June 2026

On a late-summer flight over northern Alaska’s Brooks Range, stretches of river that should look like glass suddenly appear stained the colour of iron oxide. From above, they resemble rust spreading through a cracked engine block. On the ground, the change is even more unsettling: clear tributaries turning opaque orange within a few bends, with…

For just a fleeting moment under the pristine water of Swaraj Dweep, a group of divers converted months of hard work into a world record. Together, they managed to set up the tallest human pyramid under the water, breaking a record and earning themselves a place in the Guinness World Records. This was a difficult…

Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of Europe’s most unsettling burial puzzles. But as excavation layers were removed from the Neolithic site near modern-day Vráble, what emerged was not a typical cemetery. It was a boundary feature filled with disarticulated, headless human…