As Matchday 3 of the 2026 World Cup gets underway, there are still a number of places up for grabs in the Round of 32. Over the next several days teams will be playing their third and final group ...

The forecasted El Niño—a mysterious but well-documented climate phenomenon—has officially begun, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on June 11. Meteorologists expect ...

Ever wonder how World Cup players get their numbers? There are actually rules and parameters regarding how each of the 26 players on the 48 teams at this summer's soccer extravaganza get assigned the ...

SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion in its June 12 initial public offering by selling 555.5 million shares. SpaceX's ticker will be fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100 index, skipping some requirements ...

Mercury retrograde—everyone’s favorite excuse to arrive fashionably late to, well, everything—begins on June 29, 2026. Mercury retrograde is famously a period of miscommunication, delays, and ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...

Imagine taking out a 12-inch ruler and finding that the number 12 is on the left side and the number 1 is on the right side. For most native English speakers, this would be disorienting. We are used ...

Last weekend Jesse Derr and his wife, Jess Yeastadt, made the five-hour drive from their home in Phoenix to the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. On the agenda for their weekend trip: learn how to move to ...

The hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe pelliculosa, which contains psilocybin shroom360 via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Mind-altering psychedelics continue to show promising research results ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain. By Andrew Jacobs As researchers have sought to demonstrate the ...

As of last week, the national debt was more than $39 trillion. That’s trillion with a “T.” This number looms large and impacts things like interest rates on mortgages and car loans, safety net ...