of food
In the Cincinnati neighborhood of Avondale, the shelves of its only full-service grocery store have…..
The IRS launches a historic change affecting 164 million people
Millions of Americans who count on their tax refund every spring are being urged to…..
Chicago imposes the highest tourist tax in US history (and it won’t be the only one): how it will affect your next booking in 2026
Check out of a hotel in some popular American destinations in 2026 and you may…..
Change the way you pay for your travel: the TSA will be implementing security fees starting February 1, and many passengers will be surprised by the impact this will have on their tickets and their time
Beginning February 1, 2026, travelers who reach airport security without a REAL ID compliant license,…..
Elon Musk’s plan to redesign the world’s factories… and perhaps the planet too: humanoid robots that work 12 hours a day, never rest, and use artificial intelligence
Tesla has quietly crossed a line that could reshape factory work worldwide. On January 21,…..
Mark Zuckerberg is building a $30 million mega-bunker with 30 rooms, 95,000-liter tanks, 13-meter concrete walls, and doors that can withstand 8 tons
When European officials recently urged households to prepare a 72 hour survival kit, the message…..
A Coast Guard patrol intercepted hundreds of packages of cocaine on the high seas, but behind that record lies a chain of deforestation, poisoned rivers, and rainforests turned into clandestine airstrips
In 2025, U.S. Coast Guard crews pulled more than 511,000 pounds of illegal narcotics from…..
Technology
Environment
Less sulfur, more heat: the reduction in maritime emissions caused global warming to exceed expectations
Britain has been told to prepare for at least two degrees Celsius of global warming…..
Meteorologists warn that an anomaly in the polar vortex is approaching, and that its speed and shape do not match what textbooks taught decades ago
The warning did not arrive with blizzards or broken power lines. It first appeared as…..
Shanghai should have sunk years ago… but something invisible keeps it afloat: the secret lies 1,000 meters beneath your feet and has to do with oil wells and recycled water
From California’s coast to the banks of the Yangtze, engineers are trying something that sounds…..
The water apocalypse already has a date, and millions of people will experience it sooner than imagined
A new global study has put a date on one of the most unsettling ideas…..
Researchers were setting up cameras to count tigers in Nandhaur. They focused on a forest stream, and what appeared on the memory card was not listed in any official records
During a tiger survey in India, researchers caught a glimpse of an elusive predator. Trail…..
A new heat record threatens to trigger climate disasters
Most of us feel global warming when a heat wave hits or when the electric…..
Antarctica has just broken a record that is alarming scientists: a glacier the size of a city collapsed in just two months, and experts fear that this is only the beginning
A remote glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula has done something researchers had only really…..
Since the 1970s, climate models have favored trees… but now, 50 years later, biology tells us something else we cannot ignore
For years, a comforting idea has floated around climate conversations. As carbon dioxide builds up…..
