On April 8, Google debuted its latest virtual reality platform, Android XR, live on the TED 2025 main stage in Vancouver, Canada. In a TED Talk, Shahram Izadi — head of augmented reality and extended ...

In 2018, Rick and Kelly Bestul became the owners of King Motel off State Highway 7 on the west side of Hutchinson, Minnesota. In the 7 years since the Bestuls took over the King Motel, they reported a ...

On April 2, President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on goods exported from a handful of uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica. Well, uninhabited by humans. According to World Wildlife Fund ...

It’s a tale as old as time — or, as old as commercial farming and refrigeration. You scoop up a clamshell of gleaming red strawberries in the supermarket, take it home, and snack on your favorite ...

On April 8, Rob Bredow — chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic and SVP of creative innovation at Lucasfilm — took to the main stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver, Canada, to talk AI. The VFX ...

On World Pangolin Day, February 15th, 2025, the African Pangolin Working Group opened the world’s first veterinary and rehabilitation facility soley reserved for pangolins — aptly named The ...

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Texas has just 25 affordable and available rental homes per 100 “extremely low-income” households — one of the lowest ratios among all U.S.

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General released an urgent advisory, educating the country on the loneliness epidemic. With this advisory, the American Medical Association was directed to develop ...

With housing costs on the rise, the idea of owning a home can feel like a fairytale. But New Zealand couple James and Leonie have found a way to thrive in a sustainable tiny home and food forest ...

In March, the Trump administration announced that the U.S. Agriculture Department would be required to cut $1 billion in federal funding from schools and food banks. Part of those cuts included a ...

Since its inception in 2009, Little Free Library has installed book-sharing boxes on all seven continents. 'Gender Queer' is the most banned book in America. Here’s how author Maia Kobabe says you can ...