Kevin Montien

Social communicator and journalist with extensive experience in creating and editing digital content for high-impact media outlets. He stands out for his ability to write news articles, cover international events and his multicultural vision, reinforced by his English language training (B2 level) obtained in Australia.
Rendering of the Westinghouse AP300 small modular reactor design.

Westinghouse wants up to 91 nuclear units across several countries, but the real bottleneck may begin inside U.S. licensing offices

September 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Never the dog stepping through the glass balcony door into Mauro Tutzo's apartment

A dog named Never crossed onto a neighbor’s balcony, and one unexpected visit turned into a daily friendship neither saw coming

September 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
A harbor seal with a satellite tag swims at the surface.

Three harbor seals followed turbine rows in the North Sea, turning offshore wind foundations into hunting stops scientists did not expect

September 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Two large cooling towers rise above the Perry Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Erie in Ohio.

An Ohio nuclear plant left 850 acres untouched for safety, and a threatened spotted turtle found the wetland it needed

September 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Flocean staff and local officials sample the first drinking water produced by the Flocean One subsea desalination pod in Mongstad, Norway.

Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day while using far less energy than conventional plants

September 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Steam rising from the Shanay-Timpishka, the Boiling River in the Peruvian Amazon.

A river in the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to reach 86°C with no volcano nearby, and researchers found that every 1°C increase along its banks was linked to an 11% drop in local tree diversity

September 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Callery pear thorn that punctured a tractor tire, viewed from inside the tire.

A thorny wild pear punctured a tractor tire, and the real surprise is how America’s once-favorite “sterile” street tree escaped

September 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM
View of Mars' ice-covered south polar region, where radar observations have investigated a possible buried lake.

NASA’s radar searched for Mars’ buried lake beneath the south pole, and the weak echo has made the water mystery harder to believe

September 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Group of Delacour's langurs resting among limestone rocks and vegetation in northern Vietnam.

One of the world’s rarest primates survives among the limestone cliffs of northern Vietnam, where the remaining Delacour’s langurs are hanging on in fragmented habitat despite looking almost impossible to miss

September 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Ancient gold ring with a Brahmi inscription discovered at the Don Yai Thong archaeological site in Thailand.

A 2,000-year-old gold ring found beside human remains in Thailand carries an inscription that may reveal an ancient trade route

September 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Two 40,000-year-old bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory and discovered in Hohle Fels Cave in Germany.

Archaeologists have uncovered two tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany dating back about 40,000 years

September 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Miami-Dade firefighter comforting Jack after finding the black dog inside a dumpster.

Firefighters answered a call about ducklings trapped in trash and expected another routine animal rescue, but by the time the tiny birds were safe the crew had made an unexpected new friend

September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cows and calves grazing beneath CattleTracker solar panels at Silicon Ranch in Tennessee.

A Tennessee solar farm is letting cows graze beneath moving panels, and the experiment could change what happens to farmland under clean energy

August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Bajau diver spearfishing underwater without breathing equipment in Southeast Asia.

Most people struggle to hold their breath underwater for two minutes, but the Bajau can spend up to five hours a day diving and working beneath the sea after generations of life built around the ocean

August 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Chessie tunnel-boring machine built for the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel beneath Chesapeake Bay.

Engineers built a gigantic machine to work beneath Chesapeake waters where ordinary construction equipment cannot reach, and the scale of what it must move shows why some infrastructure projects require machines almost as impressive as the structures themselves

August 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Illustration of Earth and the Moon showing the celestial relationship that gradually affects Earth's rotation.

Earth may have spent roughly a billion years with days stuck near 19 hours long, and scientists think an extraordinary tug-of-war involving the Moon and the atmosphere temporarily stopped the planet’s rotation from slowing normally

August 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Asa, a white rabbit, inside the small cage where he was found in Indonesia.

A surfer spotted a rabbit living inside a hanging cage and initially thought he could keep walking, but one closer look at the animal changed what happened next and turned an ordinary day into a rescue

August 28, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Jo Nagai presents his swallowtail butterfly memory research at an entomology conference.

A 10-year-old boy trained swallowtail butterfly caterpillars to avoid the scent of lavender and then watched as they turned into butterflies; and when 71 % of the adult butterflies continued to avoid that same scent, he began to wonder if, somehow, the memory had survived the metamorphosis

August 27, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Wild coastal wolf retrieves bait from a crab trap on the British Columbia coast.

A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy, dragging a completely submerged crab trap onto the beach by its rope and then spending three minutes figuring out how to open the bait cup

August 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Himalayan pangolin, Manis aurita, walking across the ground.

A pangolin collected in 1836 sat inside a museum for nearly 190 years until scientists extracted its DNA and discovered the forgotten animal belonged to a species that had been hiding in plain sight

August 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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