Jesse Singer articles

If an intelligent alien arrived on Earth, you can imagine what scientists would ask first. But when a Vatican astronomer faced a room full of reporters, someone asked something very different: would he baptize an extraterrestrial? His answer got a laugh. Then it made headlines.

Americans assume their everyday habits are completely normal. Then they cross the Atlantic and discover that Europeans have been getting through life just fine without them. A few differences make sense. But many of them leave Americans asking the same question: Wait...you really don’t do that?

Every December, the Star of Bethlehem appears on cards, trees, and nativity scenes. But do we actually have the date all wrong? According to an astronomer who looked into the original story, one big clue points to a very different day...and it’s nowhere near December 25.

You probably learned all 50 state names in school. But probably not these names. Go back far enough, and some familiar places turn up under names you’d barely recognize. How many did you know about?

Business travel is hardly disappearing in 2026. The Global Business Travel Association forecasts worldwide business travel spending of $1.71 trillion this year, while the number of trips is expected to reach roughly 1.84 billion. Yet there is an important gap hidden inside those numbers: spending is forecast to rise 7.2 percent, while trip volume is expected to grow only 1.3 percent. In other words, companies are spending considerably more without sending employees on considerably more trips.

Yup, all of these places were welcoming visitors during the 80s, but the odds are you weren’t one of them. Honestly, how many of these spots did you actually visit?

Humans love to tell ourselves the same story: bigger brains made us smarter, smarter made us dominant, and dominance made us the ultimate human species. There is just one problem...

Evolution sounds simple enough: tiny changes build up over countless generations, and eventually you get something very different. But when scientists looked closely at certain fossils, the story wasn’t so simple...

Yellowstone looks almost peaceful from above. Tourists crowd the boardwalks. Old Faithful keeps performing. But scientists have spent decades watching what is happening beneath their feet. Then they asked the question most people would rather not think about: What if Yellowstone erupted tomorrow? The deeper they followed that scenario, the more frightening it became.