The powerful storms battering the Jersey Shore this winter have revealed the ruins of an old wooden ship buried beneath sea and sand for nearly 140 years.
The vessel, called the Lawrence N. McKenzie, was traveling from Puerto Rico to New York…
By the end of December 2025, I felt locked into “streaks” on several social media apps. My language-learning app cheered me on to a five-year streak. Reddit gave me a “badge” for consistently liking posts or making comments. And a puzzles…
The mayor of Niscemi, a small town in Sicily, ordered the evacuation of more than 1,500 people after days of torrential rain triggered a massive landslide on January 25, 2026.
According to reports from the Associated Press (AP), the landslide…
Polar bears have come to symbolize the cost of a warming Arctic. As sea ice retreats, the platform they rely on to hunt prey disappears, and bears are expected to burn through fat reserves and grow thinner. But in Svalbard, a Norwegian…
A popular wild mushroom, openly sold in markets and restaurants in southwest China, if not prepared properly, can cause a striking pattern of hallucinations straight out of a fairytale, according to the Natural History Museum of Utah.
The mushroom…
Right after the Big Bang, the universe existed as an ultra-hot, ultra-dense fluid made of quarks and gluons, the most basic building blocks of matter. Known as quark-gluon plasma, it can be imagined as the universe’s original soup, a chaotic…
It can happen when you’re an adolescent and when you’re an adult, but no matter when acne rears its ugly head, it can be stressful and make you feel self-conscious.
While acne is largely a human-specific disease, dogs and cats can develop…
Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior in more than 200 species
