New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean
Climate change is leading to increasingly violent storms. Can seawalls hold back floods?
U.S. Carried Out Cyberattacks on Iran
United States Cyber Command on Thursday conducted online attacks against an Iranian intelligence group that American officials believe helped plan the attacks against oil tankers in recent weeks, according to…
Astronauts left poop on the moon Watch: What Apollo-era diapers can teach us about the origins of life
Human feces can be disgusting, but it’s also teeming with life. Around 50 percent of its mass is made up of bacteria, representing some of the 1,000-plus species of microbes that live in our…
Trump makes immigration his top priority, vowing mass deportations
President Trump said U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests and deportations days after striking a deal with Mexico to curb the flow of undocumented migrants. The Washington…
El Chapo’s drug tunnels, explained
Throughout his career as a drug trafficker, tunnels have been the common theme in El Chapo’s story. When he gained control of a major drug trafficking corridor in the late…
NASA finds strange alien planet hiding outside our solar system
Nasa has found a strange alien planet sitting outside of our solar system. The world is cool and small: two characteristics that make it a very strange thing indeed for…
How America became a Superpower Learn a bit of recent history on this 4th of July
With over 800 military bases around the globe, the US is easily the most powerful nation on earth. But it wasn’t always this way. The US once played an insignificant…
Supervolcano is brewing under Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire Looks like the Pats days are numbered as well as the eastern seaboard
Something unexpected has been gradually making itself known to geologists in the United States. A huge mass of molten rock is creeping upwards beneath the nation’s north eastern states. “The…
2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities
The race question is going to get complicated for many people who identify as white on the U.S. census. Since 1960, when U.S. residents were first allowed to self-report their…
The former US Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden called Trump’s military parade ‘third world bullshit”
The former US Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 is not happy about President Donald Trump’s desire for a military parade. He called it “third world bulls—”…
