Currently, the Guinness World Record for the “ largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a female” is held by retired Brazilian big ...

Big waves, in surfing, are the pinnacle of the sport. But big waves outside of surfing are something else entirely. There are waves on record – some not even at typical ocean surf spots – that are ...

There’s a chance that a sauna builder in Santa Cruz County could have a world record to his name this fall. Wilem Banks is a soft-spoken woodworker from Santa Cruz who, in December, paddled into the ...

Yes, we know pulling out the measuring tape for big waves is a difficult and sometimes controversial endeavor. But in light of the recent deluge of swell coming from the North Pacific over the last ...

A British surfer and former Love Island contestant may have claimed the women's world record for riding the largest wave ever ...

A Santa Cruz man may ride into the history books for taking on what could be the world’s largest wave ever surfed. 23-year-old Alo Slebir caught the estimated 108-foot wave earlier this month near ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detected the loudest gravitational wave ever observed, confirming Stephen Hawking’s area theorem on black holes. The event, GW250114, ...

In March 2022, temperatures near the eastern coast of Antarctica spiked 70 degrees Fahrenheit above normal – making it the most intense recorded heat wave to occur anywhere on Earth, according to a ...

There’s a chance that a sauna builder in Santa Cruz County could have a world record to his name this fall. Wilem Banks is a soft-spoken woodworker from Santa Cruz who, in December, paddled into the ...