A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a wide stretch of wilderness along the Alaska Canada border on Saturday, December 6, 2025, and people across the north felt it in different ways. The region is mostly empty land, with huge forests and sharp mountains and long roads that seem to disappear into nothing. So when the...
Solar energy is often praised for being cleaner and more sustainable than other power sources. For example, fossil fuels are finite, their sources are depleting, and they cause air pollution. Meanwhile, solar energy uses sunrays, which are unlimited and abundant (albeit weather-dependent). However, there’s an aspect to solar energy that is not environmentally friendly: land...
In 1999, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded an eerie sound deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. The organization deployed sophisticated hydrophones across the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean to detect underwater events. The loud noise, which some described as an “underwater voice” similar to a woman’s hum has baffled researchers and the...
Yellowstone has erupted three times in the past 2.1 million years, and each event buried large portions of North America under ash. The last one happened 640,000 years ago, a fact news outlets love to mention alongside coverage of earthquake swarms and steam explosions. The framing is always the same. Is the supervolcano overdue to...
The sudden eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano shocked scientists and travelers who never thought this quiet mountain would wake up again. It sits in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, where the land feels cracked and restless. When the eruption started, it felt almost unreal because it had been silent for around twelve thousand years, maybe a...
Food waste is one of the world’s most pressing issues, affecting food security and costing billions in revenue every year. Every year, approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted across the globe, whether spoiled or wasted. This staggering figure is statistically one-third of all food produced for human consumption that never reaches a plate....
Tim Sweeney is best known as the Epic Games CEO behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, yet his most important project may be invisible from space. While other billionaires buy superyachts or rockets, Tim Sweeney has quietly spent years buying forests, wetlands, and mountain slopes across North Carolina, then putting them under permanent protection. As...
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump suggested via his Truth Social platform that most Americans are to receive dividends of “at least” $2,000 per citizen. According to Trump, the rebate would be funded by the tariff revenue collected in this year. He promises to distribute stimulus checks worth $2,000 to most American citizens, but it...
Just like dogs, there are many breeds of sheep with their own unique characteristics. People tend to imagine sheep as fluffy and white, but they actually come in many shapes and colors. They also come in black, brown, gray, striped, or spotted. They may have short ears, tall and pointed ears, or floppy ears. Their...
Throughout history, there have been numerous apocalypse predictions, from both seers and scientists. These end-of-the-world predictions range from the biblical to the astronomical. Astronomers have started reading the universe’s spoiler alerts, and the plot twists are wild. A new peer-reviewed study shows how aging stars quietly erase nearby worlds. Another team recently watched a star...
Off the coast of Costa Rica, a group of fishers pulled up what’s now being called the rare golden shark. It looked unreal, like something straight from a cartoon. Marine biologist Daniel Arauz Naranjo couldn’t believe it when he saw the photos. A nurse shark, shining like gold, its eyes pale white and eerie. “Wow,...
NASA’s astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon’ orbiting within Earth’s orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon spotted in 2025 is an asteroid and not the first celestial object to be bestowed this title. The name ‘quasi-moon’ is given to these celestial objects due to their behavioral characteristics, mimicking our actual moon. This quasi-moon does not orbit Earth...
