This summer Connor Halsa reeled in the fishing story of a lifetime when he went searching for walleye and got a wallet. Inside there was $2,000 cash, wet and soggy, but nonetheless cold and metaphorically hard. Still, Connor and his dad agreed immediately they needed to find the owner. Out…

Conversations about artificial intelligence took off in the media after the debut of ChatGPT this year, but AI had already been coiling its industry-changing hands around all sorts of applications for years, from conceptual art and design to these robot trash pickers, Sorty McSortface and Sir Sorts-a-Lot. Working all day…

While unquestionably quaint and surrounded by gorgeous scenery, Sarsina in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region has never been accustomed to drawing in hordes of tourists. When it formed part of Rome’s defensive perimeter, it was once a fortified outpost at a strategic mountain pass, and also birthed the famous Roman playwright…

After matching each other in normal rounds, two Olympic pole vaulters continued to battle it out over three tiebreaker rounds to see who would get gold at the World Athletics Championships. However, the tiebreakers proved inconclusive, with both Australia’s Nina Kennedy and American Katie Moon both making it over the…

Happy 61st birthday to the Japanese Nobel laureate, Sinya Yamanaka, whose pioneering work in the science of stem cells led him to identify the “Yamanaka Factors”— 4 different genetic transcription factors that he used to turn any adult human cell into a stem cell. He shared the prize jointly with…