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....
In 2016, Higher Orbits began sending students into space-inspired STEM programmes; 10 years later,...
A decade ago, Higher Orbits launched its Go For Launch! programme at Deerfield High School in Illinois, bringing students together with...
South Portland placed more than 200 discarded holiday trees on an eroded Maine beach...
The wider project also examined how woody debris could be used in different coastal settings. At Pemaquid Beach in Bristol, the storm...
Volunteers at a protected Cape Cod nesting site found a rare diamondback terrapin hatchling...
Volunteers at a protected Cape Cod nesting site found a rare diamondback terrapin hatchling with two heads (Image Credit: New England Wildlife...
Meet the world’s smallest deer: The tiny ‘Pudu’ is barely four apples tall, weighs...
Guinness World Records lists the northern pudu as the smallest deer species.Guinness World Records lists the northern pudu as the smallest deer...
In 2022, he built a pocket-sized device to extract drinking water from the air...
Between August 19 and 23, 2022, Omar Yaghi's team placed a thermos-sized cylinder in Furnace Creek, inside the Death Valley National...
Scientists placed 23 3D-printed reefs up to 1,100 metres underwater to test whether damaged...
Researchers are installing 3D-printed artificial reefs on the deep seabed to see whether damaged cold-water coral habitats can be restored. Twenty-three...
In 2017, Jordan sank a retired 30-metre C-130 Hercules off Aqaba to create an...
A retired military aircraft has found an unusual second life beneath the Red Sea after Jordan deliberately sank it off Aqaba...
2,100-year-old shipwreck filled with 122 varieties of ancient Roman tableware found by archaeologists in...
Off the Turkish coast near Adrasan, marine archaeologists recently discovered the remains of an ancient cargo ship bound for Rome and...
World’s “grumpiest cat” moved into a Ladakh couple’s home with 3 kittens; family gave...
Image: Puskar Basu/ Discover Wildlife A remarkably elusive Pallas's cat has chosen an unexpected nursery in the high-altitude village of Hanle in...
Ontario will permanently protect 969 acres at Echo Lake, where more than 400 wildlife...
The property carries significance that extends beyond its ecological value. It was historically part of the Garden River First Nation reserve before...
Scientists studied deer for 18 years in abandoned New York farm fields; 280,674 seedlings...
A long-term experiment near Ithaca, New York, has found that white-tailed deer increased the diversity of seeds germinated from the soil...
12-million-year-old fossil leaf from the Himalaya reveals a previously unknown fungal species |
A fossilised leaf from the western Himalaya has preserved a previously unknown fungal species that lived around 12 to 8 million...
Judi Dench celebrated southern Scotland’s golden eagle comeback by naming it GoldenEye; the population...
Image Credit: Restoring Upland Nature/Website Dame Judi Dench has joined the celebration of a major golden eagle recovery in southern Scotland after...
Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old Egyptian tomb belonging to an official described as the...
It is reported that the tomb contains the remains of a funerary chapel and a false door, one of the most recognisable...
Scientists found that coffee changes gut microbes linked to mood and brain function; both...
Not just the caffeine. A new study reported by ScienceDaily suggests coffee may affect the brain through the gut. Researchers at...
Nurseries discarded unwanted plants; Pearl Fryar rescued them and spent decades turning them into...
Representative Image of a vibrant topiary garden featuring living sculptures shaped like trees, fish, and abstract forms in Bishopville (AI Generated Image)...
Meet Henry and Jack Grover, the Riverside twins whose wildfire-inspired hydrogel kept hot material...
Henry and Jack GroverRiversideunified.org When Henry and Jack Grover nearly lost their Riverside, California, home to a wildfire, the experience changed the...
Meet Ishaan Dokania, the Indian-origin Beaverton sixth-grader who trained a machine-learning model on satellite...
Ishaan Dokania, the Indian-origin Beaverton sixth-grader (Image Credit: Society for Science) A sixth-grade student from Oregon is using satellite images and machine...
A compound produced after eating pomegranates, walnuts and berries improved heart function by up...
Clinical trials will be needed to establish whether urolithin A can safely improve heart relaxation and symptoms in people with HFpEF. A...
meet brooke sweeney, the 15-year-old kentucky student who turned overnight oats into a business...
At 15, Brooke Sweeney is balancing high school with a business she started at 14. The Northern Kentucky teenager is the...
Archaeologists studied about 500 Ice Age spear points from the Tennessee River Valley; 13,200-year-old...
Representative Image (AI-generated) Nearly 13,000 years ago, people moving through the Tennessee River Valley faced a problem that had little to do...
Scientists in Thailand hid fruits in an opaque box; 16 Asian elephants learned to...
Asian elephants can abandon a familiar way of reaching food when it stops working, as per a new study conducted in...
Scientists test captive female Burmese pythons as lures in Florida’s Everglades, but the experiment...
Researchers in Florida have tested whether Burmese python pheromones could work as a lure, because low detectability has hampered efforts to...
A 2,400-year-old ancient school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has been unearthed by...
Among some of the great philosophers of the world was Aristotle and among some of the great conquerors of the world...
