A meteor crater in Oklahoma is nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought;...
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a meteor hit Ames, Oklahoma, at a different time than...
Cheetahs disappeared from Zambia’s Greater Luangwa for nearly 30 years; six are back as...
Image Credit: Wildlife Vagabond Six cheetahs have returned to Zambia’s Greater Luangwa Ecosystem after nearly three decades without confirmed sightings. The 3...
This Costa Rican cattle ranch lost much of its wildlife; 10 years later, it...
A former cattle ranch in northern Costa Rica has become an unlikely refuge for wildlife. Near Tenorio Volcano National Park, Tapir...
Meet Rye Lynn Rost: The Montana 7th grader who compared banana and plantain starch...
A seventh grader in Montana compared banana and plantain starch to develop a stronger bioplastic. Rye Lynn Rost, a student at...
Scientists found a chemical that helps naked mole-rat queens stop other females from reproducing;...
A pregnant naked mole-rat queen, on the left, and a worker, on the right, sniff each other. Image Credit: Felix Petermann /...
Burmese pythons and invasive plants are reshaping the Everglades; some native mammals have declined...
The Everglades faces a major challenge from non-native species that can change habitats, disrupt food webs, and make restoration harder. Several...
Meet Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera: The Puerto Rican seventh-grader who turned plantain peels into biodegradable mulch...
Representative Image of an agricultural field using plantain-based biodegradable mulch, illustrating reduced weed growth and improved soil conditions (AI Generated Image) A...
Scientists found 97% of strangler figs growing directly from burned ground in Indonesia; the...
Scientists studying burned tropical peat swamp forests in Sumatra, Indonesia, found strangler figs exhibiting an unusual behaviour. They found that 97...
Meet Andrew Sun-Zhuang, the Washington baseball player who built a $260 AI pitching machine...
PC: Society for Science/ Image AI generated Andrew Sun-Zhuang, a 7th grader at The Evergreen School in Shoreline, Washington, plays baseball and...
Scientists studying ancient Siberian bone fragments used DNA to identify a previously unknown extinct...
Comparison of these genomes with those of modern and extinct bovines revealed that the remains represented a previously unrecognized lineage. A handful...
Scientists examined 13 insects trapped in 99-million-year-old amber and identified a new species whose...
Not much in the world has survived to be known as old as the dinosaurs, but when it comes to a...
Researchers studying ageing in mice found that declining cellular recycling helps ‘zombie cells’ evade...
Experiments in mice found that declining CMA affects senescent cells and the macrophages that clear them. (Representational photo) Researchers studying ageing in...
‘I was not yet asleep, being a night owl. And now I don’t think...
Karl Deisseroth was working late on a research paper and had just gone to lie down when a call from Stockholm...
In 2015, New Jersey began installing 40 oyster reefs along about 800 metres of...
The project included 27 concrete “oyster castle” breakwaters and 13 shell-bag reefs. In an unusual effort to protect an eroding stretch of...
Meet Sartaj Singh Gandhi, the New Jersey student who built a sensor to detect...
A seventh grader in New Jersey has built a device that can monitor meat freshness by tracking ammonia gas released as...
Ancient pottery reveals earliest known traces of chocolate in east of Mississippi; formed a...
Chocolate has been providing a sugar high to humans for centuries, enough to inspire them to build monuments too. A new...
Invasive plants choked Florida’s Saint Sebastian River; crews added 11,500-plus native plants to rebuild...
Representative Image of the Saint Sebastian River restoration with native plants returning along its banks (AI Generated Image) A stretch of the...
ESA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft changed direction by 20 degrees and gained 3.5 km/s in speed...
JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used...
Rats were eradicated from Seychelles’ D’Arros Island in 2003; by 2016, its Wedge-tailed Shearwater...
D’Arros Island in Seychelles has recorded a sharp rise in its Wedge-tailed Shearwater breeding population after rats were eradicated in 2003....
Your gut bacteria may reveal how quickly your brain is ageing; UCLA researchers found...
A person's "brain age" may be different from their chronological age. For years, scientists have used brain scans to estimate this...
J.K. Rowling lost her mother to multiple sclerosis at 45; in 2010, she donated...
J.K. Rowling opened the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic in memory of her mother, who died of multiple sclerosis. The clinic focuses...
Oklahoma’s Ames crater was linked to a 470-million-year-old event; zircon dating suggests it may...
For decades, scientists linked Oklahoma’s Ames impact structure to a meteor event that swept across Earth nearly 470 million years ago....
Scientists found at least 10 likely new species of bizarre branching worms inside sea...
PC: Nicole de Voogd/University of Göttingen Scientists have discovered at least ten new species of branching marine worms after studying their DNA,...
Florida’s Burmese pythons are carrying three previously unknown RNA viruses; scientists are investigating whether...
Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades are carrying three previously unknown RNA viruses, raising questions about whether viruses harboured by the invasive...
California scientists grew kelp in a lab at 74,000 spores per millilitre; they are...
