Four years ago, someone came across an extraordinary find—a juvenile rhino from the Pleistocene ‘mummified’ in the Siberian permafrost. Alerting the relevant authorities, the discovery turned out to be a 4-year-old woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) with its fur, skin, and organs intact, offering paleontologists a rare glimpse into the biology of…
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A rather unique story is sweeping American social media—moms leaving presents for other moms inside baby products. The story began when Nashville mom Denaesha Gonzalez went to Target and saw a strange yet translatable sight—a silver clutch purse placed on the shelf with the baby supplies. A mother, Gonzalez reasoned, had…
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Imagine if you were flipping through records at a store and discovered an unreleased single from Jimi Hendrix or Freddie Mercury. That’s what archivists must have felt when they held up 200-year-old sheet music for a composition about 12 minutes long. They realized that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was about to drop…
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In Richmond, a company has opened the world’s first indoor strawberry farm. Plenty Unlimited Inc. says their AI-based system makes it possible to grow produce with peak-season flavor, year-round, almost anywhere in the world. AI analyses more than 10 million data points each day across 12 grow rooms, adapting each grow…
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Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel. Depending on where you live in the world, you may be opening this story with every tree in your neighborhood blushing bright yellow, orange, and red, or you could be wondering why all the colors…
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A woman who broke her leg while hiking was rescued by a trio of strapping young whipper snappers, who carried her all the way down the mountain on their backs. Even realizing she’d be alone for the 3.2-mile trek, Ursula Bannister had been confident of getting to the place where she…
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In a rather unique story from Reuters, the Spanish olive oil market is profiled for what it can do to power Spain’s homes, not just its economy and kitchens. Accounting for half the production of olive oil in the EU, growers are now getting to sell olive pits as a valuable…
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