At the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (BBG), a plant that most people will never see flower has sprouted its azure blooms for the first time in over 10 years. This incredibly rare event has turned the plant, a bromeliad called Puya alpestris into a “sapphire tower.” Native to the Chilean Andes at altitudes…

At the Richboro Taco Bell, outside of Philadelphia, manager Becky Arbaugh wasn’t working the lunch rush, but was around nevertheless. She heard a scream coming from the drive-through window, followed by the harrowing words ‘call 911 the baby isn’t breathing!’” The phone would have to wait, as Arbaugh threw off…

A woman in Alberta just set a new world record for the longest time spent in an abdominal plank position, managing 4 hours, 30 minutes, and 11 seconds. DonnaJean Wilde realized that a plank was an excellent exercise to do in a cast after she broke her wrist 10 or…

A pandemic among frogs has been going on worldwide for years—the culprit: a fungal infection that has affected amphibians on nearly every continent. But now, the discovery of a virus that has evolved to replicate inside this fungus could be the key to saving nearly 500 species of frogs that…

Today is the 54th edition of Earth Day. A coalition of major music streamers and the UN have had a stroke of inspiration that will hopefully channel millions to conservation. Entitled “Sounds Right,” artists who utilize stock recordings of animals or weather will have the option of putting a ‘feat.…

300 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant’s formulation of humanity, in his famous “categorical imperative,” states that as an end in itself, humans are required never to treat others merely as a means to…

Beautiful aerial photos captured gardeners perfecting a maze of garden hedges at a Six-Century-old British castle. Pruners were hard at work trimming the box hedging around the medieval maze following wet weather at Bolton Castle, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire. The impressive stone labrynth was commissioned by Sir Richard le Scrope,…

A new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer—avoiding harmful side-effects such as hair loss—has been developed. Scientists at Virginia Tech devised the ground-breaking immunotherapy to localize cancer-killing cytokines in tumors, improving the effectiveness of current treatments. Immunotherapy involves harnessing the power of the body’s immune system to…

A British couple was left stunned when they found a medieval gargoyle hidden inside their bathroom. Tracy and Rory Vorster were cleaning their bathroom when they made the “grotesque” discovery—a stone-carved sprite concealed under a wooden panel. The couple searched for answers after removing the shelf in their Grade-I listed…

A new high-tech way of healing broken bones could take less time, and also make them over three times stronger. The new treatment method uses plasma irradiation to promote faster bone healing in complex fractures, say Japanese scientists. They have already successfully tested the technique on lab rats. The team…