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From that magical island called Borneo comes the story of a bottom-up, pay-per-pic program that’s making a significant impact for the conservation of endangered birds and orangutans.
On September 18th, the Norwegian government established a new marine protected area covering approximately 714 square miles, equivalent to almost 260,000 football pitches.
During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell had had enough. It was winter, and she was cold. She was bouncing to and from family members’ houses and sometimes could only afford one...
30 years ago today, the Nintendo 64 video game console was released in North America. Critically acclaimed as “quite simply, the fastest, most graceful game machine on the market”, the N64 was one of the first gaming…
There are 107,677 people in Japan who are currently aged 100 or older, according to recently released health ministry figures.
Nine months in, North America’s largest wildlife overpass has cut vehicle collisions on a stretch of Interstate 25 in Colorado by 91 percent.
This is a typical image of the south of France; now the home to an assortment very a-typical European fruit: the banana, the papaya, and the mango.
With a focus on living wages, better fabrics and sustainability, one clothing brand is pushing to transform the fashion industry
Nora Griefahn’s office showcases her work better than words: The interior walls at the C2C LAB on a busy street in Berlin, Germany, are alive with lush, air-purifying plants; lamp shades have been grown from mycelium;…
There’s a kind of workday most of us know too well. You’re logged on early, you barely step away for lunch, and by 6 pm you’re not entirely sure what you have to show for it. The calendar was full. The inbox moved.
Two million square meters of former airport land in the southern suburbs of Athens are being converted into The Ellinikon Park.
As Sunil Totti prepared for a job interview with an international tech firm recently, he was hit by a sudden anxiety: What if the electricity failed midway through? At home in Eastleigh, Nairobi, the power was…
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by eujue 유주 (@eu.pottery) New York City’s subway stations aren’t exactly known for their greenery. But one artist has found a creative way to bring a little nature underground.
Bionic and the Wires connected sensors to a wild mushroom in Derbyshire, using its bioelectrical signals to control bionic arms that played a synthesizer.
From parenting struggles to sweet family moments, John Kovaleski’s “Daddy Daze” comics find plenty of humor in the everyday experience of raising a child.
Social media presents a distorted version of reality; we all know this. But now, Instagram is making it even easier to alter images that you might not want everyone to see.
A stuffed animal is supposed to be the safest object in the room. It's soft, familiar, and built to stand in for comfort.
“They don't care about selling magazines anymore,” one commented after Elliot Page’s shirtless photos for New York magazine went viral.
It’s easy to dismiss your capacity to write neatly, and that seems especially true when it comes to hand lettering.
Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida por Наталья Выборнова (@vybornova.natalia) Ten years since a community came together for a selfless rescue, a monument has been installed honoring the…
Artist Jaume Plensa has opened two exhibitions within a week of each other in cities across the United States. Both shows are at GRAY galleries, one in Chicago and the other in New York.
Wildlife rescuer Meg Churches rescued an injured pregnant grey-headed flying fox named Sully near Sydney Harbour and cared for her while she recovered.
Multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier explains his concept of the “wiggle”, the fluid energy connecting melody, rhythm, and harmony in music.
Professional freeride mountain biker Sam Pilgrim races three-wheeled mountain carts down a mountain in Sölden, Austria, during Swatch Nines Bike 2026.
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Madrid’s Metro is more than a way to get around the city. Over the years, the network has continually sought to improve and embellish its stations, turning otherwise functional spaces into unexpected galleries.
Where the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers merge in southeastern North Dakota, the Red River of the North begins its winding trek northward into Canada.
A pair of California friends set a Guinness World Record by assembling all 11,695 pieces of the Lego World Map in 4 hours, 59 minutes and 51 seconds.
This is a place with two unique and magical places to see. The first, the abandoned Hood River Pumping Station, is at the parking lot to the Hood River Pipeline Trail.
A man out running errands picked up a pair of Maryland Lottery tickets for his dad -- and they earned him a $100,000 windfall.
Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush teamed up with his 3-year-old daughter to break a record for jumping through a hula hoop.
Firefighters in New Jersey ventured out into stormy weather to rescue a deer stuck between the bars of a metal fence.
At one end of Thornton’s Arcade, beneath its elegant glass roof, four Victorian characters wait for their cue. When the clock strikes, Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Richard the Lionheart, and Gurth the Swineherd spring into…
A Chinese man reportedly earns over $15,000 yuan per month from two scratching salons where people pay to relieve stress by being gently scratched.
Despite allegedly being only 13 years old, Qatari volleyball player Mubarak Musa Thiik Madut measures 2.10 meters (6 ft 11 in) and plays like a veteran.
A growing number of young men across the world are apparently following a bizarre beuaty trend that has them shaving their eyelashes for a more masculine look.
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A pair of exceptionally rare Cretaceous bird bones found at separate sites near Richmond, Queensland, reveal a previously unknown species—the second formally named Cretaceous bird from Australia.
Instead of capturing a memory with an iPhone camera, Carnegie Mellon University's Nivedita Shyamsundar used hers to make a scientific discovery.
NSTGRO Homepage Omar AlyousefUniversity Of MemphisPolycatenated Architected Materials (PAM) for Origami-Inspired Space Docking Ports Cade ArmstrongUniversity Of Texas at AustinIntelligent Multi-Agent Constellations for…
The South Asian summer monsoon has long been known to shape the Mediterranean climate thousands of kilometers away as part of a phenomenon known as the "monsoon–desert" mechanism.
Photos taken using a microscope reveal the colorful, kaleidoscope-like crystal structure of a new NASA-made material that could be used for manufacturing during future space missions.
Extending some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) along the length of Italy, the Apennine Mountains present a challenging puzzle for geologists.
The tiny diamondback terrapin was brought to a wildlife center on September 17. At the time, the creature weighed about as much as a nickel
The wreckage could belong to the “Warren Sawyer,” a three-masted cargo schooner that foundered more than 140 years ago
Enceladus may naturally separate and concentrate chemicals from its hidden ocean as droplets slowly freeze and shatter on their way into space.
Scientists may have solved why the length of Earth’s day changes by a few milliseconds over decades. Subtle shifts in the inner core appear to tug on the mantle, revealing a surprisingly dynamic world thousands of…
NASA and SpaceX could launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, with the Dragon spacecraft reaching orbiting outpost less than nine hours after liftoff.
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