The Civil War-era shell sat on a Texas man’s desk for years as a conversation piece. (Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office) A Texas man kept a Civil War-era artillery shell on his desk for years, believing it was nothing more than a harmless dummy round. The object had become a conversation piece in his home, with…
All seven defendants face wire fraud and arson-related federal charges. (FBI photo) Federal prosecutors in Louisiana charged seven people on Tuesday, in an alleged insurance fraud and arson scheme involving about 13 residential fires between 2019 and 2026. Authorities say the group rented homes, obtained insurance policies and then allegedly caused fires at the properties…
An $80,000 life-size bronze statue of Ben Ali, the horse that won the 1886 Kentucky Derby, has been stolen from a road median in Sacramento, California. The nearly 7-foot statue had stood on Del Paso Boulevard for almost two decades and commemorated the horse’s connection to the city’s historic Rancho Del Paso. When the theft…
PC: North American Agrivoltaics Awards In 2017, Arlo Hark and Josie Trople founded Cannon Valley Graziers in Northfield, Minnesota, as a dedicated solar grazing operation. According to the North American Agrivoltaics Awards, the business has now grazed more than 6,500 acres of solar farms for developers, operators and owners. Its flock rotates across dozens of…
Representational photo of an Atari 2600 Game – SVG.com A box of old video games donated to a Goodwill store in Texas turned out to contain a rare 1982 Atari game that collectors had been searching for. The game, Air Raid for the Atari 2600, was sold at auction for $10,590.79 after a bidding war…
JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used Earth’s gravity as a cosmic slingshot on September 28, 2026, reshaping its route to Jupiter while conserving precious fuel. Flying just 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, the spacecraft had its trajectory deflected by 20 degrees and…
PC: Nelida Pohl/ BBC Wildlife Antarctica has only two native flowering plants, and both have spent years facing a warmer environment. A new seven-year field study found that Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) responded to long-term warming in different ways. Researchers placed open-top chambers around plants on King George Island to…
The team is now investigating which combinations of panel colour and transparency can produce the best balance between plant growth and electricity generation. Experiments involving red and blue panels are also being conducted under controlled conditions. What if the future of farming looked a little less green? In a Swedish experiment, rows of broccoli grew…
Hawaii’s appeals court has vacated a $7 million compensation judgment involving Williams’ property. (Photo: Civilbeat.org) In August 1994, Don Howard Williams Jr. paid $1.35 million for roughly 1.137 acres of waterfront property beside Maui’s Maalaea Small Boat Harbor. Four weeks later, he entered into a 30-year lease with the State of Hawaii.More than three decades…
A painting bought for just $30 at a Michigan estate sale has sold for $1,352,600 at auction in New York, after experts identified it as a long-lost 1951 work by Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie. The painting, Alderman Merriam’s Shells, had been missing from public view for about 75 years before it resurfaced this summer. It…
