If your nights felt too hot to sleep this summer — the ocean is why: it just hit 21.1°C, the highest ever measured
You, at 3 a.m. in August: flipping the pillow to the cold side, discovering there is no cold side, negotiating with a fan, lying in a starfish position of pure defeat. Congratulations — you were personally experiencing a world record. The ocean did this to you.
The Milky Way ate a whole galaxy 12 billion years ago — Hubble just found the leftovers: stars worth 500 million Suns
Fun fact about our home galaxy: it's a cannibal. Always has been. The Milky Way got big the way empires and sourdough starters get big — by absorbing everything nearby. And now the Hubble Space Telescope, 36 years old and still outworking all of us, has found the crumbs from one of its very first meals.
Jamie Redknapp's wife is 42 and trains with a rubber band: her 7 go-to moves for glutes and legs
Every few months the fitness industry invents a new machine that costs as much as a used car and folds out of your ceiling. Meanwhile Frida Redknapp — Swedish former model, wife of Jamie Redknapp, owner of legs that have their own gravitational field — is out in the garden with a rubber loop that costs less than two oat lattes, quietly ending all of us.
They say 'I'm fine' and 'don't take it personally' — and mean neither: 10 phrases of people you can't trust
We all know one. The friend who's "fine" in a tone that could curdle milk. The coworker whose feedback always arrives gift-wrapped in "no offense, but." The ex who — no, actually, we're not doing the ex today. The point is: some people communicate, and some people deploy language like a smoke machine, and psychologists have basically handed us a decoder ring.
Readers are already grilling this list of 7 best magic systems: Harry Potter made it with 1 book, 'Rivers of London' didn't at all
Collider's list of the 7 best magic systems in low fantasy books, from Skulduggery Pleasant and The Dresden Files to Babel and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and the titles readers say it left out, including Rivers of London.
She loved Guns N' Roses since first grade, became a snake scientist — and named her new species after Slash
Lielaphis slashi, a new nonvenomous groundsnake species from New Guinea, has been named after Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash by Field Museum herpetologist Sara Ruane. Details on the discovery and the Zootaxa study.
70% chance it's the strongest El Niño since 1950: 2 things it does to a US winter — the north won't like either
Super El Niño 2026–27 winter forecast for the US: NOAA odds of a record-strength event, how the jet stream shifts, and which states get warmer, drier, wetter, or snowier.
World's oldest woman is 117 — and her secret isn't diet or pills
Ethel Caterham, the world's oldest living person, turns 117 in Surrey, England. Her longevity secret, her life from Edwardian Britain to Hong Kong, and how she compares to the all-time record.
