Pinks are not called pinks because they are pink.
A tornado in Nebraska made a lot of motorists' days scarier forming right on the side of a freeway before crossing over the motorway, a new viral video shows. The video, currently making the rounds on social media, shows the tornado on the I-80…
Amy Wild talks to animals. That's not especially weird — who doesn't chat with their pets, or with the occasional bird or chattering squirrel? The difference is that Wild says the animals talk back to her. "Sometimes they speak in actual sentences," Wild said matter-of-factly, "but usually I get images, shared emotion, that sort of thing." Wild, 38, is a Starksboro-based animal and spirit medium. The Massachusetts native started her business, Spectral Communications, in 2022 to offer her...
See the best photos of jam band Phish at the Sphere in Las Vegas during a four-night run.
Around 6,200 BCE, the climate changed. Global temperatures dropped, sea levels rose and the southern Levant, including modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Syria and the Sinai desert, entered a period of drought.
And FX dropped a trailer starring Laurence Fisburne and Ed O’Neill to prove it.
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Water detective Dr Leon Barron studies London’s wastewater, analysing it in all its chemical, narcotic, polluted glory, before and after treatment. Amazingly, he still drinks the stuff from the tapIf you live in London, Dr Leon Barron knows what you’re up to. He knows what prescribed drugs you’re on – painkillers, antidepressants, antipsychotics or beta blockers – and what illicit ones you’re taking for fun. He knows if you’ve been drinking and when (“Friday and Saturday are the main ones”);...
The Smart Materials research group, coordinated by Athanassia Athanassiou at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology), has developed a biocompatible bandage made of plant-based materials that, loaded with vitamin C, can accelerate the healing process of burn wounds.
When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth. Now, China is sending another mission to the far side, and this time, its goal is to return the first samples of the moon’s “hidden side” to Earth. The Chang’e-6 mission, launched Friday, is set to spend 53 days exploring the South Pole-Aitken basin to study its geology and topography as well as...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild.
Rakus, the clever orangutan who became his own doctor (Picture: Safruddin) In Disney’s the Jungle Book, the orangutan King Louie famously sings how much he wants to be like young human Mowgli. Now it seems the real apes are even more like people than previously thought. In an incredible world first, a male orangutan has been seen repeatedly treating a wound using medicinal plants. The wild male Sumatran orangutan, known as Rakus, was seen chewing leaves and applying the sap to a wound...