A strong El Niño actually means fewer Atlantic hurricanes, but the Pacific has been extra stormy

This startup is trying to make it rain for $100 million

A three-year-old company just raised $100 million to fly drones into clouds and squeeze rain out of them. Rainmaker says its Alaska tests pulled 19 million gallons of precipitation from the sky in three hours. If that number holds up under scrutiny, the business of manufacturing fresh water on demand stops being science fiction and starts being a market.

NASA celebrates America's 250th birthday with incredible views of space

When celebrating America’s 250th birthday, NASA did not use fireworks, but sent its probes much further into space, taking four pictures with lots of red, white, and blue. The observatory decided not only to show the pictures but also turned three observations into sound......

The First mRNA Flu Shot Just Got FDA Approval — And It Almost Didn't

A Dead Star Is Doing Something Physics Can't Explain

730 light-years away, the burnt-out core of a dead star is blasting a shock wave across space — a structure it has no known way of producing. No disk to feed it, no mechanism to power it, and it's apparently been running for over a thousand years. Astronomers found what one calls a "mystery engine," and the honest answer to what's driving it is: they don't know.

Every Major Milestone Humanity Has Achieved in Space

How do we remember space? A grainy photo of a footprint. A blurry TV broadcast of a man in a bulky suit and somehow a gray-haired, clean-cut television anchor with a neatly trimmed Gray Mustache and classic, black-rimmed glasses.

NASA's Curiosity rover found mysterious Honeycomb landscapes on Mars

Somewhere on the slope of a three-mile Martian mountain, the ground has cracked into a field of near-perfect hexagons — thousands of them, stretching past the horizon. NASA's Curiosity rover found the largest such formation it's ever seen, measured its chemistry, and came away with something rarer than an answer: a genuinely open question about how a planet builds a pattern this clean.

Melting plastic into gasoline at oven temperature

For decades, the formula for producing fuel from waste plastic has required extreme conditions: high temperatures like a furnace and expensive metallic catalysts. But now, a research group from Oak Ridge has done the same in an inexpensive liquid bath of aluminum salt at a temperature that an average household oven can achieve and yielded 60 percent gasoline. It’s a tricky problem, to be sure, but the figure is tough to overlook.

The Great Dying: Why Metabolism Decided Who Lived Through Earth's Worst Extinction

Go to any beach around the world, and you'll take home the same collection: shells of clams and snails, an occasional sea urchin. There won’t be many brachiopods — a clam-like animal that dominated the bottom of the ocean for 280 million years until it almost disappeared. In a study led by Stanford researchers and published July 6 in PNAS, the mystery is finally solved. Around 252 million years ago

Your pancreas might not be running out of insulin. It might be running out of coordination.

The problem was never raw materials. A June PNAS study reveals that insulin's assembly line jams when one of two partner proteins goes missing — and no amount of the abundant resource fixes it. The constraint is almost never the input you're counting.

The Mysterious Hum That No One Can Find

Somewhere between 2 and 4 percent of people on Earth can hear a sound the rest of the world can't. They describe it the same way, no matter what country they're in — a low, steady drone, like a truck idling somewhere out of sight. It's loudest at night, loudest indoors, and almost impossible to record.

Why Are RAM Prices Increasing Without Any Sign of Slowing Down?

With the AI boom, RAM prices aren’t showing any signs of slowing down—and I’m sure PC builders and tech enthusiasts in general are checking their cortisol levels day and night watching RAM prices increase. So what’s really going on? Why Is AI the Major Reason Behind This Price Surge?

The AI Layoff was a story. The Rehire is the Bill.

Klarna said its chatbot did the work of 700 people and would add $40 million a year. Then it started hiring humans back. Roughly half the companies that cut staff for AI are now paying more to get that staff returned. The strange part isn't that the technology underdelivered — it's that most of those companies were never really firing people because of AI in the first place.

Gold Did Something This Year It Hasn't Done in Decades

Central banks kept buying while retail investors sold, and the reason has less to do with inflation than with who trusts whom. The story behind the price is really a story about a changing financial order.

China is growing and shrinking at the same time

One China is riding the global AI boom — factories humming, exports at a four-year high. The other is frozen: property in freefall, consumers too scared to spend, local governments too buried in debt to build. In Q2 2026, the collapsing half finally started dragging the whole country down. Here's the structural trap Beijing can't easily escape — and why the one engine still running may be the one that starts its next trade war.

This Airport wants to separate wealthy travelers from everyone else.

San Francisco International Airport plans to build a new terminal designated for the area's where many high-net-worth fliers, passengers who are willing to pay extra for a private area for themselves, away from the crowd and avoid potential delays.

Why Gen Z refuses to put up with bad bosses?

Gen Z isn't quitting jobs — they're quitting bad managers, with 65% leaving within their first year. Data shows this generation has near-zero tolerance for bad bosses compared to older generations, sparking a workplace reckoning that's still unfolding.

The FTA is practically supposed to reduce car prices by half in the Indian market. But why is it far from reality? (2026)

The FTA is practically supposed to reduce car prices by half in the Indian market. But it’s far from reality. The news that has taken the world by surprise is the new EU-India FTA that has long been negotiated between the two major economies. This is a major step in bilateral trade relations between

AI won't replace you. You'll be replaced by the person using it

This line was thorn around a lot during a recent TIME100 panel in Cannes. Four executives - from Nespresso, Luma AI, Philip Morris International, and Publicis Sapient - sat down to argue about what AI is actually doing to the creative work. Not the Sci-Fi version but the version that you use every day and the one that shows up in your inbox on a Tuesday.

Your Index Fund Is More Concentrated Than You Think

The word 'diversified' hides how much of a broad-market fund now rides on a handful of enormous names. When they sneeze, the safe option in your portfolio catches the cold — and most people never see it coming.

Indonesia just swapped its money chief again - and the real story is who's holding the purse

In two years, Indonesia has burned through three finance ministers. The latest firing came by phone, mid-hearing, while the minister was answering questions about next year's budget. Markets cheered the replacement. But the more interesting question isn't whether the new technocrat can steady the ship — it's how much of the ship the president is now quietly steering himself.

Top 10 Business books to read in 2026

I’ve been reading books in the Business space for quite some time, and the amount of knowledge I’ve acquired over the past few years is immense. In business, being exposed to the right information/knowledge at the right time can give you a crucial advantage against your competitors or an advantage i

The Algorithm That Made Spotify Feel Personal

The system that connects listeners to songs before they even search. How does Spotify know your next favourite song before you search for it? Spotify uses AI to personalise your entire listening experience. Every play, skip, repeat, and late-night session quietly teaches Spotify something about you.