A frightened bat ray could warn the others without making a sound or splashing, by releasing a chemical signal into the water that its neighbors detect within seconds
A frightened bat ray does not need to splash, squeal, or point toward danger to change the behavior of nearby rays. New research suggests…..
A community that was driven from its forest lands in the 1970s now protects 71,700 acres in the Congo and has managed to reduce deforestation by 87% in just one year
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a conservation story that began with displacement is now turning into something very different. Families whose ancestors were…..
Science
A frightened bat ray could warn the others without making a sound or splashing, by releasing a chemical signal into the water that its neighbors detect within seconds
A frightened bat ray does not need to splash, squeal, or point toward danger to…..
A community that was driven from its forest lands in the 1970s now protects 71,700 acres in the Congo and has managed to reduce deforestation by 87% in just one year
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a conservation story that began with displacement is now…..
The famous Himalayan viper, first described in 1864, has just lost its unique identity, as scientists have discovered that five species were previously grouped under that name
For more than 160 years, the Himalayan pit viper was treated as one wide-ranging snake…..
Ancient teeth preserved in museums may harbor a vast microbial archive, and a new preliminary article suggests that dental plaque reveals how diet has influenced the oral bacteria of mammals
Old teeth stored in museum drawers may be holding more than clues about what animals…..
The plague may have claimed the lives of children in hunter-gatherer communities in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before medieval cities, flea-infested rats, and the dreaded Black Death existed
Long before crowded medieval cities, flea-bitten rats, and the Black Death, plague may have been…..
Homo erectus teeth dating back about 400,000 years, found in China, have just revealed an unexpected clue about a possible family connection to the mysterious Denisovans
An ancient tooth can hold more than a fossil record. In China, proteins locked inside…..
Researchers have just observed a jumping gene doing something extremely unusual: jumping from a tiny predatory bacterium to the dead cells of another species, like a thief sneaking into an empty house
Genes usually move through family lines. Parents pass them to offspring, and that is the…..
SETI tracked the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for more than 7 hours and analyzed nearly 74 million radio signals; the results point to something less spectacular, but just as fascinating: a natural comet
SETI has finished one of the strangest and most revealing checks yet on 3I/ATLAS, the…..
The Moon will no longer be just the place where humans left their footprints in 1969; now, NASA and China want to build bases, landing strips, control towers, and shelters there, but a fundamental regulation is still missing
Humanity is not just planning to visit the Moon again. It is preparing to build…..
On May 30, a loud boom shook Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and NASA traced it to a meteor that broke apart with the force of 300 tons of TNT
A sudden boom rattled parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire on May 30, and for…..
Mobility
China’s wild idea: a 1,118-mile rail bridge across the Gobi that dares gravity, sandstorms, and basic common sense
A new rail bridge rising out of the Gobi has been described as a 1,118-mile mega-project that…..
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart to pick up the world’s largest battery-electric ferry for South America, and the scale point is that the vessel is about 430 feet long and built to carry around 2,100 passengers on the Argentina-Uruguay route
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart, Tasmania, for an unusual job. The MV Black Marlin will…..
Energy
Economy
The green economy has just surpassed $10 trillion and would already be the world’s third-largest industry if it were counted as a separate sector
The green economy has crossed a striking line, $10 trillion in market value. A new…..
The inexpensive white fish that many people keep in their freezers has just shown signs of recovery: Vietnam’s exports to the U.S. increased by 4% between January and April 2026
The U.S. market has sent Vietnam’s pangasius industry a cautious but important signal of recovery……
Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition
Europe’s clean-energy race may have a new flashpoint in central Spain. In Campo de Montiel,…..
The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads
It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile…..
European beavers turn out to be secret carbon hoarders, stashing 26 % more than any human climate model guessed
No one expected the humble beaver dam to look like climate infrastructure. Yet a new…..
Egypt’s dead-serious plan: build an entire desert city from scratch and crown it with a 1,312-foot skyscraper that nobody saw coming
Egypt is building a new capital from scratch in the desert about 28 miles east…..
Construction of Jeddah Tower just reached the 100th floor, and the number that makes it feel unreal is the target, more than 3,280 feet tall with over 167 floors as Saudi Arabia aims for the world’s tallest building by 2028
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower has moved past a milestone that once sounded almost unreal. The…..
Elon Musk admits that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem
During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..
Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete
Saudi Arabia has some of the largest deserts on Earth, but in 2023 it still…..
ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy
ExxonMobil shareholders have approved moving the oil giant’s legal home from New Jersey to Texas,…..
Technology
Environment
The fight against climate change is entering a challenging phase: it is no longer enough to simply reduce pollution, and scientists are talking about removing up to 9,700 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050
The climate fight has entered an awkward phase. Cutting pollution is still the main job,…..
The country with the largest forest area in South America may face a momentous decision: to accept large-scale soybean farming and cattle ranching projects or to protect the rivers, communities, and forests that took centuries to form
Suriname is being offered a familiar promise. Large-scale foreign agribusiness will modernize farming, create jobs,…..
A mixed bag for soybean farmers growing the crop in our future climate: higher yields but with poorer nutritional profiles
Climate change may bring a strange twist to one of the world’s most important crops……
It looks like a yellow toy floating in a lagoon, but it has a huge mission: to find the most resilient corals before the ocean warms up again
A small yellow robot is sliding across an emerald lagoon in Majuro, and its job…..
It all began with an extremely salty current flowing every day from the Mediterranean; now, a ship is traversing the ocean to investigate the Atlantic’s great climate engine
A new oceanographic campaign is heading into the Atlantic to study a climate question hiding…..
The enormous mass of warm water in the Pacific that has just “woken up” and could influence storms, wildfires, monsoons, and temperatures through 2027
El Niño has returned to the tropical Pacific, and this one is already raising concern…..
An animal about the size of a small house cat has just caused quite a stir in Mexico after becoming the first known photographic evidence of the mysterious Cozumel dwarf fox
For more than two decades, one of the world’s rarest wild dogs seemed to have…..
Georgia has just created a $2 million fund to save farms before these centuries-old fields are turned into housing developments, warehouses, and data centers
Georgia is trying to protect working farms before more fields become subdivisions, warehouses, and data…..
