August 2026

Twitch streamer SukiMellow has faced backlash online after a video from one of her recent IRL livestreams showed her pranking an elderly woman with an Apple Pay notification sound. The woman, who was sitting on a mobility scooter inside a store, appeared frightened by the sudden sound. She repeatedly called for the police and asked…

For generations, beavers were a familiar part of the Tule River Tribe’s ancestral lands in California’s southern Sierra Nevada. Tribal elders remembered seeing them in high-elevation meadows, and ancient pictographs estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old depict the animals alongside the South Fork Tule River.But after decades of trapping and habitat changes,…

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Asim Munir (R) (PTI file photo) “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln’s observation aptly captures Pakistan‘s situation.While Islamabad chases the image of an indispensable diplomatic player, its own foundations appear increasingly fragile. From brokering peace in Middle East to courting Washington and Beijing, Pakistan has…

Seungah Chung (Image Credit: Society For Science) Most of us have seen ants marching across the ground without giving them much thought. Seungah Chung saw something different. She wondered how such tiny creatures, with brains no larger than a pinhead, manage to find food and then make their way back home without getting lost.That question…