A sketch of Dover Harbor, created by British landscape artist John Constable on a sailing trip in 1803, was found within a smashed frame in… Read More »Long-Lost Sketch by Landscape Master John Constable Found in an Old Suitcase
Maine’s rivers are the only ones left in the US where Atlantic salmon can return to spawn, and the most productive of these rivers is… Read More »The Penobcot River in Maine Sets Records for Atlantic Herring and Salmon Runs
If even half of the lithium that’s estimated to exist in the McDermitt caldera is mined, it would change the world. Full stop. Early this… Read More »Lithium Discovery in Crater in Nevada Could Be Biggest Deposit Ever Found
This little nugget went through quite the ordeal after falling down a storm drain near Port Jefferson Station on Long Island, NY. After someone heard… Read More »Rescuers Move 5,000 Pounds of Concrete to Rescue Mewing Kitten From Storm Drain
From Australia comes a story of corporate responsibility in the face of personal tragedy as an elderly national bank depositor had nearly AUD$500,000 returned to… Read More »Bank Decides it Should have Prevented Dementia Depositor from Getting Scammed–So Reimburses Entire Life Savings
On Scotland’s Isle of Arran, national archaeologists are abuzz that a new ‘cursus’ has been found that is proving to be the most complete and… Read More »Scotland Claims it’s Found 5,00 Year Old Monument on ‘par with Stonehenge’ on the Isle of Arran
In Indonesia, the worsening plastic pollution crisis has led young Sam Benchegjib to start Sungai Watch – an environmental organization dedicated to keeping Indonesia’s waterways… Read More »Inspired Indonesian Youth Pulls 2.6 Million Pounds of Trash from Nation’s Rivers in Just 3 Years
A dazzling and rare cosmic explosion, which outshines most supernovae in the universe, has been spotted by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast. The unusual new… Read More »Researchers Discover a New Type of Fast and Furious Cosmic Explosion–Name it After Liverpool Soccer Team
Bringing a bit of European small-time organization across the pond, a US/Dutch resident of Oregon is launching a startup to allow wine drinkers to bring… Read More »30 Wineries Sign Up to Refillable Wine Bottle Service in Oregon
China introduced many things to the world—paper, fireworks, gunpowder, zippers, but it’s also in China’s soils that the greatest scientific advancement in paleontology was discovered—that… Read More »A Kind of Cretaceous Crane Enters Fossil Record as Long-Legged Wading Dinosaur Found in China