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The Cities Experts Say Are Most at Risk of Sinking Into the Sea

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

Scientists warn that a dangerous combination of forces is accelerating flood risk.

Sea levels aren’t just rising; they’re accelerating. Glaciers are melting faster, coastlines are crumbling, and high tides are starting to reach places they were never meant to go. For many low-lying cities, this isn’t some distant climate scenario. It’s already happening. Flood maps are being redrawn, and entire neighborhoods are bracing for the water to come.

What’s at stake isn’t just beachfront property. We’re talking about global power centers, cultural capitals, and densely packed urban zones that could be partially or completely submerged within decades. In some cases, the sinking is coming from below too, thanks to land subsidence, overdevelopment, and vanishing groundwater. The future is wet, and for millions of people around the world, the countdown has already begun.

How Narcissistic Traits Show Up in Everyday Relationships

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

The small behaviors that slowly erode trust, clarity, and emotional safety.

Give it a little time, and the mask usually slips. Narcissists can be charming, magnetic, and weirdly addictive at first. They know how to read a room, mirror your energy, and make you feel like you’ve finally found someone who gets you. But behind the sparkle is a steady drip of manipulation, blame-shifting, and emotional chaos that slowly unravels your sense of reality.

Spotting the signs early can save you from months or years of unnecessary damage. And while not every difficult person is a narcissist, the real ones tend to follow the same script. You don’t need a clinical diagnosis to recognize the pattern. Whether it’s a friend, partner, coworker, or family member, the signs are there if you know what to look for.

The Simple Boundaries That End People-Pleasing for Good

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

The people who push back the hardest often benefited the most.

You don’t need another self-care checklist. You need boundaries that actually protect your energy instead of draining it further. But here’s the deal no one wants to say out loud: the second you start setting real ones, people will get uncomfortable. Not because you’re wrong, but because they were comfortable with your exhaustion.

The world is full of systems, workplaces, families, and friend groups that expect you to abandon yourself to keep everything running smoothly. But peace doesn’t come from being agreeable. It comes from finally saying “no” and meaning it. They might rattle a few people, but your mental health was never supposed to be sacrificed for someone else’s convenience.

What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Life in the Ancient World

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A few famous movie scenes may have rewritten ancient history more than you realized.

Hollywood’s ancient world looks so solid you can almost smell the marble. But that “realistic” look is often built from modern assumptions, not evidence. The details are chosen to feel familiar to us, not to them.

When archaeologists study pigments, bones, tax records, and street graffiti, the past starts to feel less like an action set and more like a crowded, colorful place full of rules and worries.

Below are movie moments you probably remember, from Gladiator to 300 to Cleopatra, plus what historians say those scenes usually get wrong, and what the evidence suggests instead. Some myths are harmless. Some are not.

Jupiter Is Not the Planet We’ve Always Been Taught It Is

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A familiar planet turns out to be slightly stranger than the outlines we trusted for decades.

Jupiter, swirling colorful cloud bands, the Great Red Spot visible, isolated on black space background, editorial travel photo, no people. — ©Image license via NASA

A planet as famous as Jupiter feels like it should be fully mapped by now. Its size is printed in textbooks, used in software, and treated as a fixed cosmic fact.

But Jupiter is not a solid surface with a clear edge. It is a spinning, windy ball of gas, and the “radius” depends on where you measure and what the atmosphere is doing.

Using newer data from NASA’s Juno mission, scientists have refined Jupiter’s shape at the 1-bar pressure level. The change is small, but it quietly forces a rethink of how we model what is happening inside the solar system’s giant.

The Long-Lost Soviet Lander That First Touched the Moon May Have Been Found

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

New analyses of lunar orbiter imagery and AI tools are pointing to possible final resting places for humanity’s first soft-landing spacecraft.

©Image license via Steve Jurvetson/Flickr

For decades, the fate of one of space history’s most important machines has remained a mystery. In 1966, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first human-built object to perform a soft landing on the Moon and transmit images from its surface.

After its batteries failed just days later, the probe’s precise location was lost. Now, scientists using modern orbital data and machine-learning techniques believe they may have narrowed the search to a small number of promising sites, potentially closing a 60-year-old chapter of lunar exploration.

This 500-Year-Old Tudor Heart Was Buried for Centuries. Now Anyone Can See It

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

A heart of gold resurfaced from the soil, and the message on it still feels oddly personal.

In 2019, a metal detectorist searching a field in England uncovered a small, heart-shaped Tudor pendant that had been buried for centuries. It was finely made, richly symbolic, and unlike most historical jewelry, it could be tied to a specific royal marriage.

Now, after a major public fundraising effort, the British Museum has acquired the so-called “Tudor Heart,” ensuring it will remain on public display. What began as a chance discovery has become a rare window into love, power, and politics at the height of Tudor England.

Two Ancient Human Ancestors Lived Side by Side, Fossils Reveal

February 17, 2026 by Barrie Davenport

Fossils from one African site suggest early human evolution was crowded, complex, and far less orderly than once believed.

For decades, human evolution was often explained as a simple progression. One species appeared, adapted, and replaced the one before it, forming a straight line that eventually led to us

New fossil discoveries from eastern Africa are forcing scientists to rethink that story. At a single site, researchers have identified remains from at least two different ancient human ancestors living at the same time and place.

The finding suggests early human history was not a tidy sequence, but a shared landscape where multiple relatives evolved side by side, possibly competing, adapting, and surviving in different ways.

What an Apocalypse-Resistant City Would Actually Look Like

February 16, 2026 by Diana Davenport

Future cities may be designed less for convenience and more for survival.

From rising sea levels to extreme weather, cities as we know them aren’t designed to withstand the escalating challenges of climate change. But what if urban spaces weren’t just resilient, but practically indestructible? Architects, engineers, and visionaries around the world are already crafting bold designs that could make cities self-sustaining, disaster-resistant, and nearly apocalypse-proof.

These concepts go beyond adding more solar panels or planting a few green roofs. We’re talking floating neighborhoods, underground energy hubs, and skyscrapers that literally clean the air. Some of these ideas may sound like science fiction, but many are already being tested, or even built.

How to Grow Your Own Food Like Your Grandparents Did

February 16, 2026 by Devin Latham

Ditch the grocery store and take control of your food with these time-tested methods.

There was a time when people didn’t panic over empty grocery store shelves. They didn’t worry about skyrocketing food prices or mystery ingredients in their produce. Why? Because they grew their own food, preserved what they harvested, and passed down self-sufficiency like a family heirloom.

Today, those old-school skills are making a comeback. With food costs rising and concerns over sustainability growing, more people are ditching the store-bought mindset and getting back to their roots. You don’t need a farm or years of experience to do it. With a little patience and a few time-tested tricks, anyone can grow fresh, delicious food right at home.