Comic-Con 2026 Roars Back With Marvel, DC, and a 100-Year-Old Mel Brooks
The World’s Biggest Pop Culture Party Is Back in San Diego San Diego is once again the center of the pop culture universe. Comic-Con International 2026 officially got underway this week, and the convention — now a sprawling, city-consuming spectacle — is delivering one of…
Anthropic Ordered to Pay $1.5 Billion in Record-Breaking AI Copyright Case
A Landmark Ruling for Authors and the AI Industry A U.S. federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors, closing the largest copyright class action in U.S. history and marking the first major resolution of a wave of…
Scientists Find That Humble Moss Fires Electrical Signals Like a Brain
The Moss Beneath Your Feet May Be Running Its Own Network It grows on rocks, creeps across sidewalk cracks, and carpets the forest floor. Most of us barely notice it. But according to a striking new study, that fuzzy green moss is doing something far…
Pentagon Seeks $1.5 Trillion as Iran War Tab Hits $37.5 Billion and Grows
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine testified before the Senate requesting $1.5 trillion in defense funding, including $67.1 billion to cover ongoing Iran war costs estimated at $37.5 billion so far. The request covers weapons, drones, cybersecurity, and operations. Without new funding, parts of the Navy and Air Force budgets could run dry by August, and the Pentagon has already begun limiting training and maintenance.
Massachusetts Mother’s Murder Trial Forces a Reckoning With Postpartum Psychosis
Jury selection has begun for Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother charged with killing her three children in January 2023. Her defense team argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated, while prosecutors claim the killings were premeditated. Her husband has separately sued her medical team for failing to monitor her medication. The case has little legal precedent.
Nashville Rape Fugitive Who Told Detectives He Would Flee to Alaska Captured There
U.S. Marshals tracked down and arrested a Tennessee rape suspect who had fled to Alaska. The fugitive, wanted in connection with a rape case in Tennessee, was apprehended by federal authorities in Alaska. The arrest highlights the reach of the U.S. Marshals Service in pursuing suspects who cross state lines to evade justice.
How NASA Caught a Comet in a Jar and Rewrote the History of Our Solar System
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft made history on January 2, 2004, when it flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres per second. Using a collector filled with silica aerogel, the probe captured cometary particles and transported them across 4.6 billion kilometres back to Earth, where they were dropped into the Utah desert, marking the first time solid comet material had ever been returned for scientific study.
NASA Pinpoints the Exact Second Voyager 1 Will Be One Light-Day From Earth
NASA has pinpointed the exact moment Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth: 2:16 a.m. on November 18, 2026. At that point, the probe will be roughly 16 billion miles away. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 continues to set records as the most distant human-made object ever sent into space.
Global Markets Rattle as Chip Selloff Hammers South Korea While US Data Holds Steady
A Rough Week for Semiconductors South Korea’s stock market has been at the center of one of the most dramatic market stories of 2026. The KOSPI index fell as much as 8.95% on July 13, triggering a marketwide circuit breaker as semiconductor heavyweights SK Hynix…
The Safety App That Knows About Crimes Before Police Even Respond
A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch — In Your Pocket Citizen gives you real-time awareness of emergencies, crimes, and incidents happening near you before it hits the news. That’s not a marketing tagline — it’s the core promise of one of the most talked-about safety…
