An 8,500-year-old ornament carved by hand from a scallop shell was found deep inland in California, hundreds of miles from where the shell…
By Daniel Moran · Sep 1, 2026
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Lions had taken the family bull, so an 11-year-old in a Maasai homestead beside Nairobi National Park took apart his mother's radio, wired…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 1, 2026
A 15-year-old in British Columbia built a flashlight powered entirely by the temperature difference between a human palm and the…
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New York shut what had been the world’s largest landfill in 2001 after more than 150 million tons of waste had been buried at Fresh Kills
Sep 1, 2026
Scientists sent robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific and mapped enormous lava fields around an active volcano
By Daniel Moran · Aug 31, 2026
Wolves live at seven times the density inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone as in the uncontaminated nature reserves nearby, and elk, deer and…
Aug 31, 2026
Ivanpah's 173,500 mirrors focused enough Mojave sun on three towers to ignite birds in flight, as many as 6,000 a year by one estimate, and…
Aug 31, 2026
Discarded PET bottles and corn stalks went through a 32-step heat-and-oxygen breakdown in Carbondale, then yeasts rebuilt the carbon as…
Aug 30, 2026
On August 4, 2026, a 76-square-kilometre section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier—roughly the size of Manhattan and up to 150 metres…
Aug 30, 2026
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million
Aug 30, 2026
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a…
Aug 30, 2026
Kentucky released 1,541 elk onto the strip-mined coalfields of its eastern counties between 1997 and 2002, and the herd now runs about…
Aug 30, 2026