January 2021

Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing monotremata—the taxonomic order made up of only two animals, the...

You may not have asked for a political comedy seven days into 2021, but Mr. Mayor is here anyway.  From 30 Rock creators Tina Fey and...

A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent offspring. Here’s what we know about these gigantic...

After years of warnings that YouTube is fostering the political radicalization of a generation by allowing debunked conspiracy theory content to thrive on its platform, the...

Zhur, the mummified wolf puppy, is on display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center after being mummified by a collapsed den of soil.  Read more… More...

Doctors in Japan say a man’s accidental ingestion of a toothpick left him dealing with months of pain in his back and leg—all caused by said...

MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, underwater pinpointing system which can provide positioning information by picking up on signals from its environment.  Read more… More about...

Major Biden, President-elect Joe Biden’s German shepherd, warmed every beating heart when he became the first presidential pooch to be adopted from a shelter. Sob! That...