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Sunny (top) practicing her hovering skills on May 29. She remained airborne for 3.3 seconds.
Birds

Famous eaglets Sunny and Gizmo have both officially left the nest

The bald eagle babies have now both fledged in Southern California.

Shipwreck in the Bay of Pigs
Life Skills

What to do if you find a shipwreck

First, don't take anything.

Smoke rises from the Morning Midas.
Electric Vehicles

An abandoned ship full of EVs is burning in the Pacific 

The crew of the Morning Midas had to abandon ship in lifeboats off the coast of Alaska.

fuzzy, orange-ish rodent in a person gloved hand
Wildlife

A baby porcupine is fluffier than you’d imagine

The prehensile-tailed porcupette made history at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Screenshot of UAP video
AI

Physicists use AI to hunt for UAPs and UFOs

Their new interdisciplinary method is inspired by the search for dark matter.

Ray-Bans Meta glasses with black, green, and clear lenses on sale at Amazon
Cameras

Replace your sunglasses with this rare deal on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses during this rare Amazon deal

This is the cheapest price we have seen on these camera-equipped smart glasses since Black Friday of last year. Grab the frame and lens color you want now.

a vechile in a field
Engineering

This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns 

The 3.5-ton, full-electric tractor has onboard cameras and sensors useful for sowing fields and detecting mines. 

Side view of a two-seat, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter fighter plane on an airfield during World War I, mid to late 1910s. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Aviation

Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight.

The Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter aka 'Sophie' is not destined to sit in a museum. 

a red diamond on a dark backgorund
Science

That’s no ruby. It’s an extremely rare red diamond.

Only 1 in 25 million diamonds have a scarlet color like the Winston Red Diamond.

a blue fish with a pointy face in a california kelp forest
Ocean

Q&A with the team behind ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’

The new film celebrates our greatest shared resource.

Illustration of medieval English fair
Archaeology

Medieval cold case is a salacious tale of sex, power, and mayhem

Did a priest's aristocratic ex-lover orchestrate his public assassination in 1337?

a violinist poses with his violin next to a pond with turtles
Wildlife

Turtles gather for sweet sounds of violinist

Violinist Zac Clejan plays everything from Ozzy Osbourne to Chappell Roan to Usher for turtles in Los Angeles.

two yawning robot heads and a chimp
Wildlife

Chimpanzees ‘caught a yawn’ from this robot and researchers aren’t sure why

'To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore contagious yawning in response to an inanimate agent.'

Three Garmin devices on a white background
Smartwatches

Help Dad save his metrics while you save money during Garmin’s Father’s Day sale

Is your No. 1 Dad obsessed with numbers? Help boost his performance for less with discounted wearables, golf launch monitors, cycling computers, and other outdoor adventure/recreation devices.

ESA's Flyeye telescope at first light test outside
Space Telescope

Bug-eyed telescope ready to find Earth-smashing asteroids

The ESA's Flyeye-1 completed its ‘first light’ test.

an image taken with a microscope that shows a fruit fly approaching a tower made of tiny roundworms
Wildlife

Worm towers are all around us

Wild nematodes form 'superorganisms' to build bridges and hitch rides.

an illustration of an extinct marsupial with brown and white fur and a small trunk-like nose
Wildlife

Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits

The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, and tapir-like marsupials only 50,000 years ago.

new york city skyline
Environment

In a world without people, how fast would NYC fall apart? Here’s the timeline.

In a week, mold moves in. In a century, New York is a forest.

Dead coral sit on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, on September 23, 2021. The coral is very gray and white
Ocean

Probiotics can help heal ravaged coral reefs

The antibiotic-free technique works in the wild and harnesses the power of beneficial bacteria.

An unlucky massive star approaches a supermassive black hole
Black Holes

Astronomers detect most powerful explosions since Big Bang

'Extreme nuclear transients' are 10 million times rarer than a standard supernova.