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Scotland’s Oldest Remaining Snow Patch Expected to Soon Disappear
Known as ‘The Sphinx,’ the icy spot on the mountain Braeriach hasn’t completely melted for 11 years
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Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Annihilation Dies at 77
In 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov kept his cool and reported a U.S. missile strike as a false alarm, preventing a massive counterstrike
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Interior Secretary Recommends Shrinking Six National Monuments
The review, which has been leaked, also suggests changes in uses and/or management of several other monuments
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Two Rare White Giraffes Filmed in Kenya
The leucistic mother and baby were filmed by local rangers in August
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Brazil Investigates Alleged Murders of “Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe Members
Gold miners were heard in a bar talking about killing 10 indigenous people in the remote Javari Valley
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What Cassini’s Daring Dives Have Taught Us About Saturn
Before the probe’s final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, here’s a look back at what we’ve learned so far
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Celebrate Cassini’s Historic Voyage in Eight Incredible Images
After 13 years of exploration, one of NASA’s most successful probes will crash into Saturn’s atmosphere
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Rocket Powered by Recycled Tires and Hope Launches in the U.K.
With a successful test of the Skybolt 2 rocket, Starchaser Industries takes a step towards sending tourists into space
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How a “Snowman” Lasted the Entire Summer In Chicago
The icy Fischli/Weiss art installation on top of the Art Institute survived the swelter of the Windy City and will go on display next in San Francisco
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Swiss Chocolatiers Introduce New Type of Chocolate—Pink
Called ‘ruby chocolate,’ its creators claim the concoction contains no red coloring
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Now You Can Read the Earliest-Known Latin Commentary on the Gospels in English
The commentary of Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia was lost for 1,500 years before it was rediscovered in 2012
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New Book Unearths the Earliest Sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh
The rotund little drawing, based on E.H. Shepard’s son’s teddy bear Growler, was found in a pile of the artist’s ‘rubbish’
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Harvey’s Next Danger: Massive Mosquito Clouds
Standing water is breeding billions of post-hurricane mosquitoes, which could transmit diseases like the West Nile Virus
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NASA Captures Strongest Solar Flare in a Decade
This morning, the sun emitted two X-class flares, disrupting GPS and radio signals
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2.8 Million Stars Sparkle in This Incredible Image of the Milky Way
The Gaia star surveyor captured a densely packed area near the center of the galaxy
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Canada Completes World’s Longest Hiking Trail
After 25 years and millions of dollars, the coast-to-coast hiking, biking and paddling trail has an official route
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Discovery of Unexploded WWII Bomb Forces Massive Evacuation in Frankfurt
On Sunday, residents living within a mile of the site left their homes while the 4,000-pound “Blockbuster” was defused
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Astronomers Detect 15 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts From a Distant Galaxy
The new cosmic blasts may help researchers finally figure out what’s producing the energy in space
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New Letters Show Alan Turing Wasn’t a Fan of the U.S.A.
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist who spent 2 years at Princeton wrote that he ‘detests America’ in newly found documents
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