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…
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 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…
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…
Nearly a Billion People Just Watched the Sun Disappear From the Sky
A Celestial Event of Staggering Scale On August 12, nearly one billion people could potentially see a partial solar eclipse, with 15 million in its path of totality. That kind of reach — roughly one in every eight people on the planet briefly sharing the…
Japan’s Nikkei Surges While Oil Climbs on Hormuz Uncertainty
Global Markets Split as Tokyo Leads and Oil Pressures Persist Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 leading advances after stocks rose on Wall Street, ending last week with gains. The divergence told a familiar story: enthusiasm for technology driving one…
