Author: Errica Jensen

The fitness industry moves quickly. Nearly every week, there are new fitness routines, diets, and influencers on Instagram or YouTube. However, occasionally a unique personality emerges, one that combines personality, science, and a certain curiosity about the human body. Stephanie Buttermore was just that kind of person for a lot of people on the internet. When she passed away in March 2026 at the age of just 36, there was a kind of shock that quickly went viral on the internet. Fans were exchanging exercise advice in the comment sections at one point. The following day, posts and messages started…

The Swiss Alps can appear almost theatrical on some winter mornings. Ski lifts start to hum above sleepy villages as the sun slowly rises over jagged ridges, illuminating once-permanent glaciers. This rhythm characterized Switzerland’s winters for generations. Early snowfall, skiers packed the slopes by December, and glaciers shimmered like frozen sentinels over the valleys. However, the scene has begun to feel a little different lately. The Alps are still stunning, so there isn’t a noticeable difference at first, but something has changed subtly. Later, the snow comes. The white blanket has less thickness. It vanishes weeks before people remember in…

The secrets of Antarctica are rarely readily revealed. Researchers often describe the place as eerily quiet while standing on that huge white plateau, with snow floating like powdered glass under a pale sun and wind scraping across the surface. However, something more akin to an archive than a landscape can be found beneath that frozen silence. Year after year, century after century, layers of ice accumulated, silently preserving remnants of Earth’s atmospheric history. For decades, researchers have been penetrating those layers. Theoretically, the process is straightforward: insert a hollow drill into the ice, extract a long, cylindrical core, and investigate…

The noise is the first thing that guests notice when they enter the arena during the Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament. It’s not the kind of applause you get at a regular school function. It is more audible. Unprocessed. Parents are leaning over the railings with plastic cowbells and foam fingers as thousands of teenagers dressed in school colors pound the glass. It briefly has the feel of an NHL playoff night rather than high school athletics. Minnesota enjoys referring to itself as the “State of Hockey.” That phrase sounds like marketing sometimes. However, as you watch students stream…

The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas is illuminated like a gigantic lantern in the desert late on a Saturday night. The parking lots are illuminated by taxi lights. Outside the entrances, fans in Oliveira jerseys and Holloway shirts form a line, some giggling, some silently discussing the possible outcome of the main event. Under bright white lights, the Octagon waits inside. The atmosphere as a whole gives the impression that something inevitable is approaching. On paper, scheduling a UFC event frequently seems straightforward. In actuality, though, fight night develops like a protracted rhythm that culminates in a single moment. Early…

There is a certain slowness to the evenings in Star City, West Virginia. After dark, the streets are silent. Small lawns are illuminated by porch lights. Neighbors probably didn’t anticipate anything more dramatic than teenagers laughing late at night somewhere down the block in the summer of 2012. That subdued cadence contributed to the profoundly unnerving atmosphere surrounding Skylar Neese’s disappearance. Skylar, a sixteen-year-old student at University High School, was well-known among her peers for being vivacious and obstinate, as teenagers frequently are. She saved money by working part-time at a nearby fast-food restaurant and discussing her future goals, which…

The riders are not the first thing that people notice about Strade Bianche. It’s the dust. Like smoke from an old battlefield, pale clouds drifted behind the peloton, rising from the winding roads of Tuscany. It appears almost cinematic on television, but there’s a different vibe—something untamed and a little chaotic—when you stand next to the course and watch cyclists tear across the gravel. The Strade Bianche race is surprisingly young. When compared to cycling events that have been around for a century, such as Paris-Roubaix or Milan-San Remo, its debut in 2007 makes it practically a baby. However, there’s…

The cold isn’t the first thing tourists notice when they visit the Arctic. It’s the silence. The tracks of animals moving silently through a landscape that has shaped their instincts for thousands of years are the only sound to break the blank page of snow that covers the tundra. However, the landscape has been changing more quickly lately than the creatures that inhabit it might like. Wildlife throughout the far north is adapting to a world that no longer acts in the same manner. In areas where sea ice was once thought to be permanent, it sometimes fails to return…

The Charles River flows silently past the MIT campus on a chilly winter’s morning in Cambridge, the water beneath the bridges slow and dark. The temperature of the oceans thousands of miles away from Massachusetts is being studied by scientists seated in front of glowing monitors inside the glassy research buildings in the area. The data coming in from drifting ocean sensors and satellites tells an oddly unsettling tale. Recent studies have shown that the world’s oceans are hotter now than they have ever been. The rise is substantial. The oceans took in about 23 zettajoules more heat between 2024…

Young bowlers are known to be exposed at Perth’s WACA Ground. There’s a personality to the pitch: it’s fast, hard, and sometimes harsh. On some nights, when the stadium lights are on, the ball moves just enough to make a batter who comes in half a second too late look foolish. Sayali Satghare made her debut to the cricket community on one of those evenings. The time arrived swiftly. In a Test match against India in March 2026, the young Indian pacer hit a ball that initially appeared to be innocuous just a few overs into Australia’s innings. Before colliding…