Adrian Villellas
Alaska wants to resume helicopter bear “trapping” across an area of nearly 40,000 square miles to save the caribou, but the courts could block the plan before May
The new paradigm of drought on the Colorado River reveals that vegetation consumes groundwater when it is hotter, which could leave less flow for millions of people
Why some drivers wrap car keys in aluminum foil: it can block relay attacks used to steal keyless cars
Forty-three years ago, a few ground squirrels were released into the area devastated by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, and now scientists believe they were the unexpected heroes of the ecosystem’s recovery
Hubble captured a comet breaking apart in real time purely by chance, and the odds of seeing it happen at that exact moment were remarkably low
They found a giant tooth embedded in the neck of a plesiosaur, and the “culprit” was not a marine reptile, but a massive predatory fish
A pesticide that has been in use for decades may be causing wild fish to age from the inside out, even at doses so low that they do not kill the fish immediately
Albert Einstein, a scientist, speaking to his son in 1900: “Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving”
An illegal operation is uncovered deep in the forest, and the discovery of trees felled without permission reignites a silent war against the last remaining green lungs
The UK fires up a fusion rocket for the first time and accelerates the race to conquer Mars before anyone else
The world’s largest lithium deposit isn’t where you’d expect it to be: it lies beneath a supervolcano and is worth more than €400 billion
Neptune Energy estimates 43 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent under Germany’s Altmark gas field
No sun, no wind: Chinese scientists have managed to convert the impact of rain into electricity, and a small panel has already powered 50 lights at the same time
What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon
In 1940, a boy followed his dog through a clearing in the trees and ended up entering a cave that had remained sealed for millennia, where he found more than 2,000 images and animals painted 17,000 years ago












