Cardiovascular diseases kill more people than any other condition, taking 17.9 million lives each year globally, making them the leading cause of death worldwide. Soon, these silent killers could be spotted as easily as holding your phone to your chest, detecting heart disease before it becomes deadly. Meet Siddarth Nandyala, a University of Texas freshman...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll appeared on Fox News and casually mentioned talking to “an astronaut yesterday who’s on the Moon who’s a soldier.” Proving that a single sentence can break the internet, especially when it inadvertently echoes decades of conspiracy theories about secret space programs and mysterious moon landing operations. Social media instantly erupted. Conspiracy theories spread like wildfire. Viewers...

Recent Middle East conflicts have increased searches about World War III and U.S. draft rules, Google data shows. Searches for “WWIII” and “US draft age limit” surged after these major international incidents, according to reports. This shows growing concern about how tensions might affect military service requirements, with many Americans wondering who would be drafted if the selective service system...

The next time you pull your laptop out at airport security, you’ll be following rules created by a terrifying terrorist attack nine years ago. On February 2, 2016, a bomb hidden inside a laptop exploded on Daallo Airlines Flight 159, leading to security rules still used worldwide. The attack changed how airports check electronics and...

An Oregon high school track meet became the center of a national debate when two female athletes refused to share a medal podium with a transgender athlete. The incident at the state championship went viral on social media, starting conversations about fairness in women’s sports. The protest has taken on new importance since the Trump administration...

The memorial garden in Tuam looks peaceful from the street, with neat grass and quiet housing that suggests nothing of the tragedy beneath. Yet this week, workers began sealing off the site where investigators believe nearly 800 children are buried. Forensic teams are beginning Ireland’s most extensive excavation to recover the remains of babies and...

Imagine a world where rivers flowed across lush landscapes, where early mammals roamed beneath warm skies, and where life thrived in places we now consider Earth’s most desolate. Now imagine that world perfectly preserved, frozen for 34 million years beneath two miles of Antarctic ice. Scientists have just discovered exactly that. A prehistoric landscape larger than Belgium, complete with...

When Air India Flight AI171 departed Ahmedabad Thursday afternoon bound for London, nobody expected the routine flight would end in a crash that would devastate India. London-bound passengers settled in for the long haul. Instead, within minutes of takeoff, all 241 souls aboard were gone. Only one passenger walked away from the wreckage. What makes this tragedy even more unsettling is what...

Some people glide down the sidewalk while others shuffle along at a crawl. Turns out this difference could determine how long you live. Health experts now call walking speed the “sixth vital sign” because this simple measurement predicts your future health better than many expensive medical procedures. What makes this even better is that you don’t need any needles or...

A Meme of a young woman in what appeared to be an Indigenous costume paired with a joke about Christopher Columbus didn’t just go viral. It exploded. It racked up hundreds of thousands of likes. Behind those numbers lies a story about unwanted fame, Brazilian internet culture, and how dark historical humor travels from the web’s shadowy corners...

When you’re soaking through sheets and feeling bone-tired despite rest, your body might be sending urgent messages that are more alarming than you’d expect. Night sweats and crushing fatigue? They’re common cancer symptoms that just happen to strike at night while you’re sleeping. These experiences don’t guarantee cancer. Most people with these signs have other causes. But recognizing when they shift from normal to concerning can help...

Last week, a street interview fooled everyone entirely. The woman confidently discussed AI making ‘haters go crazy’ while an interviewer listened intently. Someone watched from behind as pedestrians moved naturally through the nighttime scene. Everything looked completely authentic. Then someone revealed the truth, and people felt uncomfortable. Google DeepMind’s Veo 3 generated this entire 8-second...