The view of Lake Bacalar from the boardwalk. Dawn was breaking over the lagoon when I looked down and saw one of the oldest life forms on earth. It wasn’t much to look at. Lumpy, white, and sitting ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes. Sometimes, supposedly reasonable assumptions set researchers on the wrong ...

What if I told you the U.S. built dozens of concrete ships yes, ships made of concrete and many of them are still floating today? In this video, I kayak out to nine concrete ships stranded off the ...

The Waco Calligraphy Guild will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 800 N. New Road. Beth Pristash will present a program on making creative cards. Rubber duck "adoptions" are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In years to come, we may well look back on September 2025 as the point at which social media jumped the shark ...

Taxpayers who typically receive tax refunds by paper check could be surprised next year when the IRS initiates new steps to spur direct deposit.

A spiral DNA double helix structure on blue background. - Billion Photos/Shutterstock People were always aware that things like physical features and biological quirks tended to run in families, but ...

Become a runner in Marathon, a sci-fi PvP extraction shooter as you compete for survival, riches, and renown in a world of evolving, persistent zones, where any run can lead to greatness.

A layered graphene and chromium oxychloride device functions as a broadband optical synapse, detecting visible to deep infrared light and learning image orientation through built-in memory.

Europe sends billions in frozen Russian assets to Kyiv as Moscow threatens response - Russia blames Ukraine for the damage as the UN atomic watchdog has repeatedly warned of the possibility of a radia ...

A forgotten 19th-century French process has contemporary lessons to teach us about understanding the nature of authorship ...