Veronika Is First Cow to Be Seen Using a Multi-Purpose Tool, Something Seen Only in Apes

Veronika Is First Cow to Be Seen Using a Multi-Purpose Tool, Something Seen Only in Apes

Veronika using her brush tool – credit – Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró SWNS A clever cow called Veronika is the first ever to be recorded using tools—a brush or stick to scratch her back. The old Swiss Brown cow has astonished scientists in Austria with her broom, which she uses as a multi-purpose tool, an … Read more

Partnership With Farms Reinvents Kentucky School Lunches, Ending Days of Pan Pizza and Fruit Cups

Partnership With Farms Reinvents Kentucky School Lunches, Ending Days of Pan Pizza and Fruit Cups

Obi via Unsplash Whether you’re a student, an administrator, a farmer—or the journalists getting their teeth into the story of Kentucky schools’ movement to buy and serve local produce, the consensus is clear: the fajitas are great. At Boyle County High School, locally-raised beef marinated in cumin is heaped onto corn tortillas with queso, guacamole, … Read more

Trump to speak at Davos as his Greenland push, tariff threats take center stage

Trump to speak at Davos as his Greenland push, tariff threats take center stage

President Donald Trump is set Wednesday to speak at the World Economic Forum, directly addressing an audience that has been put on edge by his intensifying aggression toward the allied territory of Greenland. Trump’s speech is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. ET. The address will be bookended by meetings with other world leaders attending … Read more

Plant Believed Extinct For 60 Years Reappears Thanks to Curious Nature Lover and iNaturalist

Plant Believed Extinct For 60 Years Reappears Thanks to Curious Nature Lover and iNaturalist

Ptilotus senarius, a relative of Mulla Mulla – by Aaron Bean / iNaturalist A plant-lover who snapped a photo of an interesting shrub he found on a trip to the Outback inadvertently proved that it wasn’t, in fact, extinct, something which scientists had presumed. With 60 years having passed without a confirmed sighting of the … Read more

Greenland is another headline that stocks can get past, investors say. What to do next

Greenland is another headline that stocks can get past, investors say. What to do next

Greenland is just the latest geopolitical headline that the stock market can get past, when all is said and done, investors say. Stocks tumbled Tuesday, after President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against those European countries opposing the sale of Greenland to the U.S. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 870 points, while the … Read more

Supreme Court case on Trump bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook set for oral arguments

Supreme Court case on Trump bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook set for oral arguments

Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images | Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning in a case over whether President Donald Trump has the power to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook … Read more

Scott Bessent says U.S. is unconcerned by Treasury sell-off over Greenland, calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’

Scott Bessent says U.S. is unconcerned by Treasury sell-off over Greenland, calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’

“Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters at Davos on Wednesday. The “sell America” trade was in full swing Tuesday after President Donald Trump and European leaders escalated tensions over Greenland. U.S. stocks and bond prices tumbled, sending yields spiking. It comes as Trump’s threats to impose 10% tariffs on eight European countries as … Read more

India’s largest company is caught in geopolitical tensions. But it faces the biggest challenge at home

India’s largest company is caught in geopolitical tensions. But it faces the biggest challenge at home

There could be 20% upside for Reliance Industries’ shares, according to Shrikant Chouhan of Kotak Securities. Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images India’s largest business group, Reliance Industries, has been battling geopolitical headwinds in its oil refining and, reportedly, in one of its new energy ventures. But those are not the … Read more

Greenland should be prepared for ‘everything,’ prime minister says, not ruling out U.S. military action

Greenland should be prepared for ‘everything,’ prime minister says, not ruling out U.S. military action

A demonstration under the slogans ‘hands off Greenland’ and ‘Greenland for Greenlanders’ takes place in front of the US embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Jan. 17, 2026. Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg | Nurphoto | Getty Images Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said late Tuesday the island and its people should be prepared for “everything,” not … Read more