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What Are Those “Portholes” on Cows, and Why Do They Exist?
If you’ve ever seen a photo of a cow with what looks like a circular hatch in its side, you weren’t imagining things, and it isn’t a costume. It’s a surgically placed device called a cannula, and it’s been standard practice in agricultural research for nearly a century. What a Cannula Actually Is A cannulated…
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The World’s Largest Penguin Colony Has Lost Nearly Two-Thirds Of Its Chinstraps — And Scientists Say It’s A Warning Sign
For years, Zavodovski Island looked like the one place where chinstrap penguins were holding their ground. A new study says that picture has collapsed. Between 2011 and 2025, the number of occupied chinstrap nests on the remote volcanic island fell by 63%, according to research published on October 7 in the journal Current Biology, as…
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Turkmenistan’s “Door to Hell” Has Burned for More Than 50 Years — Now Its Flames Are Fading, and Officials Want Them Out
For decades, a flaming pit in the Karakum Desert has drawn travelers who want to stand at the edge of what looks like the underworld. Now the Darvaza…
In Canada, a 16-year-old needed to be air-rescued after following AI-planned hiking route onto ‘Widowmaker’
A solo teenage hiker in British Columbia learned in the worst way that a confident-sounding route is not the same as a safe one. On October 3, 2026,…
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New Soil Samples From the “Noah’s Ark” Site Raise Questions — but Don’t Answer Them
Drill crews pulled soil from as deep as 60 feet into Turkey’s Durupınar Formation this year, and what they didn’t find may…
Archaeologists Unearth ‘Rare’ 5,000-Year-Old Arrowheads in ‘Rapidly’ Melting Ancient Norwegian Ice
After three weeks in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains, a team of glacier archaeologists has come back with some of its oldest finds yet,…