Rock&Gem Magazine
The Black Prince's Ruby and Other Cursed Gems
Submitted for your consideration: A collection of gems whose acquisition has often been synonymous with terrible loss but whose sparkle still holds fatal attraction. Meet some of the most cursed and feared - gems in history.
7 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
VOYAGE TO NOWHERE
An expensive and ambitious plan for interstellar travel has quietly disappeared
10+ min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Self-Destruct
This planet triggers flares on its star—spelling its ultimate doom
3 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Neural Stretch
Scientists map a mouse's peripheral nervous system in unprecedented detail
2 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Why Knot
Mathematicians unravel a long-standing conjecture about knot theory
2 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Echolocation Touch
Dolphins' echolocation may be more like feeling than like seeing
3 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
The Dawn of Polar
Fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed
10+ min |
October 2025
Scientific American
A Dangerous Silver Bullet
Drugs that hit an Alzheimer's target are gaining traction. Some neurologists remain dubious
9 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
What I Wish Parents Knew about Social Media
I study social media for a living. Here's how parents can help their kids use it safely and productively
5 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
How a Tiny Brain Region Guides Generosity
Whether and how much we help others may be determined by the brain's basolateral amygdala
6 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Fast Fashion Needs a Green Makeover
A more circular economy in textiles will look good on everyone
4 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
A Block-Stacking Problem with a Preposterous Solution
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon- and into infinity
5 min |
October 2025
Scientific American
Can We Survive the Death of the Sun?
In a few billion years the sun will turn into a red giant star
4 min |
October 2025
The New Yorker
THEN AND NOW DEPT. MANHATTAN'S SPRINGS
In the late eighteen-nineties, when the New Croton Aqueduct was just beginning to pipe water into the Bronx from Westchester, James Reuel Smith, a wealthy classicist with a passion for cataloguing, used a bicycle to survey the springs and wells of Manhattan and the Bronx.
3 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
FULL CIRCLE
\"The Brothers Size\" at the Shed, and \"Honor\" at the Performing Garage.
5 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
RUNAWAY BUNNY
Bad Bunny has conquered the world. This summer, he came home.
7 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
THE BEHEMOTH
Gaudi's wild vision for the Sagrada Família finally takes shape.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
WHAT I WANTED, WHAT I GOT
Lifelong lessons in yearning and style.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
The Surreal Images of Eric and Elliot Jiménez
In 1954, the Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera published “El Monte,” committing to paper the oral history of major Afro-Cuban religious traditions.
2 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
THE MUSICAL LIFE SUNG THROUGH
At age sixteen, in 1987, Debbie Gibson, of Merrick, Long Island, released her début album of original pop songs, “Out of the Blue,” which went triple platinum.
3 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
The Pool
We'd never had a pool before, but the house came with one, which was part of its appeal, at least in my eyes.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
TARZAN DEPT. CALL YOUR BLUFF
Four hundred and fifty million years ago, vast continents collided, squeezing shale into schist to form Coogan's Bluff, in Highbridge Park, in northern Manhattan.
3 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
MOMMY ISSUES
How Jessica Reed Kraus went from life-style blogger to MAHA maven.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
COVERS, LIVE!
Six photographers reinterpret classic New Yorker covers.
2 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
MAKING A MOVE
A new sanctuary on Philadelphia's Parkway brings the Calders home.
6 min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
SAVING FACE
How Jane Birkin handled the problem of beauty.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
I MADE YOU
New memoirs show mothers as brutal, sustaining, inescapable.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
The New Yorker
THE UNICODE
Inside Uniqlo's quest for global dominance.
10+ min |
September 22, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Laguna Beach will decrease herbicide use to aid fire safety
Laguna Beach will pay a contractor nearly $7 million over the next few years for fuel modification services to be carried out by hand crews without the use of herbicides.
3 min |
September 15, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Students deal with trauma, grief after campus shooting
One student holed up in his house for two days after witnessing Charlie Kirk’s _ shooting, nervous about going back to the Utah college campus where the conservative activist was killed. Another, unable to shake what she saw and heard, called her dad to come take her home.
4 min |