Nature is full of interesting and surprising phenomena, but sometimes it produces something that baffles even the experts. This is what happened recently when a farmer in India found a rare yellow turtle- something officials had never seen before. A Rare Yellow Turtle While Basudev Mahapatra was working in his fields in the village of...
As the world’s population continues to grow, architects, city planners, engineers, and researchers are constantly trying to come up with new and innovative ways to house everyone in a sustainable way. This means not only having enough housing for everyone, but also designing homes that use resources efficiently. In 2015, a team from the University...
Due to rising temperatures, extreme weather, and an increase in pests and disease, the world is under threat of a coffee shortage, and a drink that is consumed by nearly everyone may become a luxury item affordable only for the wealthy. Last year, more than 165 million sixty-kilogram bags of coffee were consumed worldwide [1]....
Getting a surprise package in the mail is usually exciting, but recently Americans have been receiving packages that are more confusing than anything else. Residents in several states have reported receiving unsolicited packages of seeds that appear to be coming from China, and officials are now asking residents to contact them if they receive one...
For decades, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of the existence of UFOs and aliens. For that reason, American citizens have always been both curious and suspicious about what kind of information the Pentagon has about extraterrestrial life coming in contact with our planet. For more than ten years, the Pentagon’s U.F.O. unit has...
Non-renewable fossil fuels, which include coal, oil, and natural gas, supply approximately eighty percent of the world’s energy. We use them for things like electricity, heat, and transportation, as well as for making products like steel and plastics [1]. These fuels come at a cost, however, and that cost is climate change. When fossil fuels...
The pyramids of Ancient Egypt have fascinated both archaeologists and citizens alike for centuries. The magnificent structures, which have been shrouded in mystery for much of their existence, have been the backdrop for countless books, movies, and television shows, and their mummified inhabitants have inspired stories and legends of ancient Kings coming back from the...
So far, 2020 has been a pretty challenging year, and there has been far more bad news than good. We know that this year may not be delivering all the positive stories you’d like to be hearing, so why don’t we turn back the clock a few years to 2015, and reminisce about a truly...
According to a recent study, US households waste an estimated thirty to forty percent of the food they purchase every year. The total annual cost of this wasted food is approximately 240 billion dollars, which works out to be 1,866 dollars per household [1]. The truth is, however, a large portion of the food produced...
On March 24, 1989, The Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef off the coast of Alaska. The hull of the ship was torn open, and eleven million gallons of crude oil spilled out into the ocean. More than one thousand miles of coastline were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of animals were killed. Still...
Rainbows are one of nature’s most beautiful and beloved phenomena. No matter how many times you’ve seen one, you’re always captured by their beauty and mesmerized by the layers of color arching across the sky. Imagine then, if the entire sky was a rainbow. That is exactly what one photographer witnessed, and captured on camera...
Sometimes, in the world of science, researchers believe something exists, or hypothesise how something works, but are unable to gather sufficient evidence to prove it. Even to scientists, the world contains many seemingly unsolvable mysteries, and there is still so much to learn about the planet upon which we live. Scientists have suspected that there...
