In 1910, Oregon planted European beachgrass to stabilize shifting dunes; it spread along the...
European beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria) is now well established in the Oregon dunes In 1910, Oregon introduced European beachgrass near Coos Bay to...
India’s space sovereignty: From building missions to building depth – milestones, gaps & what’s...
India’s space growth marks a shift from building space capabilities to building strategic autonomy, commercial depth and sustained presence beyond Earth. For...
Meet Cavon Hajamiri, the 17-year-old California student who built a wearable that detects vehicles...
At 17, California student Cavon Hajimiri has developed a wearable device designed to warn pedestrians about vehicles approaching from behind. Called...
A $29,595 robot is scanning Colorado River water for DNA left by invasive fish...
The eDNA autosampler to monitor for invasive aquatic species. Image Credit: CPR/USGS The Colorado River is getting a new line of defence...
An olive ridley sea turtle lays eggs on Southern California beach for first time...
A rare olive ridley sea turtle has laid eggs on a Southern California beach for the first time in recorded history. (Photo:...
Scientists grew algae on the ISS for 40 generations; spaceflight produced about 50% more...
Scientists have grown microscopic algae aboard the International Space Station to investigate how spaceflight affects their genetic stability. Space Algae-1 grew...
Hugh Jackman backed a new Australian wildlife sanctuary campaign as koalas face habitat loss...
Hugh Jackman. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hugh Jackman has backed a major Australian wildlife conservation campaign after making a surprise video appearance...
A Florida man lost his left arm after a 35-foot fall at 16; 17...
Pic credit: Dave Titensor, University of Utah After losing his arm 17 years ago, Alexander Avi Davidson, 33, can finally feel the...
Oak Ridge scientists spent eight weeks 3D-printing a nearly 2-ton steel mold measuring 6...
Oak Ridge scientists spent eight weeks 3D-printing a nearly 2-ton steel mold measuring 6 feet tall (Image Credit: Baker Industries) A team...
Meet Sanat Pandit, the Ann Arbor sixth-grader whose $300 firefighting drone extinguished 18 of...
Sanat Pandit, the Ann Arbor sixth-grader whose $300 firefighting drone extinguished 18 of 20 outdoor test fires (Image Credit: Society For Science)...
Scientists built a 3D-printed robotic rattlesnake and tested it on 38 animal species, finding...
Scientists have built a 3D-printed robotic rattlesnake and used it to study how animals respond to the snake’s distinctive warning display....
In 1878, single mother Adeline Hornbek built a Colorado homestead with her children; by...
In 1878, Adeline Hornbek established a homestead in Colorado’s Florissant Valley, bringing with her years of experience in frontier life, cattle...
Scientists removed invasive minnows from two Spanish mountain lakes; 10 months later, amphibians and...
Representative Image of two high-mountain lakes in Catalonia's Alt Pirineu Natural Park experiencing ecological recovery after minnow eradication (AI Generated Image) Researchers...
costa rica tested three ways to restore tropical forests; 20 years later, planted plots...
A forest can return without being planted, but the pace and character of that recovery can depend heavily on what happens...
In 1957, a South American moth was released in the Caribbean to control prickly...
According to scientists, the South American cactus moth primarily attacks Opuntia species, commonly known as prickly pear cactus. It can also occasionally...
Einstein’s ‘spooky action’ survives one of the most extreme tests yet: CERN finds strong...
Einstein famously found quantum mechanics so strange that he once referred to quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance”. More...
Scotland restored more than 3,500 hectares across 11 wildlife reserves; robot mowers and virtual...
Scotland's wildlife reserves recorded a major conservation milestone in 2025, as a five-year project restored more than 3,500 hectares of habitat...
Meet Isabel Garcia, the 18-year-old North Carolina student who found 3 coral bacteria that...
Isabel Garcia. Image Credit: Davidson Institute Eighteen-year-old Isabel Garcia from Wilmington, North Carolina, has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for...
Bonaire fenced dry forest to keep goats out; 15 years later, only 22 of...
PC: Dronepicr - Klein Bonaire Strand/ Wikipedia Dry tropical forests can take years to recover after logging, land clearing and grazing. A...
AI is becoming the household’s invisible manager
OpenAI’s chief economist says unpaid housework, largely done by women, could equal 15% of global GDP, as AI firms increasingly view homes...
Meet Hitaishi Chillara, the 17-year-old Texas student who used AI and simulated universes to...
Hitaishi Chillara. Image Credit: Davidson Institute Hitaishi Chillara, a 17-year-old student from Leander, Texas, has received a $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for...
In 1999, just 15 island foxes remained on each of two California islands; captive...
In 1999, conservation biologists monitoring California’s northern Channel Islands faced a serious crisis. Only 15 island foxes remained on San Miguel...
Actor Rob Riggle explores ancient mysteries with archaeologists, from shipwrecks to lost civilisations, and...
Rob Riggle. Image Credit: DiscoveryUK Actor, comedian and retired Marine Rob Riggle is travelling to locations connected to some of history’s most...
Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: “Science is a way of thinking much...
Carl Sagan, the celebrated astronomer, author and science communicator, helped millions of people understand the universe through his books, lectures and...
