Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
Chances are you’ve encountered some version of the “Ebbinghaus illusion,” in which a central circle appears to be smaller when encircled by larger circles...
Trump threatens to ‘eradicate’ Hamas
The US president has said he would “straighten it out” if the militant group fails to honor the Gaza truce deal with Israel ...
SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink satellite, with no sign of slowing down
Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. The...
Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan draws some protest ahead of likely approval
Tesla shareholders should reject a compensation plan that could pay Elon Musk more than $1 trillion over the next decade, proxy advisory firm Institutional...
F1 in Texas: Well, now the championship is exciting again
Formula 1 held the third of its five North American rounds this past weekend at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Unlike...
Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Three women...
Nearly all of Donbass ‘already taken by Russia’ – Trump
The US president has called for a ceasefire along the current front lines ...
Houthis detain UN staff in Yemen
The rebel group arrested 20 aid workers following a raid on a compound in Sanaa, a United Nations spokesman said ...
China accuses US of major cyber-attack
The US National Security Agency hacked China’s National Time Service Center over several years, the Chinese counter-espionage agency has claimed ...
Israel strikes dozens of ‘terror targets’ in Gaza
The IDF has called the action a response to what it claims were ceasefire violation by Hamas ...


















