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Africa Will Soon Have A New Tallest Building – But Probably Not Where You’d Imagine By New Years Eve, Africa will see the completion of the continent’s newest tallest building—and probably not where you’d expect. Tour F will take the tallest tower title when its spire is installed, glowering 1,381 feet (421 meters) over the streets of Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. The 75-story supertal…

Australian Biologists Livestream A Remote Desert Waterhole and All its Wild Visitors 1.2 miles from the nearest car park, down a track which few hikers ply, in a national park few will have the opportunity to visit, a lonely camera livestreams the comings and goings of a desert waterhole to the world. For the dingoes, wallabies, frogs, occasional feral cat, and even a wedge-tailed eagle who have …

Bikes Outnumbered Cars on Scottish Rush Hour Route for the First Time Ever A combination of e-bike rentals and segregated bike lanes has boosted cycling in the Scottish capital to the point that bikes outnumbered cars during a May morning rush hour for the first time in history. The data, analyzed by the Scottish cycling charity Cycling Scotland, identified other areas where bike traffic is growi…

Rural French Mayors Rally to Save Their Local Cafe-Bistro, and Help Reverse National Trend With the help of the mayor and local council, a small town in Burgundy has saved its local cafe-bistro, what’s been described as the “heart” of the rural French economy and society. Au Bon Accueil, located in the commune of Saint-Martin-sur-Ouanne, had closed recently for 8 months, giving a nasty shock to l…

Korean Drone Rescue Program Helps Mozambique Achieve Zero Fatalities During Worst Flood in Decades In January, a community in northern Mozambique experienced one of its worst floods in decades, yet the raging waters failed to claim a single life. This miracle was made possible thanks to a small squadron of drones and their pilots tasked with informing search and rescue efforts in real time. The s…

Cavemen Used Mammoth Tusk Patterns to Create Unique Art, Reveals New Research [Stephen Beech | SWNS news] Cavemen used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, reveals new research. Intricate designs engraved on the surface of 18,000-year-old female figurines carved from mammoth ivory were inspired by “distinctive” growth patterns visible in the tusks, say scientists. An analysis of 18 “Venus”…

Unsealed for the First Time, This 600-yo Tomb in Peru Was Just Declared the ‘Discovery of the Decade’ An unspoiled, undiscovered tomb containing the remains of an elite society belong to a major Andean civilization has been uncovered in Peru. Located in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed site of Chan Chan, inside a palatial complex called Utzh An, its contents of 38 skeletons and a wealth of grave …

10 Pounds of Viking Silver Found in Finland Extend Incredible Year for Scandinavian Treasure Hunts Metal detectors have had a banner year in Scandinavia, where records for the largest recovered Viking silver hoards have been made in Norway, Denmark, and now Finland. A man found two large hoards of silver in southern Finland, containing thousands of coins, as well as pieces of jewelry and scrap si…

Luxurious Bath Complex Used by Roman Emperor Found in Serbia From Serbia comes the story of a technically-impressive and luxurious Roman bath complex discovered for the first time. Containing three different bathing pools and a sauna, it was designed for Emperor Maximinus Daza, who briefly held the throne before dying in a civil war. The bath complex, known in Latin as a balneum, was found […] Th…

A Hungry Cleaning Lady Bit into an Apple and Solved the Case of Legendary Diamond Heist It’s a beautiful stone no, the Grand Condé diamond? Its presence in the public eye was almost lost 100 years ago, but thanks—of all people—to a hungry cleaning lady, it can still be part of new exhibitions like the one upcoming at the Château de Chantilly near Paris. But first, some outrageous history. Suzanne…