Meet Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera, the Puerto Rico student who turned plantain peels into mulch that...
Representative Image of EcoMusa mulch made from plantain peels, showcasing its agricultural benefits (AI Generated Image) A seventh-grade student in Puerto Rico...
Scientists put ‘underwater umbrellas’ over Florida corals during extreme heat; they worked, cutting sunlight...
Representative AI-generated image Coral reefs are facing increasingly intense heat stress, and scientists in Florida have tested an unusual way to give...
Scientists tracked a rare Florida butterfly for 35 years and found hurricanes were unexpectedly...
PC: Kristen Grace/ Florida Museum of Natural History A 35-year study of the endangered Schaus' swallowtail butterfly has found that high winds...
Researchers described 18 previously unpublished hominin fossils from South Africa, including an adult Homo...
The fossils were excavated at the Drimolen Main Quarry, part of South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’. Researchers have described 18 previously unpublished...
Georgia has begun a 10-year restoration of 132 acres at Towaliga Preserve, using a...
A 132-acre section of one of Henry County, Georgia’s largest remaining undeveloped properties is set for a 10-year forest restoration project,...
Scientists identified 57 new deep-sea species from Argentina’s Mar del Plata Canyon, including a...
Photo credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina has yielded a remarkable scientific harvest....
Decades of industrial pollution left Michigan’s Detroit and Kalamazoo rivers contaminated with PCBs, mercury...
For much of the 20th century, factories and paper mills along Michigan's Detroit and Kalamazoo rivers discharged waste that settled into...
US spy satellite launched to monitor Soviet radar and named after Farrah Fawcett breaks...
A US Cold War-era spy satellite launched in 1988 to collect electronic intelligence has broken apart in low Earth orbit after...
Jennifer Doudna’s team found an ancient CRISPR ancestor in viruses using a never-before-seen ‘gapped’...
The discovery may also reshape ideas about where CRISPR came from. The researchers found VIPR systems in viruses that appear to use...
Australia released 80 golden bandicoots into a predator-free sanctuary; 2.5 years later, their population...
Golden Bandicoot. Image Credit: Tim Henderson/AWC Australia’s Golden Bandicoot population has reached about 300 animals at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in Central Australia,...
A signal from beyond: Astronomers detect radio waves from planet 63 light-years away for...
A mysterious radio signal from deep space has astronomers asking a big question: is someone out there trying to say hello?The...
In 2015, 2kg of rocket seeds went to the space station; after their return,...
Tim PeakePhoto credit: Esa.int ESA astronaut Tim Peake took 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015 as...
A fabric developed from military clothing research was placed over strawberry plants; field tests...
A fabric originally developed through military clothing research has shown an unexpected use in agriculture. Researchers created the fabric while exploring...
London sent more than 3 million tonnes of excavated railway soil to an Essex...
The soil was used to lift the ground and form wetlands designed to provide feeding, nesting and refuelling areas for birds London...
Scientists put a floating ‘scarecrow’ beside fishing nets; the device cut seabird bycatch by...
Floating scarecrow. Image Credit: University of Exeter News Fishing nets can pose a serious danger to diving seabirds, but a new trial...
Teenager tests cow, chicken, fish and bat manure and finds that cow fertiliser holds...
Image: Society for Science Organic gardening is described as the natural, wholesome choice, yet an eighth grader from Ripon, California, has shown...
California’s Mendocino rivers witnessed a record 30,000 endangered coho salmon; a decade ago, some...
Adult CCC coho spawning at Neefus Gulch. Image Credit: Christie Hemm Klok/Trout Unlimited/NOAA California’s Mendocino Coast rivers recorded an estimated 30,000 adult...
Texas is offering landowners up to $7,000 to remove invasive plants that are quietly...
Invasive plants are creating problems across Texas forest ecosystems by competing with native vegetation, altering ecosystems and reducing forest productivity. To...
In 1955, Hawaii introduced the rosy wolfsnail to control giant African snails; it instead...
The reintroduction is only one part of the recovery strategy. Bishop Museum and Honolulu Zoo are also establishing captive snail laboratories, where...
Norway’s rapidly melting Jotunheimen ice has revealed 48 prehistoric arrows; the oldest are 5,000-6,000...
Norway’s rapidly retreating mountain ice has revealed 48 prehistoric arrows, including one estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000 years old,...
Burmese python mothers can generate heat while guarding their eggs; scientists documented the behaviour...
A Burmese python guarding a clutch of eggs may appear to be doing little more than lying tightly coiled around them....
After more than 50 years of pulp-mill pollution, regulators have proposed restoring North Carolina’s...
The Plymouth Mill began operating in 1937 as a wood and paper products manufacturing facility. Over subsequent decades, industrial operations at the...
In 2021, scientists released fluorescent dye 1,870 metres deep in the North Atlantic; tracking...
A fluorescent green dye released nearly 1,870 metres below the surface of the North Atlantic has helped scientists directly observe a...
Researchers returned 4,450 pieces of timber to 110 km of Australia’s Murray River; over...
Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) Restoring woody habitat in a degraded section of Australia's Murray River has led to a major increase in...
