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 […]
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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
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
Looking for a sustainable vessel to drink your morning coffee out of and unclear on which is better, a cardboard cup or a ceramic mug? Actually, there’s a third option: one made out of a gourd. Such a cup, in addition to making for great conversation when you have guests over, has the benefit of
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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
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
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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
Science’s coolest moments aren’t always visible to the naked eye, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s appropriately named Cool Science Image Contest is here to show them to us. Featuring objects and phenomena captured through microscopy, photography, animations, medical imaging, and other methods, the competition highlights the best scientific visuals to come out of research, scholarship,
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When most dogs jump into the back seat of a car, they excitedly pop their head out the window, eager to take in a tail-wagging display of new sights and smells. So it may seem odd that Midge, just shy of 3 years old, instantly nodded off. But for this young pup, a car ride
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Currently listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List, Asian elephants have dwindled to a population of fewer than 40,000 — but England’s Chester Zoo just announced a major breakthrough in a world-first trial that could help boost that number. Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, or EEHV, can kill both wild and captive Asian and
