Sonia Ramírez
A dark shape under Chernobyl’s green water went viral as a mutant catfish, but the real transformation began when the pumps stopped
A 46-foot robot boat found a distress beacon off Plymouth, and its steady hull may matter more to navies than hydrogen
A harpy eagle can pull monkeys from rainforest trees, but the predator’s giant talons cannot save it from disappearing habitat
NASA’s Viking 2 photographed a pale frost on Mars nearly 50 years ago, and scientists now think it may have created 30 days of hidden brine
A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir
Four kittens survived inside a taped grocery basket outside a British Columbia shelter, but their rescue shows why drop-offs can turn dangerous
Psychology says the friend who never asks for help may be hiding a survival strategy learned long before adulthood
NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth
Millions rely on LDL cholesterol tests to judge heart risk, but a new study suggests apoB may uncover dangerous particles those familiar numbers can miss and could help prevent more heart attacks and strokes
China ran seven 5,000-ton coal trains across Inner Mongolia without physically coupling the train units, using a radio link to keep the 35,000-ton formation moving in sync, and officials say the system could boost rail capacity by more than 50% without laying new track
Oregon built a wind, solar and battery site for 100,000 homes, but a 10-ounce endangered squirrel still decides when crews can dig
A massive iceberg flipped off Greenland while cameras watched, and the hidden force below the water turned melting ice into waves
A solar farm was built to harvest the desert sun, but tortoises began using parts of the enormous energy site as shelter and forced researchers to look at what happens when wildlife moves into renewable infrastructure
An aerial photo warned an Austin homeowner her insurance could vanish, and the tree branches it spotted cost her $3,000
A handwritten note reading “Cap Wildy lost” led divers to a 1680 shipwreck, and the recovered objects are finally becoming public history
NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift
Scientists placed 42 sea sponges inside a polluted Spanish port and left them there for 455 days, but when they returned one species had thrived while four others had died








