Ultra swimmer abandons attempt to cross Lake Michigan again
An ultra swimmer nicknamed The Shark was back on shore Wednesday, having given up on yet another quest to cross Lake Michigan after 40 hours in the water.
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She’s a Norwegian princess. He’s an American self-professed shaman. Their wedding is this weekend
The Norwegian king’s eldest child, Princess Märtha Louise, will marry American self-professed shaman Durek Verret on Saturday in a picturesque corner of southern Norway.
Comic Relief US launches new Roblox game to help children build community virtually and in real life
The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multiverse on the popular world-building app Roblox last year.
Edible or not? Alicia Silverstone’s misstep shows how toxic lookalikes can fool you
Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found along a sidewalk on a trip to England. The “Clueless” actor said she thought the fruit might have been a tomato, but realized it wasn’t after a couple bites revealed an off-tasting, peppery flavor.
August’s supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here’s how to watch
The first of four supermoons this year rises next week, providing tantalizing views of Earth’s constant companion.
Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping class
Roughly one in four students in the 2022-23 school year remained chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 10% of the school year. That represents about 12 million children in the 42 states and Washington, D.C., where data is available.
Older Americans prepare themselves for a world altered by artificial intelligence
The students — most with gray hair, some with canes, all at least in their 60s — couldn’t believe what they were hearing.
New Mars study suggests an ocean’s worth of water may be hiding beneath the red dusty surface
Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.
Could 2 NASA astronauts be stuck at the space station until next year? Here’s what to know
NASA is wrestling over how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station, after repeatedly delaying their return aboard Boeing’s troubled capsule.
Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago
Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”