PC: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP via Getty A huge swarm of jellyfish has forced France’s Gravelines nuclear power plant to shut three reactors and reduce output from a fourth, after the animals clogged parts of the seawater cooling system. EDF took reactors 2, 3 and 4 offline as a precaution, while reactor 1 was limited to…
At a wind farm in western Poland, the ground beneath the turbines has quietly turned into unexpected pollinator territory. A wind turbine standing 394 feet tall rises above sprayed grain fields near Gołańcz, and the unmown gravel patch encircling its base has been found to hold as many wild bees as the seminatural grasslands set…
Ryanair flight broken window/Image: NTSB A Ryanair passenger was partially sucked through a broken aircraft window after a fan blade from the plane’s engine broke apart and struck the cabin shortly after takeoff from Greece, a preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found.The July 10 flight to Memmingen, Germany, had…
Shackled skeletons, PC: Athens Journal of History, 2021 In 2016, archaeologists digging at the Phaleron cemetery on the coast near Athens uncovered one of the most unsettling finds in Greek archaeology, a mass grave holding nearly 80 adult men, many still shackled at the wrists with iron restraints. The men, known as the Esplanada group,…
Quote of the day by Cristiano Ronaldo (Image via Getty) Cristiano Ronaldo‘s career has been shaped not only by extraordinary success but also by intense, near-constant public scrutiny. Few footballers have attracted as much admiration, criticism and genuine debate as Ronaldo, and yet he has repeatedly spoken about using that pressure as fuel rather than…
Golden Emerald Cross From 16th‑Century Shipwreck, PC: Teddy Tucker In 1955, a Bermudian diver named Teddy Tucker pulled a gold cross studded with seven emeralds from the wreck of a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon resting in the reefs off Bermuda. It would go on to be called one of the most valuable single objects ever recovered…
Representative Image of the Andrea Doria liner partially submerged amid fog and ocean currents (AI-generated image) Seventy years after the Andrea Doria sank in the North Atlantic, divers are still descending to the deteriorating Italian liner, exploring newly exposed sections and recovering artefacts before parts of the wreck disappear for good. Eighteen divers have died…
Solar panels are seen atop of the vineyard of winemaker PC: Alexandre Minguez A cognac grower in western France has voluntarily given up the right to call his wine cognac, all so he could build a solar canopy over his vineyard. David Moreau planted four hectares of ugni blanc grapes at Saint-André-de-Lidon, near Saintes, and…
PC: David Santiago Garcia/Aurora Photos/Getty Images At first glance, the Río Tinto in southwestern Spain looks almost unreal. For around 50 kilometres, the water flows in shades of deep red and orange that seem more fitting for an artist’s palette than a natural river. Yet its extraordinary appearance is not the result of artificial dyes…
Representative Image of centuries-old amphorae resting beside a shipwreck near Andros (AI-generated image) Greece’s Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities has confirmed the discovery of an ancient shipwreck resting off the coast of Andros, its cargo of pointed bottom commercial amphorae scattered across the seabed at depths ranging from 39 to 44 metres. A tip off from…
