A wild rescue story with a mystery comes from Stoke-on-Trent, where a pony was found entirely trapped inside a tractor tire. Neither residents nor rescuers had any clue or idea as to what had gone on which saw the pony jailed by the derelict tire, but …
Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient disease closer than ever to eradication. Poised to be only the second human disease eradicated after smallpox, the 10 Guinea worm …
NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineers all in their eighties, with no one queued up to replace them.
From China’s arid Gansu Corridor comes the story of a rural county welcoming thousands of big city volunteers after a viral call for help. Minqin County is on the front line of China’s struggle against desertification, but it recently recei…
could tell it was getting bad when tech guys started talking about their “stacks.” They had sleep stacks, workout stacks, nutrition stacks, self-improvement stacks . . . if you could load up a bunch of helpful tasks or goals in a way that felt connecte…
Fragments of a life-sized mural depicting a larger-than-life figure of the Iliad has been found in the remains of a Roman villa near Reims, France. The discovery included several exquisite bronze statuettes and the remains of a colonnaded facade, indic…