55-million-year-old fossil bird reveals how trogons evolved their unusual feet; reversed toe came before...
PC: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology A fossil bird from Denmark is helping researchers understand how the unusual feet of modern trogons evolved....
Scientists left bamboo forests alone for 30 years; biomass rose 161% and phosphorus stocks...
Passive rewilding, an emerging concept in restoration ecology, typically involves the cessation of management in plantations, removing both fertiliser inputs and...
Scientists built artificial beaver dams for streams; bat activity rose 3.9 times and amphibians...
Image: Left/Ronnie Howard/Right/Canva Beavers can reshape streams simply by building dams, slowing flowing water and creating ponds that become useful habitat for...
Engineers mixed rice-husk ash into asphalt; the farm waste could make roads more resistant...
Rice husk ash, a waste material from rice mills, may help make asphalt stiffer and more resistant to heat, according to...
A 300-foot Maldives beach was shrinking slowly; then MIT researchers built an artificial reef...
A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order to solve the problem, a...
In 2019, a former US merchant mariner opened a Mississippi wildlife rescue after finding...
Not just humans, even raccoons are being trained for survival in boot camps now. In a wildlife centre in Mississippi, a...
‘Satellite-as-a-Service’: IN-SPACe sets rules for hosted Indian, foreign payloads
New framework allows Indian entities to offer satellite capacity to domestic and overseas customers BENGALURU: Space regulator-cum-promoter IN-SPACe has issued new guidelines...
For years, visitors placed coins in the cracks of Giant’s Causeway for good luck;...
Many times, human actions surpass their simplicity of tradition to evolve into a climate hazard. This is what happened in Northern...
Illinois is starting a roughly $15 million restoration of 794 acres at Dutch Gap...
A major ecological change is beginning in northern Illinois, where conservation officials are reversing more than a century of farming changes...
Scientists found that scented cleaning products can react with ozone inside homes to create...
That lemony, piney or floral smell after cleaning is usually associated with freshness. But new research suggests that the chemistry behind...
After 40 years without nesting, western snowy plovers have returned to a California beach;...
The 11 plovers released this year were fitted with tracking devices that use radio and Bluetooth signals Western snowy plovers have returned...
Scientists kept large herbivores out of a Kenyan savanna for 18 years; after elephants...
For 18 years, researchers kept large herbivores out of fenced plots in a Kenyan savanna to study what happened to the...
Scientists built a sunflower-inspired cooling system that delivered 135% more cooling power at solar...
Representative Image of a sunflower-inspired cooling system tilting to optimize radiative cooling under direct sunlight (AI Generated Image) Researchers in China have...
‘Nightmare fuel’ from the deep: Scientists identify two bizarre new sea spider species in...
Callipallene pilosuspedes was named for its “hairy feet”, referring to the long, curved spines on its legs. Two bizarre new sea spider...
Two mountain marmots appeared separately in San Francisco and Antioch in September after apparently...
Both animals were unharmed but appeared confused in the urban environment. (Representational photo: Pixabay) Yellow-bellied marmots usually live high in the mountains,...
Archaeologists risked their lives to save 30,000 treasures from ISIS terrorists during the Syrian...
Image credit: Yaarob Alabdullah Archaeologists can be just as passionate about their finds as scientists are about their inventions. After all, they...
Human and poorly utilised animal excreta could supply 13% of nutrients needed by global...
Representative Image of a global map illustrating nutrient flows from human and livestock excreta to crops and grasslands (AI Generated Image) Human...
Scientists extract cellulose from cow manure, turning farm waste into fibres, films and ribbons...
Representative Image of scientists extracting cellulose nanofibrils from cow manure at a dairy farm (AI Generated Image) Cow manure could become a...
Vivien He developed a tiny device that detects earthquake signals and sends warnings through...
Earthquake warnings usually depend on networks of specialised instruments that detect ground motion and quickly identify an earthquake. Vivien He studied...
California acquired 640 acres near Pioneertown for western Joshua tree conservation; climate projections rank...
California state officials have completed the purchase of 640 acres of desert land near Pioneertown, securing a large area that researchers...
In 1993, a project set out to reconnect wildlife habitat from Yellowstone to Canada’s...
Thirty-three years after scientists began an ambitious effort to reconnect wild areas across North America, a cross-border conservation project stretching from...
Burmese pythons are climbing trees in southern Florida, scientists reveal a surprising difference between...
Burmese pythons in southern Florida are using trees and shrubs more often than their heavy bodies, with juveniles showing arboreal behaviour...
Floating solar panels sharply reduce light reaching the seabed in French Polynesia while having...
Floating photovoltaic (FPV) platforms in a French Polynesian lagoon substantially reduced the amount of light reaching the seabed but produced no...
Scientists developed a DNA test for four invasive snakes in Florida; Burmese python DNA...
Scientists have developed an environmental DNA test that can detect four invasive constrictor snakes in Florida from a single sample. The...
Nasa thought an ancient Martian lake shaped these rocks; Perseverance found evidence of three...
When Nasa’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, scientists expected to find sedimentary rocks shaped...
