Posts in category BION of the Week

A car park in Thailand is in full bloom after a taxi company transformed its fleet into a community garden to help feed drivers put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year’s Ig Nobel Prize Awards winners include upside-down rhinos, beards taking a hit, and just how germy sidewalk gum really is.

Measuring about 10 feet long and weighing around 1,300 pounds, the newly discovered amphibian was likely a top predator during its heyday 43 million years ago, earning its name, Phiomicetus anubis — after the ancient canine-headed Egyptian god of death.

This week, researchers revealed that each hot dog a person eats could take 36 minutes off of their life. Needless to say, Chestnut’s really racking up the hours.

Home to 130 volcanoes, a single eruption in Alaska is nothing to write home about. However, when three of them decide to put on a show at the same time, we’re looking at some seriously newsworthy nature!

Half a century after skyjacker D.B. Cooper leapt out of a Boeing 727, taking $200,000 in cash with him, crime historian Eric Ulis is picking up where the FBI left off in solving this infamous crime.

Previously believed to have been built between 1440 and 1450 AD, researchers used the radiocarbon dating technique to determine that the World Wonder was actually built about 20 years earlier!

The exact number of white orcas in the world is unknown, but considering that they were once thought to be mythical, we’d say these tourists got their money’s worth!

This year’s sustainability-centric Olympics will feature medals made of over 6 million phones, tablets, and laptops!

A South Korean university has developed a commode that makes use of human waste by turning poop into power — and they pay for contributions!