‘Like a Beautifully-tuned Instrument’: 2000 Microphones Unlock the Mystery of Why Hummingbirds Hum
The hummingbird is named after its pleasant humming sound when it hovers in front of flowers to feed. But only now has it become...
Sir David Attenborough Backs This New Tech That Can Recycle All Plastics
A new recycling plant under construction in England features technologies that can break down any kind of plastic polymer into its constituent elements for...
Woman Uses Old Tires And Turns Them Into Beautiful Playgrounds
Durable, cheap, and relatively safe, one young architect is utilizing some of India's 100 million yearly thrown-away tires to design colorful playgrounds for schools...
Two Dogs Rescued From the Streets Now Live Their Best Life on the Road—Seeing the Sights of Europe
The amazing lives of two rescued street dogs who travel with their owner on trips around Europe have been captured in a series of...
Stray Dog Kept Sneaking Into Dollar Store For a Stuffed Unicorn – Now He and the Toy Have a New Forever Home
Shoplifting and petty theft are no laughing matter—except when the culprit is a cute canine kleptomaniac determined to liberate a certain stuffed purple unicorn...
Endangered Condors to Return to Northern California Skies After Nearly a Century
For the first time in 100 years, the endangered California condor will return to the Pacific Northwest.
Once on the brink of extinction, this iconic species has...
This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection
In the country's oldest science fair, 17-year old high schooler Dasia Taylor submitted a surgical suture that changes colors to warn of possible infections.
This...
Scientist Thinks He Finally Knows Why People Hear Sounds Coming From the Northern Lights
Epitomizing the old adage of "where there's smoke, there's fire," a group of volunteers and scientists in Finland have set out to prove or...
See Couple Adorably Recreate Their Wedding Album 50 Years Later, at the Same Church in the Same Dress
A couple have recreated their wedding album half a century later—at the same church, and in the very same dress.
Carolyn and Kelly Gay, who...
They’ve Collected 20 Million Pounds of Food From People Who are Moving—And Delivered it to Food Banks
A New Jersey moving company has sparked an initiative capitalizing on the amount of food left behind in clients' fridges in order to help...
Flood Waters Couldn’t Stop This Australian Miracle Wedding From Happening
Usually, when you think wedding crashers, you picture uninvited guests hoping to score some free cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. But as rowdy as such...
Southwest Air Employee Goes to ‘Infinity and Beyond’ to Reunite Buzz Lightyear With Excited Toddler
When duty calls, Buzz Lightyear is honor-bound to answer. At least that’s what one mom told her distraught toddler when he accidentally left his...
Step Inside the Magical World of An Ancient Tradition: Growing Rhubarb by Candlelight
A centuries-old tradition of harvesting rhubarb by candlelight has been captured in this series of otherworldly photographs.
Farmer Jonathan Westwood's great-great-uncle started the tradition of...
Viewed Through Venetian Glass: Old Art Form Captures Modern Global Challenges in Stunning Exhibition
As lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and closed recreation facilities have created a mental health crisis in America, art has become the opposite of ‘non-essential’.
Thankfully, on the...
Watch 600 Drones Recreate Van Gogh’s Famous Paintings in Dazzling Starry Night Show
The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh must be one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art.
The original—a rich and mysterious whirl of...
Photographer Captures Amazingly Surreal Moments on Hong Kong Streets
When photographer Edas Wong takes photos around the streets of Hong Kong, he captures random elements intertwining in images that are joyful, charming, and...
10 Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Two Men Are Still Living There Taking Care of Everyone’s Pets
When clouds of radiation began streaming into the air around the Fukushima nuclear plant, 160,000 residents were told to simply cut ties and run.
Yet,...
Amazing Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint Into Each Bubble
What’s more addictive than squishing bubble wrap and hearing that satisfying “pop-pop-pop” sound? For one New York-based painter, the answer is using it to create...
Fiji’s Corals Are Bouncing Back After Being Reduced to Rubble in Historic Storm
After the most destructive cyclone in Fijian history smashed into the island four years ago, it was feared the rich coral reefs surrounding the...
Ancient DNA Shows Cats Domesticated Themselves – Why Are We Not Surprised?
Domestication of animals was an amazing feat that changed human relationships with the natural world.
But while a Pomeranian looks nothing like a wolf, a...