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Moths’ Rippled Forewings Are Actually a Sophisticated Defense System Against Echo Location
The folds and ripples at the front of a moth's forewings are a sophisticated defense system against the echolocation of hunting bats in the...
Watch This Blind Man Use Echo Location To Bike Down Busy Streets
Real life superpowers are hard to come by – that's why Daniel Kish's ability to "see" while blind is all the more impressive.
Blind Kid Uses Echo-Location to See, Live Active Life (Video)
Benjamin Underwood, 14, had cancer in his eyes that stole his sight at age two. But he doesn't "see" himself as blind. He plays...
Subsidized Jobs: A Faint Echo of New Deal Success
In rural Winston County, Mississippi, Taylor Machine Works — best known for its Big Red forklifts — is the primary employer. After the recession...
Good News in History, March 9
50 years ago today, Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese infantryman holdout finally surrendered 29 years after the end of World War II. Operating out of...
Geologists Found a Mega-Structure Built by Ice Age Hunters Submerged in the Baltic Sea
In the autumn of 2021, geologists discovered an unusual row of stones, more than half a mile long, just 21 meters below the sea...
Good News in History, January 19
95 years ago today, Acadia National Park was established in Maine. A rather small park, but nevertheless beloved by Mainers and New Englanders alike,...
Good News in History, December 29
On this day 80 years ago, a decade and a half after the Irish War of Independence and its treaty-induced interim government, Ireland was born when it adopted its own Constitution. A document committed to democratic ideals that enshrined the people as masters, it also provided the right to every child for a free primary education provided by the State. (1937)
Good News in History, December 7
425 years ago today, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born. This Italian master sculptor and architect created the Baroque style, one of the four great...
Good News in History, November 17
150 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of...
Name of Unknown Iron Age Ruler Discovered on 2000-Year-old Coin Found in English Field
The name of a new Iron Age ruler or king has been discovered emblazoned on a 2,000 year-old coin that was uncovered in a...
A New Detection System Could Save Sperm Whales From Ship Strikes
Greek scientists have developed technology to pinpoint a sperm whale's location to within 40 meters of its 16 meter-long body by tracking the whale's...
Scientists Power a Computer Using Only Algae and Daylight to Make the Electricity
Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year—and counting—using nothing but ambient light and water.
Their...
MIT’s New Paper Thin Speakers Can Cover Any Surface to Turn Your Room Into a Concert Hall
MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source.
This thin-film loudspeaker produces sound with minimal distortion...
Dolphins Have a Musical Social Media: Whistling Helps Them Bond With Friends at a Distance – and Increases Offspring
Male dolphins boost their social lives by whistling to each other at a distance, according to new research.
The high pitched sound tells others they...
‘Comical-Looking’ Bat Thought to Be Extinct is Found Again After 40 Years in Dense Rainforest
Of more than 1,300 bat species on our planet, this might be the most comical-looking.
So says the chief scientist at Bat Conservation International when...
Towering Over the City, This ‘Farmscraper’ Will Produce 270 tons of Food from Hydroponics on 51-Stories
Combining a vertical farm and office space into a single 51-storey concept out of Chinese mythology, an Italian architect is completing the Shenzhen skyline...
Harvesting Air Conditioning Condensation Could Replace Cities’ Potable Water Use
While looking for ways to make homes and offices more efficient, building managers have realized that something as seemingly insignificant as the water droplets...
Believed to Be Solitary, Male Sperm Whales Actually Hang With the Boys – In Friendships That Can Last Years
A Japanese biologist studying the social structure of sperm whales has discovered that the phrase "Saturday's for the boys," translates into echolocation.
His research reveals...
One of Archaeology’s Great Mysteries Nearly Solved as Scientists Piece Together 2,000-yo Astronomy Calculator
Ever since the Antikythera Mechanism was fished out of the Peloponnesian Sea in 1901, it has remained one of the longest unsolved mysteries of...