An 8,500 year old bead was found 68 kilometres inland in California, hundreds of miles from the coastal waters its shell actually came from.
It sat buried for roughly 8,500 years, until a solar farm survey crew found it …
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Twenty one footprints on a Kenyan lakeshore record eight ancient hominins walking together 1.43 million years ago, and one of them stood nearly six feet tall.
That size doesn’t fit the species everyone assumed made the tracks. The researchers say so …
Methuselah, a pine tree still alive in California today, germinated before Egypt had even started building the Great Pyramid.
Scientists just sequenced its genome hoping to find the secret to its age. What they …
Hawaii’s sugar industry brought mongooses to Hawaii in the 1880s to kill rats, and the fix failed for one absurdly simple reason.
The rats came out at night. The mongoose slept through the entire shift. The mongoose …
An 11 year old in Colorado read about a water crisis two states away, and instead of the worry fading like it does for most of us, she built a device.
She named it Tethys, after the Greek goddess of fresh water a detail that says …
Scientists just logged 1,121 new ocean species in a single year, and the strangest part isn’t the ghost shark or the glass sponge
Most of them didn’t come from a research ship at all they came from museum …
A biologist clipped a metal band onto an albatross’s leg on a Pacific atoll in 1956, and that same bird just returned to nest for roughly the 70th year in a row
Her tracking device has no battery, no satellite link, and no moving parts it’s a …
One Swedish family quietly controls Ericsson, ABB, and AstraZeneca, yet not a single member of it is a billionaire, because almost none of the fortune is legally theirs
The trick isn’t hiding the money. It’s that the money was never legally theirs to …
Brooklyn shipped in sparrows to save its trees, and the birds ignored the caterpillars completely, ate grain instead, and went on to become one of the most abundant birds in North America
A Victorian pest control fix that skipped the one job it was hired for and …
Lions kept raiding a Kenyan boy’s cattle, so he built a fence of flashing lights that tricks them into thinking a man is patrolling all night.
75 neighboring farms asked for the same rig within two years and it’s since spread …
A 16-year-old in Johannesburg turned orange peels into a polymer that beat an industrial water-absorber, using nothing but fruit peel, avocado skin, and sunlight.
South Africa was in the middle of its worst drought since records began, and the …
Drillers in Antarctica pulled up ice in 2025 that trapped air breathed before Homo sapiens ever existed, frozen 1.2 million years underground.
For nine years, a team of European scientists had been looking for one very specific …