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
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A Colorado ski area retired all 220 chairs from a lift installed in 1972 when it replaced the old lift
Sep 3, 2026
Rome scoops roughly 1.5 million euros a year in coins out of one fountain and gives it to a charity that runs a food bank
Sep 2, 2026
Ancient cacao DNA has been recovered from two pottery fragments dug out of eleventh and twelfth century feasting pits at Etowah in Georgia…
Sep 2, 2026
An 11-year-old in Colorado who had been following the Flint water crisis built a prototype lead detector using carbon nanotubes, an Arduino…
Sep 1, 2026
More than 2.5 kilometres of previously unrecorded pre-Hispanic road, including a zigzagging main road of at least 1.2 kilometres, has been…
Aug 30, 2026
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
Aug 30, 2026
Retirees in their fifties are much more likely than those in their sixties to consider returning to work, and surveys suggest the…
Aug 29, 2026
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
Aug 28, 2026
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
Aug 28, 2026
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
Aug 28, 2026
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
Aug 28, 2026