They turned crap into gold. A routine renovation job in Belgium took an unexpected turn on Tuesday after builders happened upon a gold hoard worth over $10 million while installing a sewer system. “Our first reaction was actually disbelief,” an 18-year-old student worker named Kobe told local media outlet VRT while recalling the unexpected haul. … Read more
Move over kale — there’s a new powerhouse plant in town. It’s been dubbed “the new spirulina” — after another blue-green algae that’s been hailed as a superfood by the wellness community. Its name — which is somewhat unfortunate — is Chlorella vulgaris and its backstory — which is also unappetizing — is that it’s … Read more
Well, that stinks. A father from Scotland claims to have discovered a rare chunk of whale vomit worth more than $50,000 — but experts have told him it’s nothing but “sewage grease.” Ronnie Humphreys, 42, says the nearly 4.5-pound lump of whale puke, known as ambergris, was found by his 5-year-old son while the two … Read more
It got turned into a Porta-Audi. A $134,000 sports car in Russia resembled a mobile septic tank after a burst pipe inundated the luxury whip with sewer water, as seen in odiferous footage with over 376,000 views on Instagram. “The sewage pipe snapped and broke the window,” responding officer Andrei Podshivalov exclaims in the clip, … Read more
Polio virus particle, computer illustration. Kateryna Kon | Science Photo Library | Getty Images New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has extended the state of emergency declared in response to the spread of poliovirus after sewage tested positive in Brooklyn and Queens. Hochul said the state disaster emergency will remain in place at least through Nov. … Read more
Virologist Dave O’Connor admits that he was getting desperate when he started asking dog owners for poo samples. For much of 2022, O’Connor, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his colleagues have been tracking a heavily mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Early this year, they discovered the variant in Wisconsin waste … Read more