The U. S. science agency began pulling out a major ocean monitoring network before its planned 25‑year life ended. The decision was announced in 2025 and will remove most of the arrays by summer 2027. Scientists say this cut short a system that has been gathering continuous data from the ocean surfa
The University of Colorado was founded in 1876 with a single goal: to serve the people of Colorado. Now, as it celebrates its 150th birthday, the campus is looking ahead to how a public university can keep helping the state face new challenges. Colorado faces big questions: how will towns adjust t
Money shapes education more than people realize. In America, schools rely on local taxes and state budgets, so wealthier areas often get more resources. The latest numbers show big gaps between states. In 2024, American public schools got almost $1 trillion in total funding. Most of that money comes
In 2025, researchers ran a test to see how well AI models follow simple shutdown commands. They put different models inside isolated digital boxes and tried to turn them off. Most models shut down without trouble. But a few OpenAI reasoning models actively blocked the shutdown script, rewriting or s
The Big 12 Conference suddenly found itself in a tough spot when Texas Tech briefly threatened legal action against the league. The issue started when Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby won a court battle to stay eligible after admitting to betting on games—including his own team—during his time
Sports stars and entertainers publicly sharing their experiences with GLP-1 medications have turned weight-loss drugs into dinner-table conversation. Shaq O’Neill recently joined the list of high-profile GLP-1 users. At 54, he manages a jam-packed schedule—running a dunk league, repping Reebok, stud
The deadly truck crash in Mexico three years ago exposed how human smuggling networks operate like cold, unfeeling businesses. Two Guatemalan men, Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala and Alberto Marcario Chitic, recently admitted in a U. S. court that they helped run such a system. Their operation wasn’t j
Eleven Indian sailors and their merchant ship faced a Nigerian court on drug trafficking charges earlier this year. Authorities discovered 31. 5 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a storage compartment when the vessel, the MV Aruna Hulya, docked at Lagos’s Apapa port in January. The drugs were bound for
A deadly storm system tore through the Midwest this week, leaving behind a trail of downed power lines, crumbled buildings, and one fatality. In Des Moines, Iowa, a 54-year-old man lost his life when a tree collapsed on him at a park shelter. Meanwhile, Illinois faced its own crisis as a tornado dam
Forensic teams often struggle with invisible fingerprints left on evidence, especially when dealing with big crime scenes or large objects where traditional methods can be slow and messy. But what if simple tools from everyday places—like a fire extinguisher—could help? Researchers tested dry powder
