Earth & Environment
Portugal collects used wine corks from shops, restaurants and other collection points and sends them for grinding and recycling into…
Sep 3, 2026
September 2026
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Earth & Environment
In 1999, a South African conservationist named Lawrence Anthony was offered a herd of "rogue" elephants scheduled to be shot, and he took…
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
A 75-year-old Kentucky farmer rejected $8 million for his 250-acre farm
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
Sixty magnetic profiles flown across the Arctic's Gakkel Ridge in 1974 and 1975 classify about 68 percent of the seafloor they cross, from…
Sep 3, 2026
Science
Told to cut waste at his Pittsburgh middle school, a 14-year-old measured how much of a page each of four fonts actually covered and found…
Sep 3, 2026
Social Sciences
A Colorado ski area retired all 220 chairs from a lift installed in 1972 when it replaced the old lift
Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Appearances can be deceiving: the psychology of why we misjudge people in a tenth of a second
Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Facial symmetry was long considered an important ingredient of attractiveness—but a 2024 analysis of 1,550 faces across ten countries found…
Sep 3, 2026
Health
In a small 2025 study, young men running before breakfast used significantly more fat as fuel than when running after breakfast, despite…
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
A recycling operation in Louisiana grinds discarded glass into sand and used 50 tons of it in burlap sacks to build a 300-foot berm along…
Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study tracking more than 1,600 adults found that feeling optimistic and energised predicted stronger self-control one to six months…
Sep 3, 2026
Life
On Christmas Day in 1900, 27 people went out to count birds instead of shooting them
Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The brain’s adolescent-like wiring phase may continue until the early thirties
Sep 2, 2026
Life
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed…
Sep 2, 2026