Adrian Villellas
A new U.S. dollar coin carries a quiet clue from 1778, and it points to the people who helped America survive
Austal launched a 694-foot Navy dry dock in Mobile, and the strange part is that it lifts warships by sinking first
Houston built a 26-lane freeway to beat traffic, but the cars came back and exposed the trap behind wider roads
Pilot whales followed a lone sailor through Arctic fog, and the reason his 10,000-mile route is possible is the real warning
A hidden crust of insects can build up on wind-turbine blades during calm weather, then cut power production by up to 25% when stronger winds arrive, even though the machinery itself may be working perfectly
A tiny European native oyster can filter about 200 liters of seawater a day and release up to 2 million larvae at once, yet its reefs have collapsed across much of Europe and UK populations have fallen by around 95%
Four GPS collars tracked snow leopards across the Himalayas for 1,239 days and revealed home ranges up to 97 times larger than earlier estimates, with three cats repeatedly crossing between Nepal, India, and China as if the borders did not exist
Between 69 and 72 million years ago, a vast sea covered what is now South Dakota, and fossils found there still have iridescent shells that shimmer like pearls after all that time buried underground
A French winegrower put 6,000 solar panels over his vines, and the hardest climate trade-off may be the name on the bottle
A dog waited nearly a year in a San Diego shelter after her owner fell into a coma, and one familiar face online changed everything
A new diabetes pill lowered blood sugar and body weight more than oral semaglutide, but the convenience came with a harder trade-off
Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive
That paper receipt handed over after an everyday purchase may carry a chemical coating most people never think about, and researchers are asking what repeated contact with bisphenols means when millions of receipts change hands every day
Scientists painted one blade black on wind turbines on a Norwegian island and watched what happened to white-tailed eagles, turning an almost ridiculously simple visual change into an experiment with potentially enormous consequences for birds
Scientists climbed onto a shrinking mountain glacier to measure what remained beneath their feet, and the survey is revealing just how quickly a frozen landscape that survived for generations can disappear
An island off Chile turned to solar panels floating on water for electricity, and the unusual installation shows what happens when renewable energy has to work somewhere ordinary land-based solar simply does not fit
An eighth-grade student gave 200 red harvester ants three hours to explore a maze filled with fake leaves, rocks and tangerine, then moved the landmarks around and watched the insects change where they went










