It’s been 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence — a milestone that invites not just celebration, but reflection. To illustrate two and a half centuries of U.S. history, Here & ...

We asked readers to share the items they’ve held on to as reminders of love. The responses ranged from uplifting and funny to heartachingly sad. Share full article Many of the keepsakes that readers ...

2025 brought us political, cultural and economic chaos, but it also gave us plenty of tangible objects to obsess over, buy and meme. There were the silly, monster-like dolls that sparked a craze among ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

The truth is under there. A popular UFO-reporting app has recorded thousands of sightings of Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) near US waterways — phenomena which high-ranking US Navy officials ...

Mundane wayward space snowball, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system’s latest and only third ever confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is almost certainly a ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Last month, astronomers ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Anne Quito is a journalist and design critic whose writing explores the surprising ways designers and architects shape culture and society. She was the first recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for ...