The problem with the “basic math” behind delaying Social Security is that it often overlooks longevity risk. While it’s true that waiting longer increases your benefit, your total lifetime payout ...

Against the backdrop of tonight's October new moon and dark skies, the active Orionid meteor shower will be on display as the rare Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) becomes visible at its closest to earth on ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...

In H. G. Wells’s novel The First Men in the Moon, our natural satellite is found to be inhabited by intelligent insect creatures who live in caverns below the surface. These creatures, let us assume, ...

A guide to the best demos of the October 2025 Steam Next Fest Source: Forestrike, Developer: Skeleton Crew Studio & Thomas Olsson. Reanmial, Developer: Tarsier Studios. Winter Burrow, Developer: Pine ...

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After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an achievement that has captivated skiers and alpinists for decades. Everest's North ...

Around 600 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were cut over the long weekend, as part of a wider push by the Trump Administration to slash the size of the federal workforce ...

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Adventure Landing waterpark has been in Jacksonville Beach for 30 years. The park closed this week, canceling its popular Haunt Nights Halloween attraction. After 30 years of thrills, the Adventure ...

The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...

Tony Denardo plans to run a marathon in every state — which is why his family set out on a road trip to Keene, New Hampshire, late last month. The Denardos brought their youngest child and three of ...