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Scientists Discover a New Form of Ice That Exists Above 3,600 Degrees Fahrenheit

Ice hotter than 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit? It's easier to imagine a kitchen sponge being instantly vaporized in an oven this hot. But scientists recently confirmed that a particular kind of ice could exist in a lab as a mix of solid and liquid at such temperatures given high enough pressure to crush anything not properly contained.The article discusses a new state of this unusual...

Mexico Reintroduced Bison to the Chihuahuan Desert After 160 Years

After more than a century and a half of silence, massive American bison are once again crossing the dry grasslands near Cuatrociénegas, Coahuila. In the Chihuahuan Desert’s El Santuario reserve, a herd of about 47 animals has returned to land that last saw them in the 19th century. Social media quickly spread the claim that these bison “restored the ecosystem itself” in just months....

NASA May Have Found Signs of Ancient Life on Mars, but the Sample Return Got Cut

Social media is buzzing with claims that NASA found “ancient alien life” on Mars. The viral posts make it sound like little green microbes...

Indiana Prison Program Lets Inmates Care for Rescued Cats Inside Facility

Inside a maximum-security prison in Indiana, a quiet corner looks nothing like the rest of the place. Men in beige uniforms spend hours each...

Princess Diana’s Iconic ‘Revenge Dress’ Heading to Auction for First Time

Princess Diana's iconic black "Revenge Dress" is heading back to auction for the first time in nearly 30 years, with Sotheby's New York set...

New Site ‘World Watcher’ Lets You Watch Live Camera Feeds Worldwide

What if you could jump from a beach in Spain to a busy city street, railway station or nature location somewhere else in the...

There’s an Airbnb in Scotland Where Guests Run a Cozy Bookshop for Their Stay

What if your next Airbnb vacation came with the keys to an actual bookstore?It’s real. In Wigtown, Scotland officially Scotland’s National Book Town paying...

Oregon Farmer Turns 70 Acres of Barley Farm Into a Wetland Wildlife Refuge

— A viral post this week from the celebrity-news account @pubity has resurfaced a year-old Oregon story that conservation researchers say quietly became...

YouTuber Builds Fully Functional Submarine Out of LEGO, Complete With Ballast

A Finnish YouTuber just dropped a radio-controlled submarine that actually dives, holds depth, tilts its nose, and powers through a river current and a...

Mother Lets Dying 6-Year-Old Ring Hospital Victory Bell Believing He Beat Cancer

Some stories don’t need a chart position or a red-carpet moment to stop you cold. They just hit different. In early 2022, a 10-year-old boy...

Alexandra Adams Becomes UK’s First Blind and Deaf Doctor Despite the Odds

Meet 32-year-old Alexandra Adams. She’s blind, she’s deaf, and she’s about to walk into a hospital ward where patients are going to realise the...

Chinese Man Reportedly Earns $15,000 a Month from a Scratching Service

A 32-year-old entrepreneur in Shenzhen has turned professional itch-scratching into a paying business, with his two salons combining for roughly 100,000 yuan, or about...

High School Student Builds Water Filter That Removes 96% of Microplastics

An 18-year-old Virginia high school student just dropped a prototype that has the internet buzzing: a home-built water filter that pulls out nearly all...

Japan’s Bullet Trains Hit 10 Billion Passengers With Zero Crash Fatalities

The bullet trains in Japan have been transporting over 10 billion people at fast speeds since 1964. There hasn’t been a single person killed...