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January 20, 2026 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Humans are using more water than Earth can support, with many water sources already damaged beyond repair, a report from the United Nations found By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron An irrigation ditch carries a light flow of water along agricultural

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the thousands of images was one video clip, the only one in the lot. It showed four seconds of the noted psychologist and writer Steven Pinker of Harvard University riding with Epstein

It has been a full year since one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent U.S. history began ripping through West Texas. The highly infectious disease has continued to burn across multiple U.S. states, Mexico and Canada since Texas reported an outbreak in children in January 2025. The U.S. had been virtually free of the

What would it feel like to be a brain in a vat? If you had no body and no world in which to ground yourself, could you be conscious of anything at all? Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the three-pound organ in our

Table of Contents 1. LifeHack App - Best for Goal-Connected Habits 2. Streaks - Best for Minimalists 3. Habitify - Best for Cross-Platform Users 4. TickTick - Best for Task-Habit Combo 5. Habitica - Best for Gamification Lovers Quick Comparison How to Choose Based on Your Style The System Builder The Minimalist The Multi-Device User

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). When Eric Peythieu was growing up in Chantemerle in the French Alps, he and his friends had a simple way of deciding whether you were a proper skier. “We came to the top of this slope,” the 58-year-old ski instructor remembers, as he gathers his class

One of the most enjoyable aspects of travel is the time to read a good book, so it's not that surprising that vacations built entirely around books and authors are on the rise. Thanks to forces such as BookTok, celebrity book clubs, and niche tour operators, literary travel has become a dominant trend. “Book vacations

By Jessica Roy Photographs by Tomas van Houtryve The legend goes like this: in the 15th century, a witch lived in the Valais region of Switzerland, and was unhappily married to a local farmer named Sepp vom Hegdorn. She was reclusive and mean, with a loud piercing laugh, and rumors swirled among the villagers that

At the southern edge of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, about a five-hour drive east of Vancouver, Osoyoos holds a distinction found nowhere else in the country; the town lies within Canada’s arid, almost 'desert-like' ecosystem. Framed by sagebrush hills, vineyards, and orchards, this pocket of the South Okanagan is among the nation’s warmest and driest regions.

Think about the last time you paused what you were doing to check something else—an email, a message, a notification. How far into your original task were you before you switched? For most people, the answer is less than a minute. Over the past two decades, researchers have found that the average time people stay