In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler patented the electret microphone; their design now...
In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler, scientists at Bell Labs, patented a compact, inexpensive yet highly sensitive microphone: the electret...
Scientists use GPS to track four African raptors in Kenya and discover they avoid...
Wind farms are expanding across Africa, a continent with some of the world's highest raptor diversity, yet species-specific collision risks remain...
Scientists melted plastic bottles with eggshell waste to make paving tiles; the unusual mix...
Researchers have developed paver tiles made entirely from waste materials by combining discarded PET plastic, eggshell powder, and river sand. The...
A uranium mill left radioactive waste beside Utah’s Colorado River for decades; after trains...
For decades, millions of tons of uranium mill tailings sat beside the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, leaving behind a major...
In 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped open Monterey...
In 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped turn a former cannery site on California’s Cannery Row...
Astronomers spot giant bow shock around magnetic white dwarf 730 light-years away, revealing mysterious...
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have imaged a shock wave around a white dwarf, the leftover...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nile perch were introduced into Lake Victoria...
Nile PerchPhoto: Wikipedia In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nile perch were introduced into Lake Victoria with the hope that the...
Grand Rapids was named for rapids that disappeared after dams and industrial changes reshaped...
The restoration involves building structures that look like features found in a natural river (Photo: Fox7) After nearly two decades of planning,...
How sugar from outer space may have helped build life on Earth; study finds...
A simple sugar delivered to the young Earth by meteorites may have played a more complicated role in the emergence of...
SpaceX launches Crew-13: 4 Nasa astronauts sent to ISS for 6-month mission focused on...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four launches from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral....
AI could force over 10 million US workers into new careers by 2035: What...
AI could force over 10 million US workers into new careers by 2035: What the McKinsey report underlines For ages, everyone’s worried...
New Zealand built a 676-square-metre pest-proof sanctuary for rare skinks; four were released in...
Northern spotted skink (Oligosoma kokowai) in Napier. Image credit: Nick Harker/ New Zealand Herpetological Society New Zealand has created a 676-square-metre pest-proof...
Meet Liam Desre, the 14-year-old Canadian who proposed a thermodynamic alternative to dark energy;...
Liam DesrePhoto credit: youthscience.ca In the grand quest to understand why the universe is expanding faster and faster, most scientists point to...
Fossil teeth from ancient North American coastlines suggest some dinosaurs supplemented land diets with...
The researchers examined fossils from ancient coastal environments associated with the Western Interior Seaway, a vast inland sea that divided North America...
California is set to break ground on a project to transform 2,800 acres of...
Representative Image (AI-generated) California is moving ahead with a major restoration project that will reshape about 2,800 acres of farmland on Webb...
Meet Isabella Garry, the Eden Prairie seventh-grader who tested plant-based gels in simulated stomach...
Isabella GarryPhoto: Society for Science When Isabella Garry learned that microplastics can enter the human body through food, water and the air,...
In 2021, Australian scientists sprayed wheat scent across farm plots to confuse hungry mice;...
Wheat seed loss fell 63% after wheat germ oil treatment (Representational AI image) Australian scientists have tested a non-toxic way to protect...
Chameleons may be attracted to vineyards but die during mechanical harvesting; scientists warn farms...
Farmland is often welcomed as wildlife habitat, but a January 2026 study in Global Ecology and Conservation found reptiles collected during...
Scientists deliberately burned an Australian woodland after years without recorded fire; 20,369 seedlings revealed...
A prescribed fire. Image Credit: Wikipedia Fire was reintroduced to a subtropical grassy woodland in southeast Queensland after the area had gone...
Pennsylvania’s abandoned coal mines may hold up to 220 billion gallons of water; scientists...
An inky pool in the middle of an anthracite coal pile. Image Credit: Jessica Klein/Inside Climate News/Pennsylvania Capital Star Pennsylvania’s abandoned underground...
New Mexico researchers use drone images to train AI to count ducks, geese and...
PC: University of New Mexico Every winter, migratory ducks, geese and cranes arrive at wildlife refuges in the south-western United States, and...
Australia released 21 captive-bred endangered turtles into the wild; 8 are now being tracked...
On the Barrington River in New South Wales, 21 Manning River turtles have been moved from a conservation breeding facility into...
A London museum’s urban garden collected more than 11 million environmental records in one...
Image Credit: Natural History Museum, London A garden at London’s Natural History Museum has collected more than 11 million environmental data records...
Pennsylvania plans to remove 247,000 cubic yards of coal silt; the project would create...
Image: Pennsylvania Game Commission Website Beside the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, a major clean-up is being prepared to turn old mining waste...
20 African wild dogs were brought back to a Zimbabwe park after disappearing for...
African Wild Dog. Image Credit: Wikipedia African wild dogs returned to Zimbabwe’s Matusadona National Park in February 2026 after disappearing from the...
Scientists develop DNA markers to detect Burmese pythons in southern Florida waters, but finding...
Scientists have developed and optimised python-specific environmental DNA (eDNA) markers to detect Burmese pythons through water samples collected in southern Florida....
