The Hidden French Tunnel Sculpture That Took 30 Years to Complete

Artist Daniel Monnier spent a couple of decades away before returning to complete his vision.
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Chernobyl 'Hero' : Dr. Gale--Medical Maverick

Since his first official house call to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1986, Dr. Robert Peter Gale, the 42-year-old UCLA bone-marrow transplant specialist, has become nothing short of an international celebrity.
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40,000-year-old bracelet suggests ancient humans used drills

The 40,000-year-old bracelet was discovered alongside human remains in a cave in Siberia. Scientists claim it could have been made so precisely with tools similar to our modern drills.
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Closing My Curtains for Xi Jinping and His Grand Parade

Beijing is banning kites and balloons as it celebrates the 70th birthday of modern China. I, too, would have to go.
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Inside Apple’s reimagined Fifth Ave. store

After two years of work, the wrapper comes off the giant glass cube this week, as Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship opens to the public this Friday.
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‘Worse Than Anyone Expected’: Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions

The findings put pressure on airline regulators to take stronger action to fight climate change as they prepare for a summit next week.
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US and Canada lose 3bn birds in 50 years

Scientists conclude the major factor is habitat loss driven by human activity.
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Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution

Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited in Rudabánya, Hungary, to add its story to the origins of how humans evolved.
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A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All

Last week’s passage of a bill in the California state legislature ending the rampant misclassification of workers as independent contractors was a huge win. The bill was animated by the spirit of unions fighting for the entire working class — the exact principle that should animate all unions.
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The Powerful Women Whose Patronage Shaped Art History

Formidable women across centuries and continents have wielded influence through their impassioned support of art and culture.
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The World's First Floating Dairy Farm

In the search for more sustainable methods of global food production, one couple in the Netherlands is taking an unconventional approach: they have become the operators of the world's first and only floating dairy farm.
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There Is a Tiny Bookstore on Wheels Currently Traveling the French Countryside

A mobile home for approximately 3,000 books.
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the 1940s House e1

Yet another well done series where people step back in time to live a different life.
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Comedy Then vs Comedy Now (or: "You Can't Make Jokes Anymore")

- A Dose of Buckley
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Could China Develop Killer Robots in the Near Future? Experts Fear So

Concerns are growing about Beijing's development of autonomous weapons
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How donuts fuelled the American Dream

The most visible donut in Los Angeles floats above the corner of La Cienega and Manchester Boulevards in Inglewood. Thirty-two-and-a-half feet in diameter and painted an unearthly yellow, it is perched on the roof of a single-storey bakery called Randy’s Donuts, where it has captured the attention of motorists since 1954.
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French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport – and it works

The city of Dunkirk in northern France launched a revamped bus system last year with a twist – it’s completely free.
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Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism—Before It's Too Late

And climate change at the same time
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Barcelona's car-free 'superblocks' could save hundreds of lives

Report predicts radical scheme could cut air pollution by a quarter as other cities including Seattle prepare to follow suit
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Footprints left in sand dune by Neanderthal family, including toddler

Hundreds of footprints, left on a sand dune in France by Neanderthal children 80,000 years ago, reveal a snapshot of Stone Age family life.
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California could become the largest state to ban facial recognition in body cameras

The legislation has earned praise from privacy and civil rights advocates.
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Over 250 Neanderthal Footprints Reveal Clues to the Ancient Humans' Social Lives

A group of preserved footprints in Normandy, France, are revealing new insights into the dynamics of Neanderthal social groups.
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Incredible images show life of India's cannibal Aghori tribe

The Aghori monks of Varanasi live near cremation sites, eating human flesh and meditating on top of cadavers as part of their spiritual rituals.
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The Amazon Fires, From an Extraterrestrial Perspective

Orbiting telescopes like Hubble have the luxury of avoiding the sometimes-dispiriting business of looking down at Earth.
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'It can kill you in seconds': the deadly algae on Brittany's beaches

Activists say stinking sludge is linked to nitrates in fertilisers from intensive farming
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First DNA From This Ancient Civilization Reveals Ancestry of Modern South Asians

Long before climate change drove them to abandon their thriving cities, a group of hunter-gatherers settled in the Indus River Valley as farmers, leading to the creation of one of the world's first large-scale urban societies, complete with booming e
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New study suggests mythical Loch Ness monster may be a giant eel

While the legend of the Loch Ness monster goes back hundreds of years, the first modern sighting of Nessie was reported in 1933.
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Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought

Archaeologists worldwide pooled their knowledge of past land use — and pushed back the date when human farming and other practices began altering the planet.
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Nature Photographer of the Year image gallery

South Australian MuseumNorth Terrace, AdelaideSouth Australia 5000
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Fiat 500 Leaving the American Market After the 2019 Model Year | Digital Trends

Fiat announced plans to stop selling the 500 in the United States after the 2019 model year. The decision applies to the hardtop, the convertible 500C, the electric 500E, and the high-performance Abarth model. The 500 was never a big seller in America, but it outperformed the rest of the Fiat range.
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The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'A place where we never go outside'

Las Vegas is the fastest-warming city in the United States. The city’s poorest residents are most at risk in the heat
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Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims

A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said the websites were part of a state-backed attack — likely China — designed to target the Uyghur community in the country’…
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The farmers who worry about our phone batteries

Lithium is being mined in Chile to make batteries, but at what cost to the local environment?
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Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?

Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay off
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Navajo Code Talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories

There are only five living Navajo Code Talkers: Peter MacDonald, Joe Vandever Sr., Samuel F. Sandoval, Thomas H. Begay and John Kinsel Sr. These are their stories.
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