In one of the stranger manifestations of species decline in Australia, the Critically-Endangered regent honeyeater is having to re-learn its natural love song. With 300 or fewer of these beautiful birds left in the wild, young solitary males have been …
A Hungarian firm is adding shredded, hard-to-recycle waste into a light concrete mixture for use in paving roads, building houses, and insulating structures. The firm based in Budapest, called Makropa, utilizes many unrecyclable waste streams that woul…
A historic greenhouse in Glasgow is set to finally be revived after 40 years of dereliction. $1.5 million will help a trust organized to save the building do just that, while simultaneously opening it up to events and perhaps more. Located in the north…
In cloudy old England, an architect has created his own phone app that displays which pubs are currently in the sunshine. Mo Dawod was out in London in April last year when he decided that he wanted an iced coffee in the sunshine, but there was no way …
A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics that has been scaring us for years now. Lab gloves may have skewed the data in the research. She discovered that residue from latex or nitrile gloves ma…
You didn’t know how much you wanted to see a video of a harbor seal playing with his rubber duckie—until now. The New England Aquarium may call it an enrichment activity designed to stimulate its resident Atlantic harbor seals, but we call it adorable …
