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03/06/2026

CBS has found its female lead for its original series, ‘Einstein,’ in Melissa Fumero. She will star opposite the previously announced Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Albert Einstein’s great-grandson.

The series joins CBS’s 2026-2027 broadcast season and begins production this month.

More details on her character here: https://deadline.com/2026/03/melissa-fumero-einstein-cbs-series-matthew-gray-gubler-1236745127/ (Photos: David Johnson, Getty)

03/06/2026

Shakira has broken the attendance record at the Zócalo in Mexico City with her free concert.

400,000 people were in attendance.

03/06/2026

A HAPPY UPDATE: Bonita, who has been at the Parma Animal Shelter for more than 200 days, was finally adopted! Read more: https://fox8.com/news/bonita-finally-adopted-after-more-than-200-days-at-parma-animal-shelter/ Photo courtesy of Jean Bolling.

02/01/2026

02/01/2026

Meet Australia’s real-life “giant goose”—a 7-foot-tall, 770-pound bird that vanished after humans arrived. 🦘🐦

This is Genyornis newtoni, an enormous flightless bird that roamed the outback 50,000 years ago. Recently, scientists uncovered its best-preserved skull ever, giving us a new look at one of the heaviest birds to ever walk the Earth.

Nicknamed the giant goose (though it’s more closely related to chickens and ducks), it had a powerful beak and muscular neck built for grazing tough vegetation, and it shared the landscape with other megafauna like Diprotodon.

Its extinction lines up with the arrival of early humans in Australia. Burned eggshells found at archaeological sites hint that people may have collected and cooked Genyornis eggs—a clue to how human activity likely helped wipe out this prehistoric giant.

Sometimes, history isn’t just written in bones—it’s left in eggshells around ancient campfires.

Share this massive piece of Australia’s lost world!

01/31/2026

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon.

Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for climate-displaced species.

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01/31/2026

Using real-time tracking, researchers reveal the transient processes that govern the melting of freely floating ice.

Learn more in this week’s issue of : https://scim.ag/46fIrno

01/31/2026

01/31/2026

01/31/2026

Online Exhibit 🦆 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating

The Pomo made this exquisite small basket with feathers, abalone pendants and clamshell beads tied with glass trade beads. The Pomo used shell beads as money, making such baskets treasured items often given as special gifts.

"Baskets such as this one made in the late 19th or early 20th century sparked a craze in collecting baskets made by tribes in northern California," said Susan Milbrath.

🎧 Read the story + listen to more with Susan: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/object/coiled-gift-basket/

Feature:
Coiled Gift Basket
Made by Pomo people, California
Dates to late 19th or early 20th century

📸 Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace