For two years, an international team has been exploring what astronomers refer to as the Cosmic Dawn—the period in the first few hundred million years following the Big Bang where the first galaxies were born. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they’ve now discovered two of the earliest and most…
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A metal detectorist unearthed a farmer’s Rolex watch in rural England—50 years after it was eaten by a cow. James Steele lost the treasured timepiece in the early 1970s when the strap broke while he was tending his cattle. The farmer searched the field at his dairy farm in Shropshire, but…
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The San Diego Zoo excitedly welcomed an adorable baby Baird’s tapir this month—bolstering an endangered species that faces multiple challenges in the wild. The female calf and her mother named Luna can now be seen bonding at the zoo’s elephant compound, sharing space with the capybaras. Tapir newborns come into the…
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223 years ago today, Frédéric Bastiat, the French economist and writer was born. He is known not only for pioneering some of the most fundamental concepts in economic thought, but doing so with wit, humor, and in such a way as to make it nearly impossible to misunderstand. Those concepts are,…
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Imagine if every sound you heard was 30% more acute—that’s what it’s like to be a dog when fireworks start going off. Because of the festive nature of fireworks, many dogs don’t get exposure to them during their critical learning windows as a puppy. By the time they start going off…
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A UK ag-tech firm is pioneering bacterial batteries that they hope will allow farmers in the future to collect precise data about soil conditions with computing equipment powered by the soil itself. Designed to be installed and forgotten about, the batteries absorb power through bioelectrochemical processes that occur within soil microbes….
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Archaeologists examining finds dug up in a Spanish cave network in 1989 found skull fragments of a 6-year-old Neanderthal, which would have been exciting on its own, but the skull carried two major surprises. The first is that an analysis of the inner ear canal showed signs of Down Syndrome, the…
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