Maine removed a 60-year-old river barrier where only about 25 wild adult Atlantic salmon...
Atlantic Salmon leaping waterfalls (Photo credit: Canva) Maine has removed a 60-year-old river barrier on the Narraguagus River where only about 25...
Wild honeybee populations in Europe could decline by 56% in 10 years without swarms...
Europe’s wild honeybees are facing growing conservation concerns after new research found that their numbers could fall by a median of...
A dolphin called ‘Bubbles’ repeatedly chased Bigeye Trevally until they regurgitated food, with researchers...
A dolphin named Bubbles has surprised researchers with an unusual way of getting a meal near Lady Elliot Island in Australia's...
Scientists tracked 21 oilbirds in Venezuela, and five disappeared from their cave for up...
PC: Alastair Rae/ Wikipedia Oilbirds spend their nights flying through tropical forests in search of fruit, but some of them take an...
Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture...
Jiaen Jiang - Student Researcher in Aerospace, PC: LinkedIn Jiaen Jiang, a 16-year-old student from Rosenberg, Texas, has won a $25,000 Davidson...
Metal detectorists found two 2,000-year-old Roman lead blocks in Wales; the inscriptions revealed they...
Lead Pigs found at dig in Ceredigion. Image Credit: National Museum Wales The discovery of two Roman lead blocks in Ceredigion has...
California acquired 640 acres near Pioneertown for western Joshua tree conservation; climate projections rank...
California acquired 640 acres near Pioneertown for western Joshua tree conservation (Image Credit: Department of Fish and Wildlife, State of California) A...
In 2017, Japan tested a subsea floating power generation system in the Kuroshio Current,...
Japan tested a subsea floating power-generation system in the Kuroshio Current in 2017, exploring how the Pacific Ocean’s powerful current could...
Alabama agencies released about 1,500 rare native mussels into the Paint Rock River after...
Representative Image (AI-genearted) A river once reshaped by human intervention is now being helped back to health by some of its smallest...
Cats may have their own chemical ‘ID cards’: Scientists found 13 unusual fatty acids...
It seems there exists an established yet hidden cat calling system. According to scientists, cats identify one another through a shockingly...
Shawn Michaels’ WWE costumes were falling apart; scientists used chemistry to preserve the iconic...
Shawn Michaels is remembered for his high-energy performances, signature wrestling moves and distinctive stage costumes. However, preserving the outfits worn by...
Dutch scientists discover tin-based solar breakthrough that keeps hot electrons 1,000 times longer than...
Scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have discovered how tin-based perovskite materials allow hot electrons to retain their...
A world first: Man lives withpig kidney for nine months
Surgeons Leonardo Riella and Tatsuo Kawai with patient Tim Andrews after Andrews’ xenotransplant in 2025. A genetically engineered pig kidney kept a...
Meet Alexander Du, the 17-year-old Sewickley student who built $170 AI-powered glasses to help...
Alexander Du, a 17-year-old student from Sewickley, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2026 Presidential AI Challenge National Champion for inventing IRIS,...
Meet Kianoosh Nawai, the West Virginia eighth-grader who built a low-cost 3D-printed bionic hand...
Nawai has been selected as one of 30 finalists in the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Kianoosh Nawai, an eighth-grader...
Dublin thought a 13th-century Norman castle had been demolished about 150 years ago; a...
A medieval castle believed to have disappeared around 150 years ago has turned out to be hiding in plain sight inside...
In 2024, California removed an 18-foot dam from Neefus Gulch and restored 1,600 feet...
In 2024, California removed an 18-foot dam from Neefus Gulch and restored 1,600 feet of stream, reopening habitat that salmon had...
PG medicos may get 6-month training in robotic surgery | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: To expand robotic surgeries across govt hospitals, the health department is planning to make three to six months of training...
Three Harvard students built a low-cost infrared headset designed to screen athletes for possible...
Harvard students-- Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito-- build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds Three...
Stanford scientists transplanted human brain tissue into mice missing most of their cortex; within...
Stanford scientists have created a new model for studying human brain development by transplanting lab-grown human brain tissue into mice that...
Around 1200 BC, an inscription named the ancient Egyptian city of Mesen; 3,200 years...
A view of the inscriptions and city view of Mesen For more than three millennia, the name Mesen survived in ancient records...
T. rex had a body temperature of 36.3°C, almost the same as humans; fossil...
Representative Image via Canva For 66 million years, the body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) lived only in speculation. Now, a new...
NASA’s Webb telescope captured the Black Eye Galaxy in unprecedented detail; its opposing gas...
At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy. Its bright centre is wrapped in sweeping arms, while a...
In 1995, strange marks appeared in a photograph of an English estate; 31 years...
Representative image from Canva In the summer of 1995, an unusual photograph of Temple Newsam, a historic estate in Leeds, England, captured...
An invasive insect first found in Pennsylvania in 2014 spread across 18 US states;...
Canada has recently confirmed the first detection of spotted lanternfly in the country. On September 15, 2026, the Canadian Food Inspection...
North America loses its monopoly on dinosaur fossils; fourteen tail vertebrae just turned up...
Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils outside of North America, marking the first-ever discovery outside the area....
