Monthly Archives: May 2025

How changing the way you breathe can improve your brain and body You do it 20,000 times a day—but are you doing it right? From easing stress to improving sleep, breathwork offers a powerful way to shift how your body … Continue reading →

These 5 ancient cities once ruled North America—what happened to them? Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish. Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts. Hot-air balloons drift over the … Continue reading →

Germany Arrests King Peter I, the Son of Man, the Messiah Peter identified sources of frustration and indignity that might bother virtually any German: how one navigates banking, taxation, health care, law. By Graeme Wood Bastian Thiery May 19, 2025, 6 … Continue reading →

Astronomers just found a new treasure trove of galaxies. They could help answer our biggest questions. Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.  The Euclid Space Telescope is focused … Continue reading →

After 17 Years Underground, the Cicada Brood XIV Is Coming by Jeffrey Kluger The first recorded American sighting of the cicada brood now known as Brood XIV was made by William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, in 1634—and … Continue reading →

Illustration by Lucy Jones April 1, 2025 THE ATLANTIC “Freedom is a fragile thing, and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction,” Ronald Reagan said in 1967, in his inaugural address as governor of California. Kevin D. Roberts, the president … Continue reading →

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids And start raising kind ones. By Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant December 2019 Issue THE ATLANTIC  Na Kim As anyone who has been called out for hypocrisy by a small child knows, kids are exquisitely attuned to … Continue reading →

Origami is revolutionizing technology, from medicine to space The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the human body. ByMaya Wei-Haas Photographs and video byCraig Cutler January 25, 2023 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC A cacophony … Continue reading →

Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment? Buprenorphine can stop cravings for opioids, yet its uptake in the U.S. has stagnated. By Ethan Brooks Illustration by The Atlantic: Source: Getty. April 23, 2025 THE ATLANTIC  Mallory Berry was ready to give … Continue reading →

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands 900 km (560 mi) west of the mainland of South America. The Galápagos are famous for their endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin in the 1830s and … Continue reading →