For more than a hundred years, scientists believed only one species of rabbit lived across the Iberian Peninsula, with at most two regional types. A new study has overturned that idea completely. Researchers from Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom have found that what looked like a single rabbit is actually two separate species that…
Nico Williams (Image: Wikipedia) A winner’s medal usually gets read as proof of what an athlete just achieved on the pitch. Nico Williams, the Spanish footballer, read his differently. “I run very fast, but I can’t run as fast as my mother,” he said. “Because she once escaped death and crossed the Sahara Desert from…
Asteroid breakup 800 million years ago may have triggered impacts on Earth, the Moon and Mars (AI photo) A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth, the Moon and Mars, according to a new study led by researchers at the Southwest…
Ludwig believes TheMightyBA isn’t finished despite major criticism at Streamer University 2026. (Image via: TheMightyBA/Twitch) Streamer University 2026 gave a lot of creators their moment, but for TheMightyBA, things went in a completely different direction. The young Twitch streamer has been at the center of online discussions after multiple controversial moments during Kai Cenat’s creator…
Forest bathing sounds like an ancient tradition, but it is actually younger than the personal computer. The practice known as shinrin-yoku was coined in Japan in 1982, not passed down through centuries. It began as a public health idea rather than a spiritual one, aimed at a country that was mostly forest but rapidly urbanising,…
When Tyler and Lauren Bouldin bought an abandoned stone house in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, they knew restoring it would be a long and unpredictable project. The 1830s property had damaged interiors, overgrown grounds and years of neglect to undo. What they did not expect was that the land surrounding their future family home had become…
More than 2,200 years before satellites, GPS and space missions revealed the Earth’s true size, an ancient Greek scholar calculated the planet’s circumference using nothing more than a stick, sunlight and basic geometry. Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes, the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria, carried out one of history’s most brilliant scientific experiments. By…
Some of the biggest turning points in a life do not feel significant while they are actually happening. Dwayne Johnson has described exactly that experience from his own life. “The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody, like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started…
Jeremy Morrison holding the baby photos he believes show the switch. (Image: AP) What began as an ordinary Christmas gift turned into a discovery that reshaped the lives of two North Dakota men and their families. Kyle Bylin and Jeremy Morrison learned in 2024 that they had been switched at birth nearly 38 years earlier…
Previously known members of Australian carnivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphs)/ Image Credit: Wikipedia A remarkable fossil discovery in Queensland has filled one of the biggest gaps in Australia’s evolutionary history. According to a new study published in the journal Australian Zoologist, researchers have identified the oldest known member of the dasyurid family – the group of carnivorous…