It’s shaped like a turtle and swims like a turtle — but it’s actually a bionic robot. Evan Budz, a 15-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada, recently won a first-place prize in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists 2025 for his invention of an autonomous bionic sea turtle robot. The (adorable) device was developed to […]
Plenty of hip bakeries these days are leaning into heritage wheat flours and other ancient grain varieties, but it’d be hard to top the historic value of the flour being milled at the Holgate Windmill. Nestled in a suburb of York, England, the brick tower mill is the oldest working windmill of its kind in […]
A decadent chocolate cake drizzled with caramel, a pint of mint chocolate chip Haagen-Dazs, and a crisp can of Coke. No, we aren’t listing the items from someone’s last meal request, but you wouldn’t be surprised if we were, right? Humans love sugar — so much so that we add it to a huge array […]
The next time you have to hit the bank or post office, call a friend and make a date out of it: It’s good for you. That’s according to recent research linking happiness to companionship across over 80 different daily activities — from the mundane, like getting gas, to those that seem non-social by their […]
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the beauty, intricacy, and interconnectedness of nature, and this year’s winning images are no exception. Announced Tuesday at a ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London, the 19 top shots were chosen from a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries and territories. Wim van den Heever from […]
At the Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Center on the outskirts of Bengaluru in southern India, a sloth bear with a penchant for peanut butter and honey recently made history. Vasikaran first arrived at the facility in 2019 with an injured paw that had to be amputated — but now, he’s the first known sloth bear in […]
A reality show of sorts recently took place in the depths of Guatemala’s Maya rainforest. There, a diverse cast of characters lived out some of their lives on camera, much to their viewers’ delight. But unlike the series you might find on Bravo, the viewers in this instance were scientists — and the cast was […]
You might be doing the dishes, taking a shower, or walking the dog when it happens: Seemingly out of nowhere, your mind circles back to those old, deep-seated feelings of shame about a time you wronged someone or felt intense embarrassment, even though you thought you’d moved on. You may even get frustrated with yourself […]
According to social impact company LifeStraw, the majority of girls in Kenya miss about 165 days over four years of high school for what might be a surprising reason: their periods. Sixty-five percent of women and girls in the country are unable to afford menstrual products — a symptom of period poverty, or the inability […]
Three undeveloped barrier islands off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama, are havens for a diverse array of wildlife — and after an eight-year-long, nearly $13 million project following years of storm damage, 30 acres of habitat have been restored. The Lower Perdido Islands near Perdido Pass are also hot spots for boaters, and now, […]
On this day 220 years ago, the British Royal Navy, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated French and Spanish forces at the Battle of Trafalgar — a day that ultimately halted Napoleon Bonaparte’s plans to invade England and secured British naval supremacy for more than a century. In honor of this anniversary, the Royal Museums […]
There’s an old belief about death that’s often attributed to the ancient Egyptians and was later brought into the mainstream by Banksy: We all die twice. The first time is when we shuffle off this mortal coil physically, and the second is when our names are uttered by the living for the last time. That […]