The goats chowed down on flowerbeds, leaves and grass before being rounded up. by Ethan Sacks – Residents of an Idaho neighborhood woke up Friday morning to a sight that really got their goat. An invading herd of more than 100 goats rampaged …
Scott Collie – The Aerovelo Eta uses a bullet-shaped shell to cut through the air. Aerovelo has set a new human-powered speed record using its specially designed aero bike. Running at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the …
Rich Haridy – Finalist: Jumping Spider (Credit: Richard Kubica / International Garden Photographer of the Year) The winners of the Macro Art Photo Project have been revealed with first place awarded to a magnificent shot of two mayflies perched atop a poppy. …
by Robby Berman – A legendary mystery gets explained at last. Maybe. (pingebat/Big Think) If it seems that it was just about a year ago that scientists finally figured out the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle, it was. The culprits behind the …
by Richard G ‘Bugs’ Stevens – Photo by Serge Kutuzov on Unsplash Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive assault on the ecology of the planet, including us. …
Rich Haridy – Team SEArch+/Apis Cor of New York is the fourth-place winner in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, Phase 3: Level 1 competition (Credit: SEArch+/Apis Cor) NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, which kicked off in 2015, is now well into its …
Michael Irving – Scientists have managed to revive worms (similar to the one pictured) that were frozen in the Siberian permafrost for up to 42,000 years (Credit: K-State Research and Extension/CC BY 2.0) The Siberian permafrost is famous for preserving the remains of life …
by Paul Ratner – President Trump was almost universally panned for the press conference that followed the meeting with Russia’s President Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Trump was seen as capitulating to Russia by refusing to confront Putin on the issue of past and …
by Paul Ratner – KIM WON-JIN/AFP/Getty Images At a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on October 12th, experts warned that the greatest existential threat to the country may come from the detonation of a nuclear EMP bomb. It could kill as many …
by Philip Perry – Say you’re engrossed in a task, scrolling through your phone or reading a book. Suddenly that creepy, prickly feeling grabs hold of you. Someone’s staring. You turn to find out who it is. Be they friend or foe, the …
