'Uncle Adem' meets up with 'Yaren stork' for 14th time
21 March 2025 - In the rural Eskikaraagac Village, located by the picturesque Uluabat Lake in the Karacabey district of Bursa [Turkey], a symbolic and touching reunion took place for its 14th year. Yaren, the stork that has become a beloved figure in the area, once again landed on the fishing boat of Adem Yilmaz, the man with whom it shares an extraordinary bond. This marks the 14th year of their friendship, a unique and heartwarming story that continues to captivate both locals and nature enthusiasts alike. (more)

The old man and the stork: an unlikely friendship that captivated a nation
20 March 2025 - Now from Turkiye comes the story of an annual spring reunion that has captivated the hearts of a nation for 14 years. It involves a simple rural fisherman Adem Yilmaz, waiting in his boat for the return of a dear friend: a white stork named Yaren. ...It is the 14th year that Yaren has come to the lake to perch on the prow of Yilmaz's rowboat after making a 2,500-mile journey from the species' winter breeding grounds in sub-Saharan Africa. (more)

The fisherman and the stork: fourteen years of bonding
19 March 2025 - A longstanding friendship between a stork and a fisherman in Turkey blossomed once again as the majestic bird returned for its 14th consecutive year of migration, gracefully resting upon the fisherman's boat. (more)

Storrington in West Sussex named UK's first European stork village
18 March 2025 - The Saxons knew the West Sussex village of Storrington as Estorchestone, the 'abode of the storks'. But the graceful white birds disappeared from its skies more than 600 years ago, when they became extinct in Britain. Now, after the white stork's successful return, Storrington and the nearby Knepp estate have been designated a 'European stork village'. (more)

Ireland: Crowds pack Dublin's streets for national St. Patrick's Day parade
17 March 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Dublin on Monday to watch Ireland's national St. Patrick's Day parade, as crowds in green flooded cities and towns across the country to honor the country's patron saint. ...Some 4,000 people and 12 marching bands from across Ireland, North America, and Austria took part in the parade this year. (more)

St. Patrick's Day brings boisterous parades and celebrations to New York and other cities
17 March 2025 - St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, was marked by parades throughout the United States on Monday, from a procession through Manhattan to a rolling spectacle through Savannah's historic streets. ...The New York City celebration, in its 264th year, dates to 1762 -- 14 years before the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (more)

St. Patrick's Day parade celebrates Boston heritage in America's most Irish big city
16 March 2025 - Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America's most Irish big city on Sunday [16 March] for the South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade. ...Parade floats and marchers wound through the neighborhood of South Boston, a center of Irish-American heritage in a city where more than 1 in every 5 people are of Irish descent. (more)

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory installs giant camera in Chile
15 March 2025 - After scientists at Menlo Park's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a car-sized camera, it has now been installed at the new, nearly complete Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. ...According to SLAC scientists, the data from the camera and the Rubin observatory will be used to advance humanity's understanding of the evolution of the universe and the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. (more)

Who was Vera Rubin? Dark matter astronomer's legacy continues through new observatory
15 March 2025 - In the decades to come, budding scientists will credit discoveries and new findings to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, building on the work of a celebrated astronomer. The Observatory's LSST is the world's largest digital camera, and it will create the largest astronomical movie yet of the southern hemisphere sky over 10 years. In March, the LSST was installed at the mountaintop observatory in Chile, and the facility has entered the final stages of testing before operations begin in the coming months. (more)

What's Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies, and more
14 March 2025 - Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 -- the first three digits of an infinite number with many practical uses. ...Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It figures into numerous formulas used in physics, astronomy, engineering, and other fields, dating back thousands of years to ancient Egypt, Babylon, and China. (more)

Pi Day: Celebrating brilliant African American women mathematicians
14 March 2025 - Happy Pi Day! Cheers to black female mathematicians. Today, March 14 (3-14), marks the annual celebration because the date represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi, approximately 3.14159. The history of Pi Day dates back to 1988 when physicist Larry Shaw at the Exploratorium in San Francisco organized the first official celebration. ...Over the years, Pi Day grew in popularity, becoming a global celebration of mathematics. (more)

