My desk drawer contains a small stack of stickers that I have collected over the years. I like all of them, but I lack the commitment required to actually stick them on anything. After all, what if I stick them somewhere now and then find a more perfect place later? I’m working through those commitment issues with some help from the new StickerPix Print + Cut l, which makes high-quality stickers f

For the fifth time, pumpkin legend Travis Gienger won the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off today in Half Moon Bay, California. The gigantic gourd named Rocky weighed 2,289 pounds . It could be baked into approximately 1,144 pumpkin pies, and weighs about the same as an American bison ( Bison bison ) or 2015 Chevy Spark. The biggest gourd from this event tipped the scales 2,749 pounds a

It’s one of nature’s seemingly magical tricks. A honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) stings a victim , and the stinger will still pump venom into a wound even after it has fully detached from the bee’s body. Thanks to some high-speed video, we may finally know the secrets behind this sting. A team in Australia found that the tiny 2 millimeter (or only 0.08 inch) stinger of a honey bee works like a double

A first-of-its-kind genetic analysis of dog breeds presents the clearest insights into why larger dogs rarely outlive their smaller relatives. According to a team of biologists writing in the journal Science , the longstanding size–age correlation is likely due to “jumping genes” that inevitably begin sowing chaos inside canine DNA as dogs get older. Most dog owners are aware of an unfortunate rul

A man in upstate New York discovered more than cobwebs and missing holiday decorations while recently cleaning out his garage. Behind a small wood plank, homeowner Jason Hurdle spotted a long-forgotten crawlspace stuffed with vintage milk pails, a safe, and a dusty box of files . Hurdle intended to simply toss the papers in the trash, until a perfectly timed gust of wind removed the crate’s lid. O

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An endangered mouse is slowly returning to the Golden State. Pacific pocket mice ( Perognathus longimembris pacificus ) are about as large as a human thumb and about as heavy as three pennies. Unsurprisingly, they are the smallest mammals in North America and are one of many pocket mouse subspecies. But they are also one of the most endangered . Pacific pocket mice have lived in and around Los Ang

Nature. It’s beautiful. It’s awe-inspiring . And it’s really scary . The new book Nature is Metal: It’s A Life-Eats-Life World features full-color photographs and vivid descriptions of the physical features, survival adaptations, and hunting skills innate to 75 of nature’s most metal plants, animals , and natural phenomena. Browse through some of these raw and real images in the gallery below. (Cl

In the Maricao State Forest on the western end of Puerto Rico, a biologist encountered a flock of parrots in a panic. Raúl Correa of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service followed the chaotic squawks and found a young bird in the grips of a red-tailed boa ( Boa constrictor ). The snake had trapped a juvenile Puerto Rican parrot ( Amazona vittata ) on a bamboo stalk. Correa quickly sliced the bamboo,

As the summer drew to a close, aerial surveyors with the New England Aquarium saw more than 2,000 animals across 15 different marine species in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, southeast of Cape Cod. Among that vast diversity, the team spotted Chilean devil rays ( Mobula tarapacana ). This ethereal fish is “one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets,” according to the aquari

Anyone who’s seen the 1986 musical comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, is familiar with Audrey II . Audrey II looks like a towering, blood-eating Venus flytrap plant, even mimicking the jaw-like, snapping pod of real carnivorous plants. But while Venus flytraps consume insects, Audrey II feeds on humans. Thankfully, people-eating plants are fictional, says Kenny Coogan , the owner of Carnivorous Plant

“Less is more” may seem a curious phrase when applied to a half-million-dollar, 199-mph, 657-horsepower twin-turbocharged V8 brute. But in the context of the posh luxury barges we expect from British automotive manufacturer Bentley, it’s applicable to the 2026 Bentley Supersports . That is because this car is as notable for what it lacks as for what it has. The Supersports is a rear-drive, combust

While fall officially began only a few weeks ago, many of us have come to expect pumpkins and Halloween decorations in stores as early as August. And this year, an adorable baby turtle joined in on the early autumnal festivities. In August, Florida native Michael Landress spotted a loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta ) hatchling making its way toward the water. “This little one, surprisingly, had

We’re very much in the era of smart glasses now, with the necessary tech components small and light enough to be put into a pair of spectacles. Meta just unveiled a fresh batch of Ray-Ban glasses; numerous smaller companies are producing their own models; and the rumors are that Apple is planning a launch in this category too. In some ways, the appeal is easy to see. These specs can pipe music, au

As residents on the northern Gulf Coast brace for quickly strengthening Hurricane Isaias (a Category 3 storm as of Friday afternoon), many are likely eyeing their roofs and walls with nervous anticipation. The Congressional Budget Office estimates hurricane force winds and storm-related flooding collectively cost households in the United States some $34 billion every year. And while rounded corner

Wandering around Milan, you come across two kinds of power: the kind you can observe and the kind you can only feel. That first one is obvious, all incense-soaked architecture and ascendant liturgies. The second, though, is more understated in pauses, glances, murmured blessings, and other hushed, huddled choreography. Pinnacles and pulpits look down on the penitent holding their rosaries. Beyond

A teenage hiker in Canada recently became another cautionary tale about the perils of overtrusting artificial intelligence . After relying on an AI-generated route to ascend Crown Mountain in British Columbia, the 16-year-old found himself stranded on a steep cliffside near a climbing route known as the “Widowmaker.” The wayward traveler’s position was so precarious, that it took roughly three hou

Bitemarks on the fossilized jaw of a tyrannosaur called Albertosaurus appear to illustrate the first known example of scavenging raptors feasting on a much larger dinosaur The prehistoric snack scene is detailed in a recent study in the Journal of Paleontology . However, researchers, one alternative theory may point to an even darker fate. A close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex , Albertosaurus roam

Squid skin behaves a bit like a large, 10-armed human ear. While scientists at Case Western Reserve University were probing these enigmatic cephalopods , they discovered that squid have significantly more hair cells than was previously known. Hair cells are cells with bundles of hair-like protrusions, and researchers already knew that squid had them on their heads and arms. Now, it looks like the

Typical brains function smoothly, with neurons (nerve cells) firing rhythmically like predictable weather patterns. But in epileptic brains, a sunny day can suddenly turn dark and stormy. Neurons will just be trucking along, operating in the controlled and routine way that keeps a body ’s mental and physical functions stable when, all of a sudden, they freak out, pulsing with an electrochemical in