A plant associated with medicine, cooking and contraception in the ancient Mediterranean may have survived far longer than historians once believed. Turkish botanist Mahmut Miski has argued that Ferula drudeana, a rare plant growing on...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed senior presidential aide Iryna Mudra amid a widening anti-corruption investigation, adding another layer of political pressure on Kyiv’s wartime government. The move came just a day after former Defense...

Google is bringing artificial intelligence closer to solving one of technology’s most meaningful accessibility challenges. At its Made by Google event, the company unveiled Sign-Language-to-Text (SL2T), a new AI model that translates sign language directly...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring a new generation of hypersonic cruise missiles designed to survive increasingly sophisticated enemy air-defense systems. The proposed Next Generation Hypersonic Cruise Missile (NGHCM) program aims...

With five months still left in 2026, Baba Vanga’s alleged predictions for the year are once again circulating online. Followers of the Bulgarian mystic claim that two forecasts have already matched events this year, while...

A school shooting in Thailand has left the country reeling after a 14-year-old student allegedly killed his grandparents before opening fire at his own school, leaving multiple teachers and students dead and dozens more injured....

Saudi Arabia has warned of an emerging security threat after receiving intelligence that Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Yemen’s Houthi movement may be preparing coordinated attacks against the Kingdom. The reported warning comes as...

A group of Ukrainian astronomers has reignited debate over unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) after releasing a preprint claiming to have observed dozens of massive, fast-moving objects near the Moon. The researchers suggest the objects could...

A routine local government meeting in New Zealand has gone viral after a city councillor joined a livestream from what appeared to be her bathroom, with drying laundry, including underwear, clearly visible behind her. The...

More than 200 years after legendary mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss first described a mysterious pattern in quadratic forms, researchers have made a significant breakthrough that sheds light on one of number theory’s enduring questions. The...