AP PHOTOS: With a kaleidoscope of colors, the festival of Holi signals the arrival of spring
14 March 2025 - Millions of Indians on Friday [14 March] celebrated the festival of Holi, dancing to festive music, exchanging food and drink, and smearing each other with red, green, blue and pink powder, turning the air into a joyful kaleidoscope of color. Widely known as the festival of colors, Holi marks the arrival of the spring season in India, Nepal, and other South Asian countries as well as the diaspora. (more)

Millions of people celebrate Holi, the festival of colors
14 March 2025 - Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday [14 March] by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music, and feasting on traditional sweets prepared for the occasion. (more)

Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
11 March 2025 - Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system. Until recently, the 'moon king' title was held by Jupiter, but Saturn now has a total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined. ...Understanding the dynamics of Saturn's many moons could also help resolve questions about the origin of Saturn's rings. (more)

Slovenia, a country of 2 million, is the world leader in beekeeping and protecting pollinators
8 March 2025 - Slovenia is home to the highest per capita number of beekeepers in Europe. Out of a population of 2 million, 11,000 keep bees. ...Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana was the founding city in the EU's Bee Path Cities Network, which now contains cities in Portugal, Poland, Romania, Greece, and Italy. ...It should come as no surprise then that May 20th, World Bee Day, was first proposed by Slovenians. (more)

Huge thermal lake - largest in the world - discovered deep below Albania. Take a look
7 March 2025 - In 2021, a group of Czech scientists set out on an expedition to map an extensive cave system in the southern European country of Albania. As they worked their way from the cavernous rooms to tight passageways, the research team noticed columns of steam rising from an unknown source further below them. ...Now, three years after the initial discovery, a second expedition into the cave system has found that not only is the abyss filled with hot water, but it's the largest underground thermal lake in the world. (more)

World's biggest underground thermal lake discovered in Albania
7 March 2025 - Scientists have discovered the world's largest underground thermal lake in a cave in southern Albania, the results of a new expedition confirm. Researchers from the Czech Republic first found the lake four years ago, but they did not have the right instruments to measure it at the time, according to a translated statement from the Neuron Foundation -- an organization that promotes research by Czech scientists. (more)

Gravity from entropy: A radical new approach to unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity
6 March 2025 - In a new study published in Physical Review D, Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, proposes a new framework that could revolutionize our understanding of gravity and its relationship with quantum mechanics. (more)

Early poems about Merlin portray him as environmentalist, say scholars
5 March 2025 - He is probably most often thought of today as a wizard, a shape-shifter or a mentor to the young King Arthur. But a detailed re-examination of Myrddin - Merlin- by Welsh scholars suggests he can also be considered an early British environmentalist. ...They also discovered more about the importance of Merlin's sister, Gwenddydd. (more)

Nature's comeback: How rewilding is transforming former golf courses
4 March 2025 - Communities worldwide are transforming former golf courses into thriving natural habitats, enhancing biodiversity and public well-being. The Plock of Kyle in Scotland, once a neglected golf course, now flourishes with diverse ecosystems, including wildflower meadows and peat bogs, supporting species like otters and dragonflies. (more)

LiDAR reveals abandoned fort was actually a lost Zapotec city with temples and ball courts
3 March 2025 - A recent LiDAR survey in southern Mexico has revealed that a known site of pre-Colombian fortifications was actually a thriving urban center of 5,000 people or more. Despite being known to Spanish explorers, modern historians, and archaeologists, the site of Guiengola in the hills above the modern town of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec is now understood to contain ballcourts, roads, temples, and neighborhoods. (more)

Scientists discover mysterious abandoned Zapotec city hidden in the Mexican jungle
3 March 2025 - A McGill University researcher has revealed that Guiengola, a 15th-century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, was not merely a military fortress, as previously believed, but a vast, fortified city. (more)

Mexico: Researchers thought it was just a fortress. It turned out to be a lost Zapotec city
2 March 2025 - Lidar scans have revealed a 600-year-old fortified city in southern Mexican state of Oaxaca that boasted ball courts, roads, neighborhoods, and temples. The sprawling metropolis, known as Guiengola, was built by the Zapotecs, a pre-Columbian group that inhabited the region as early as the sixth century B.C.E. (more)

Britain's net zero economy is booming, CBI says
1 March 2025 - The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security. (more)