Greater Farallones Association Kelp restoration specialist Julieta Gomez holding up kelp she is tending at the lab to grow spores for outplanting...
In 1985, Bill Freeman’s three-sided zipper was rejected and left in his garage; 40...
In 1985, electrical engineer Bill Freeman imagined a zipper that could do more than join two pieces of material. His three-sided...
Scientists develop a living building material for Mars using engineered yeast; it uses far...
Scientists have developed a living building material designed for construction on Mars, combining inert sand with a gelatin-based hydrogel and engineered...
Wild blacktip sharks can hear sounds from nearly 250 feet away and pinpoint where...
The study also points to the importance of behavioural experiments in the natural environment. Sound does not behave the same way inside...
In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion reshaped Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin; 101 years later, USGS reconstructed...
In 1925, a hydrothermal explosion reshaped Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin (Image Credit: U.S. Geological Survey) A century-old mystery at Yellowstone’s Biscuit Basin has...
Scientists found a new way to make hydrogen from water using light; the material...
For the new study, researchers focused on a MOF known as BVR-19. Its distinctive feature is an unusual bond between sulfur atoms...
Scientists re-examined 46 skulls excavated from Egypt’s First Dynasty royal cemetery in the 1920s;...
There were many subsidiary burials around the tombs and enclosures. (Representational photo: La Nacion) Researchers have found new evidence that some people...
Researchers placed magenta solar panels above broccoli and found the plants used sunlight 4.5...
The team is now investigating which combinations of panel colour and transparency can produce the best balance between plant growth and electricity...
In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for...
In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and...
Antarctica has only 2 native flowering plants; after 7 years of warming, one slowed...
PC: Nelida Pohl/ BBC Wildlife Antarctica has only two native flowering plants, and both have spent years facing a warmer environment. A...
NASA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft changed direction by 20 degrees and gained 3.5 km/s in speed...
JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used Earth’s gravity as a...
Meet Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells...
Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan (Image Credit: Society for Science) A fishing...
Meet Ankith Burki, the Indian-origin San Jose seventh-grader who used low-frequency sound to boost...
Ankith BurkiPhoto: Society for Science For Ankith Burki, the global water crisis was not an abstract classroom topic but a challenge worth...
Meet Bailey Quinn Frank, the Fort Lauderdale eighth-grader who built a low-cost air sampler...
Bailey Quinn FrankPhoto credit: Society for science When Bailey Quinn Frank learned that scientists can identify species from genetic material left behind...
US biologists searching the Mojave Desert found six previously unknown Mojave poppy bee population...
US biologists searching the Mojave Desert have discovered six previously unknown population groups of the Mojave poppy bee, giving scientists a...
A 14-year-old Colombian inventor created a device that lets deaf children feel birdsong through...
At 14, Juan Sebastian Avila Perez is using technology to make it easier for deaf people to experience and identify birds...
Scientists found a new lizard species above 15,750 feet in Peru’s Andes; the 6-to-8cm...
The species was identified by researchers associated with the Natural History Museum of San Marcos University, and its description was published in...
Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation gave $1 million to a Seychelles debt-swap deal; by 2020, the...
The debt conversion was supported by several private funders, including the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation was among the private funders...
In 1963, Maurice Hilleman swabbed his 5-year-old daughter’s throat after she caught mumps; four...
Jeryl Lynn comforts her crying sister Kirsten during a 1966 vaccination with the Jeryl Lynn Strain. In 1963, vaccine researcher Dr Maurice...
In 1971, engineer Godfrey Hounsfield’s new scanner revealed a brain cyst in the first...
Godfrey Hounsfield stands beside the EMI-Scanner in 1972 and modern CT scans provide much higher resolution images of the 'slices' of the...
Crews digging 12 feet below a California infrastructure project uncovered 40- to 45-million-year-old bones...
A routine infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, has uncovered a glimpse of a world that existed tens of millions of years...
Meet Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera, the Puerto Rico seventh-grader who turned discarded school-cafeteria plantain peels into...
Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera, the Puerto Rico seventh-grader who turned discarded school-cafeteria plantain peels into biodegradable farm mulch (Image Credit: Society for Science) A...
Meet Isabela Silvério, the teenage Brazilian researcher who built a prototype tyre from discarded...
Representative Image of a prototype tyre made from discarded orange peels, showcasing breakthrough environmental technology (AI Generated Image) A teenage researcher in...
Maryland planted 2.49 billion oyster seeds in Harris Creek; the restoration has produced 343...
Maryland has restored hundreds of acres of oyster reef in Harris Creek as part of a larger effort to rebuild oyster...
Scientists tracked cats wearing anti-hunting bibs; activity fell 15%, but roaming distances stayed unchanged...
Domestic cats can be effective hunters, and devices designed to reduce their success have increasingly been used as a way to...
Scientists resurrected 160-million-year-old proteins from extinct mammals; some were stronger against drug-resistant bacteria than...
Looking at the evolution of antimicrobial defenses, the researchers were able to pinpoint structural modifications that have made these peptides more potent...
