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The glacier at Tanggula Pass on the border between Qinghai and Tibet in Nagqu, Tibet, China, on August 7, 2024. The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States remains flattened by the last ice age’s towering glaciers, Many new apex predators have replaced woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers—and the ecosystem is still recovering from that switch.

Homeowners understand these days that nothing can go to waste. There’s no time for frivolous spending with costs so high—and celebrating Halloween is no exception. Candy prices are at an all-time high, as are utility prices, meaning keeping those inflated skeletons going all night long is going to cost you.  But according to recent USDA data, the U. S. produced 1.45 billion pounds of pumpkins in 2025, so the country’s love affair with iconic orange gourd is alive and well. But what happens to those pumpkins when those jack-o'-lanterns are extinguished for good? Before you fill your garbage bin with has-been giant squash, we've got some ideas for ways to recycle them. 1. Treats for backyard critters and birdsThese days, we could all use more of the comical distractions of bushy squirrels scurrying about or perhaps the pretty songs of a nightingale to soothe our anxiety. Those jack-o'-lanterns are perfect for enticing (cute) backyard critters. Uncarved pumpkins will work, too, but you can speed things up by cutting them in half. Of course, not all critters are welcome.

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Brain beholder: Barbara Finlay, pictured here in the Wilder Brain Collection that she curated at Cornell University, spent her 40-year career studying how the brain develops and evolved. Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, a concept she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species.

A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies among hundreds of other bats in the colony. Making sure she cares for and nurses only her own offspring is important to ensuring their survival. Among Japanese house bats, mothers keep track of their pups using the babies' isolation calls.