In June 1976, an extraordinary event took place when US$217.77 paved the way to one of the clearest visual records of humanity’s initial steps on the moon. Gary George, an engineering student from Lamar University, discovered this gem during a government surplus auction at Ellington Air Force Base while he was interning at the Johnson […]

The lifeless printer had one final task, and that task was to betray. Concealed within its frame lay a GPS tracker equipped with its own SIM card, designed to activate every 24 hours, determine its location via satellite, report back to a server, and then go dormant again, as a feature on urbanNext detailed the […]

The most efficient survey team to operate in the Bahamas in years consisted of no clipboards, no salaries, and a mouthful of serrated teeth each. Between 2016 and 2020, scientists equipped camera packages to seven tiger sharks on the Great and Little Bahama Banks, then allowed them to continue their usual activities. In total, they […]

Four times each second, a helicopter soaring over Guam releases a deceased mouse. Each mouse contains an 80-milligram tablet of paracetamol (known as acetaminophen in the U.S., the active component in Tylenol) and is enclosed in a biodegradable capsule that opens mid-flight, allowing a ribbon to entangle in trees, leaving the bait suspended like a […]

Seventeen Metres Deep in Jervis Bay: Octopus Actions Revealed In the serene depths of Jervis Bay, an unusual spectacle occurs, offering a unique insight into the habits of the melancholic octopus. These cephalopods are seen engaging in a direct exchange of materials, including mud, shells, and at times seaweed, via a series of intentional throws. […]

**The Nutria: From Style Symbol to Marsh Threat** Within the wetlands of Louisiana, a creature that was once celebrated for its fur has now become emblematic of ecological upheaval. The nutria, a rodent indigenous to South America, arrived in Louisiana during the 1930s with aspirations of establishing a flourishing fur industry. Weighing in at twenty […]

**Remarkable Discovery by Young Intern: New Planet Found at NASA** During the summer of 2019, Wolf Cukier, a high school intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, achieved a monumental discovery while analyzing data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project. Tasked with reviewing flagged data concerning eclipsing binaries—stellar systems that eclipse each other […]

For roughly 25 years, the scimitar-horned oryx was found everywhere except for the one place it was native to. A remarkable desert antelope — light-colored, with elongated curved horns that sweep back like the sabers for which it was named — it used to inhabit North Africa’s grasslands in large herds. However, hunting and drought […]