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The Indian teenager is officially the world's fastest "human calculator".
Ever since tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek hit the mainstream, they’ve shaken up everything from office tasks to art generation. Unsurprisingly, students quickly saw the potential — and began using AI to cheat on essays and exams. At first, it felt like a shortcut. But if AI can ace your test, what does that say […]
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, returning from the frontlines causes its own issues.
Uhm, did we all jump to Star Trek or something?
Investments in geological mapping paid off big time for Americans.
Science is under attack.
Modelling of how Trump’s tariffs will hit global trade suggests the US will be the biggest loser – while a few nations may emerge as surprising winners.
The richest one percenters dominated ancient Rome and Han China. Today's not very far off.
Even the wealthiest Americans live shorter lives than the poorest in parts of Europe
The hidden cost of filing taxes is worse than you think.
ChatGPT doesn't have any political agenda but some unknown factor is causing a subtle shift in its responses.
Science and policy are never truly free from one another. But one country's policy doesn't typically cross borders.
This thing was away of its time and is now building rust in a scrapyard.
“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself,” he said.
A giant octopus rode a mako shark. No one knows why.
William Shakespeare gave the English language more than just poetic sonnets and tragic deaths. He also gave us some of the most delightfully vicious insults ever spoken onstage. These weren’t your average insults. Each jab struck at the core of a character’s personality or the tension of a scene. Many were funny. Some were deadly […]
Attacks on science are rarely signs of something good.
Happiness is hard or maybe even impossible to truly measure. Yet every year, researchers try to do it anyway. The World Happiness Report, an annual ranking that crunches vast amounts of Gallup polling data, has once again crowned Finland the happiest country on Earth. The 2025 rankings tell an intriguing story: Nordic countries dominate, the […]
Apparently, Sierra Leone is both very round and quite rectangular.
Is the way we've been counting the world's population wrong all along?
Mark Rober pits Tesla against lidar in a real-life Wile E. Coyote experiment.
An old hardware choice means that the music is speeding up with the passing years.
Tariffs, market jitters, and history’s lessons all paint a concerning economic picture.
A new study found that machine drying costs U.S. households over $7 billion annually.
China's ghost cities aren't just an economic puzzle — they're a major environmental issue.
Young readers are fueling a surprising bookstore renaissance.
Trump's trade war will cost the average American household between $1,200 and $3,200 annually.
An artist has created the world’s smallest LEGO sculpture — so tiny it’s barely larger than a white blood cell.
Sweden’s “Lagom,” and Denmark’s “Hygge,” aren’t just trendy words — they’re philosophies that promote well-being and balance.
Yes, that's Earth.
Even the Tooth Fairy’s payouts are shrinking, although the stock markets are doing fine.
With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial of President Donald Trump’s high-level administration nominees – the president’s attempt to remake government as a home for political loyalists continues. Soon after coming to office for a second term, Trump aggressively sought to overhaul Washington and […]
A polar bear fetching a stick and other jaw-dropping moments from this year's World Nature Photography Awards.
This bears the hallmark of an authoritarian state.
Imagine a supervillain attacking you with his unique superpower of creating small black holes. An invisible force zips through your body at unimaginable speed. You feel no push, no heat, yet, deep inside your body, atoms momentarily shift in response to the gravitational pull of something tiny yet immensely dense — a primordial black hole […]
Governments worldwide are offering cash incentives and creative policies to boost birth rates, but declining fertility trends reveal deeper societal shifts — here's why their efforts are falling short and what it means for the future.
Ever wondered why you never see bats flying in the rain?
It seems that animals simply love to play.
What happens when you blend classic gaming nostalgia with highbrow art gallery culture? A free browser game transforms DOOM into a serene museum experience.
The pseudoscientific practice of physiognomy, dismissed as junk science centuries ago, is seeing a high-tech revival.
At a Texas testing ground, a 15,000-pound truck slammed into a steel barrier at 50 mph—and lost the fight.
Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.
Rural areas, not cityscapes, seem to be the ideal areas for electric vehicles to reduce daily emissions.
Every fall, a hillside in Oregon flashes a giant, yellow smiley face of trees.
Someone's thrash is another one's treasure - this old saying has an entirely different meaning for an octopus.
In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history—and defied human instinct—by stepping into the vast void of space untethered.
The Futurama Theorem is one of the most fascinating crossovers between academia and pop culture.
Opalized ammonites are dazzling relics of Earth's deep past.
Japan’s anime industry is a multibillion-dollar cultural powerhouse, but piracy poses a massive challenge.
Hiccups aren't just a human quirk—they're a shared trait among mammals like dogs and wolves.
