Back in 2017, Saudi Arabia announced something that sounded almost too big to be real, an entire new region along the Red Sea coast, bigger than Belgium, built from scratch around clean energy, zero cars and a completely new way of living. Called NEOM, the project’s most famous piece was The Line, a car free…

Image: University of New Brunswick For many people experiencing homelessness, the biggest challenge is not just finding temporary shelter but securing a stable place to rebuild their lives. Emergency accommodation can provide short-term relief, yet it rarely offers the privacy, security and support needed for long-term recovery. In Fredericton, New Brunswick, one Canadian entrepreneur decided…

A prediction made by Stephen Hawking some 50 years ago has just come true and now, scientists are trying to understand how it reinforces fundamental principles of modern physics. A collision between two black holes about 1.3 billion light-years from Earth has provided the most precise observational evidence ever obtained for a prediction presented by…

Long before English colonists ever set foot in North America, an enslaved man born in Morocco had already walked thousands of miles across it, surviving shipwrecks, years of captivity and a journey that took him through present-day Florida, Texas and deep into the Southwest. His name was Estevanico, and his story is one of the…