Hey, we’re evolving here! New Yorkers know that the only constant in local life is change — but in 2025, some of the most exciting new additions to the city are sounding comfortingly familiar. Beloved institutions may come and go in the fast-paced Big Apple, but a spate of preservation-driven progress is lately warming the … Read more
Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for millions of years. Researchers examining a 520-million-year-old arthropod larva were stunned to find not just an outline of the creature, but … Read more
They’re frozen in time. No need for embalming fluid in this mysterious village. In a scenario straight out of a zombie apocalypse movie, deceased residents in the Colombian mountain town of San Bernardo spontaneously mummified without preservatives — and with their clothes, hair and even eyes often still intact. “People were a little incredulous about … Read more
Playing in his first US Open in singles at Forest Hills Stadium in 1977, tennis icon John McEnroe made his debut at 18 with a bang. An unseeded upstart, the Queens native found himself on the same clay courts where he was once a ballboy — gliding and grinding in an interborough contest against Brooklyn-born … Read more