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President Donald Trump gestures in the Oval Office amid questions about $2,000 tariff dividend checks

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

February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Google Quantum AI processor used to demonstrate error corrected logical qubits below the quantum threshold

Google has just crossed the quantum threshold: thus begins the era of error-free computers

February 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Excavated 5,000-year-old dog skeleton in Logsjömossen, Sweden, buried with a polished bone dagger in an ancient lakebed

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

February 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Illustration of black holes in an expanding universe linked to new research on dark energy

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

February 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Traffic cameras mounted over a Washington roadway as the state moves to limit license plate data collection

After decades of uncontrolled data collection, Washington is limiting the use of traffic cameras in 2026 with a law that could forever change the way cars are tracked in the United States (and what they know about you without you realizing it)

February 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Close-up illustration of a dodo, the extinct flightless bird scientists aim to recreate through gene editing

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

February 9, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Archaeologists lifting massive stone blocks from the submerged Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt

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

February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Aerial view of a large floating solar array covering part of a lake, with rows of photovoltaic panels on the water.

Germany launches its most innovative floating solar plant in 2025: it generates energy for hundreds of homes without taking up land and using only 4.6% of the lake’s surface area

February 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A Maya pyramid and plaza at an ancient city site in Guatemala, linked to new research on why some wet regions were abandoned.

It rained, crops kept growing, and yet the Maya still left. The unexpected twist that calls the classic explanation of their collapse into question

February 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mega Millions winning numbers beside a North Carolina Lottery ticket, as a prize is held up over a Social Security number debt mix-up.

A man wins Mega Millions, but his prize is withheld due to a debt that never existed because someone used his Social Security number

February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Shanghai skyline at sunset on the Huangpu River, a coastal megacity facing land subsidence linked to groundwater pumping.

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

February 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Side-by-side image shows the USS Utah capsized at Pearl Harbor and a modern US Navy submarine underway at sea.

The United States Navy has revived the name USS Utah for a nuclear submarine, reopening a wound directly tied to Pearl Harbor

February 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Inset highlights “Cosmic Grapes,” an early lensed galaxy whose light breaks into many compact, star-forming clumps.

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

February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Space debris over Earth as the FAA warns airlines to plan for falling rocket debris after a Starship breakup.

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

February 8, 2026 at 8:02 AM
New York City skyline with Central Park in autumn, as the city announces a major housing settlement forcing repairs across boroughs

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

February 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Data center cooling units at sunset, highlighting the energy and water footprint behind today’s AI boom

The world is increasingly concerned about total AI, and China is aligning itself with Indonesia in a wave of regulations that seek to curb its total replacement

February 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Alex Simpson, born with hydranencephaly, rests on a couch beside her parents during a family interview in Nebraska.

Alex Simpson was born in Nebraska with hydranencephaly. Doctors said he would live only a few months, but he has just turned 20, and his case is forcing scientists to rethink what we believe we know about the brain

February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Aerial view of a vast solar farm in Qinghai, China, with rows of photovoltaic panels stretching across desert land.

In Qinghai, there is a solar monster capable of producing nearly 17,000 megawatts, and it not only generates electricity but is also changing the desert ecosystem

February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ALMA image of a protoplanetary disk showing rings and gaps shaped by forming baby planets

New images capture “footprints” of baby planets around newborn stars, which could be forming in just hundreds of thousands of years

February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A cargo ship escorted by tugboats moves through a canal channel with a bridge in the background.

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

February 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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