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Cars

J.D. Power’s 2026 study again named Toyota and Lexus the most dependable cars on the road

Toyota Motor Corporation collected eight model-level awards in J.D. Power’s 2026 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study, more than any other automaker, while its luxury division Lexus ranked highest among premium brands with 151 problems per 100 vehicles. The study, built on 33,268 responses from original owners of three-year-old vehicles, reinforces a pattern that has held for […]

By Rowan Calder

Archeology

Bolivian builders shaped 100-ton blocks so precisely a knife blade won’t slip between them

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A 2,000-pound bison tossed a Yellowstone tourist eight feet into the air

By BeckhamLangford

Stone Age Britons hauled Stonehenge’s bluestones over 150 miles with no wheel and no draft animals

By BeckhamLangford

The volcano looming over Seattle and Tacoma threatens 150,000 people with a wall of volcanic mud

By Everett Sloane

The FTC warned that scammers are now using real agency employees’ names to steal thousands

By Cassian Holt

Investigators say almost every dollar moving through some crypto cash machines is now fraud

By Cassian Holt

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Archeology

Bolivian builders shaped 100-ton blocks so precisely a knife blade won’t slip between them

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A 2,000-pound bison tossed a Yellowstone tourist eight feet into the air

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

Stone Age Britons hauled Stonehenge’s bluestones over 150 miles with no wheel and no draft animals

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

A stash of 3,400-year-old gold ornaments in Cyprus shows how far Bronze Age trade already reached

By BeckhamLangford

Cybersecurity

The FTC warned that scammers are now using real agency employees’ names to steal thousands

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Investigators say almost every dollar moving through some crypto cash machines is now fraud

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Voyager 1 is so far away now that a radio signal takes nearly a full day to reach it

By Cassian Holt

Aviation

There were 46 close calls between airliners in a single month

By Kade Winslow

Naval

A Navy sensor over the Yellow Sea kept degrading as a UFO drifted across the screen

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

Officials say a drone slammed into an LAPD helicopter and forced an emergency landing

By Kade Winslow

AI

YouTube is rolling out AI that flags deepfake videos wearing a creator’s face

By Dorian Maddox

AI

AI is pulling lost epics from charred scrolls that Vesuvius buried

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Researchers used AI to rebuild the face of a Pompeii victim who died fleeing Vesuvius

By Dorian Maddox

AI

OpenAI’s new voice mode can listen and talk at the same time, killing the awkward pause

By Dorian Maddox

Cars

J.D. Power’s 2026 study again named Toyota and Lexus the most dependable cars on the road

By Rowan Calder

Cars

A study of 312 million vehicles named the used cars most likely to top 200,000 miles for the money

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A Boeing 777’s tail scraped the runway during a go-around at a Kentucky airport

By Rowan Calder

Cars

Mechanics call a handful of automatic transmissions nearly unkillable

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

One large SUV outlasted every rival in a reliability study of 312 million vehicles

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Hyundai and Kia told some EV owners to park outside over a battery-fire risk

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Kia is recalling 463,000 Telluride SUVs whose seat motor can spark a fire

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

Robots mapping a Seattle lake found nearly 100 forgotten shipwrecks

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A jumbo jet crossed a Honolulu runway with no clearance as another plane landed

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

A ferry lost power near Nantucket, and 79 passengers had to be taken off

By Rowan Calder

Cars

GM recalled vans whose shifter can show the wrong gear and lurch unexpectedly

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Ford recalled nearly 400,000 Explorer and Aviator SUVs over a rear-seat flaw

By Rowan Calder

Cars

Waymo recalled nearly 4,000 driverless cars that drove into construction zones

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Rivian’s electric pickup also landed near the bottom of this year’s reliability scores

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Only two Toyota SUVs have a real shot at 300,000 miles, a study of 300 million cars found

By Rowan Calder

Cars

The Hyundai Elantra is the most-stolen car in America, hit more than 31,000 times

By Rowan Calder

Extreme Weather

The volcano looming over Seattle and Tacoma threatens 150,000 people with a wall of volcanic mud

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A repeat of the 1859 solar superstorm could darken the power grid for months and cost $2 trillion

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Oregon invoked its emergency wildfire act for the ninth and tenth time this year as flames forced people out

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Salt Lake City and Billings hit all-time record highs near 110 degrees in a second July heat wave

By Everett Sloane