Friday January 23, 2026


January 23, 1964


Mariska Hargitay - Videos - Filmography


Life's journey is about of finding yourself, your power. Experience it for yourself, not for everyone else.


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A Storm is Coming


This one is dangerous ... Live updates: Winter storm brings freezing temperatures, heavy snow and crippling ice


Across the world, people are openly questioning whether the 'snow job' called Trump is spiraling further out of control, as his public conduct continues to raise serious concerns about judgment, comprehension, and leadership. Repeated lapses, contradictions, and apparent confusion have fueled doubts about his ability to process and retain information, while his leadership record increasingly appears defined by one self-inflicted crisis after another.


I align with those who believe much of this behavior is intentional - an effort to divert attention from - the Epstein Files, the inflation he has created with his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs, his decision to take health insurance away from millions of people, and other unresolved matters that could prove damaging to individuals in positions of power and influence, including those who once benefited from or enabled Trump's rise to power. If such information is as consequential as many suspect, it raises unsettling questions about what remains hidden and who stands to lose the most.


One can't help but wonder what or who will ultimately place limits on - or stop this trajectory - as Trump's conduct appears increasingly unrestrained, with consequences that reach far beyond borders and threaten global stability.


Behind the scenes, unseen alliances and agendas are surely shifting - with new ones being created to stop him - as if a game playing against itself.



It is both sobering and unsettling to imagine that those who put Trump in place may now be quietly calculating his exit - as his erratic behavior continually goes off script - hoping containment or removal comes before everything blows up.




When the Dam Bursts




January 22-February 1, 2026


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A Handful of Snowdrops


With anticipation and joy I offer you a handful of snowdrops
a winter flower that symbolizes triumph over challenges.




Astronomy in the News


Astronomy Index


2.8 Days to Disaster: Low Earth Orbit Could Collapse Without Warning


Meet Lazuli: The Private Space Telescope That Could Outshine Hubble by 2029


The ISS Will Crash In 2030, and This Remote Spot On Earth Will Be Its Final Resting Place - a stretch of the South Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo


'Goddess of Dawn' Supernova? James Webb Reveals a Star That Died at the Dawn of Time


Two Mysterious Flares Rock the Galactic Core, Captured for the First Time by a Remote Telescope in Antartica


Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Announces Plans For 5,400 Satellites In Orbit By 2027


Astronauts Reveal Critical Medical Tool Used in ISS Health Crisis


Massive black hole mystery unlocked by researchers


2026's Meteor Showers Could Be the Best in Decades, Here's When to Watch


Oldest astronaut Buzz Aldrin turns 96 as new moon astronauts share Apollo inspirations


NASA astronaut Suni Williams who was stuck at the space station for months retires within a year of returning


Ancient Galaxy With a Stellar Bar Challenges Timelines of Cosmic Evolution


Supergiant star Betelgeuse is full of mysteries. New observations might solve the biggest one


Hubble observes ghostly cloud alive with star formation


Polar Storms on Jupiter And Saturn Reveal Deep Atmospheric Differences


Mystery Solved? Fast Radio Bursts Linked to Orbiting Stellar Companions


Meet Deepsky: A Once-In-A-Generation Ai-Powered Satellite Network Poised to Transform Weather Observation at a Global Scale


NASA's Artemis II Is on the Launch Pad and the Moon Is Next


The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch





Physics in the News


Physics


Entangled Atoms Are Transforming How We Measure the World


New code connects microscopic insights to the macroscopic world


Scientists Found a Hidden Switch Inside Quantum Matter


This Quantum Material Breaks the Rules and Reveals New Physics


Physicists bridge worlds of quantum matter


Superconductivity Breakthrough: Hidden Order Found Inside Quantum Chaos


A tiny spin change just flipped a famous quantum effect


Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale


Researchers unlocked a new shortcut to quantum materials





Chemistry in the News


Chemistry


This New Device Turns Carbon Emissions Into a Valuable Chemical


New Brain Drugs Mimic Psychedelics Without the Hallucinations


Scientists Find a Way To Make CO2 a Valuable Fuel Source





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence


It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today's tech


Entangled Atoms Are Transforming How We Measure the World


A tiny spin change just flipped a famous quantum effect


Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale


Researchers unlocked a new shortcut to quantum materials


Scientists Say a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough Was Not What It Seemed


Artificially alive: How AI is bringing the dead back and what that means for the living


An electrically powered source of entangled light on a chip


AI Brings Tomorrow's X-Rays to Life, Helping Doctors Fight Arthritis Sooner





Brain in the News


Brain Index


Your brain does something surprising when you don't sleep


The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected





Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


Why some people get bad colds and others don't


New Drug Slashes Dangerous Blood Fats by Nearly 40% in First Human Trial


Scientists Tried to Spread The Flu, Only to Discover Something


A blood test could reveal Crohn's disease years before symptoms


The genetic advantage that helps some people stay sharp for life


A common vitamin could influence bathroom frequency


Hidden Brain Damage Found Years Before MS Diagnosis


Human Heart Tissue Actually Can Regenerate After a Heart Attack, New Study Shows


Cold Weather Doesn't Make You Sick. Here's What's Really to Blame.


The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected


Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis


Patients tried everything for depression then this implant changed their lives


ADHD Isn't Just About Attention. It May Affect Lifelong Health


A long-missing immune cell can now be grown from stem cells, bringing scalable cancer cell therapies a major step closer


AI Brings Tomorrow's X-Rays to Life, Helping Doctors Fight Arthritis Sooner


A Single Molecule May Explain How Blood Flow in The Brain Triggers Dementia


New variant of the flu virus is driving surge of cases across the US and Canada


Where the Common Cold Is Stopped Before It Starts. The body's reaction to rhinovirus, rather than the virus alone, is often what determines the outcome





Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index


Live updates: Winter storm brings freezing temperatures, heavy snow and crippling ice


A Deep Sea Expedition Will Soon Confirm if 'Dark Oxygen' Exists


Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off Massachusetts East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years


Hundreds of Millions at Risk As Major River Deltas Sink at Alarming Rates


More floods are coming. Here's what actually works to help people prepare


Earth's Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Changed Position, Drifting Into Never-Before-Mapped Territory


Frigid Arctic air brings coldest temperatures of the season to eastern U.S.


A Cycle Deep Within Earth's Crust May Affect Climate More Than We Thought


World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions


How a Global Freeze 445 Million Years Ago Changed Life Forever


Surprisingly in sync: Sunlight and sediments reveal climate history of Antarctica


How shifting tectonic plates drove Earth's climate swings


What deep sea mud is revealing about giant earthquakes along the Pacific Coast


Spectacular ice blocks clog up Germany's Elbe river


Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out




Cave Art in the News


Cave Art


Hand stencil made almost 68,000 years ago is the oldest cave art ever found

The world's oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the Southeast Asian nation, helps scientists trying to determine when and where early humans first learned to make art, and at what point their art became more complex.


World's oldest rock art holds clues to early human migration to Australia





Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


Grains of sand prove people - not glaciers - transported Stonehenge rocks


Ancient Mesopotamian medical texts reveal the role of divine sanctuaries in treating ear and spleen ailments


Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists


World's Oldest Arrow Poison Discovered on 60,000-Year-Old Stone Age Weapons


Neanderthals took reusable toolkits with them on high-altitude treks through the Alps


A wild potato that changed the story of agriculture in the American Southwest


Ancient Jordan mass grave reveals human impact of first known pandemic




Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


Giant Kangaroo Fossils Reveal a Surprise About How They Moved


A 250-million-year-old fossil reveals the origins of mammal hearing