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Joe Schepman, left, and his son, Brad, hold the tusk of a mastodon found on the family's property. on April 15, 2019 in Seymour, Ind. Atlas Excavating recently discovered the remains of a mastodon on property owned by Schepman. Source

VICTORIA, Seychelles -- The British-led Nekton scientific mission on Thursday completed a seven-week expedition in the Indian Ocean aimed at documenting changes beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. Source

NEW YORK -- Amazon and Google are ending their nearly 2-year spat, agreeing to bring their video streaming apps to each other's devices. Back in 2017, Google pulled its popular YouTube video app from Amazon's Fire TV after the online shopping giant refused to sell some Google products. Source

A new species of giant meat-eating mammal has been identified from fossil fragments found in a forgotten museum drawer. The bones of the gigantic carnivore dubbed Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, meaning “big African Lion” in Swahili, had been kept in a Kenyan museum drawer for decades, according to National Geographic. Source

When Ohio University integrative biologist Nancy Stevens peered into a drawer in the wooden cabinets on the top floor of a Nairobi museum in 2010, she saw a chunk of rock containing massive teeth and knew she had come across something important. Source

Adidas has stepped up its sustainability game with the launch of a fully-recyclable running shoe. The sportswear giant has unveiled ‘Futurecraft.Loop', a 100 per cent recyclable performance shoe that can be returned to the brand, broken down, and used to create. Source

CONCORD, N.H. -- More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinizing everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire wanted to understand if the documented declines hitting honeybees and bumblebees were also taking a toll on the lesser studied bee species in New Hampshire. Source

A Mars base simulator sits in the middle of nowhere in China's Gobi desert, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers. Surrounded by barren hills in northwest Gansu province, "Mars Base 1" opened to the public on Wednesday with the aim of exposing teens -- and soon tourists -- to what life could be like on the planet. Source

SAN FRANCISCO -- Some of Samsung's new, almost $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days. Journalists who received the phones to review before the public launch said the Galaxy Fold screen started flickering and turning black before completely fizzling out. Source

They knew it had to exist, but they just couldn't find evidence of it. Now, after decades of searching, astrophysicists have found verification of the first molecule that formed minutes after the Big Bang. The helium hydride ion (HeH+) the scientists detected wasn't the original one created just after the Big Bang, but it has the same molecular structure — helium combined with hydrogen — they theorized formed at the time. Source