Erin Brockovich is once again tied to an environmental fight against a utility company, and the case inevitably recalls the battle that turned her into a symbol of citizen resistance
In 1999, a farmer donated his land for a children’s park, but years later the town sold it for millions to build a data center, and the story now feels like a clash between local memory and tech fever
In Patagonia, researchers found three petrified forests about 50 million years old, a stunning window into an ancient landscape that was much greener, wetter, and stranger than southern Argentina today
Perseverance looked at Mars again with a panorama built from dozens of images, and the result leaves a strange feeling: the Red Planet looks empty, but every rock may be saying something
A 5.3-million-year-old whale cemetery appeared 7,000 meters deep in the Indian Ocean, an almost impossible scene that seems to tell a marine tragedy from the deep past
Archaeologists discovered an Inca citadel four times larger than Machu Picchu’s urban core, with hundreds of structures and thousands of artifacts that could rewrite a huge part of the Andean map
In Santa Cruz, scientists found a 150-million-year-old fossil plant with such rare preservation that it seems to freeze a piece of the plant world that existed when dinosaurs ruled Earth
The electric truck is no longer just a green promise: in Chile, a transport entrepreneur says its operating cost now matches diesel and may even beat it, a line that sounds like a turning point for heavy logistics
Tlaxcala surprised everyone with its own solar-powered electric car, priced at less than 100,000 pesos: a locally manufactured vehicle that promises up to 250 kilometers of range and a rather outlandish idea—partially recharging using sunlight.
After decades of dams, diversions, and drought, the Colorado River will once again flow into the Sea of Cortez—a scene many believed was lost and that is seen almost as a historic return of the water.
Costa Rica has just added a “ghost shark” to its biodiversity, but this one doesn’t live on beaches or reefs: it was hiding at depths of between 1,280 and 2,580 feet in the Pacific Ocean
At 4,100 feet underground, in an old gold mine in South Dakota, some extremely rare microbes could do something amazing: turn CO2 from factories into solid rock
A town in Surrey experienced more than 100 small earthquakes between 2018 and 2019, and scientists are now investigating whether an oil well just 3 or 6 miles away might have had something to do with it
A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected
For years, fishermen had watched this strange fish destroy their nets; now Greece has decided to pay for each one caught, in an effort to curb its spread
Switzerland has just installed a small solar power plant between the tracks of an active railway line, and what seems impossible is that more than 11,000 trains have already passed over it without interrupting service
An electric car’s “dead” battery may not have been as dead as it seemed, and Cornell University has just tested a method that allows up to 95% of its original capacity to be restored without damaging it
According to a new scientific proposal, NASA may need a kind of “biological customs checkpoint” on the Moon before bringing samples from Mars or distant worlds back to Earth
The idea—which sounds strange but might make sense—is to use sunlight, black metal, and the “coffee stain” effect to desalinate water without producing any liquid waste
Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to release 1.2 GW in milliseconds and store 2.1 GWh at a multibillion-dollar price tag
In the 1920s, perhaps only two or three koalas were brought to French Island to avert a catastrophe, and a century later, their DNA has just revealed a story far stranger than a simple genetic curse
It all started with a seemingly ordinary suitcase at the Cape Town airport, until the police found 150 live scorpions hidden among the clothes
For decades, the ocean has been the great silent hero of the climate, absorbing nearly 30% of human-generated CO₂ and most of the heat, but at the 2026 Bonn conference, it became clear that this “blue defense” is already taking its toll
An Earth-based telescope turned the Artemis II crew into a handful of pixels from more than 200,000 miles away, and the twist is that the 328-foot Green Bank Telescope tracked the capsule with precision down to 0.008 inches per second
One of Africa’s rarest crocodiles survives in the murky rivers of Ivory Coast, and, according to estimates by conservation experts, fewer than 500 adult specimens remain in the wild
Almost 20 years after his death, Elliott Smith, born on August 6, 1969, has just received a very unusual tribute: a minor planet discovered in 2014 will officially bear his name in the solar system
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
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
Could an AI model read a whole stack of documents in one go without slowing to a crawl? That is the claim now drawing attention around SubQ, a new large language model from the Miami startup Subquadratic
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
A 6-year-old boy was looking for rocks for a school arts-and-crafts project in Norway when he stumbled upon an iron sword that had been buried for about 1,200 years
A mixed bag for soybean farmers growing the crop in our future climate: higher yields but with poorer nutritional profiles
It all began with a strange echo around 14 giant black holes; scientists now believe it could indicate massive concentrations of dark matter, the mysterious component that makes up 27% of the universe
It all began with dozens of small earthquakes that no one detected; now, a 64-page study suggests that they may have been a precursor to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck nine days earlier
