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A Michigan man has been turning discarded bicycles into prosthetic legs while also teaching others how to make them, all for free. Ben Hogan, a former bike mechanic and prosthetist at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, founded Project Bike Leg, an initiative that makes prosthetics sourced almost entirely from repurposed bike parts. He hopes his…

In eastern Germany, enormous pits carved into the landscape by decades of lignite mining are being transformed into a vast network of lakes, wetlands and restored land. The Lusatian Lakeland, spread across Brandenburg and Saxony between Berlin and Dresden, is being created by flooding former open-cast mines and reshaping their surroundings. The tourist destination now…

In November 2023, troops sweeping for a suspected minefield on Mount Geumseong in southwestern South Korea ended up uncovering a small bronze object about four inches beneath the soil. Rather than a landmine, it was a gun, one that may have been buried for more than 600 years, according to a report by Smithsonian Magazine.After…

Eastern box turtle (representative image) More than two months after scores of box turtles were found abandoned along a riverbank in Cranford, New Jersey, the rescue effort has entered a new phase. The Mercer County Wildlife Center now reports caring for 219 turtles connected to the July dumping, up from about 190 in early August….

In the streams of Southern California’s mountains, the southern mountain yellow-legged frog has had a difficult few decades. The species was once far more widespread, with historic accounts describing streams where frogs were so numerous that people could scarcely move without stepping around them. Finding them in the wild is a very different proposition; their…

Moscow under drone swarm: Ukraine launches massive overnight attack Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack involving around 650 drones targeting the Moscow region, Russian authorities said on Tuesday, in one of the largest such attacks on the Russian capital and its surroundings in the past two years.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 105 drones were downed…

File photo: Wreckage of a Nigerian military craft inside the swampy Igbokoda forest in Ondo State, Nigeria A Nigerian military aircraft carrying 32 people crashed in Ondo state on Monday, killing all 25 passengers and seven crew members on board.The Nigerian Air Force identified the aircraft as an ATR-42, a twin-engine turboprop configured for intelligence,…

Chocolate has been providing a sugar high to humans for centuries, enough to inspire them to build monuments too. A new genetic analysis of pottery pieces near the Etowah Indian Mounds has revealed the earliest known traces of cacao east of the Mississippi River, according to Smithsonian Magazine, citing a study published in PLOS One…

For decades, parts of South San Diego Bay looked very different from the tidal wetlands that once occupied them. Former salt ponds had been separated from the bay, limiting natural tidal flows and reducing habitat for wildlife. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project, a partnership involving…

File Photo – A nurse, prepares a combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine for a patient New York state has declared a disaster emergency over a rise in measles cases, as the disease continues to spread across parts of the United States.Governor Kathy Hochul said the emergency declaration would expand the pool of health professionals…