The under-2-hour marathon mark has been broken officially for the first time—twice—by a pair of African runners at this year’s London Marathon. Thousands cheered as Kenyan champion runner Sabastian Sawe passed the finishing line at 1:59:30, a lon…
A penguin believed to be the oldest in the world has celebrated her 38th Birthday with an impressive ice cake topped with fishy treats. Spneb, who was named after the medication which saved her life, is said to be the oldest Humboldt penguin on the pla…
Two men recently completed an unimaginable voyage across the continent of Africa driving a Reliant Robin. Their journey took over 90 days, during which they suffered countless breakdowns, swerved civil unrest and military operations, and witnessed all …
By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma—or “mini lightning bolts”—in glass tubes submerged in water, chemists have discovered a new way to turn natural gas into liquid fuel. Utilizing literal “lighting in a bottle” the team from Nor…
An American senior recently went viral on social media while doing a bit of gardening—with the help of a 150 pound dog. Barbara Collins has some flowers in her hand, and she points to the giant brown Newfoundland where she wants to put them. Then Chewy…
The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows. Recovering a selection of truly revolutionary fossils from sediments in Japan and Vancouver Island, the researchers present a prehistoric…
