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President Donald Trump came within a hair’s width of death on Tuesday, when an escalator at the United Nations headquarters briefly stalled in an act of intentional sabotage, leaving him exposed to the mercy of a theoretical assassin’s bullet. At least that’s how Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are imagining it.  The 79-year-old president was indeed forced to walk up …

Over the next four decades, aerial images documented the steady, eastward retreat of both the Alsek Glacier and another ice mass to the south called the Grand Plateau Glacier. As both glaciers melted, Alsek Lake grew significantly, filling in the void left by the Grand Plateau Glacier and gradually overtaking the ice that once surrounded Prow Knob. This summer, NASA’s …

Alaska’s Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow Knob into an island. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.) NASA satellite imagery has revealed a new island off Alaska’s coast that emerged after long-standing glacial ice melted, isolating a small mountain that was once …

A ‘new’ island has appeared in the middle of a lake in southeastern Alaska after the landmass lost contact with a melting glacier, NASA satellite images reveal. The landmass, named Prow Knob, is a small mountain that was formerly surrounded by the Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park. However, Alsek Glacier has been retreating for decades, slowly separating itself …

An international team kept solid gold intact while superheating it to 19,000 Kelvin, about 33,740 °F (18,726 °C). They measured the temperature directly, in real time, and documented the feat in a new study. The result outstrips a long assumed ceiling on how hot a solid can get before it gives way. The team reached this state with ultra fast …

Recent research indicates that shark teeth, some of nature’s most efficient cutting tools, are increasingly vulnerable to environmental changes in ocean chemistry. A 2025 study published in Frontiers in Marine Science investigates how shifting ocean conditions might compromise the structural integrity of predator teeth, providing critical insights into the ecological consequences of global carbon emissions. Ocean Acidification And Its Impact …

Cracker Barrel, the southern-style restaurant chain, is facing right-wing backlash after removing the seated man and the barrel from its logo after 48 years. On Wednesday, the Old Country Store chain said the brand’s new logo — which simply features the text “Cracker Barrel” on top of a yellow, hexagonal-like shape — will be “rooted even more closely to the …

Glacial outburst flooding — caused when natural dams of ice or sediment collapse and send a rush of floodwater downstream — are also a problem in Europe, Central Asia and South America, where they have historically been more deadly. Glacial outburst floods have killed more than 12,000 people worldwide, according to estimates in the journal Global and Planetary Change. Most …

The thing about trolling is that it’s a fundamentally self-powering cycle: You piss someone off, they react; you make fun of them for reacting, it pisses them off some more. Its textbook stuff that most of us picked up on the playground (if not the early internet), literally decades ago. But dang if it isn’t still interesting to see the …

Greenland’s ice sheet, one of the largest in the world, is retreating at an alarming rate, creating profound impacts on both the environment and the ocean ecosystems nearby. In a recent study published in Nature Communications: Earth & Environment (2025), scientists explored the mechanisms behind this change, focusing on how the glacial meltwater might influence the marine food web. The …