A Canadian camper was scrolling through Google Maps to plan a hiking route when he noticed something odd: a near-perfect ring, 15.5 miles across, sitting in the middle of the Quebec wilderness. Scientists have now confirmed what he suspected. This is the story of how a meteorite crater hiding in plain sight for 390 million … Read more
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 opened this week with a number that’s hard to picture: $48.8 billion in deals on day one alone. By the time the show closes on Friday, that figure will be much higher. So why does one airfield in Hampshire generate tens of billions of dollars in a single week, and … Read more
The sky over your city has gone the wrong colour. Not blue, not storm-grey, but a flat yellow or dirty orange, with a sun behind it dim enough to stare straight at. There is no storm overhead and nothing burning nearby. So if you are wondering why is the sky yellow today, the honest short … Read more
The short version: On July 10, 2026, the Department of War published Pentagon UFO Files Tranche 4 — the fourth batch of declassified records in the government’s PURSUE disclosure program. It holds 40 files: 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio recordings, and 3 images. That makes it the leanest release so far. The headline document … Read more
For the first time in more than fifty years of trying, one chamber of the U.S. Congress has actually voted to stop the clocks from changing. On July 14, 2026, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, by 308 votes to 117. The measure now … Read more
You step outside and the sun is the wrong colour. Not the usual white glare, but a dull red or burnt orange disc you can almost look straight at, hanging in a sky that has turned milky and grey. Nothing is on fire near you. So you reach for your phone and ask the obvious … Read more
On June 29, 2026, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever built — is going dark, sparking a wave of online searches and a fair amount of internet myth. This CERN shutdown has already sparked a wave of online searches. The real reason has nothing to do with reality … Read more
Germany and much of Europe are sweltering through their second major heatwave in barely a month, with temperatures running 14 to 18 degrees Celsius above normal for late June in some areas. France, Spain, Switzerland and the UK have all broken June temperature records this week, and the German Weather Service (DWD) has issued extreme … Read more
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeast coast on June 25, 2026, rattling the Tohoku region hard enough to suspend Shinkansen bullet train service and prompt the government to set up an emergency response team. Given Japan’s history with devastating tsunamis — most notably the catastrophic 2011 Tohoku disaster — many people braced for … Read more
On June 25, 2026, the U.S. Capitol hosted the most institutionally serious public event on UAP transparency to date: the Disclosure Forum 2026. Held in the Kennedy Caucus Room — the same Senate room where the Watergate and Army–McCarthy hearings once played out — the forum brought sitting members of Congress, scientists, and former national … Read more