Earth & Environment
Across more than a dozen states, solar companies have stopped mowing the grass beneath their panels and instead lease flocks of sheep by…
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 4, 2026
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Earth & Environment
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands
Sep 3, 2026
Space
From Titan’s Saturn-facing side, Saturn would span about 5.6 degrees and stay in the same broad part of the sky while librating by roughly…
Sep 3, 2026
Features
America’s first fast-food hamburger chain wasn't McDonald’s or Burger King but White Castle, founded in Wichita in 1921
By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026
Life
Volunteers were paid about $19,000 each to spend 60 days in strict bed rest without once sitting up
By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
France imports hundreds of millions of litres of Spanish wine each year despite producing oceans of its own
By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Americans partly owe today’s tipping culture to Prohibition
By Daniel Moran · Sep 3, 2026
Social Sciences
On August 19, 2026, the IRS announced a new Office of Conservation Easements and immediately ended the uniform settlement initiative it had…
Sep 3, 2026
Life
Scottish lighthouse keepers filled in bird-observation schedules in the early 20th century, and several hundred of the surviving records
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
The 26 August flood that has now killed at least 1,114 people in Nepal reached the last river gauge on the Narayani at a peak of 6.57…
Sep 3, 2026
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
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