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California certainly has adult sea turtles, but we've never seen them lay eggs this far north before.

A new biography of Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, star of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, with cover art by Drew Friedman.

Singapore's National Library Board gives readers 20 virtual coins, worth 2 Singapore cents, for logging 15 minutes of reading a day.

Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco found the forebrain and hindbrain grow from two different starting cells.

The Time Warp was more fun when it was fictional.

An aluminum can compactor built like a giant red robot monster chomps cans with big metal teeth while its yellow googly eyes roll back and forth.

How Many People Are In Space Right Now doesn't have a question mark, but it does give the answer: 10 humans, as of Friday, September 18, 2026, all on the ...

This tasty cookie is made from plastic soda bottles and farm waste, like corn stalks and leaves. And it is 3D printed. It's part of a NASA project to learn how to grow food in deep space, where there aren't many convenience stores, at least that we ...

A new species of wild cat has been identified in a Bolivian forest: The Tilcayo cat is in the genus Leopardus, a group of small cats native to the Americas, and is smaller than a domestic cat. The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic ...

M-Vave's FM-1, a tiny ~$70 clone of the legendary Yamaha DX7, is the "synth of the summer". It even has a built-in speaker, so you can play it on the go with its tiny rubbery keys. While it doesn't come with the original patch banks, they're easy to ...