The Wild Experiment To Bring Apex Predators Back From The Brink
A complex restoration project in Gorongosa National Park is allowing scientists to study what happens when you unleash predators on an ecosystem that has learned to live without them.
A complex restoration project in Gorongosa National Park is allowing scientists to study what happens when you unleash predators on an ecosystem that has learned to live without them.
Hyundai has designed its latest Prophecy concept car to look like a "perfectly weathered stone", opting for smooth lines and curves over complexity.
The rich get richer, and everyone else seemingly less so. As income inequality continues to be a problem in the United States, what better time to find out who the biggest fat cats in America are — specifically, who are the richest people in your state?
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Back in 1984, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration conducted a controlled impact demonstration, intentionally crashing a Boeing 720 into the Mojave Desert to test technologies that would help passengers and crew survive.
Dramatic surveillance video shows a driver turning left in front of a oncoming train. Fortunately, the driver was not seriously injured.
You don't have to break the bank to get a new desktop — just buy refurbished. We've rounded up some of the top deals on like-new refurbished models.
Daniel Bruin's device has a gear reduction of one googol (that's a 1, followed by 100 zeroes), meaning you'd need "more energy than the entire universe has" to spin the final gear once.
We know it's hard. Try these four tricks to help limit the number of times you touch your face each day to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is suspending her presidential campaign, a bitter blow for a senator who was long seen by prominent Democrats as headed for the White House.
"I had a bet against one of my good friends, D Wade, Milwaukee versus the Heat," the former NBA star explained. "I said Milwaukee was gonna win by 20 and the Heat won. I said, 'Well, what do you want me to do, pay you?' And he said, 'Nah, you gotta let your hairline grow.'"
A University of North Carolina scientist who has been chasing viruses for decades may hold the key to a cure.
I never saw exceptional "hard work" or "intelligence" among the members of the class I was born into.
Nobody can squeeze joy out of the English language quite like Mark Twain. And since this hard cover re-release of his classic travel book features a gorgeous new cover treatment, it's earned a front-and-center spot.
A sheep dog and baby sheep love running around together inside this barn in Austria.
Photographer Esther Horvath can spend up to seven months per year in pitch black darkness with no phone and no satellite connection. Why, you ask? To document scientists who collect data regarding climate change.
The full-sized image is a whopping 2.43 GB, so watch this video version and then go download the full thing on your home WiFi.
After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious.
Oprah's Book Club chose "My Dark Vanessa" by Kate Elizabeth Russell as its March pick, positioning it to be one of the biggest debuts of the year. A few months later, amidst a controversy surrounding its January pick, "American Dirt," they dropped it.
In South America's biggest club soccer competition the match ended 1-1, but it could've been a different story.
My mom is a family practice doctor in the Bay Area, where some of the earliest US coronavirus cases appeared. I gave her a call this past weekend to ask: wait, how worried should I actually be?
Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue's tuition — at less than $10,000 — for seven straight years.
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Falling ice doomed this unfortunate driver's windshield.
This week on "Reply All," listener Tyler Gillett recalls an un-Googleable song from his childhood — even the lyrics and the melody — and reaches out to PJ Vogt for help.
A BMW repeatedly rammed into a pick-up in a scary road rage incident in North Hollywood.
For one: buy and subsequently delete Twitter dot com (that would cost more than $1 billion but it would be worth it).
The human brain is one of the most complex objects in the known universe — and scientists are starting to unlock more of its mysteries.
You'll find one of the world's most advanced car engines inside the… 2020 Hyundai Sonata. YouTuber Engineering Explained breaks down what it does.
While many wellness companies co-opt shaky science into a beauty trend, some are framing lymphatic drainage massage as a fundamental part of cancer treatment.
An upstate New York power plant has been using some of its own electricity to mine bitcoin on an industrial scale.
The making of a Koto Fukuyama, a 13-stringed harp-like instrument, is a very involved process
A spontaneous hole in the fabric of reality could theoretically end the universe, but don't worry: physicists are studying the idea for what it can teach us about the cosmos.
"I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships."
An unintentional (and darkly comical) illustration of the futility of advice that we stop touching our faces in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Structural engineers have built a new bridge using an unfolding, umbrella-like technique. It's a brand-new way to build bridges — and it's brilliant.
Larry Daugherty is about to embark on his fourth Iditarod — and is following it up by attempting to climb Mount Everest a few weeks later.
Long week, huh? Here's a good video to take your mind off it.
Their families built fortunes. These young people joined a group that coaches them on how to give the money away.
The famed GE CEO pioneered mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, and offshoring
"If something happens, make sure everyone knows I love 'em."
Sixty-six years before the infamous spilled McDonald's coffee, May Donoghue drank a ginger beer with a dead mollusk in it and changed personal-injury law forever.
The death was linked to the Grand Princess cruise ship, and was the first coronavirus fatality outside Washington state, where 10 people have already died.
Is the elephant actually intimidated by the charge, or does it have enough sense to know it doesn't want to hurt the calf?
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto shows how magicians enticed audiences with advertisements of levitations, decapitations and other deceptions.
Miumiu, a 6-year-old guitar prodigy, performs a beautifully mellow version of the jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon."
If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
Something about the sheer breadth of maladies that light therapy can supposedly treat has the effect of making the whole thing seem too good to be true.
Snorkelers swimming near Bali, Indonesia get the wrath of an angry little fish defending its territory.
"I remember one woman who arrived and asked, 'Is this the clinic?' And we were like, 'What clinic?'"
Despite the distinct musical tastes of these band's audiences, one artist had been selected to produce limited-edition screenprints for all of them, a 22-year-old Baltimorean named Luke Martin.
While hiking near the ice castles in Heber, Utah, a man discovers the weird sounds cracks on a frozen lake make.
A North Carolina shelter turned Perdita's crotchety vibe into a paw-sitive and made her a star.
This is a story about how the most sophisticated copyright filter in the world prevented us from explaining copyright law.
"It appears that the burglar was fishing for about three hours before landing his catch," police told reporters, according to CNN.
Same genes, same type of cancer, very different bills.
You've seen his new suit, but who would the Dark Knight be without a fancy set of wheels to prowl Gotham's streets in?
Were it not for the poor quality of the body cam footage, this would look straight out of a movie.
As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20 — it's all too easy to look back on a skyrocketing stock and wonder "what if I'd invested before it got hot?" Well, here's the answer.
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
Get a better picture of the geographical realities of the second World War with this collection of over 100 intricate maps.
Live that cord-free life with Apple's Bluetooth earbuds. Right now, you can grab the latest model of AirPods with a charging case for just $130.
McJoy's Hot/Cold Milk Foamer is just what the barista ordered.,
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