Would you let someone die to win $1 million? At least one team would on Outlast, Netflix’s gripping reality competition show set in the Alaskan frontier. When we last left off, ALPHA member Justin snuck across the river and stole DELTA’s sleeping bags, with the blessing of his increasingly maniacal teammates Jill and Amber. It’s [...]

If you’ve been a regular on Instagram over the past few years, you might be aware of the “Superbloom” phenomenon—an explosion of wildflowers that blankets the California’s hillsides when conditions are right. But that’s not the only explosive botanical event the state has experienced of late. This year, thanks to record rainfall, Californians are recording [...]

For the past 30 years, a herd of hippos first introduced by drug lord Pablo Escobar has been terrorizing visitors to the Colombia backcountry. Now, after years of trying to catch and castrate the hippos, the Colombian government is trying a new solution. Escobar’s hippos first arrived in the 1980s, imported as part of a [...]

According to a sweeping new study on the effects of exercise on longevity, just 11 minutes of walking per day could be enough to dramatically lower your likelihood of dying young. The study, which was conducted by an international team of scientists and recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, looked at the [...]

Earlier this month Tom Cruise received some unexpected news. PolarX, the production company he’s been working with to film his latest Mission Impossible movie, had sought permission to land helicopters in Svalbard, a Norwegian territory about 600 miles from the North Pole. Svalbard’s governor told them, quite frankly, that this was a bad idea.  For [...]

Tika Takes Stock It’s Night 5 and Tika’s Yam Yam, Carolyn, Carson and Sarah return to camp from tribal council without Helen (their first player lost, Bruce, was booted from the game on the premiere episode after suffering a bloody mishap during a competition). Carson, who was responsible for Helen going home, says he didn’t [...]

It’s Day 13 on Outlast, Netflix’s thrilling adventure reality competition about survivalists in the Alaskan Wilderness, and we have our first serious health emergency. After two weeks without food, DELTA team member Jordan sees black spots, collapses and is evacuated in a helicopter. The show must go on. Even when your bruh might die. Paul [...]

Flamingos might all the look the same to us, but apparently the birds differ widely in personality—and have very strong preferences as to who they’ll hang out with. According to new research published in early March, flamingos form lasting friendships with both same-sex bird friends and romantic partners. And they’re very picky. In fact, scientists [...]

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHO WON OUTLAST ON NETFLIX They’ve been called reality TV’s “biggest villains ever,” and that’s really saying something in this day and age. Jill Ashlock and Amber Asay may not have won Netflix’s thrilling new adventure competition Outlast, but they’ve made as big [...]

This week, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources clued us in to a dream job we didn’t realize exists: professional baby-bear snuggler. And guess what? They’re hiring. That’s not the whole job (unfortunately), but cuddling cubs is actually an important part of the research process when crews do check-ups on surrogate mama bears.  Here’s the [...]