For the first time, they “saw” a tectonic plate breaking apart under the Pacific, and what they found was not a crack, but an entire system
Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath…..
An expedition discovers an infected giant tarantula, and the find is so rare that it has left scientists with a thousand questions
Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, researchers found something that looked as if it had stepped out of a streaming thriller. During fieldwork in January at…..
Geologists discover that the Earth’s core is leaking: it will release 1,000 tons of ancient gold
Science
For the first time, they “saw” a tectonic plate breaking apart under the Pacific, and what they found was not a crack, but an entire system
Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic…..
An expedition discovers an infected giant tarantula, and the find is so rare that it has left scientists with a thousand questions
Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, researchers found something that looked as if it had stepped out…..
Human DNA reopens the last great mystery of Genghis Khan, and what scientists have discovered could change everything we thought we knew about his descendants
For years, one startling number has followed Genghis Khan through history books, documentaries, and internet…..
The project that threatened one of Earth’s clearest skies has been canceled, and astronomers are celebrating because Paranal will no longer face its most feared invisible enemy
How much is darkness worth? At Chile’s Paranal Observatory, it can mean the difference between…..
An artificial intelligence application identifies dinosaur footprints with 90% accuracy… and may have found the footprints of the planet’s first birds, dating back 200 million years
Dinosaur tracks have always been a bit of a riddle. Now an artificial intelligence app…..
Astronomers discover a solar system 120 light-years away with two “Earths” and an arrangement so strange that it doesn’t fit any known formation model
What happens when a planetary system refuses to follow the usual script? Astronomers say they…..
The Moon could harbor a gigantic chemical archive of the early Earth
For as long as humans have looked up at the Moon, it has seemed like…..
Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible
Can Mars really make lightning in air so thin and cold? A new Nature study…..
Typhoid fever seemed to be a thing of the past… but a “super strain” is learning to evade almost all antibiotics
An ancient disease that rides in dirty water is quietly reinventing itself as a modern…..
Geologists discover that the Earth’s core is leaking: it will release 1,000 tons of ancient gold
Deep beneath our feet, a slow trickle of gold is escaping from the heart of…..
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
Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament
Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite…..
Another theme park goes bankrupt and closes its doors “forever”: what has happened in recent weeks is more serious than it seems
Is Brean Theme Park really gone for good? Not exactly. The Somerset attraction entered liquidation…..
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…..
Technology
Environment
It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined
If you picture a new species discovery, you might imagine a submarine camera or a…..
For years, no one knew what those strange clay “chimneys” protruding from the ground in the Amazon were for, until a study published on February 23, 2026, came up with an answer that was as simple as it was brilliant
On the rainforest floor near Manaus in northern Brazil, small clay chimneys stick up like…..
China is transforming the Takla Makan Desert, which at 337,000 km² is almost the size of Poland, into a “lung in the sand”: the 66 billion trees planted since 1978 have increased vegetation, multiplied rainfall during the wet season by 2.5 times, and even reduced local CO2 levels from 416 to 413 ppm
Can a place so dry it is nicknamed the “Sea of Death” really help us…..
The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban
The European eel is running out of time. Scientists describe its situation as critical, yet…..
It stands over 100 feet tall, is nearly 200 feet wide at the base, and may be older than many famous monuments; now NOAA believes that this Maug coral may hold clues to the future of reefs
NOAA researchers working in the Mariana Islands have measured a colossal stony coral inside the…..
The data has the UN on high alert: Earth has just broken a nearly imperceptible climate record, and scientists believe this “heat debt” could eventually trigger heat waves, storms, and coastal events over the coming centuries
Earth is holding on to more heat than it releases, and new climate reporting suggests…..
They are called “donuts” and look like fairy circles underwater, but science is baffled because no one yet knows what mechanism draws these perfect giant rings on the seabed off the coast of Scotland
Hundreds of giant ring shapes have appeared on the seafloor off the coast of Scotland,…..
A team of scientists has drilled a massive hole in West Antarctica and extracted 228 meters of rock—the deepest sample of its kind ever obtained
What can a long tube of mud and rock from the middle of Antarctica tell…..
