Rock&Gem Magazine
California's PATRIOTIC COMBO
Black, White & Blue? Try Red Instead!
8 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Scrap Jewelry in Today's Market What's It Good For?
Gold is everywhere in the news these days.
6 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
BRODY HOPKINS RHP
Growing up, Hopkins was always known as TJ’s little brother. TJ Hopkins was a star athlete at Summerville (S.C.) High and went on to be a four-year outfield starter at South Carolina. Eventually, he became a major leaguer by spending 25 games with the 2023 Reds. Brody, who is five years younger, quickly made a name for himself as well.
9 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
OUR ROBOTIC PICTURE
Will mechanical helpers ever be commonplace at home, at work and beyond?
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
The Reptile Sexpocalypse
The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate. Global warming could doom them
10+ min |
January 2026
Scientific American
A Suite of Killers
Heart ailments, kidney diseases and type 2 diabetes actually may be part of just one condition. It's called CKM syndrome
10 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Behind the Nobel
A 2025 winner reflects on the mysterious T cells that won him the prize
5 min |
January 2026
Baseball America
MINOR LEAGUE MANAGER OF THE YEAR REID BRIGNAC, BINGHAMTON
Double-A Binghamton manager Reid Brignac employed a 'next man up' mentality to guide the Rumble Ponies to an Eastern League crown
3 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
MLB EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR JERRY DIPOTO, MARINERS
Dipoto built a Mariners team that got to within one win of the World Series. Now, he is determined to help Seattle take the next step
4 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
FREITAS AWARD:TRIPLE-A WORCESTER RED SOX
The WooSox tap into the city of Worcester's 'habits, points of pride, idiosyncrasies' to create an inviting atmosphere for fans
2 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Switzerland's ICE PALACE
Walk Inside a Glacier at The Top of Europe
7 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
CHIP MAXSON, PRESIDENT, SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS
Triple-A Sacramento rose to the challenge of hosting 151 River Cats plus Athletics games in 182 days at Sutter Health Park
2 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Ignorosphere Surfers
SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVISED tiny featherweight disks that could float freely in Earth's mesosphere or the thin air of Mars, theoretically even while carrying payloads.
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Huntington's Hopes
After years of heartbreak, a new treatment slows this devastating disease
4 min |
January 2026
Baseball America
TRAVIS BAZZANA 2B
Born: August 28, 2002. B-T: LR. HT: 6-0. WT: 199. Drafted: Oregon State, 2024 (1st round). Signed by: Conor Glassey.
8 min |
January / February 2026
Baseball America
PAYTON TOLLE LHP
Born: November 1, 2002.
8 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
VICTORIA STONE
Victoria Stone is one of those materials that immediately captures the attention of observers because of its inherent beauty and also because of its increasing scarcity on the market.
4 min |
January / February 2026
Scientific American
Static Launch
Tiny worms leap toward their fruit fly hosts with an electric “tractor beam”
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
Think Again
Chimpanzees can weigh evidence and update their beliefs like humans do
3 min |
January 2026
Scientific American
What's on the Horizon for 2026
These are the science topics that we think will be big this year
6 min |
January 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
A New Amber Locality Fills a Gap
A sandstone quarry in central Ecuador has yielded the first significant deposit of Mesozoic amber from South America.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Is Earth Rusting the Moon??
The Moon resides nearly a quarter of a million miles from Earth, give or take, but that great distance doesn't appear to protect it from Earth's \"pollution.\" According to several space and planetary scientists, the Moon is rusting, and oxygen from Earth is to blame.
1 min |
January / February 2026
Rock&Gem Magazine
Satellites High in Space Suggest Changes Deep in Earth
High above us in space are twin satellites dubbed GRACE, for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. One pair orbited between 2002 and 2017 before running out of battery power.
1 min |
January / February 2026
The New Yorker
THE PUZZLE MAESTRO
For Stephen Sondheim, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as fun as writing musicals.
10+ min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
The second Presidency of Donald Trump has been unprecedented in myriad ways, perhaps above all in the way that he has managed to cajole, cow, or simply command people in his Administration to carry out even his most undemocratic wishes with remarkably little dissent.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
GREETINGS, FRIENDS!
As now the year two-oh-two-five, Somewhat ragged but alive, Reels and staggers to the finish, All its drawbacks can't diminish, Friends, how gladly 'tis we greet you! We aver, and do repeat, you Have our warm felicitations Full of gladsome protestations Of Christmastime regard! Though we have yet to rake the yard, Mercy! It's already snowing.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SELECTIVE MEMORY
\"Marjorie Prime\" and \"Anna Christie.\"
7 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
KICKS DEPT.ON THE LINE
On a chilly night last month, the Rockette Alumnae Association held its first black-tie charity ball, at the Edison Ballroom, in midtown.
4 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
NINE LIVES DEPT. NIGHT THOUGHTS
First, a moment of silence. The beloved cat of the actor-comedian Kumail Nanjiani died three months ago. Her name was Bagel. She was seventeen.
2 min |
December 22, 2025
The New Yorker
RISK, DISCIPLINE
When Violet and I finally decided to get married, I was in the middle of a depression so deep it had developed into something more like psychosis.
10+ min |