One particular common cuckoo will soon complete a mammoth migration through both Africa and Asia—a migration that is anything but common.

In America we have the idiomatic expression “skeletons in the closet,” but what about finding a 1,000-year-old Viking grave, literally buried under the house that you live in? That’s what a Norwegian couple recently experienced, according to a report of The Local Norway.¹

May and June are abuzz with busy bees, really clever bumblebees.^1,2 And their practical cleverness continues to astonish researchers, as a recently published study in the journal Science illustrates.^3,4

Are people growing weary of scientific experts giving them contradictory instructions for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic? It seems that there may be an increasing willingness by politicians and ordinary citizens alike to question the reliability of scientific pronouncements by experts—at least by those addressing this pandemic.

It’s springtime in New England—an important season for maple syrup production.

The maple syrup season is short, only lasting between four and six weeks. The flavor of syrup can change depending on when it is gathered during that time.¹ The syrup is gathered by attaching buckets to trees with spouts sticking into the trees’ bark.