The SALSA camp, as seen on December 5, 2018.Image: SALSA Buried beneath 4,000 feet of Antarctic ice lies Lake Mercer, a subglacial body of water that formed thousands of years ago and has been long separated from the rest of the world. A project to explore this lake—and its mysterious contents—is finally set to begin…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty) A report on internet speeds across the country released on Wednesday shows which cities and states have the slowest and fastest broadband—and which providers are the fastest. Internet testing company Ookla says it measured internet speeds from more than 24 million unique users while making the report of fixed broadband speeds…

Do you still use cash?Photo: Getty Images Laundry days are the worst. Not because I hate doing laundry—I love warm, fluffy, clean clothes—but because I need cold hard cash to use the machines at my local 24-hour laundromat. Legitimately, I’ve sat here for 20 minutes trying to think of anything besides laundry that I regularly…

A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms found 1.4 kilometers down in an African gold mine.Photo: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the bedrock, and you’ll find a hot, sweaty underworld teeming with life…

Photo: Getty At a Taylor Swift concert earlier this year, fans were reportedly treated to something they might not expect: a kiosk displaying clips of the pop star that served as a covert surveillance system. It’s a tale of creeping 21st-century surveillance as unnerving as it is predictable. But the whole ordeal has left us…