Anacondas rarely appear far from water. Their range follows flooded plains, swamp forests, slow rivers, and heavy tropical wetlands spread across northern and central South America. The snakes are difficult to track properly because they spend long periods hidden beneath muddy water or thick vegetation, so population estimates shift from one report to another. Even…

Pope Leo XIV on Monday presented his vision for preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence by issuing his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” or “Magnificent Humanity.”The document, presented at the Vatican alongside Christopher Olah, a founder of Anthropic, highlights how the Catholic Church continues to use one of its oldest forms of communication…

For most people, the Southern Lights are a rare spectacle glimpsed from remote corners of the Southern Hemisphere. For astronauts orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, however, the phenomenon appears from an entirely different perspective. A recent image and time-lapse captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir have offered the world a remarkable view of the…