The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama Canal. That is part of the story. But one…..
After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct
How do you describe a volcano that looked asleep for thousands of years? Carefully. Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi produced its first recorded explosive eruption on…..
Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours
Science
According to this new study, what lies at the center of the Milky Way may not be what it seemed
What sits at the center of the Milky Way? For decades, the standard answer has…..
They shoot a laser at living human cells and manage to build three-dimensional structures inside them
Most of us are used to hearing about 3D printing in factories or in makerspaces,…..
Why objects such as 3I/ATLAS could be the cheapest ticket to cross the galaxy
What if the most energy efficient way to travel between stars was not a giant…..
James Watson went from being a scientific icon to falling from grace in the public eye. The 1962 Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of DNA died on November 6, 2025, at the age of 97, after years of controversy for making baseless claims that Black people were less intelligent
How does a scientist go from Nobel hero to cautionary tale? James Watson, the American…..
NASA detects a strange “red pulse” on a Norwegian glacier, and what happens every summer in Svalbard is leaving many people speechless
Can a glacier have a heartbeat? Not literally. But NASA says Stonebreen, a glacier on…..
Goodbye to the 24-hour day: from this date onwards, days on Earth will last 25 hours
If you have ever heard that Earth will “soon” switch to 25-hour days, the key…..
In 1989, Voyager 2 observed “something that didn’t add up” on Neptune, and it took us decades to understand it. Now, a study published in Nature suggests that dark ice could be the cause of the planet’s strange magnetism
When Voyager 2 swept past Neptune in 1989, its cameras grabbed the headlines. The real…..
The James Webb Space Telescope points to the “Eye of God,” and what it sees looks like a scene from the future: this is how the Sun could end up in 5 billion years, according to models
If you have ever scrolled past a space photo that looked like a giant blue…..
A rock drilled by Curiosity in Gale Crater in 2013 is back in the news because it might hold a key clue to ancient life on Mars—and no one expected that from an “old” hole
Could a rock sample drilled more than a decade ago hold one of the clearest…..
Mars is not just dust and cold: a study claims that its atmosphere is becoming a “poison factory” with active chemistry that never stops
Mars is not just a cold, dusty world quietly waiting for astronauts. New research suggests…..
Mobility
What seemed like a rock-solid 100,000-mile warranty turned into an exhausting battle for a Pennsylvania couple because Kia refused to repair the engine at 80,000 miles for a bureaucratic reason that many owners would never imagine
When a Pennsylvania couple’s 2019 Kia Optima lost its engine at 80,000 miles, they thought the repair…..
Airbus has finally revealed the identity of the “mystery customer” who ordered eight A350-1000s, and the name comes as a surprise, as it changes the commercial landscape of long-haul flights and opens the door to a new battle for the most profitable routes
An order that once sat in the books of Airbus under the name of an unnamed customer…..
Energy
Economy
The battle for Panama’s ports is entering a new phase, and China has issued a stern warning
Most people will read this as another chapter in the power struggle around the Panama…..
The IRS may owe refunds to millions of people for fees charged between 2020 and 2023
Could an old IRS notice from the pandemic still be worth money? A November 25,…..
Australia has just discovered the largest iron deposit ever recorded, weighing 5.7 billion tons, and the most impressive thing is not its size, but its age
This is not a story about a brand-new mountain of iron suddenly appearing in Australia……
You turn 65, retire, and discover the real surprise: the average Social Security benefit is $1,607, and typical 401(k) savings barely reach $2,400 per month
Turning 65 still feels like a major retirement milestone. But the average Social Security check…..
A popular Alaska cruise line suddenly closes and cancels all future cruises, leaving reservations, refunds, and questions about what happened just before the season began up in the air
A cruise line known for taking travelers into quieter corners of Southeast Alaska has shut…..
Millions of people searched for it for decades during the currency changeover, and now one of the world’s most coveted mythical coins, minted in 1943, is back on the market
On March 10, one of the most famous error coins in American history is set…..
More than 1,000 metric tons of gold have been found underground in China, and the astonishing figure is its price: around $85.9 billion, in a discovery that could redefine the global map of this precious metal
Chinese geologists say they have uncovered more than 1,000 metric tons of gold beneath the…..
Millions of people could lose SNAP without realizing it, and the real change isn’t in soda or candy, but in a new rule that severely affects adults between the ages of 55 and 64
Most readers hear about soda and candy first when SNAP comes up. But for many…..
Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem
During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..
From the gold that sparked the rush of the 1850s to antimony, which now accounts for 5% of the world’s supply: Victoria’s surprising new mining revolution
Gold put Victoria on the mining map. But the minerals driving today’s clean tech boom…..
Technology
Environment
After 12,000 years of silence, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted again, reminding us that an inactive volcano is never truly extinct
How do you describe a volcano that looked asleep for thousands of years? Carefully. Ethiopia’s…..
Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of New York, there is a freshwater “bank” that could supply the city for 800 years. This has been confirmed by drilling 400 meters below the seabed
A vast reservoir off freshened water has been confirmed beneath the Atlantic seafloor off the…..
A 275-million-year-old herbivore with a crooked jaw and “sideways” teeth has been found in Brazil and dubbed a living fossil
What can a handful of fossil jaws really tell us? In this case, quite a…..
China planted more than 66 billion trees to combat desertification, and now the success of its megaproject in the Taklamakan Desert is creating an unexpected problem
Can a place once written off as a “biological void” start cleaning the air? New…..
The strange “Greenland effect” now has figures and defies intuition: the more ice the island loses, the more sea levels along its coastline can drop due to a truly brutal double geological and gravitational mechanism
How can a warming planet push ocean levels higher almost everywhere while making the sea…..
ESA analyzes the storm system battering Spain from space and reveals an atmospheric pattern that could recur more frequently
In just a few weeks, three winter storms named Kristin, Leonardo and Marta have soaked…..
Switzerland has excavated a “second country” beneath the Alps: more than 1,400 tunnels and about 1,243 miles beneath the rock to change the climate… without almost anyone noticing when traveling
If you ride a train through Switzerland, there is a moment when daylight disappears, your…..
It is no longer floating trash: “rocks” made of plastic have been discovered that could remain on Earth as fossils of the future
On a tiny volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic, green turtles are quietly turning human…..
