The US military is weird about hands in pockets, and the rules are all over the place Trump says "Humbug" to Colbert, threatens broadcast licenses The US may have a secret weapon against rising ...

In what feels like an impersonal present gifted to mothers, a Christmas-obsessed mom crashes out after her complacent hubby and coddled adult children don’t deliver the respect she deserves. First to ...

New analysis has named the most, and least, fun cities in the U.S. in 2025. Personal finance company WalletHub compared 65 "key metrics" to 182 U.S. cities. The top five most fun cities in this year's ...

Here at CR, we regularly see products come through our labs that are touted as innovative, imaginative, and exciting. And most of the time, these items are anything but—in other words, it’s tough to ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

On a special episode (first released on August 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Is coolness just a vibe—or something deeper? A new global study spanning 12 countries finds surprising common traits ...

Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

Todd Pezzuti received funding from ANID Chile to conduct this research. From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. “Cool” is a word we hear everywhere – in music, in fashion, ...

LL Cool and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their appearances at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in solidarity with the city workers who are on strike in Philly. “I understand there’s a lot going ...

Polyhedra said it’s investigating a massive plunge in the price of its governance token, which now sits at 31 cents, down from $2. Polyhedra Network (ZKJ) plunged 83% on Sunday after a series of ...

It’s amazing how much influence our hair can have over our emotions and sense of wellbeing. As Phoebe Wallace Bridge so rightly said in Fleabag, “Hair is everything. We wish it wasn’t so we could ...