A neighbor installs cameras in his garden in Dietlikon and films a red fox and a hedgehog sharing the same bowl of cat food in a garden while fireworks explode
On a snowy night in the Swiss town of Dietlikon, a red fox and a hedgehog lower their noses into the same bowl of…..
Chernobyl, 40 years later: mutant wolves are found surviving by feeding on radioactive prey… and resisting cancer like no other mammal
Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves are still roaming the exclusion zone, hunting, breeding, and in some areas showing higher densities…..
Science
Science has just discovered “oases” of clams and tube worms at a depth of 9,533 meters, where sunlight does not exist and yet life thrives in abundance
A last-minute detour nearly six miles down has led scientists to what they call the…..
The intact skeleton of a 5,000-year-old dog buried with a bone dagger is found in an ancient Swedish lake… and changes everything we thought we knew about the relationship between humans and dogs in ancient times
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered a Stone Age dog burial that brings humanity and ritual…..
What Eddington once called absurd could be behind 70% of the cosmos: the new idea that turns the universe’s expansion into a kind of cosmic “fuel” that no one had taken this seriously before
For decades, black holes were treated like a cosmic punchline. In the 1930s, astronomer Arthur…..
Extinct for more than 300 years, the dodo could walk the Earth again: science is seriously attempting to do so with an unusual biotechnological experiment that promises to resurrect a species extinct since 1681… but with an unexpected twist
An animal that vanished more than three hundred years ago is back in the headlines……
Archaeologists are lifting 70- to 80-ton stones from the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria, and the most intriguing part is that some pieces appear to be part of a long-lost monumental doorway
For centuries, the Lighthouse of Alexandria has lived in the weird space between fact and…..
It rained, crops kept growing, and yet the Maya still left. The unexpected twist that calls the classic explanation of their collapse into question
For decades, one explanation has dominated the story of the Maya decline in the southern…..
A galaxy looked calm in the first images, but when it was brought into focus it turned out to be a cluster of at least 15 stellar bursts, like cosmic grapes
A galaxy that lived only about 930 million years after the Big Bang looked, at…..
The United States issues a historic warning to all airlines: the “invisible risk” in the sky is no longer a theory, but has become a reality following the explosion of a SpaceX rocket that nearly collided with three commercial flights
In early January, the US Federal Aviation Administration quietly issued its first safety alert telling…..
New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years
If you have ever looked up at the night sky and wondered when Earth first…..
Just 600 million years after the Big Bang, a compact galaxy appears that produces stars as if there were no tomorrow
Using one of the most sensitive radio telescopes on Earth, astronomers have found an extreme…..
Mobility
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…..
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…..
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
Economy
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…..
A man wins Mega Millions, but his prize is withheld due to a debt that never existed because someone used his Social Security number
Winning the lottery is supposed to be simple. You check your ticket, claim your prize,…..
The Mamdani administration secures a landmark multimillion-dollar settlement that forces a large property owner to repair thousands of structural problems and ends the hellish conditions endured by hundreds of families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan in 2026
New York City has put a big number on unhealthy housing. A $2.1 million settlement…..
The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade
When water runs low in Panama, the whole world feels it. The Panama Canal handles…..
Stimulus checks in February 2026 are still a rumor, and here’s what the IRS actually says
Social media posts and chain emails are once again claiming “new stimulus checks” are landing…..
A recently-passed law in Virginia could bankrupt small artisanal wineries that have been growing grapes and making unique wines in mountainous terrain for decades
A law meant to keep Virginia wine truly Virginian is now sending ripples through the…..
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…..
Technology
Environment
Chernobyl, 40 years later: mutant wolves are found surviving by feeding on radioactive prey… and resisting cancer like no other mammal
Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, gray wolves are still roaming the exclusion zone,…..
Radar has uncovered a secret Cold War base buried beneath 30 meters of ice in Greenland, and the most unsettling part is what was left trapped down there
A routine research flight over Greenland has turned up an unexpected reminder of the Cold…..
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…..
Scientists capture for the first time how life returns to “hell”: microbes appear hours after an eruption, and no one understands how they survive
When a volcano erupts, it seems like nothing could survive in the path of the…..
China has built more than 1,000 waste incineration plants and now lacks enough waste to feed them, so in 2026 it will begin excavating landfills as if they were fuel mines
In China, many of the trash burning power plants that once seemed like an easy…..
Methane is out of control… but this strategy involving temporary CO2 capture could slow down its climate impact
Imagine trying to fix two very different leaks in the same house. One drip never…..
Thousands of families in poor countries cook with plastic… and almost no one talks about the risks this poses
Most of us only smell burning plastic when a trash bag hits a hot stove…..
A small, elusive animal that disappeared in 1800 was captured by surprise in Ohio, and no one had seen it in over 100 years, but a simple camera in the woods has just changed everything
A grainy black and white clip from a forest in Cleveland might not look like…..
