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October Is National Pizza Month! Celebrate With These Delicious Deals

Whether you prefer Chicago or New York-style, pineapple or pepperoni, stuffed crust or cauliflower, there’s one thing the majority can agree on: Pizza is simply the best. In celebration of National Pizza Month this October, pie makers nationwide are serving up delectable deals and cooking up cool contests. Read on to find out about events […]

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY REMY ZAKA - French biologist Laurent Ballesta poses on February 16, 2015 in Carnon, southern France, in front of his underwater pictures. AFP PHOTO / PASCAL GUYOT (Photo credit should read PASCAL GUYOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Award-Winning Photographer Laurent Ballesta Showcases Diverse Sea Life Under Antarctic Ice: Photos

Laurent Ballesta has been exploring and documenting the underwater world for decades. Born and based in France, he’s the author of 13 books, a marine biologist, and a filmmaker, to name just a few of his titles. This week, he took home the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year portfolio prize for a […]

“Be Kind”: Denver Man Builds Bus Stop Benches That Are More Than Just Seats

After witnessing a woman sitting in the dirt while waiting for the bus, James Warren decided to take action and give back to his Denver, Colorado, community in a practical way. He began building benches for local bus stops that didn’t have seating options and has been placing his handmade wooden creations around the city […]

Scientists Develop Affordable Device That Can Convert a Light Breeze Into Electricity

Using the wind as a means of harnessing energy is not a newfound concept — turbines have been cropping up for decades now, and wind generates nearly 10% of U.S. electricity. But scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University have developed an innovative new technology that can harness energy from the gentlest of breezes. At just […]

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Nonprofit Makes Whirlpools to Remove Microplastics From Water Supply

Scientists estimate there are at least 14 million metric tons of microplastics on the ocean floor, but these pollutants are everywhere — from the snow on Mount Everest to the bodies of honeybees. Due to their minuscule size, microplastics can also easily infiltrate the human body, and traces have been found in breast milk, blood, […]

Chocolate with Ahuautle, mosquito egg and Chapulines (grasshoppers) Ahuautle or Axayacatl, aquatic insects in the family Corixidae, the eggs of which ahuauhtli, deposited abundantly on brushes in lakes and ponds and are collected and sold as a sort of Mexican caviar, as part of the Aztec food. After being thoroughly cleaned and washed, they are toasted on a comal clay pan and they are prepared with garlic, lime juice and salt containing extract of agave worms, lending a sour spicy salty taste to the finished product. You can find snacks of grasshoppers all over Mexico This is a close-up photo of the Mexican dish, ready to be eaten.

How Mexico’s Locals Are Trying to Save Its Historic “Mexican Caviar”

Eggs have been a healthy breakfast staple for thousands of years. Even the Aztec emperor Montezuma is said to have eaten them with his morning summer meals, according to the BBC — though his weren’t from a chicken, but an insect, the Axayácatl fly. Ahuautle, also known as “Mexican caviar,” was considered a food of […]

FORT MYERS BEACH, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 03: Travis Livingston, senior Florida Forest Service forest ranger, evacuates Steve Armstrong and his dog from Fort Myers Beach in the wake of Hurricane Ian on October 3, 2022 in Fort Myers, Florida. The death toll in the state from Ian rose to at least 100 today following the storm making landfall as Category 4 hurricane, causing extensive damage along the coast as rescue crews continued the search for survivors. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Good Samaritans Rescue Displaced Animals in Wake of Hurricane Ian: Meet Some of the Heroes

Hurricane Ian, one of the deadliest storms in Florida’s history, prompted the largest ever federal search-and-rescue mission — and that includes the state’s pets. In addition to helping residents, efforts have since expanded to help the four-legged and furry friends that have also been displaced from their homes and families after the Category 4-storm made […]

The Tegel Projekt: Berlin to Transform Abandoned Airport Into Eco-Friendly Metropolis

Berlin, Germany, is transforming a disused airport into an über-modern, green metropolis. After the Tegel international airport saw its final plane take off in 2020, the 1,235-acre site sat unoccupied, and air traffic transferred over to the newer and nearby Berlin Brandenburg Airport. But the space wouldn’t be abandoned for long. By 2021, plans for […]

Meet ART: The Amphibious Robotic Turtle With Limbs That Morph Into Flippers

A team at Yale University took inspiration from turtles and tortoises to develop an innovative amphibious robot that can walk on land and swim — and could potentially help researchers monitor ocean ecosystems. Called ART, or Amphibious Robotic Turtle, it’s a shape-shifting robot with legs that can morph into flippers once introduced to water, a […]

These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago. There are several types of supernova, but for SNR 0519 the star that exploded is known to have been a white dwarf star — a Sun-like star in the final stages of its life. SNR 0519 is located over 150 000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish), a constellation that also contains most of our neighbouring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Because of this, this region of the sky is full of intriguing and beautiful deep sky objects. The LMC orbits the Milky Way galaxy as a satellite and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. SNR 0519 is not alone in the LMC; the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope also came across a similar bauble a few years ago in SNR B0509-67.5, a supernova of the same type as SNR 0519 with a strikingly similar appearance. A version of this image was submitted to the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Image Processing Competition by Claude Cornen, and won sixth prize.

Supernova “Early-Warning System” Developed to Capture Dying Stars’ Explosions in Real-Time

Constellations, planets, and other celestial events aren’t the only exciting things happening in the world of astronomy this month. A new study is heralding an exciting development in space sciences: a method by which a supernova — the massive explosion marking a star’s death — can be observed as it transpires in real-time. Lead researcher […]

Chirps and Trills: Birdsong Can Help Reduce Anxiety and Paranoia, Study Shows

Listening to the chirps and trills of birds can decrease anxiety and paranoia, according to a new study out of Germany. The study, published October 13, tested the effects of traffic noise and birdsong on 295 randomly selected participants, who listened to a few minutes of typical city traffic noise and bird choruses at low […]

Man Played His Saxophone While Undergoing Nine-Hour Brain Surgery

The human brain is considered by many to be the most complicated thing yet discovered in the universe — so it stands to reason that brain surgery would be one of the most complicated medical procedures. On October 10 in Italy, a patient turned that procedure into an even more impressive showcase of human capability: […]