270,000 seashells found in a 5,000-year-old female grave reveal what female power was like in the Copper Age, leaving scientists speechless
Five thousand years ago on a low plateau outside what is now Seville, someone poured astonishing time and energy into a single idea. Dress…..
The mission to bring Earth’s most valuable rocks from Mars is considered a failure, and now China could get there first with a return in 2031
A few dozen metal tubes scattered across Mars may hold our best clues to past life. For now, they are staying right where they…..
What many people install to protect their cars can now result in fines of $1,000 or even arrests
Science
270,000 seashells found in a 5,000-year-old female grave reveal what female power was like in the Copper Age, leaving scientists speechless
Five thousand years ago on a low plateau outside what is now Seville, someone poured…..
The mission to bring Earth’s most valuable rocks from Mars is considered a failure, and now China could get there first with a return in 2031
A few dozen metal tubes scattered across Mars may hold our best clues to past…..
For 25 years, we believed that 70% of the universe was “dark energy”… but this new theory could prove that it was all a mistake
Dark energy, the invisible something that is supposed to make up about 70% of the…..
NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to the Moon begins with a 4-mile journey at walking pace
NASA is already moving its giant rocket to platform 39B, and the manned return to…..
Astronomers discover a baby galaxy in turbo mode: it converts more than 180 “suns” of gas per year into new stars… while ours barely reaches 1
Imagine a single galaxy giving birth to new suns at a pace 180 times faster…..
A group of researchers compared the DNA of Italian centenarians with prehistoric genomes… and what they discovered left them stunned: the secret to living to 100 could lie in genes from 14,000 years ago
Could the secret to blowing out 100 birthday candles be hiding in DNA that dates…..
The surprise in physics: two electrons do not become entangled “all at once,” but rather the correlation forms first and then the temporal signature appears in the leak
For years, quantum entanglement was described as something that happens in an instant. Two particles…..
A “pre-sapiens” in China 300,000 years ago: a juvenile jawbone that blends archaic traits with nearly modern features
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from a cave in eastern China is quietly reshaping what scientists thought…..
They detected signs of microbes almost as old as the Earth
If you picked up a dull gray rock from a South African outcrop, would you…..
A nearly neon-orange nurse shark was accidentally caught off the coast of Costa Rica, and scientists believe it may be the first documented case involving a “double” pigment change
A group of sport fishers off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast thought they had hooked a…..
Mobility
What many people install to protect their cars can now result in fines of $1,000 or even arrests
Drivers in California now face jail time and fines if they are caught with certain high-tech devices…..
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…..
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
It does not come from the mantle. It comes from the crust. The twist that dismantles the myth of “magic” hydrogen
Economy
If you have received this message, you may be entitled to receive up to $75 for each text message, and the deadline to file a claim is February 12, 2026
If your phone has ever buzzed again and again with marketing messages after you typed…..
A scientific “detective” from the United Kingdom has uncovered manipulated images in articles financed with public funds, and the United States is already recovering millions of dollars
A British biologist who spent his evenings scrutinizing cancer papers on a laptop has just…..
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……
Technology
Environment
A biologist gets her fingers stained with berry juice… and accidentally discovers a species of bee that was believed to have been extinct in the region since 1904
Last summer, a scientist walking through a campus orchard in Syracuse noticed a small, plain…..
A giant tortoise, extinct for over a century, has reappeared alive after several failed expeditions, reviving a historic plan to save the species, a symbol of evolution
A giant tortoise that scientists once filed under “extinct for more than a century” has…..
Your continent could be feeding a volcano in the middle of the ocean… and you didn’t even know it
When a continent breaks apart, at the surface we see oceans that open very slowly……
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…..
