Nearly 30 million Americans are under heat advisories or extreme heat warnings this week, as triple-digit temperatures scorch large swaths of the country. Yes, it’s August, and hot weather is ...

A new study shows a sharp decline in the semicolon across English literature—nearly a 50% drop in just two decades. Once a favorite of literary giants like Virginia Woolf, this tiny punctuation ...

The Hyperion Project has unveiled its three finalists—ambitious concepts for interstellar travel that could one day take humans beyond our solar system. The mission target? Proxima Centauri, the ...

Imagine drones that never land, smartphones you never plug in—Chinese scientists say they’ve built a tiny nuclear battery using Carbon-14 that’s safe, stable, and incredibly long-lived ...

5. Act fast after an incident If a fox scores once, it may view your coop as easy pickings. Move quickly: find and fix the weak points—torn mesh, a hole under the fence, or a door that didn’t ...

A team of marine researchers has uncovered a remarkable ecosystem in the hadal zone—the deepest parts of Earth’s oceans. Instead of relying on sunlight, these communities are powered by ...

Since touching down in February 2021, Perseverance has kept peeling back Mars’s geological layers. Under especially clear skies, NASA’s imaging team stitched together one of the mission’s ...

What was supposed to be a show of American strength against the Houthis ended with three F/A-18 Super Hornets lost, $180 million gone, and serious questions about the Navy’s ability to project ...

Chinese robotics company Unitree is one of the most recognizable names in the industry. Its G1 humanoid made headlines more than once—whether for “losing it” in an office or for playfully ...

After a dip in sales across Europe and the U.S., Tesla is preparing to roll out a more affordable version of its best-selling Model Y. By trimming features and shrinking the battery, the automaker ...

“Imperfect but committed”: how I learned to wash, cook, and live differently—zero‑waste style ...

Kamchatka is no stranger to powerful shocks: a magnitude‑9.0 quake struck less than 30 km (19 mi) from this week’s epicenter in 1952. Why wasn’t the tsunami worse? When an overriding plate ...