The worst time to exercise for a good night’s sleep
If you’d like to sleep well tonight, you should probably avoid exercising this evening, especially if your workout will be intense. It reduces your slumber by as much as 43 minutes.
Vertical farms pick up where Big Tech faltered
“We can grow 10 times the food using 90 to 98 percent less water,” Troy Albright says as he walks past rows of butter lettuce, basil and fennel bulbs grown in a vertical aeroponic environment.
On patrol for jihadists with the camel cavalry
A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelback cavalry plays a vital role in the fight against jihadism today.
Pope Leo XIV: a missionary zeal with a global world view
Robert Prevost broke a historical taboo against American popes with a path that was anything but typically American.
Ghana's tech-savvy teens turn to fraud
Ghost, a pseudonym, is one of a growing number of Accra's teenagers turning to cybercrime to survive in a country mired in economic crisis, battling both youth unemployment and broken dreams.
So who would win in a fight between 100 men and 1 gorilla?
The internet’s latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male gorilla? But, beyond the jokes and memes, this silly debate provides an opportunity to reflect on human evolution. What are the real strengths of our species? What have we sacrificed?
£10 painting by 'matchstick men' artist may fetch £1 million
A rare work by the painter LS Lowry, known for his depictions of English working-class life, originally bought for 10 pounds is expected to fetch up to £1 million when it goes under the hammer, auctioneers said Monday.
Flight club: Pinching pigeons over line of control
In the skies above the bunkers where Indian and Pakistani soldiers trade gunfire, masters of an ancient sport beloved on both sides seek to snatch prized pigeons from the other.
She finished a marathon in her wedding gown to honor her late husband
With about three miles remaining in the London Marathon, Laura Coleman-Day jogged off the road and onto a median - but not because she was tired. Her friends were waiting, holding the ivory wedding dress Coleman-Day had worn on the same day six years earlier, the day her husband Xander told her she looked beautiful in it.