Emergency Butterfly Wing Transplant Is a Success Watched by Millions on Social Media
With a pioneering procedure, a nature center in New York made sure that a broken wing wasn’t the end of one monarch butterfly’s journey. Famous for migrating from Mexico up to Canada, a Deer Park resident found one of these orange beauties stranded with the upper section of its right forewing broken. Janine Bendicksen […]
Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource […]
Scotland May Have Had a Western King–A Forgotten Medieval Island Castle Tells a Story
For nearly 3 centuries, Scotland’s western isles were ruled by men who considered themselves kings equal to those in Edinburgh or London. The island of Islay was the seat of the Lordship of the Isles, but evidence of a castle from an earlier period, as well as finds from a palatial complex built on a […]
11,000 Strings Tuned Slightly Differently Makes Music to Engulf an Audience Encircled by 50 Pianos (Video)
A performance unlike any other just wrapped up in New York City, where an audience of a few lucky hundred were encircled by 50 pianos. The pianists played out a piece called “11,000 Strings,” named for the number of strings in 50 pianos, each of which was tuned slightly differently than the others. The tuning […]
Nighttime Dive Reveals Never-Before-Seen Relationship Between Fish and Anemones
A new discovery has revealed that relationships between fish and sea anemones are more diverse than those portrayed in Finding Nemo. It suggests that there the former may use the latter as a tool of self defense, while the latter uses the former as transportation. Captured through breathtaking blackwater photography, the images featured in a […]
Pine Martens Released into Wilds of Exmoor National Park for First Time in 100 Years
Video cameras captured the moment when pine martens returned to Britain’s Exmoor National Park for the first time in 100 years. The pioneering nature project has reintroduced 19 of the rare creatures back into habitat they once flourished in, and joins a series of reintroduction and rewilding events that must be marking a turnaround for […]
The ‘Spirit Molecule’ Defends the Brain Against Stroke in Mice, Breakthrough Study Shows
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent psychoactive molecule present in the brain and much of the world’s plant life, but it also may be able to save humans from damage in the event of a stroke. Scientists in Hungary used it to reduce the harmful effects of stroke in animal models and cell culture experiments. Known […]
Young Hockey Player Returns to the Rink Nine Months After a Devastating Injury
From the ice hockey rinks of Minnesota comes the story of a young man determined not to let an injury change his life the way his doctors assured him it would. Whether the desire to get back on the ice or faith in his creator, Jackson Drum defied the odds of a C1-2 spinal cord […]
Tonight’s Full Moon Is First Supermoon Since Nov–and Latest Harvest Moon in Nearly 40 years
Luna-lovers and stargazers will have a feast on the East coast tonight, as the first supermoon in 11 months will occur just before midnight. A supermoon is a colloquial term for when the Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth during it’s orbital rotation. This makes the Moon noticeably larger, and appears larger still […]
NASA Laser Sends Terabits from Beyond Mars in Huge Success for Deep-Space Communications Test
NASA recently achieved an incredible milestone in an even more incredible quest: providing broadband to the solar system. But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits of data from the Psyche Mission about 300 million miles from Earth via laser beam. That’s over three times the distance between […]