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A 13-year-old girl hatched a quail from a supermarket egg—and now hopes the bird might start its own family. Zara Sutcliffe calls the affectionate fowl...

On this day 375 years ago, perhaps the greatest physicist the world has known, Isaac Newton, was born. Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, he invented his own calculus when he was 26 years old. An English mathematician, astronomer, and theologian, his book Principia, “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, formulated our understanding of the mechanics of motion and gravity, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. This farmer’s son also built the first practical reflecting telescope, and made pathbreaking observations in optics, figuring out that white light is really made of multiple colors. WATCH a cool video... (1543)

Reprinted from Mongabay on a CC 4.0. License. Original writing by Nina Foster. As the sun rises, the ethereal song of a wood thrush echoes...

4 days on from the anniversary of its release, the identity of the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin's IV was revealed recently by...

Thanks to the persistence of state legislators, and a change of heart from Governor Gavin Newsom, California has passed a new law that will...

92 years ago today, the English actor Sir Ian Holm was born. He became a successful actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company before launching...

Proving that change is possible if the will to create it is present, Chinese megacities like Beijing that were once famous for their apocalyptic...

621 years ago, Zhu Di, one of the most impactful emperors ever to take the Mandate of Heaven assumed power in Beijing. Known as...

The first day of summer; June 21st; the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a time marked by most ancient...

5 years ago today, the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un, declaring the intention to end the Korean...

A girl metal detecting in northwestern Denmark discovered nearly 300 silver coins dating back more than 1,000 years ago. The hoard was discovered in a...

In New England, entrepreneurs have taken an unorthodox path to support local and sustainable agriculture—they started a bank. Encapsulating the spirit of Thoreau, Walden Mutual...

Happy 54th birthday to Dave Grohl. The charming rocker fronts the Foo Fighters, after making his name as a drummer for Nirvana. He also...

Some of the best conservation stories in history begin by properly organizing and regulating the hunting of that animal, and the "pirarucu" or arapaima,...

A pair of talented agri-scientists have developed a strain of exquisitely-tasty, melt-in-your-mouth strawberries that are putting a foodie spotlight on the capabilities of vertical...

In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in...

New carbon dioxide ventilators could turn fumes into fertilizer to bring vegetable patches to high rise rooftops, suggests a new study. It wasn't just suggested,...

A stunning mosaic unmatched in Syrian art history was unveiled last week after excavations in Homs, the war-torn country's third largest urban area. The Directorate-General...

Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 4 discussion, we wanted to know which zone our Good Gardeners were working from, and what were the...

An eight-story high-rise office building in Melbourne is going to be covered in over a thousand solar panels with the aim of providing all...