How El Niño Will Affect Your City

This year is an El Niño year, meaning air currents and weather patterns across the world are dramatically different from last year. Those changes are especially noticeable during the winter months, when severe snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures can be especially harsh. To help people prepare for the impending weather fluctuations, TIME has drawn up an infographic detailing the changes across the United States. Luckily, last …

The Most Popular Halloween Costumes, According to Google

Think you’ve come up with a one-of-a-kind Halloween costume? You may want to check with Google’s Frightgeist before heading out. Created by the search giant’s News Lab, the interactive data visualization taps into Google Trends to display the top Halloween costume searches—both locally and nationally—to give users an idea of what to expect when trick-or-treating. Right now, the most searched character in the United States …

“Kissing” Stars

Scientists have spotted two massive, super-hot stars twirling into each other about 160,000 light years away. The nearly identical stars are so close together (about 7.5 million miles away from each other) that their surfaces overlap—making them appear as if they’re kissing. If the stars continue on their paths, two outcomes are possible: they will merge together and form a single, massive star in a …