From Vogue to Vitamins: How a Health Crisis Pushed One Woman to Build a Better Brand
When Success Becomes a Warning Sign Alexandra Taylor was at the height of her career when her body started sending warning signs she could no longer ignore. She had built an impressive résumé at institutions including Vogue, L’Oréal, Google, and Who What Wear, where she…
Oil Shock and Iran Threats Send Wall Street Sliding for a Third Straight Day
Markets Rattled as US-Iran Conflict Escalates Wall Street has had a rough stretch, and the US-Iran conflict is squarely at the center of it. On Tuesday, August 18, US stock futures extended a multi-day slide as fresh geopolitical flashpoints stoked fears of higher inflation and…
Lunar Jobs Are Coming — Space CEO Says Moon Bases Will Light Up the Sky by 2030s
A Moon Base You Can See From Your Backyard “We’ll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” Dylan Taylor said, adding that people on Earth will eventually be able to look up and see lights from lunar settlements. That’s not the…
India’s Solar Mission Cracks One of Science’s Oldest Mysteries About the Sun
A Century-Old Question Gets a New Answer Stand near a fire and step closer — you get hotter. Step away — you get cooler. Simple physics. And yet our Sun has been violating that logic for as long as scientists have been watching it. The…
Why Earth Thrives and Its Planetary Twin Venus Became a Toxic Hellscape
Two Worlds Born Together, Worlds Apart Put Earth and Venus side by side and the family resemblance is startling. Venus is about 95 percent of Earth’s diameter, 81.5 percent of its mass, and has roughly 90 percent of Earth’s surface gravity. A person who weighed…
The Citizen App Promises Safety but Its Paywall and Privacy Tradeoffs Spark Debate
A Safety App With a Growing Footprint — and Growing Questions 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 users and their loved ones safe. It has become one…
Trump Seizes on Historic Crime Drop to Boost Republicans Ahead of Midterms
A Political Showcase Built on Real Numbers With the 2026 midterms looming, President Donald Trump on Friday moved to make falling crime rates a centerpiece of his party’s electoral pitch. Trump showcased falling violent crime rates as evidence that his law-and-order agenda is working, seeking…
The Secret Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon and Terrify the Soviets
A Nuclear Flash Visible From Earth In 1958, a year after the Soviets put Sputnik into orbit and shook the confidence of an entire country, the US Air Force quietly asked a physicist named Leonard Reiffel to study something that sounds almost too dramatic to…
East Germany Begins Building the Berlin Wall, Dividing a City Forever
The Night a City Was Split in Two In the early hours of August 13, 1961, East German soldiers and workers began unrolling barbed wire and laying the first concrete blocks along the border between East and West Berlin. By morning, a city of millions…
USA Swimming’s CFO Arrested for Embezzlement, Resigns Days Later
A Short Tenure Ends in Scandal Just one day after being placed on leave by USA Swimming, chief financial officer Cory Hilliard resigned — a stunning fall that unfolded within 48 hours of his arrest becoming public. The episode has raised serious questions about vetting…
