In India’s remote Western Ghats, a gorgeous blue and yellow gecko species has been named in honor of Vincent Van Gogh, whose painting Starry Night, was the first thing that entered Ishan Agarwal’s mind when he saw it. Found during one of many expeditions into these underdeveloped, underexplored mountains running parallel to…

There’s been a lot of talk in the media over the last few years about insect protein, whether used in fake beef, protein bars, or other processed applications, but a startup in the UK has come up with a way to integrate bugs into the food supply chain in a…

Disaster struck a truck transporting 102,000 young salmon to a hatchery in Oregon when it overturned on the road and the giant fish tank it was carrying burst open. However luck was on the side of the small fries, almost all of whom rode the wave of water out of…

90 years ago today, the architect Kisho Kurokawa was born. This brilliant mind was the co-founder of the Metabolist architectural movement, which sought to fuse the post-war architecture of the island with organic forms to create structures in harmony with a sort of Marxist vision of humanity in the future.…

A spacecraft is being built that could orbit the Earth and aid other ships that need a refuel—extending their missions. The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas, will build and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25.5 million Space Mobility and Logistics (SML) project funded…

[SWNS] – An amateur fossil hunter is celebrating a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after finding a huge mammoth tooth on a beach. Chris Bien was visiting Holland-on-Sea, Essex, as part of her birthday celebrations when she took a walk on the beach with her husband Mark. She stopped to sit on a…

A poll of 2,000 literary lovers in Britain has revealed the top 35 places to visit made famous by iconic authors and the scenes from their books. Some of the top must-see locations for book buffs are right in London, including Shakespeare’s Globe theater, the John Keats home, and 221-B Baker…

A British woman says an eye test saved her life, after her optician spotted a brain tumor during a routine examination. Katie Everett’s eyesight had gotten noticeably worse and, indeed, they found an abnormality in both of her eyes, so referred her to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. After an…

93 years ago today, perhaps the greatest American whistleblower in history, Daniel Ellsberg was born. In March of last year, Ellsberg revealed to the media he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and passed away before the year was out. Ellsberg was the man who leaked a top-secret Pentagon study…

As Americans prepare for the wondrous celestial spectacle of a total solar eclipse on April 8, cloudy skies or thunderstorms have been forecast for some areas in the direct path of totality. The latest national weather forecast shows that during the eclipse heavy rain and severe thunderstorms are likely to…