The Citizen App Promises Safety but Its Growing Paywall Is Raising Alarms
A Safety App Under the Spotlight Citizen bills itself as the essential safety app for today’s world, providing real-time safety alerts, live incident videos, and 24/7 emergency assistance to keep you and your loved ones safe. It sounds like a civic good — a digital…
Five Years and 2.4 Million Girls Later, Afghanistan Stands Alone in Banning Education
A Crisis That Keeps Growing About 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are barred from secondary school, the United Nations cultural agency reported Tuesday, renewing its call on the Taliban government to lift restrictions on female education. Five years into Taliban rule, the scale of this…
Myspace Is Coming Back and Its Owners Are Betting on Your Nostalgia
A Blast From the Past — With a Purpose Before TikTok’s endless loops, before Instagram’s curated grids, and before Facebook swallowed the internet whole, there was Myspace — the platform that let you pick a profile song, rank your eight best friends, and design a…
Dramatic Car Chase Ends in Arrests After $300,000 Watch Snatched in Saint-Tropez
A Brazen Theft in Broad Daylight Four Spanish nationals have been arrested following the theft of a luxury Richard Mille watch worth around $300,000 — approximately €260,000 — in Saint-Tropez. The watch was stolen from a Brazilian tourist near the Hôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez on…
Ransom Notes Released in Nancy Guthrie Case Spark Slight Increase in Tips
Six Months and Still No Answers On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of NBC News journalist and *Today* co-anchor Savannah Guthrie — was kidnapped from her home in Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. More than half a year later,…
NASA’s “Big Bang” Maneuver Buys Voyager 2 at Least One More Year in Deep Space
A High-Stakes Swap Billions of Miles From Home Voyager 2’s interstellar instruments will keep transmitting data for at least one more year after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory completed a high-stakes power swap on August 4, 2026 — a simultaneous procedure, nicknamed the “Big Bang,” that…
US Marines Storm Guadalcanal in America’s First Pacific Offensive
On August 07, 1942: US Marines Storm Guadalcanal in America’s First Pacific Offensive
How Cold War Scientists Designed a Starship That Could Reach Another Sun
Scientists and engineers have long dreamed of using fusion-powered spacecraft to reach other star systems within a human lifetime. Concepts first explored during the Space Age and Cold War era proposed that fusion drives could generate enough thrust to make interstellar travel feasible. Many of those original ideas remain under consideration today, waiting for technological breakthroughs to finally bring them to life.
Ancient Ocean May Still Be Alive Beneath Antarctica’s Crimson Blood Falls
A Waterfall Like No Other At the edge of the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, crimson water pours into Lake Bonney below — a feature scientists have aptly named “Blood Falls.” For over a century, the eerie red outflow has captivated…
New At-Home Tick Test Could Detect Lyme Disease in Under 30 Minutes
A new at-home test kit can tell you within 15 minutes whether a tick is carrying Lyme disease, similar to how a COVID or pregnancy test works. LymeAlert, created by an MIT researcher, is shipping 5,000 kits this month. The device grinds open the tick and tests for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, allowing for faster treatment and potentially preventing chronic illness.
